Kalman Filter Tutorial

The Kalman Filter is an easy topic. However, many tutorials are not easy to understand. Most require extensive mathematical background which makes them difficult to understand. Also, most...

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Fourier Series: Part 2

This video will show how to approximate a function with a Fourier series, which is an infinite sum of sines and cosines. We will discuss how these sines and cosines form a basis for the...

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Frequency domain – tutorial 10: modulation

In this video, we learn about modulation technique which is commonly used in communication systems to send information from transmitter to receiver. The foll...

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Closed Loop Feedback Control

Intro to closed loop (feedback) control motivation, theory, block diagrams and block diagram algebra, and PID controllers

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Teaching resources for a reinforcement learning course

Teaching resources by Dimitri P. Bertsekas for reinforcement learning courses. The website has links for freely available textbooks (for instructional purposes), videolectures, and course...

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Lecture 3: Electrical and Mechanical System Transfer Functions

Transfer functions for electrical networks and mechanical systems (translational and rotational) are explained in this video See More

Bode Plot Gain and Phase Margin Determination

I'll show you how we can determine the Gain and Phase Margin from a Bode Plot (at some fixed controller gain).

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Peter Ponders PID - Feed Forward Theory and Calculations

The formulas for feed forwards are derived for motors and hydraulic actuators. See More

Lecture 7: More on Signal Flow Graphs and Block Diagram Reduction

In this video lesson, extra problems on SFGs are considered, how to obtain an SFG from a block diagram is explained with the help of armature controlled dc m... See More

Humans, Robots, and Non-Prehensile Manipulation

This is a fun video that was inspired by a presentation I saw at the 2015 International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA). I wanted to see if humans could duplicate the...

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Transfer Function to State Space

In this video we show how to transform a transfer function to an equivalent state space representation. We will derive various transformations such as contr...

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Drone Control and the Complementary Filter

Let's talk about the complementary filter and how we can use it to estimate the attitude of a drone using an IMU. It is such a dead simple filter, which is a good reason to learn it, but it...

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Derivation of Rodrigues’ Rotation Formula

In this video we explain and derive Rodrigues’ Rotation Formula. This functions describes how to rotate an arbitrary vector about another arbitrary axis of rotation. This has applications to...

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Inner Products in Hilbert Space

This video will show how the inner product of functions in Hilbert space is related to the standard inner product of vectors of data.

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Control Bootcamp: Sensitivity and Complementary Sensitivity

Here we explore the sensitivity and complementary sensitivity functions, which are critical in understanding robustness and performance.

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Manipulating Aerodynamic Coefficients

In this video we discuss some potential problems you may encounter when attempting to perform operations with dimensionless aerodynamic coefficients such as ...

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TikZ source Code: Nested subsystems

TikZ source Code: Nested subsystems

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Data-Driven Control: Balanced Proper Orthogonal Decomposition

In this lecture, we introduce the balancing proper orthogonal decomposition (BPOD) to approximate balanced truncation for high-dimensional systems.

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SVD: Eigenfaces 1 [Matlab]

This video describes how the singular value decomposition (SVD) can be used to efficiently represent human faces, in the so-called "eigenfaces" (Matlab code, part 1).

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Identifying Dominant Balance Physics from Data - Jared Callaham

This video illustrates a new algorithm to identify local dominant physical balance relations from multiscale spatiotemporal data.

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Designing a PID Controller Using the Root Locus Method

In this video we discuss how to use the root locus method to design a PID controller. In addition to discussing the theory, we look at Matlab tools to enabl...

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TikZ source Code: Sliding Mode Control Example

TikZ source Code: Sliding Mode Control Example

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Unitary Transformations and the SVD [Python]

This video describes how the singular value decomposition (SVD) is related to unitary transformations, with Python code.

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Stanford CS234: Reinforcement Learning | Winter 2019 | Lecture 7 - Imitation...

Professor Emma Brunskill

Assistant Professor, Computer Science

Stanford AI for Human Impact Lab

Stanford Artificial Intelligence Lab

Statistical Machine Learning Group

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Drone Simulation and Control, Part 4: How to Build a Model for Simulation

This video describes how a good model of the drone and the environment it operates in can be used for simulation and test. It shows how nonlinear and linear models are both needed for...

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