Level:
Undergraduate
Instructors:
A ship's autopilot uses dynamic feedback to adjust its heading compared to the compass setting. (Image by Prof. Rowell.)
Course Features
Course Highlights
Course Description
Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:
- Create lumped parameter models (expressed as ODEs) of simple dynamic systems in the electrical and mechanical energy domains
- Make quantitative estimates of model parameters from experimental measurements
- Obtain the time-domain response of linear systems to initial
conditions and/or common forcing functions (specifically; impulse, step
and ramp input) by both analytical and computational methods
- Obtain the frequency-domain response of linear systems to sinusoidal inputs
- Compensate the transient response of dynamic systems using feedback techniques
- Design, implement and test an active control system to achieve a desired performance measure
Mastery of these topics will be assessed via homework, quizzes/exams, and lab assignments.
Technical Requirements
Special software is required to use some of the files in this course: .zip and .m.