ECE 486 Lecture Slides
We mostly follow the slides by Prof Maxim Raginsky and Prof Daniel Liberzon.
Some lecture notes are from Prof Peter Seiler.
Detailed Syllabus for Spring 2021
| Date | Topic | Additional Reading |
|---|---|---|
| 08/24 | Introduction to feedback control | FPE Ch. 1, Control - A perspective |
| 08/26 | LTI systems & their dynamic response | FPE Sections 1.1, 1.2, 2.1 - 2.4, 7.2 |
| 08/31 | Dynamic responses with arbitrary initial conditions | FPE Section 3.1, Appendix A |
| 09/02 | Prototype 2nd-order system & transient response specifications | FPE Section 3.3 - 3.4, Lab manual |
| 09/07 | Review of SS models of systems; linearization; system modeling diagrams; interconnections | FPE Section 3.2, Lab manual |
| 09/09 | Effect of zeros & extra poles; Routh-Hurwitz stability criterion | FPE Sections 3.5 - 3.6 |
| 09/14 | Basic properties & benefits of feedback control | FPE Sections 4.1, Lab manual |
| Introduction to Proportional-Integral-Derivative (PID) control, Part IA, Part IB | FPE Sections 4.2 - 4.3, Lab manual | |
| PID control, Part II - Tuning | A classic paper and a relatively recent survey | |
| PID control, Part III - Windup, saturation, etc- Part A, Part B | FPE Section 4.2 - 4.3, Section 9.3.1 | |
| Introduction to Root Locus design method (rules ABC) | FPE Chapter 5 | |
| Root Locus continued; introduction to dynamic compensation (rules DEF) | FPE Chapter 5 | |
| Lead & lag dynamic compensation | FPE Chapter 5 | |
| Lead & lag continued; introduction to frequency-response design method | FPE Section 5.1 - 5.4, Section 6.1 | |
| Bode plots for (A) 1st & 2nd order systems and (B) general systems | FPE Section 6.1 | |
| (A) Stability from frequency response; (B) gain & phase margins | FPE Section 6.1 | |
| Control design using frequency response | FPE Chapter 6 | |
| Control design using frequency response continued; PI & lag, PID & lead-lag | FPE Chapter 6 | |
| Nyquist stability criterion; Cauchy's argument principle | FPE Chapter 6; a paper | |
| Nyquist stability criterion continued; gain & phase margins from Nyquist plots | FPE Chapter 6 | |
| Discussions on loop shaping- Part 1 | ||
| More discussions on loop shaping - Part 2 | ||
| Introduction to state-space design | FPE Chapter 7 | |
| Controllability, stability, & pole-zero cancellations; similarity transformation; canonical forms | FPE Chapter 7 | |
| Pole placement by full state feedback | FPE Chapter 7 | |
| Observer design for state estimation | FPE Chapter 7 | |
| Dynamic output feedback continued | FPE Chapter 7 | |
| In-class review | Good luck! |