Control Engineering

Description of systems in the frequency domain: bode and nyquist plots

Description of systems in the s-domain: poles and zeros, root loci

Block diagrams, signal flow graphs, sensitivity

Modelling of a servo system

Introduction to the course

Controller design in the frequency domain

PID controllers

Controller design with root loci

Controller design in state space, optimisation

Non-linear control: describing functions, phase plane analysis

Introduction to digital control

The case study of lecture 11 with digital control

Case study: Control of a servo system

Control Engineering: Recent Episodes