Wind Tunnel Data Analysis and Testing Considerations

This is the last video in our 3 part series on wind tunnel testing. In this video, we discuss what typical plots of wind tunnel data might look like and how to extract relevant information...

What are Phased Arrays?

This video introduces the concept of phased arrays. An array refers to multiple sensors, arranged in some configuration, that act together to produce a desired sensor pattern. With a phased...

Vibrational control of nonlinear systems: Vibrational controllability and tr...

In the first part of this work, the criteria for the existence of stabilizing parametric oscillations have been derived. In the present paper, the problem of choosing the stabilizing...

Nonlinear Control Output Signal Characterization

If the process gain makes large changes over the operating range, then tuning PID (or other linear) controllers is difficult.  If tuned for one region, the controller is undesirably sluggish...

Systems Engineering, Part 2: Towards a Model-Based Approach

The role of systems engineering is to help find and maintain a balance between the stakeholder needs, the management needs, and the engineering needs of a project. So we can think of it as...

Matlab: The Radar Equation

This Mathworks page explains the parameters of the radar range equation. The point target radar range equation estimates the power at the input to the receiver for a target of a given radar...

Scaled Transmission Signals, Engineering Units, and Conversions

Information is transmitted in scaled signals (4-20 mA, 3-15 psig, 0-100%, digital counts), which are also deviations from some reference vales (such as psi gage is to psia).  But process...

Pathfinding with A*

An interactive visual explanation of the A* pathfinding algorithm.  This resource uses motivating examples from computer games. 

Toys for Control Education

Teaching materials for control engineering education that run in web browsers. Speed control, position control, step response of 2nd order system, pole and impulse response, and rocket.

MATLAB Documentation page: idLinear mapping object

This is the Mathworks documentation page for the idLinear mapping object.

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...

Pole Placement for the Inverted Pendulum on a Cart [Control Bootcamp]

Here we use the 'place' command in Matlab to design full-state feedback gains to specify the eigenvalues of the closed-loop system. This is demonstrated on the inverted pendulum on a cart.

Why the Riccati Equation Is important for LQR Control

This Tech Talk looks at an optimal controller called linear quadratic regulator, or LQR, and shows why the Riccati equation plays such an important role in solving it efficiently. The talk...

Základy automatizácie a teórie systémov – videokurz (Slovak)

Pozrite si videokurz zo základov teórie systémov a automatizácie. Náš kurz má 7 lekcií.

Full Stack Deep Learning

There are many great courses to learn how to train deep neural networks. However, training the model is just one part of shipping a deep learning project. This course teaches full-stack...

Reinforcement Learning: An Introduction

From the book introduction:

The idea that we learn by interacting with our environment is probably the first to occur to us when we think about the nature of learning. When an infant plays...

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.

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...

How Antennas Work

Antennas constitute as a major component in various communication systems, signal transmission and many others. It is important to understand how they work and create propagating waves in...

Feedforward tuning rules for measurable disturbances with PID control: a tut...

Feedforward control can be considered as the most well-known control approach to deal with measurable disturbances. It started to be used almost 100 years ago, and since then it is being...

System Identification: Full-State Models with Control

This lecture provides an overview of modern data-driven regression methods for linear and nonlinear system identification, based on the dynamic mode decomposition (DMD), Koopman theory, and...

Massive MIMO Hybrid Beamforming

This MATLAB example shows how hybrid beamforming is employed at the transmit end of a massive MIMO communications system, using techniques for both multi-user and single-user systems. The...

Measurements, Transmission Signals, and Issues

This is an introduction to scaled information transmission signals (for example 4-20 mA, 3-15 psig, etc.), the actual sensed signals (like using orifice dP to infer flow rate, or temperature...

Nyquist Stability Criterion

The Wikipedia article on Nyquist Stability Criterion.  This covers the Nyquist plot, the Cauchy argument principle, and the stability criterion itself.  A mathematical derivation is also...

Cascade Control 1

Cascade Control Overview