Time domain - tutorial 11: system properties from impulse response

In this video, we learn how to find system properties from the impulse response. Specifically, memoryless, causal, stable and invertible systems will be ful...

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Lecture 1 Introduction to Automatic Control

This video gives an introduction to control systems. Open loop and closed loop control systems have been explained See More

Lecture 5: Block Diagram Reduction

Reduction of block diagrams sing block diagram algebra is discussed in this video See More

Time domain - tutorial 2: signal representation

In this video, we review how to represent information as a signal. The information can be anything such as voice (1D) or an image (2D) or even a video (3D). ...

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Linear Systems of Equations, Least Squares Regression, Pseudoinverse

This video describes how the SVD can be used to solve linear systems of equations. In particular, it is possible to solve nonsquare systems (overdetermined or underdetermined) via least...

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Lecture 3: Electrical and Mechanical System Transfer Functions

Transfer functions for electrical networks and mechanical systems (translational and rotational) are explained in this video See More

Transfer Functions in Simulink for Process Control

An introduction on deriving transfer functions from a linearized state space model via Laplace Transforms, and how we can input transfer functions into Simul...

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Introductory course on aerial robotics, University of Pennsylvania

This course exposes you to the mechanics, design, control, and planning of robotic flight in 3 dimensional environments for micro-aerial vehicles, with an emphasis on quadrotors.

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Direct Design Example for PID Controller

I go through an example problem of how we can use Direct Design (also called Direct Synthesis) to determine the tuning parameters for a PID controller, given...

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State Space to Transfer Function

In this video we show how to transform a linear state space representation of a dynamic system to an equivalent transfer function representation. We will de...

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Controllability and the Discrete-Time Impulse Response [Control Bootcamp]

This lecture derives the impulse response for a discrete-time system and relates this to the controllability matrix.

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Humans, Robots, and Non-Prehensile Manipulation

This is a fun video that was inspired by a presentation I saw at the 2015 International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA). I wanted to see if humans could duplicate the...

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Peter Ponders PID - Feed Forward Theory and Calculations

The formulas for feed forwards are derived for motors and hydraulic actuators. See More

Using a Homogeneous Transformation Matrix to Combine Rotation and Translatio...

In this video we discuss how to properly deal with coordinate frames that are both rotated and translated from one another. We develop a homogeneous transfo...

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Resonant Frequency of a Dynamic System

In this video we discuss the resonant frequency of a dynamic system. We show how the resonant frequency, natural frequency, and damped natural frequency are...

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Control Bootcamp: Sensitivity and Complementary Sensitivity

Here we explore the sensitivity and complementary sensitivity functions, which are critical in understanding robustness and performance.

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Designing a PID Controller Using the Ziegler-Nichols Method

In this video we discuss how to use the Ziegler-Nichols method to choose PID controller gains. In addition to discussing the method and providing a Matlab i...

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Control Systems Lectures - Closed Loop Control

This lecture discusses the differences between open loop and closed loop control.

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Solving the 1D Heat Equation

In this video we simplify the general heat equation to look at only a single spatial variable, thereby obtaining the 1D heat equation. We solving the result...

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TikZ source Code: A single MIMO system

TikZ source Code: A single MIMO system

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Solving the Heat Equation with the Fourier Transform

This video describes how the Fourier Transform can be used to solve the heat equation. In fact, the Fourier transform is a change of coordinates into the eigenvector coordinates for the...

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TikZ source Code: Feedback system

TikZ source Code: Feedback system

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The Fourier Transform and Convolution Integrals

This video describes how the Fourier Transform maps the convolution integral of two functions to the product of their respective Fourier Transforms.

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Laplace domain – tutorial 4: Laplace transform examples

In this video, we solve lots of examples to practice how to quickly find Laplace transform using the table of pairs & properties and five golden rules on ROC...

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Lecture 6: Signal Flow Graphs and Mason's Gain Rule

In this lesson, we discuss Signal Flow Graphs and Mason's Gain Rule for finding transfer funtions See More