16.06 Principles of Automatic Control

As taught in: Fall 2003

Level:

Undergraduate

Instructors:

Prof. John Deyst

Prof. Karen Willcox

NASA Ames Research Center pilot George E. Tucker evaluates perspective flight guidance displays.
NASA Ames Research Center pilot George E. Tucker evaluates perspective flight guidance displays being developed by a Boeing/Ames research team for "runway independent aircraft." (Image courtesy of NASA.)

Course Features

Course Highlights

This course contains a full set of lecture notesproblem sets with solutions, lab handouts, and sample exam materials.

Course Description

The course deals with introduction to design of feedback control systems, properties and advantages of feedback systems, time-domain and frequency-domain performance measures, stability and degree of stability. It also covers root locus method, nyquist criterion, frequency-domain design, and state space methods.

*Some translations represent previous versions of courses.

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