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Control Systems Engineering

Control systems play a critical role in space flight Control engineering or control systems engineering is an engineering discipline that applies control theory to design equipment and systems with desired behaviors in control environments. The discipline of controls overlaps and is usually taught along with electrical engineering and mechanical engineering at many institutions around the world. 

The practice uses sensors and detectors to measure the output performance of the process being controlled; these measurements are used to provide corrective feedback helping to achieve the desired performance. Systems designed to perform without requiring human input are called automatic control systems (such as cruise control for regulating the speed of a car). Multi-disciplinary in nature, control systems engineering activities focus on the implementation of control systems mainly derived by mathematical modeling of a diverse range of systems.

from Control Engineering - Wikipedia

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Temperature Control Lab (TCL)

John Hedengren
Beginner
Hardware
Application

The temperature control lab is an application of feedback control with an Arduino, an LED, two heaters, and two temperature sensors. The heater power output is adjusted to maintain a desired...

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Everything You Need to Know About Control Theory

Mathworks - Brian Douglas
16 min
Beginner
Video
Theory

Control theory is a mathematical framework that gives us the tools to develop autonomous systems. Walk through all the different aspects of control theory that you need to know.

Some of the...

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The Map of Control Theory

Brian Douglas
Beginner
Image
Theory

All of control theory in one map.  The idea behind this map is not to capture everything within control theory, it is to highlight some of the main areas of the field and provide a few...

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Experience Controls App

Quaser
Beginner
App
Theory

The Experience Controls app is a unique interactive mobile textbook introducing students to control systems fundamentals in an engaging way, through accessible language, real-time dynamic...

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Thoughts on Furthering the Control Education of Practicing Engineers

Dr. Daniel Y. Abramovitch, Agilent Technologies, American Automatic Control Council Education Committe Chair
60 min
Intermediate
Article / Blog
Demonstration

This paper was presented at the 2019 IFAC Advances on Control Education Conference (IFAC-ACE), Philadelphia, PA, USA, July 7-9, 2019, and is in the conference proceedings. This paper aims to...

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Virtual Labs for control education

Prof. José Luis Guzmán
Intermediate
Virtual Lab
Theory

This resource provides different links to virtual and remote labs that can be used for control education. Virtual and remote labs are very powerful tools for learning and teaching, that...

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What's a Control System and Why Should I Care?

Daniel Y. Abramovitch
Beginner
Article / Blog
Theory

This paper is designed as a primer for college level STEM students about to take their first formal class in feedback control systems. This means that the explanations assume the reader has...

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Interactive Tools for Control Purposes

Prof. José Luis Guzmán
Intermediate
App
Theory

This resource provides different links to Interactive Tools that can be used for control education. Interactive Tools are very powerful educational resources as support to learning and...

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Various games for learning Controller Design

Institute for Systems Theory and Automatic Control
Intermediate
App
Theory

Since 2005, we are using educational games in the course „Einführung in die Regelungstechnik“ (Introduction to automatic control). 

The project started with the game spaceballRT, which uses...

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Minami's Control School (Japanese)

Yuki Minami
Beginner
Video
Theory

教員のみなみゆうきです.専門は制御工学です.制御工学は「モノの動きをデザインする科学」です.制御工学を勉強したいという方に,僕の知識をすこしでも届けられると良いなと思い,YouTubeをやっています.

2019年の秋,講義ノートの作成の様子を撮影し,YouTubeに動画をアップロードしたのを契機として,動画作成をはじめました...

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T-RECS System

Tangibles That Teach
Beginner
Hardware
Application

The Transportable Rotorcraft Electronic Control System (T-RECS) is a collection of components that can be built into a rotorcraft demonstrator.  This hardware can be used as a test bed to...

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Understanding Control Systems (Playlist)

Mathworks - Melda Ulusoy
Beginner
Video
Theory

Learn the basic concepts behind controls systems. Walk through everyday examples that outline fundamental ideas, and explore open-loop and feedback control systems. These videos explore open...

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edX course: Dynamics and Control

Pedro Albertos
Beginner
Course
Theory

This is an interactive course about the basic concepts of Systems, Control and their impact in all the human activities. First, the basic concepts of systems, dynamics, structure and control...

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MATLAB toolbox for control 101 course

Anthony Rossiter
Beginner
Software
Theory

Community toolbox project led by Anthony Rossiter and sponsored by MathWorks. The project incorporates input from various international collaborators. The aim is to make the developed...

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Interactive Course for Control Theory

Erasmus+
Beginner
Course
Theory

Control Theory is a topic that finds a widespread application throughout engineering and natural sciences. It is very common in electrical, mechanical and process engineering. Especially...

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