Application of feedback analysis and design to mechanical, thermal, electrical and fluid systems, including classical control theory in the frequency and time domains. Stability; performance; methods based on Bode and root-locus diagrams. Representation in state space and basic state space design

Instructor:

• B. Goodwine
• Office: 367 Fitzpatrick
• Email: goodwine@controls.ame.nd.edu
• Office hours: Tuesdays, 8:00 - 10:00pm

• Wei Wang
• Office hours: Monday, 2:00 - 3:00
• Office: 321 Cushing
• Wang.102@nd.edu
• Baoyang Deng
• Office: B22 Fitzpatrick
• Email: bdeng2@nd.edu
• Yanto Go
• Office: B28 Fitzpatrick
• Email: ygo@nd.edu
• Michael Cochran
• Office: 300 Cushing
• Email: mcochran@nd.edu
• Biao Zhang
• Office:
• Email: zbiao@nd.edu

• Syllabus
• Introduction to feedback control from first lecture.
• Course objectives.
• Table of Laplace Transforms.
• Properties of Lapalce Transforms.
• Exam 1 from Spring 2000 (ps pdf).
• Exam 1 from Spring 2002 (ps pdf).
• Guidelines and instructions for taking a computer exam.
• Exam 2 from Spring 2000
• Exam 2 from Spring 2002

• Homework 1, due Wednesday, January 23, 2002. Sample code in C, Mathematica and Matlab is available. Solutions (ps pdf).
• Homework 2, due Wednesday, January 30, 2002. Solutions (pdf) page 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5.
• Homework 3, due Wednesday, February 6, 2002. Sample code. Solutions (ps pdf).
• Homework 4, due Wednesday, February 13, 2002. Solutions (ps pdf).
• Homework 5, due Wednesday, February 20, 2002. Solutions (ps pdf).
• Homework 6, due Wednesday, March 6, 2002. Preliminary solutions (ps pdf).
• Homework 7, due Wednesday, March 27, 2002. (ps pdf.)
• Homework 8, due Friday, April 5, 2002. Preliminary solutions (ps pdf).
• Homework 9, due Wednesday, April 24, 2002. Solutions (ps pdf).
• Homework 10, due Wednesday, April May 1, 2002.

• A controls tutorial for Matlab.
• CMU Matlab Page (lots of information).
• MathWorks Web Site.
• Simulink tutorial.

• California PATH project and their current research.
• Center for Dynamics and Control of Smart Structures (Harvard) and their current research.
• Intelligent Servosystems Laboratory (University of Maryland) and their current research areas.
• Honeywell Sensing and Control.