Using Simscape™ to Model a Quanser QUBE-Servo 2 with Friction

Modelling a DC servomotor is one of the common examples used in control system textbooks and courses. Given that so many systems use DC motors, e.g. robot manipulator arms, it’s an important...

Simulating Test Signals for a Radar Receiver

This example shows how to simulate received signal of a monostatic pulse radar to estimate the target range. A monostatic radar has the transmitter collocated with the receiver. The...

Kalman Filter Simulink 2022A example

This model is intended to help illustrate how a Kalman filter can estimate the state of a system. The "real system" is a nonlinear model of the Temperature Control Lab by Prof. John...

TCLab PID Control

Implement a PID controller on the Temperature Control Lab hardware to drive the temperature from room temperature to 60 degrees C. This resource lets you attempt the design yourself first...

Advances in feedforward control for measurable disturbances (in Spanish)

The efficient compensation of load disturbances is one of the most important tasks in any control system. Most industrial processes are affected by disturbances and only feedback is commonly...

Koopman Spectral Analysis (Control)

In this video, we explore extensions of Koopman theory for control systems. Much of the excitement and promise of Koopman operator theory is centered around the ability to represent...

Perspectives on Control-Relevant Identification Through the Use of Interacti...

This paper presents a control-relevant identification methodology through an intuitive interactive tool called "Interactive Tool for Control Relevant Identification (ITCRI)". ITCRI...

Data-Driven Dynamical Systems Overview

This video provides a high-level overview of this new series on data-driven dynamical systems. In particular, we explore the various challenges in modern dynamical systems, along with...

Radar Systems Engineering MATLAB Documentation and Examples

The functions in this section give you the MATLAB tools needed to evaluate the performance of a radar system. You can use the radar equation to evaluate the radar received signal-to-noise...

MPCTools: Nonlinear Model Predictive Control Tools for CasADi (Python Interf...

This Python package is a collection of model predictive control tools that build on CasADi by providing a simpler interface. Along with the python package, there are a bunch of example files...

Virtual Labs for control education

This resource provides different links to virtual and remote labs that can be used for control education. Virtual and remote labs are very powerful tools for learning and teaching, that...

Various games for learning Controller Design

Since 2005, we are using educational games in the course „Einführung in die Regelungstechnik“ (Introduction to automatic control). 

The project started with the game spaceballRT, which uses...

MATLAB Example: Online Recursive Least Squares Estimation

This example shows how to implement an online recursive least squares estimator. You estimate a nonlinear model of an internal combustion engine and use recursive least squares to detect...

RADAR Engineering

Radar technology is used widely today. The principles involved are very fundamental and every engineering student studies them at least once. This playlist covers Radar Engineering for an EE...

Manuscript about ITISE: an Interactive Software Tool for System Identificati...

The paper describes the conceptual basis, main features and functionality of an interactive software tool developed in support of system identification education and discovery.

This...

Algorithms for Automated Driving

Each chapter of this (mini-)book guides you in programming one important software component for automated driving. Currently, this book contains two chapters: Lane Detection, and Control...

Why Digital Beamforming Is Useful for Radar

Learn how you can use digital beamformers to improve the performance and functions of radar systems. The MATLAB Tech Talk series on radar covered how to use radar to determine range, range...

Interactive Tools for Control Purposes

This resource provides different links to Interactive Tools that can be used for control education. Interactive Tools are very powerful educational resources as support to learning and...

Matlab 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. Using...

MATLAB Example: Train MBPO Agent to Balance Cart-Pole System

This example shows how to train a model-based policy optimization (MBPO) agent to balance a cart-pole system modeled in MATLAB. For more information on MBPO agents, see Model-Based Policy...

Advances in Feedforward Control for Measurable Disturbances (slides)

These slides present several contributions to improve the feedforward control approaches when inversion problem arise:  the ideal compensator may not be realizable due to negative delay...

Algorithms to Antenna: Increasing Angular Resolution Using MIMO Radar

Articles in Microwaves & RF that talks about how forming virtual arrays with multiple-input, multiple-output waveforms makes it possible to generate more focused beam patterns.

Fixed-Point HDL-Optimized Minimum-Variance Distortionless-Response (MVDR) Be...

This example shows how to implement a fixed-point HDL-optimized minimum-variance distortionless-response (MVDR) beamformer in MATLAB.

Model Reference Adaptive Control of Aircraft Undergoing Wing Rock

This example shows how to control roll and roll rate of a delta wing aircraft undergoing wing rock. For this example, the system model is unknown. Therefore, you use model reference adaptive...

Thoughts on Furthering the Control Education of Practicing Engineers

This paper was presented at the 2019 IFAC Advances on Control Education Conference (IFAC-ACE), Philadelphia, PA, USA, July 7-9, 2019, and is in the conference proceedings. This paper aims to...