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Principles of Automatic Control

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Instructor: Prof. Steven Hall
Term: Fall 2012
Level: Undergraduate
What's inside: 4 videos · 12 problem sets · 1 lecture note · 1 reading · 53 other files · 9 web pages
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Lecture 1: Why automatic control? Categorization of control systems

Lecture 2: Block diagrams, the effect of feedback

Lecture 3: Modeling principles

Lecture 4: Block diagram manipulations, Mason’ rule

Lecture 5: Dynamic response of closed-loop systems

Lecture 6: Time-domain specifications

Lecture 7: Effect of zeros

Lecture 8: The Routh criterion

Lecture 9: Effect of noise, steady-state errors

Lecture 10: PID control

Lecture 11: The root locus method

Lecture 12: Root locus rules

Lecture 13: Root locus rules, lead compensation

Lecture 14: Lag compensation

Lecture 15: Zero degree root locus

Lecture 16: Frequency response design

Lecture 17: Bode plot problems

Lecture 18: Bode plots (cont.)

Lecture 19: Complex poles and zeros, unstable poles, and non-minimum phase zeros

Lecture 20: The Nyquist stability criterion

Lecture 21: The Nyquist stability criterion (cont.)

Lecture 22: Nyquist with poles on imaginary axis

Lecture 23: Stability margins, Bode gain-phase theorem

Lecture 24: Bode compensation

Lecture 25: Lead compensation

Lecture 26: Lag compensation (cont.)

Lecture 27: NMP systems

Lecture 28: The Nichols chart

Lecture 29: Digital control, the z-transform

Lecture 30: The z‐transform, design by emulation, the Tustin transform

Lecture 31: Compensator design examples, time delay of ZOH

Lecture 32: Discrete design

Lecture 33: The w-transform

Lecture 34: Design examples, pre‐warping, direct design

Lecture 35: Higher harmonic control