Using ‘minreal’ in Matlab to Perform Transfer Function Pole/Zero Cancellatio...

In this tutorial we look at using the ‘minreal’ function in Matlab to perform pole/zero cancellation from transfer functions.Topics and time stamps:(0:10) – ...

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Peter Ponders PID - Root Locus Is Useless

Root Locus is almost worthless. Knowing where the poles are as only 1 gain is changed is not very useful since one only has a limited choices on response. ... See More

Control Systems Lectures - Transfer Functions

This lecture describes transfer functions and how they are used to simplify modeling of dynamic systems.

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TikZ source Code: Two systems in negative feedback

TikZ source Code: Two systems in negative feedback

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Fourier Series: Part 1

This video will show how to approximate a function with a Fourier series, which is an infinite sum of sines and cosines. We will discuss how these sines and cosines form a basis for the...

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Lecture 25: Nyquist stability criterion

Discusses some basic concepts, Principle of Argument and hence, Nyquist stability criterion See More

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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Designing a Lag Compensator with Bode Plot

This video walks through a phase lag compensator example using the Bode Plot method.

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Lecture 5: Block Diagram Reduction

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

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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SVD: Importance of Alignment [Matlab]

This video describes the importance of aligning data when using the singular value decomposition (SVD) (Matlab code).

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Understanding Sensor Fusion and Tracking, Part 2: Fusing a Mag, Accel, and G...

This video describes how we can use a magnetometer, accelerometer, and a gyro to estimate an object’s orientation. The goal is to show how these sensors contribute to the solution, and to...

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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

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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Control Bootcamp: Loop shaping

This video explores shaping the loop transfer function to have desirable sensitivity and complementary sensitivity.

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Why Transfer Functions Matter

Once we know a process's transfer function we can model how it will respond to an variety of inputs very easily, check it out.

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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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Feedforward Control Introduction

I introduce feedforward control (FFC) and describe how it can be used to minimize the difference between an output's setpoint and measured value (the error o...

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Control Bootcamp: Observability

This video explores the observability of a linear system, namely the ability to estimate the full state "x(t)" from a time-history of limited output measurements "y(t)".

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Frequency Response Analysis FRA and the Amplitude Ratio and Phase Angle

Process engineers model output response to inputs that oscillate via frequency response analysis (FRA). In this video, I'll go over amplitude ratios and phas...

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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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Numerically Calculating Partial Derivatives

In this video we discuss how to calculate partial derivatives of a function using numerical techniques. In other words, these partials are calculated withou...

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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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The Inverse Laplace Transform

In this video we show how to perform the inverse Laplace transform on a signal in the Laplace domain to obtain its equivalent representation in the time doma...

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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