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Toys for Control Education

Ichiro Maruta
Intermediate
App
Theory

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.

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Control Bootcamp: Overview

Steve Brunton
19 min
Beginner
Video
Theory

Overview lecture for bootcamp on optimal and modern control. In this lecture, we discuss the various types of control and the benefits of closed-loop feedback control.

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Nyquist Stability Criterion

Wikipedia
15 min
Beginner
Article / Blog
Theory

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...

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Override and Reset Feedback

R. Russell Rhinehart
15 min
Intermediate
Article / Blog
Application

Override controllers are for safety or switching to auxiliary variables.  The non-selected controller needs to prevent becoming wound up.

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MATLAB function: phased.LCMVBeamformer

Mathworks - Brian Douglas
Intermediate
Article / Blog
Application

The phased.LCMVBeamformer object implements a narrowband linear-constraint minimum-variance (LCMV) beamformer for a sensor array. The LCMV beamformer belongs to the family of constrained...

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Control Design Onramp with Simulink

MathWorks
60 min
Beginner
Software
Demonstration

Learn the basics of feedback control design in Simulink®. Adjust the gains of a PID controller to change the dynamics of a physical system and get the closed-loop system behavior that you...

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Interactive Tool about PID tuning rules

Jose Luis Guzman, Karl Johan Astrom, Sebastian Dormido, Tore Hagglund, Manuel Berenguel, and Yves Piguet
Intermediate
App
Application

Hundreds of PID design methods are available in literature. Many of them are very similar and sometimes it is not straightforward to understand their purposes. This interactive software tool...

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The Linear Quadratic Regulator (LQR)

Laurent Lessard
Intermediate
Article / Blog
Theory

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".

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Understanding P, I, and D

R. Russell Rhinehart
30 min
Intermediate
Article / Blog
Theory

Understanding what the proportional, integral, and derivative terms do within the PID controller is essential to choose appropriate action, trouble shoot controllers, chose appropriate...

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