State Space, Part 2: Pole Placement
14 min
Beginner
Video
Theory
This video provides an intuitive understanding of pole placement, also known as full state feedback. This is a control technique that feeds back every state to guarantee closed- loop...
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Stanford Engineering Everywhere: CS223A - Introduction to Robotics
Beginner
Course
Theory
The purpose of this course is to introduce you to basics of modeling, design, planning, and control of robot systems. In essence, the material treated in this course is a brief survey of...
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Free Video Course in Radar Systems Engineering
Beginner
Course
Theory
This Free Radar Systems Engineering Course (video, audio and screen captured ppt slides) and separate pdf slides) has been developed as a first course in Radar Systems for first year...
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An Introduction to the Kalman Filter
45 min
Beginner
Article / Blog
Theory
The purpose of this paper is to provide a practical introduction to the discrete Kalman filter. This introduction includes a description and some discussion of the basic discrete Kalman...
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Understanding Sensor Fusion and Tracking, Part 1: What Is Sensor Fusion?
12 min
Beginner
Video
Theory
This video provides an overview of what sensor fusion is and how it helps in the design of autonomous systems. It also covers a few scenarios that illustrate the various ways that sensor...
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Reinforcement Learning for Engineers, Part 4: The Walking Robot Problem
14 min
Beginner
Video
Theory
This video shows how to use the reinforcement learning workflow to get a bipedal robot to walk. It also looks at how to modify the default example to make it look more like how one would set...
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An introduction to Beamforming
14 min
Beginner
Video
Theory
This video talks about how we actually have more control over the shape of the beam than just adding additional elements, or adjusting the position and orientation of the elements. We can...
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Autonomous Navigation, Part 2: Understanding the Particle Filter
16 min
Beginner
Video
Theory
This video presents a high-level understanding of the particle filter and shows how it can be used in Monte Carlo localization to determine the pose of a mobile robot inside a building. We...
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Radar Tutorial (English)
Beginner
Article / Blog
Theory
This page provides a detailed overview of radar principles and technologies, including mathematical, physical and technical explanations. “Radartutorial” explains the fundamentals of radar...
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Introducing Feedback Control to Middle and High School STEM Students, Part 1...
60 min
Intermediate
Article / Blog
Demonstration
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 at...
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Control Systems in Practice, Part 7: 4 Ways to Implement a Transfer Function...
18 min
Beginner
Video
Theory
In some situations, it is easier to design a controller or a filter using continuous, s-domain transfer functions. We have a lot of mathematical tools that make analyzing and manipulating...
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System Identification Overview
Beginner
Article / Blog
Theory
System identification is a methodology for building mathematical models of dynamic systems using measurements of the input and output signals of the system. This overview from Mathworks...
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ITCLI: An Interactive Tool for Closed-Loop Identification
Intermediate
App
Application
The Interactive Tool for Closed-Loop Identification (ITCLI) is an interactive software tool for understanding SISO closed-loop identification using prediction-error techniques. The tool...
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Discrete Fourier Transform
Intermediate
Article / Blog
Theory
The discrete Fourier transform, or DFT, is the primary tool of digital signal processing. The foundation of the product is the fast Fourier transform (FFT), a method for computing the DFT...
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Kalman Filter Virtual Lab
Intermediate
Virtual Lab
Application
The Kalman Filter virtual laboratory contains interactive exercises that let you study linear and extended Kalman filter design for state estimation of a simple pendulum system. The virtual...
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Adaptive Control Basics: What Is Model Reference Adaptive Control?
17 min
Beginner
Video
Theory
Use an adaptive control method called model reference adaptive control (MRAC). This controller can adapt in real time to variations and uncertainty in the system that is being controlled...
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DC Motor Speed: System Modeling
Beginner
Project
Theory
This examples walks through modeling a simple DC motor in MATLAB.
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Model Predictive Control
12 min
Beginner
Video
Theory
This lecture provides an overview of model predictive control (MPC), which is one of the most powerful and general control frameworks. MPC is used extensively in industrial control settings...
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Modeling Physical Systems, An Overview
7 min
Beginner
Video
Theory
This video sets the stage for the topics that I want to cover over the next month or two. This is an overview of how you go from a physical system to a linear model where you can design a...
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Using the Control System Designer in Matlab
53 min
Beginner
Video
Theory
In this video we show how to use the Control System Designer to quickly and effectively design control systems for a linear system. We show how to add multi...
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Control Systems in Practice, Part 9: The Step Response
15 min
Beginner
Video
Theory
This video covers a few interesting things about the step response. We’ll look at what a step response is and some of the ways it can be used to specify design requirements for closed loop...
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Understanding PID Control, Part 6: Manual and Automatic Tuning Methods
13 min
Beginner
Video
Theory
The previous video showed three different approaches to developing a mathematical model of your physical system. Now that we have this model, we can use it to tune a PID controller that will...
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Understanding Kalman Filters, Part 4: An Optimal State Estimator Algorithm
9 min
Beginner
Video
Theory
Discover the set of equations you need to implement a Kalman filter algorithm. You’ll learn how to perform the prediction and update steps of the Kalman filter algorithm, and you’ll see how...
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The AVA Flight Computer
18 min
Beginner
Video
Application
This video describes the board design, hardware architecture, and software components of the All Vehicle Avionics (AVA) flight computer that was designed by Joe Barnard of BPS Space. This...
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System Identification Methods
17 min
Beginner
Video
Theory
System Identification is the process of determining the model or the equations of motion for your system. This is incredibly important because basing a control system design off of a bad...
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