MAE 141a - Linear Control (Fall 2000)

Department of MAE, UCSD

Instructor: Prof. Miroslav Krstic, 1808 EBUI, 822-1374, krstic@ucsd.edu

TAs: Eugenio Schuster, schuster@mae.ucsd.edu (discussion sessions and office hours).

TEXT: Franklin, Powell, and Emami-Naeni, Feedback Control of Dynamic Systems, Addison-Wesley, 1994.

Prerequisites: AMES 105 and 163

Time and Place:

Lecture (Krstic): M/W 10:10-11:00, 104 PETER; W 11:15-12:05, 2204 WLH
Discussion (TA): F 10:10-11:00, 104 PETER

Office Hours:

Krstic: M 11:30-12:30, Tu 12:00-1:00, 1808 EBUI
TA: Tu 4:00-5:00, F 11:15-12:05, 105 EBUII

Grading: (click on highlighted items for problem sets)

Homework 20%
Midterm 30%
Final 50%

Course Objective: Feedback control is an indispensable component in almost any modern engineering system. This course will introduce seniors in mechanical and aerospace engineering to fundamentals of analysis and design of linear control systems. MATLAB will be used to practice computer aided design techniques.

Topics: Modeling, ODEs, linearization, Laplace transform, transfer functions; time response specifications of performance, PID controllers and Ziegler-Nichols tuning procedure, stability via Routh-Hurwitz; frequency response--Bode and Nyquist diagrams, root locus, design of dynamic compensators. Actuator saturation and integrator wind-up.

Notice: Students with planned absences and special requirements should contact Prof. Krstic.