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...

Neural Network Overview

This lecture gives an overview of neural networks, which play an important role in machine learning today.

How I put the Google Maps Algorithm on my Autonomous Drone

This fully autonomous drone has an onboard computer ‘brain’, camera ‘eyes’, and an algorithm that generates the fastest path around unknown obstacles as they’re detected mid-flight. Let’s...

Modeling Perturbations and Element Failures in a Sensor Array

This MATLAB example shows how to model amplitude, phase, position and pattern perturbations as well as element failures in a sensor array.

Bridging the Gap: Using Real World Problems to Unveil Deep Control Principle...

This is a plenary lecture given at the 2020 IEEE Conference on Control Systems Technology, Montreal, Canada, August 24-26, 2020. There is no paper, but this is the video of the talk.

MATLAB Command: lqr

MATLAB command documentation for the Linear-Quadratic Regulator (lqr) function.

Control Bootcamp: Limitations on Robustness

This video describes some of the fundamental limitations of robustness, including time delays and right-half plane zeros.

Nonlinear System Identification | System Identification, Part 3

Learn about nonlinear system identification by walking through one of the many possible model options: A nonlinear ARX model. Brian Douglas covers the importance of adding an offset term to...

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...

Jupyter Notebook: Code used to generate vibrational control of inverted pend...

Jupyter Notebook: Code used to generate vibrational control of inverted pendulum figures

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.

Základy automatizácie a teórie systémov – videokurz (Slovak)

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

Understanding Valve Flow Characteristics

The response of flow rate through a control valve depends on the friction losses in the piping in which it is installed as well as the controller signal.  The installed characteristic (a...

PID Explained

A qualitative explanation of P, I, & D actions using graphs.

A simple MEMS gyro model using MATLAB / Simulink

This video walks through how to model a simple MEMS gyroscope using MATLAB/Simulink. At the end I show you how to linearize this model to use in your linear control loop design and analysis.

Control Systems in Practice, Part 5: A Better Way to Think About a Notch Fil...

This video describes an intuitive way to approach notch filter design by thinking about the problem as an inverted, lightly damped, second-order low-pass filter. Then, two additional poles...

MATLAB scripts for "Nonlinear System Identification | System Identification,...

This Github repo contains the data files and MATLAB scripts that were used in "Nonlinear System Identification | System Identification, Part 3".

Override and Reset Feedback

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

Dealing with Non-Stationarity in Multi-Agent Deep Reinforcement Learning

From the abstract

Recent developments in deep reinforcement learning are concerned with creating decision-making agents which can perform well in various complex domains. A particular...

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...

Control Design Onramp with Simulink

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...

MATLAB Discovery Page - Anomaly Detection

Anomaly detection is the process of identifying events or patterns that differ from expected behavior. Anomaly detection can range from simple outlier detection to complex machine learning...

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...

Control Systems in Practice, Part 1: What Control Systems Engineers Do

This video walks through the phases of a typical project and describes what it means to be a control systems engineer. It covers the concept formulation phase, in which your job is to help...

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.