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Lecture Notes

The blank areas found in the lecture notes below are intentional. Students are given the printed notes preceeding each lecture but are expected to fill in blank areas themselves based on the in-class content.

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LEC # TOPICS LECTURE NOTES
Module 1: Control System Analysis
1 Course Introduction (PDF)
2 Introduction to Control Systems (PDF)
3 Control System Analysis and Design (PDF)
4 Disturbances and Sensitivity (PDF)
5 Steady-State Errors (PDF)
6 S-Plane, Poles and Zeroes (PDF)
7 Transient Response and Stability (PDF)
8 Dominant Modes (PDF)
9 Transient Response and Performance (PDF)
10 Effects of Zeroes (PDF)
Module 2: State-Space Methods
11 State Space (PDF)
12 State Space Modeling (PDF)
13 More State Space Modeling and Transfer Function Matrices (PDF)
14 Quanser Model and State Transition Matrices (PDF)
15 Solutions of State Space Differential Equations (PDF)
16 Controllability (PDF)
17 Quiz 1  
18 Controllability Continued (PDF)
19 State Space Design (PDF)
Module 3: Time Domain System Design
20 Proportional Control (PDF)
21 Control System Design (Time Domain) (PDF)
22 Root Locus Rules (PDF)
23 Root Locus Examples (PDF)
24 Root Locus Design (PDF)
25 Compensator Design (PDF)
Module 4: Frequency Domain System Design
26 Frequency Response Analysis (PDF)
27 Polar Plots (PDF)
28 Principle of the Argument and the Nyquist Stability Criterion (PDF)
29 Nyquist Examples See Lec 28 notes
30 More Nyquist Examples (PDF)
31 Quiz 2  
32 Gain and Phase Margins (PDF)
33 The Gain-Phase Plane and Nichols Charts (PDF)
34 Open and Closed Loop Behavior and the Second Order System Paradigm (PDF)
35 Bode Diagrams (PDF)
36 First and Second Order System Bode Diagrams (PDF)
37 Compensation and Bode Design (PDF)
38 More Bode Design  
39 Train Lecture (PDF)