Farbod Khoshnoud

Controls Lectures

Under construction...

Lecture notes by Dr. Jie Chen from Brunel University of London (with permission)

Lecture 1 - Introduction

Lecture 2 - Transfer functions

Lecture 3 - Transfer fucntion example - cruise control

Lecture 4 - Transfer function examples - mass-spring-damper

Lecture 5 - Responses and transfer fucntion

Lecture 6 - Poles, zeros and transfer fucntions

Lecture 7 - System time responses, First and Second Order Systems

Lecture 8 - Step response of a second order system

Lecture 9 - Rise time, time to first peak, overshoot, and settling time

Lecture 10 - Block diagram representation and simplification

Lecture 11 - Block diagram examples

Lecture 12 - Experimental determination of 1st and 2nd order transfer fucntions

Lecture 13 - Stability - Routh-Hurwits Criterion

Lecture 14 - Routh-Hurwitz Stability Criterion Examples

Lecture 15 - Steady state errors of control systems

Lecture 16 - Steady state error example

Lecture 17 - Steady state error example - continued

Lecture 18 - Root Locus Method

Lecture 19 - Root Locus Properties - Design Examples

Lecture 20 - Frecuency responses

Lecture 21 - Nyquist and Bode plots

Lecture 22 - Second order system resonant frequency and resonant peak

Lecture 23 - Nyquist stability criterion - gain and phase stability margins

Lecture 24 - Gain margin and phase margin examples

Lecture 25 - Control system design using frequency response method

Lecture 26 - Phase-lead Phase-lag compensators