Lecture 5: Block Diagram Reduction

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MATLAB Sensor Array Analyzer App

The Sensor Array Analyzer app enables you to construct and analyze common sensor array configurations. These configurations range from 1-D to 3-D arrays of antennas, sonar transducers, and...

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Lectures on Adaptive Control and Learning by Tansel Yucelen

A serie of lectures on the topic of adaptive controllers.

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Lecture 15: Root Locus

This video discusses about the concept of root locus. Rules for sketching Root locus are also laid out. The concept have been explained with 2 examples. If y... See More

Velocity & Acceleration in Non-Inertial Reference Frames (Coriolis &...

In this video we derive a mathematical description of velocity and acceleration in non-inertial reference frame. We examine the effect of fictitious forces ...

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Deriving Percent Overshoot, Settling Time, and Other Performance Metrics

In this video we examine a second order dynamic system and derive how various performance metrics (such as time to first peak, magnitude at first peak, perce...

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Peter Ponders PID - Closed Loop Zeros

This video covers closed loop zeros, what causes zeros and the benefits and drawbacks of closed loop zeros.

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Lecture 14: Routh Hurwitz Criterion

Special cases in Routh Hurwitz criterion i.e (1) a row with only first entry being zero and (2) A row with all entries zero are considered. The video of a pr... See More

Controllability and the Discrete-Time Impulse Response [Control Bootcamp]

This lecture derives the impulse response for a discrete-time system and relates this to the controllability matrix.

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Time domain - tutorial 3: signal transformations

In this video, we learn how different transformations can change the signal shape. Specifically, we cover time shifting & scaling as well as amplitude shift...

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Peter Ponders PID- Motor position control

Symbolic pole placement is used to place the poles on the negative real axis in the s-domain so that the response never overshoots. See More

Matrix Completion and the Netflix Prize

This video describes how the singular value decomposition (SVD) can be used for matrix completion and recommender systems.

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Computing Euler Angles: The Euler Kinematical Equations and Poisson’s Kinema...

In this video we discuss how the time rate of change of the Euler angles are related to the angular velocity vector of the vehicle. This allows us to design an algorithm to consume...

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Instrument Kit for ME 316

This hardware kit accompanies the textbook "Project Based Engineering Instrumentation with CircultPython" by Dr. Carlos Montalvo. Using this hardware and the textbook you’ll build some...

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Data-Driven Control: Balancing Example

In this lecture, we give an example of how a change of coordinates can balance the controllability and observability of an input—output system.

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Frequency domain – tutorial 7: Fourier transform examples marathon

In this video, we solve lots of lots examples to practice how to quickly find Fourier transform using table of pairs and properties. The learning objective i...

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SVD: Eigenfaces 2 [Python]

This video describes how the singular value decomposition (SVD) can be used to efficiently represent human faces, in the so-called "eigenfaces" (Python code, part 2).

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Why Transfer Functions Matter

Once we know a process's transfer function we can model how it will respond to an variety of inputs very easily, check it out.

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Discrete control #1: Introduction and overview

So far I have only addressed designing control systems using the frequency domain, and only with continuous systems. That is, we’ve been working in the S domain with transfer functions. We...

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TikZ source Code: A single MIMO system

TikZ source Code: A single MIMO system

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Linear Quadratic Regulator (LQR) Control for the Inverted Pendulum on a Cart...

Here we design an optimal full-state feedback controller for the inverted pendulum on a cart example using the linear quadratic regulator (LQR). In Matlab, we find that this is a simple one...

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Control Bootcamp: Observability Example in Matlab (Part 2)

This video continues to explore observability in Matlab on the example system of an inverted pendulum on a cart. We look at the observability Gramian.

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Feedforward Control Introduction

I introduce feedforward control (FFC) and describe how it can be used to minimize the difference between an output's setpoint and measured value (the error o...

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Control Bootcamp: Loop Shaping Example for Cruise Control

This video demonstrates loop shaping on the cruise control model.

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Stanford CS234: Reinforcement Learning | Winter 2019 | Lecture 13 - Fast Rei...

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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