EE 465 - CONTROL SYSTEMS DESIGN

CATALOG DATA: EE 465: Control Systems Design. Credit 3.

Root-Locus analysis; Frequency response analysis; design and compensation techniques; describing function analysis nonlinear systems; analysis and design by state space methods.

TEXTBOOK: Modern Control Engineering, K. Ogata, Prentice Hall 1990

REFERENCE: Control Systems Engineering, N. S. Nise, Benjamin Cummings Publishing Co, 1992

GOALS: This course is designed to give the students in electrical engineering an introduction to control systems design.

PREREQUISITES BY TOPIC:

1. Feedback control basics

2. Root-Locus

3. Bode plots

4. Basics of state variable analysis

TOPICS:

1. Plant modeling(6 hours)

2. Classical control design (10 hours)

3. State space analysis (9 hours)

4. State space design (9 hours)

5. Introduction to industrial control and PLC's (6 hours)

LABoratory PROJECTS:

Five design projects are assigned. The MATLAB simulation package is be made available to students in an open lab environment. Five PLC exercises are assigned.

ABET category content as estimated by faculty member who prepared this course description:

Engineering science: 2 credits or 67%

Engineering design: 1 credit or 33%

Prepared by: Arjun Godhwani Date: August 1, 1995