Student's Guide to Bayesian Statistics

This video provides a summary of a textbook Bed Lambert wrote on Bayesian inference  and accompanying (freely available) YouTube course. 

Peter Ponders PID - Introduction

The purpose of this video is to inform the viewer about what to expect. My videos go much deeper than the typical videos. They are geared for graduate st...

Using ‘fminsearch’ to Minimize a Function Specified by a File with Extra Par...

In this video we show 4 different ways to use/call Matlab’s ‘fminsearch’ function to perform unconstrained optimization.Topics and timestamps:0:00 – Introduc...

Wind Tunnel Corrections and Data Reduction

This is the second of our 3 part series on wind tunnel testing. In this video, we discuss 11 different corrections and data reduction processes that are applied to raw wind tunnel data to...

Controlling Robotic Swarms

Come with me to the Robotics, Aerospace, and Information Networks lab at the University of Washington to learn the basics of swarm robotics. Find out how simple distributed algorithms can...

Robust Control, Part 3: Disk Margins for MIMO Systems

This video shows how margin can be used to assess the robustness of multi-input, multi-output systems. We’ll show how disk margin is a more complete way to represent margin for MIMO systems...

What Is a Con­trol Sys­tem and Why Should I Care? (Part 2)

This second video introduces some of the methods that engineers use to build control systems.  It shows how we use science to help us derive models of systems from both measurements and...

So You Want to be a Systems Engineer

A presentation by Gentry Lee on what qualities and characteristics make a great systems engineer. At the time of the presentation, Gentry Lee was the Chief Engineer for the Solar System...

Reinforcement Learning with MATLAB.

This repository contains series of modules to get started with Reinforcement Learning with MATLAB.

It is divided into 4 stages.

In Stage 1, we start with learning RL concepts by manually...

Quanser QUBE-Servo 2: Low-cost Teaching Platform for Controls

The Quanser QUBE-Servo 2 is a fully integrated, modular servomotor lab experiment designed for teaching mechatronics and control concepts at the undergraduate level. Ideal for teaching speed...

Why is a Chirp Signal used in Radar?

Gives an intuitive explanation of why the Chirp signal is a good compromise between an impulse waveform and a sinusoidal pulse waveform for radar.

Autodesk Tinkercad

Tinkercad is a free, easy-to-use web app that equips the next generation of designers and engineers with the foundational skills for innovation: 3D design, electronics, and coding!

Lectures on Modelling and Control of Dynamic Systems (French)

Lectures on Modelling and Control of Dynamic Systems from Patrick Lanusse of Bordeaux INP, France.

Robotic Car - A Simple Way to Build a Model

You don't always have to work out the math in order to build up a model of your system. Sometimes generating a model is as easy as running a simple test and inspecting the results. I show...

Intro to Data Science: Overview

This lecture provides an introductory overview to data science. I will discuss the high-level goals of this lecture series, and how data science is about asking and answering questions with...

Computing Euler Angles: Tracking Attitude Using Quaternions

In this video we continue our discussion on how to track the attitude of a body in space using quaternions. The quaternion method is similar to the Euler Ki...

Robust Control, Part 4: Working with Parameter Uncertainty

The previous two videos showed a few different ways to quantify how robust a system is to model and plant uncertainty by looking at how much input and output variation it can handle before...

Sprint - Test Flight 8 and Data Review

This video is part of a series that details the design, build, and test of Sprint - a thrust vector controlled model rocket by Joe Barnard of BPS Space.

A simple MEMS gyro model using MATLAB / Simulink

This video walks through how to model a simple MEMS gyroscope using MATLAB/Simulink. At the end I show you how to linearize this model to use in your linear control loop design and analysis.

Improve SNR and Capacity of Wireless Communication Using Antenna Arrays

The goal of a wireless communication system is to serve as many users with the highest possible data rate given constraints such as radiation power limit and operating budget. To improve the...

Projectile Motion Equations and Theory

In this video, an important topic under 2D Kinematics i.e. Projectile Motion, is covered. Its theory, equations, and examples are thoroughly discussed.

Control Design Onramp with Simulink

Learn the basics of feedback control design in Simulink®. Adjust the gains of a PID controller to change the dynamics of a physical system and get the closed-loop system behavior that you...

edX course: Dynamics and Control

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...

Radar Design with the Radar Designer App

The Radar Designer app is an interactive tool that assists engineers and system analysts with high-level design and assessment of radar systems at the early stage of radar development.

Control Systems in Practice, Part 1: What Control Systems Engineers Do

This video walks through the phases of a typical project and describes what it means to be a control systems engineer. It covers the concept formulation phase, in which your job is to help...