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Mechanical Engineering Department
ME 474-Introduction to Control Systems


Textbook:
Modern Control Systems, by Richard C. Dorf and
Robert H. Bishop, 8th Edition, Addison Wesley, 1998.


Optional:
Solving Control Engineering Problems with Matlab,
Katsuhiko Ogata, Prentice Hall, 1994.


Course Objectives:
This course is designed to  introduce the students to the
fundamental concepts of  feedback control systems in both
the  frequency  domain  and time  domain, several  design
methods  will be integrated  into a  comprehensive set of 
tools to serve the control designer.  In addition several
modeling techniques will be presented and illustrated with
physical systems


Course Outline:

        Dynamic System Modeling and Analysis

Introduction
   Block diagram algebra
   Open loop and closed loop systems
   Modeling of devices with block diagrams
   Laplace and Inverse Laplace transforms
   Final & Initial value theorems

Transfer Function Models of Physical Systems
   Examples of mechanical, electrical, electromechanical,
   thermal and fluid systems

Transient Performance and the S-Plane
   System poles and zeros
   Response of 1st and 2nd order systems
   Characteristic equation
   Routh Hurwitz stability criterion
   Relative stability

Root Locus Method


                  Control System Design

Dynamic Compensation of Feedback Systems
   System type
   Steady state errors

Controllers
   Proportional (P)
   Proportional plus Integral (PI)
   Proportional plus Integral plus Derivative (PID)
   Ziegler-Nichols method for tuning PID
   Lead/Lag

Frequency Response Methods
   Bode plots
   Frequency domain lead/lag controllers