Introduction to Hybrid Beamforming

This MATLAB example introduces the basic concept of hybrid beamforming and shows how to simulate such a system.

Model Reference Adaptive Control of Satellite Spin

This example shows how to control satellite spin using model reference adaptive control (MRAC) to make the unknown controlled system match an ideal reference model. The satellite system is...

Orifice Calibration

The ISO method for orifice design and calibration is grounded in the ideal square-root relation between pressure drop and flow rate, specifies the in-pipe structure for an orifice, and...

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...

First-Order Filters

Use data filters to temper noise - relation of options to lag and variance reduction

Online Tuning using Simulink’s Closed-Loop PID Autotuner Block

Learn how to conduct an online tuning of a PI-speed controller using the MATLAB/Simulink Closed-Loop PID Autotuner Block. Tuned controller is validated on a Quanser QLabs Virtual QUBE-Servo...

Robotic Car - A Simple Way to Build a Model

You don't always have to work out the math in order to build up a model of your system. Sometimes generating a model is as easy as running a simple test and inspecting the results. I show...

What are Nonlinear ARX Models?

This Mathworks page provides an overview of Nonlinear ARX Models.Nonlinear ARX models extend the linear ARX models to the nonlinear case. The structure of these models enables you to model...

Using Transfer Learning | Deep Learning for Engineers, Part 4

This video introduces the idea of transfer learning. Transfer learning is modifying an existing deep network architecture and then retraining it to accomplish your task rather than the task...

Feedback Systems: An Introduction for Scientists and Engineers

This is the wiki for the text Feedback Systems (second edition) by Karl J. Åström and Richard M. Murray. On this resource you will find the complete text of the book as well as additional...

Feedback in the Squishy Stuff: Introducing Chemical and Biological Process ...

Feedback doesn’t just happen in robots and self-driving cars, but in the regulation of our very bodies and in the ways in which we transform raw ingredients into materials we can use, be...

Converting Constrained Optimization to Unconstrained Optimization Using the ...

In this video we show how to convert a constrained optimization problem into an approximately equivalent unconstrained optimization problem using the penalty...

My Sole Advise to Data Scientists on Coursera & Quora

This blog post by Tarry Singh answers questions including "How do I get started in the field on Machine Learning, Deep Learning or Artificial Intelligence" and "How do I advance from the...

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...

Controlling Robotic Swarms

Come with me to the Robotics, Aerospace, and Information Networks lab at the University of Washington to learn the basics of swarm robotics. Find out how simple distributed algorithms can...

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.

Introduction to Radar Systems: Target Radar Cross Section

This course is presented by Robert M. O'Donnell, a former researcher at MIT Lincoln Laboratory, and is designed to instill a basic working knowledge of radar systems.

The set of 10 lectures...

Základy automatizácie a teórie systémov – videokurz (Slovak)

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

Interpreting Lines on PFDs and P&IDs

Lines on a process flow diagram (PFD) indicate material flow.  In contrast, on a piping and instrument diagram (P&ID), the control overlay for the PFD, the lines represent information flow. ...

Control Bootcamp: Observability Example in Matlab

This video explores observability in Matlab on the example system of an inverted pendulum on a cart.

Feedforward Control

When a Ratio Control strategy takes action too soon, use Feedforward to temper the dynamics.  When a disturbance can be measured, but would not be a ratio of the control output use...

What is Residual Analysis?

Residuals are differences between the one-step-predicted output from the model and the measured output from the validation data set. Thus, residuals represent the portion of the validation...

Control Bootcamp: Introduction to Robust Control

This video motivates robust control with the famous 1978 paper by John Doyle, titled "Guaranteed Margins for LQG Regulators"... Abstract: There are none.

Simulink example: Adaptive MPC Control of Nonlinear Chemical Reactor Using O...

This example shows how to use an Adaptive MPC controller to control a nonlinear continuous stirred tank reactor (CSTR) as it transitions from low conversion rate to high conversion rate.

A...

Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning: Independent vs Cooperative Agents

From the Abstract:

Intelligent human agents exist in a cooperative social environment that facilitates learning. They learn not only by trialand -error, but also through cooperation by...