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
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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%