MEE 526 – Advanced Control Systems Design

Academic Year 02-03

Instructor: Ü Dr. Jui-Chang (Steve) Tsai

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Catalog Description: Ü Advanced Control Systems Design. Ü Review of conventional and modern control design using block-diagram-transfer-function, state-variable method, pole placement technique, estimation, and robust control schemes. Ü Digital control system analysis and design. Ü Z-transform theory and digitization process. Ü Nonlinear control system design. Ü Describing functions, phase plane and Liapunav’s stability criterion. Ü Control system design problems and case studies including open-ended hands-on design projects from current research topics. Ü Prerequisite: MEE 421 or consent of department.

 

Textbooks: Ü Modern Control Theory, 3rd Ed., William L. Brogan, Prentice Hall, 1991

 

 

Prerequisite by topic: Dynamic systems and control

 

Topics:

 

  1. Review of conventional and modern control design
  2. Digital control system analysis and design
  3. Z-transform theory and digitization process
  4. Nonlinear control system design
  5. Describing functions, phase plane and Liapunav’s stability criterion
  6. Control system design problems and case studies
  7. Examinations
  8. Final Examination

 

Computer Usage: Ü Student will learn the techniques of control system analysis and design by using a commercially available control software (Matlab).

 

Grading: Ü Homework=30%, Midterm=30%, Final Exam=40%