Machine Learning Overview

This lecture provides an overview of machine learning, and how it fits into this introductory video sequence on data science. We discuss how machine learning involves "modeling with data".

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Laplace Transforms to Derive Transfer Functions

Once we have a state space model, we will take a Laplace Transform to derive the transfer function to determine the response of an output relative to an inpu...

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Fuzzy Inference System Walkthrough | Fuzzy Logic Part 2

This video walks step-by-step through a fuzzy inference system. Learn about concepts like membership function shapes, fuzzy operators, multiple-input inference systems, and rule firing...

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Peter Ponders PID-Fuzzy Logic vs PID

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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Neural Networks: Caveats

This lecture discusses some key limitations of neural networks and suggests avenues of ongoing development.

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Direct Synthesis for PID Controller Design

What tuning parameters should you choose for your controller? The Direct Synthesis Model is one method control engineers use today to evaluate controller par...

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Mounting and Configuring the IMU - dRehmFlight VTOL

This video will show you how to verify proper operation of the IMU for dRehmFlight VTOL before your first flight. It will also show you how to correctly mount the IMU to your aircraft. The...

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Peter Ponders PID - T0P1 Part 4, Misc Topics

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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Drone Simulation and Control, Part 3: How to Build the Flight Code

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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Understanding PID Control, Part 3: Expanding Beyond a Simple Derivative

This video describes how to make an ideal PID controller more robust when controlling real systems that don’t behave like ideal linear models. Noise is generated by sensors and is present in...

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State Space Representation of Differential Equations

In this video we show how to represent differential equations (either linear or non-linear) in state space form. This is useful as it allows us to combine an...

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TikZ source Code: Feedback passivity index

TikZ source Code: Feedback passivity index

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Fourier Analysis: Overview

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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Computing Euler Angles: The Euler Kinematical Equations and Poisson’s Kinema...

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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TikZ source Code: Lyapunov Lure

TikZ source Code: Lyapunov Lure

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The Fourier Transform and Derivatives

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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Control Bootcamp: Sensitivity and Robustness

Here we show that peaks in the sensitivity function result in a lack of robustness.

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Bandwidth of a Dynamic System

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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Using Root Locus to Meet Performance Requirements

In this video we investigate how to use the root locus technique to design a controller that meets certain performance specifications.Topics and timestamps:(...

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Control Systems with MATLAB - Time Domain Analysis

Time domain analysis has been carried out using MATLAB in this video. Second order systems have been discussed in detail. How to obtain different time domain... See More

Time domain - tutorial 3: signal transformations

In this video, we learn how different transformations can change the signal shape. Specifically, we cover time shifting & scaling as well as amplitude shift...

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Frequency domain – tutorial 1: concept of frequency (with Chinese subtitle)

In this video, the following materials are covered:1) intuitive explanation on the frequency concept 2) what is the relation between time and frequency domai...

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The Laplace Transform - A Graphical Approach

A lot of books cover how to perform a Laplace Transform to solve differential equations. This video tries to show graphically what the Laplace Transform is doing and why figuring out the...

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Frequency domain – tutorial 5: Fourier transform

In this video, we learn about Fourier transform which enables us to travel from time to frequency domain when a signal is not periodic. The learning objectiv...

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SVD: Image Compression [Python]

This video describes how to use the singular value decomposition (SVD) for image compression in Python.

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