Computing Euler Angles: The Euler Kinematical Equations and Poisson’s Kinema...
79 min
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In this video we discuss how the time rate of change of the Euler angles are related to the angular velocity vector of the vehicle. This allows us to design...
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Control Bootcamp: Sensitivity and Robustness
9 min
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Here we show that peaks in the sensitivity function result in a lack of robustness.
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Fuzzy Logic, Part 3: Design and Applications of a Fuzzy Logic Controller
17 min
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This video walks you through the process of designing a fuzzy inference system that can balance a pole on a cart. You can design a fuzzy logic controller using just experience and intuition...
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Bandwidth of a Dynamic System
30 min
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In this video we discuss the definition and physical meaning of the bandwidth of a dynamic system. We’ll see that this is a performance metric that is used ...
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Bode Plots by Hand: Poles and Zeros at the Origin
8 min
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This is a continuation of the Control Systems Lectures. This video describes the benefit of being able to approximate a Bode plot by hand and explains what a Bode plot looks like for a...
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Peter Ponders PID-Fuzzy Logic vs PID
10 min
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There are many academic and engineering papers showing how good fuzzy logic control is relative to PID control. Every FL vs PID paper I have seen compares...
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Derivation of Rodrigues’ Rotation Formula
43 min
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In this video we explain and derive Rodrigues’ Rotation Formula. This functions describes how to rotate an arbitrary vector about another arbitrary axis of ...
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Peter Ponders PID - T0P1 Part 4, Misc Topics
20 min
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This video covers another way to compute symbolic gains, the difference between having the P gain act on the error or just the feedback, extending bandwidt...
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Frequency domain – tutorial 13: sampling (theory of everything in signal pro...
25 min
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In this video, we learn about sampling which enables us to travel from analog to digital world. The following materials are covered:1) why traveling to the ...
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Drone Simulation and Control, Part 3: How to Build the Flight Code
18 min
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This video describes how to create quadcopter flight software from the control architecture developed in the last video. It covers how to process the raw sensor readings and use them with...
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TikZ source Code: Feedback passivity index
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TikZ source Code: Feedback passivity index
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Fourier Analysis: Overview
7 min
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This video presents an overview of the Fourier Transform, which is one of the most important transformations in all of mathematical physics and engineering. This series will introduce the...
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Control Systems Lectures - LTI Systems
7 min
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This lecture describes what it means when we say a system is linear and time invariant. I also try to give an example as to why these systems are so important when designing control systems...
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TikZ source Code: Lyapunov Lure
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TikZ source Code: Lyapunov Lure
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The Fourier Transform and Derivatives
10 min
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This video describes how the Fourier Transform can be used to accurately and efficiently compute derivatives, with implications for the numerical solution of differential equations.
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Feedback Control and Block Diagram Introduction
10 min
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How do engineers begin to design controllers to respond to disturbances and maintain set points? In this example, I'll discuss how we can design a controller...
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TikZ source Code: Sliding Mode Control Example System 2
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TikZ source Code: Sliding Mode Control Example System 2
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Internal Model Control IMC Introduction
4 min
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Internal Model Control IMC Introduction
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SVD Method of Snapshots
4 min
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This video describes how to compute the singular value decomposition (SVD) using the method of snapshots, by Sirovich 1987.
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First Order Dynamics in Process Control
15 min
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An overview on the identification and behavior of first order dynamics in process control.
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Numerically Linearizing a Dynamic System
104 min
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In this video we show how to linearize a dynamic system using numerical techniques. In other words, the linearization process does not require an analytical...
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Partial Fraction Expansion/Decomposition
59 min
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In this video we discuss how to perform partial fraction expansion (PFE) to rewrite a ratio of polynomials as simpler expressions. Topics and time stamps:(0...
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Lectures on Adaptive Control and Learning by Tansel Yucelen
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A serie of lectures on the topic of adaptive controllers.
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Understanding Sensor Fusion and Tracking, Part 4: Tracking a Single Object W...
16 min
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This video describes how we can improve tracking a single object by estimating state with an interacting multiple model filter. We will build up some intuition about the IMM filter and show...
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Bode Plots of Complex Transfer Functions
65 min
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In this video we discuss how to generate a bode plot of a complex transfer function by decomposing it into the individual components. We then show how one c...
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