PID Controller Variations

It is important to understand the variations on the PID algorithm when tuning and when choosing a version that is consistent within your use context.  Unfortunately, there are many names for...

MATLAB Example: Doppler Estimation

This example shows a monostatic pulse radar detecting the radial velocity of moving targets at specific ranges. The speed is derived from the Doppler shift caused by the moving targets. We...

The Linear Quadratic Regulator (LQR)

Lecture notes for ECE717 on LQR control by Laurent Lessard. There is a section that shows how the Algebraic Riccati Equation is part of the LQR solution by "completing the square".

Bumpless Transfer and Tuning

Switching from MAN to AUTO mode or LOCAL to CASCADE or changing the controller integral time should not cause a change in the controller output, a bump.  But a primitive coding of the PID...

MATLAB Online

Use MATLAB and Simulink through your web browser. No downloads or installations. MATLAB® Online™ provides access to MATLAB and Simulink from any standard web browser wherever you have...

MATLAB Documentation page: nlarx command

This is the Mathworks documentation page for the nlarx MATLAB command.

Machine Learning: What is easy, medium, and hard?

This video gives a brief overview of what is easy, medium, and hard in machine learning, explored through case studies. Progress in machine learning is rapidly advancing, and changing the...

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. 

Measuring Angles with FMCW Radar | Understanding Radar Principles

Learn how multiple antennas are used to determine the azimuth and elevation of an object using Frequency Modulated Continuous Wave (FMCW) radar.

By looking at the phase shift between the...

Mathworks Model Reference Adaptive Control Overview

This website provides an overview of the mathematics behind Model Reference Adaptive Control (MRAC). MRAC is a model-based, real-time adaptive control algorithm that computes control actions...

Projectile Motion Practice Problems

In this video, practice along questions on an important topic of Kinematics i.e Projectile Motion. Practicing would help you remember the concepts and also understand them better.

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...

Introduction to Anomaly Detection for Engineers

Anomaly detection is the process of identifying events or patterns that differ from expected behavior. This is important for applications like predictive maintenance but can be hard to...

Extremum Seeking Control Applications

This lecture highlights some of the many applications of extremum-seeking control (ESC) performed by Steve Brunton and collaborators.

Radar Systems Engineering Lecture 4: The Radar Equation

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...

Radar Angular Resolution

This radartutorial.eu page describes angular resolution. Radar angular resolution is the minimum distance between two equally large targets at the same range which radar is able to...

Nathan Kutz:"Data-driven Discovery of Governing Physical Laws"

Seminar by Dr.Nathan Kutz on "Data-driven Discovery of Governing Physical Laws" on 10/31/2018 CICS Seminar Series

Multifunction Phased Array Radar (MPAR) for Aircraft and Weather Surveillanc...

MIT Lincoln Laboratory and M/A-COM are jointly conducting a technology demonstration of affordable Multifunction Phased Array Radar (MPAR) technology for Next Generation air traffic control...

The Kalman Filter [Control Bootcamp]

Here, we discuss the Kalman Filter, which is an optimal full-state estimator, given Gaussian white noise disturbances and measurement noise.

Cohen-Coon Tuning

A procedure and commentary on this tuning approach that includes deadtime.

Robotarium by Georgia Tech

The Robotarium project provides a remotely accessible swarm robotics research platform that remains freely accessible to anyone. Currently, Robotics research requires significant investments...

Train Custom LQR Agent with MATLAB

This example shows how to train a custom linear quadratic regulation (LQR) agent to control a discrete-time linear system modeled in MATLAB®.

Cascade Control 2

An Implementation Recipe for Cascade Control

Control Bootcamp: LQG Example in Matlab

This video combines the LQR and Kalman filter in Matlab on the example of an inverted pendulum on a cart. We stabilize the full nonlinear system with a measurement of a single variable (the...

MATLAB Command: goodnessOfFit

Goodness of fit between test and reference data for analysis and validation of identified models