Particle Filter Explained without Equations

This video provides a quick graphical introduction to the particle filter. It does a good job building some intuition behind the filter without ever touching on any mathematics. It's worth a...

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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

Lecture 17: Introduction to Compensators/Controllers

This video introduces compensators or controllers. The 3 basic control actions - proportional, derivative and integral - have been discussed. Also discussed ... See More

Inputs and Outputs as defined by a Process Control Engineer

Defining process inputs and outputs is a lot more complicated than I initially thought when I was learning about process control. In this video, I share how ...

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Designing a Lag Compensator with Bode Plot

This video walks through a phase lag compensator example using the Bode Plot method.

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IMC PID Design with Dead Time

IMC PID Design with Dead Time

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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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Understanding Model Predictive Control, Part 7: Adaptive MPC Design with Sim...

In this video, you will learn how to design an adaptive MPC controller for an autonomous steering vehicle system whose dynamics change with respect to the longitudinal velocity. After you...

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Understanding and Sketching the Root Locus

In this video we discuss how to sketch the root locus for a system by developing a series of 5 core rules augmented by 5 supplemental rules (for a total of 1...

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Understanding Sensor Fusion and Tracking, Part 1: What Is Sensor Fusion?

This video provides an overview of what sensor fusion is and how it helps in the design of autonomous systems. It also covers a few scenarios that illustrate the various ways that sensor...

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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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Control Bootcamp: Benefits of Feedback on Cruise Control Example

Here we investigate the benefits of feedback for systems with uncertain dynamics and disturbances, as illustrated on a cruise control example.

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Standard HW Problem #2: Which is the real open loop transfer function?

In this video, we’ll go through another standard homework problem so you can see how you can apply many of the things you’re learning into a single problem. The question is, we have two...

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Final Value Theorem and Steady State Error

This Final Value Theorem is a way we can determine what value the time domain function approaches at infinity but from the S-domain transfer function. This is very helpful when we're trying...

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Frequency domain – tutorial 2: Fourier series

In this video, we learn Fourier series which enables us to travel from time to the frequency domain when a signal is periodic. The following materials are co...

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Time domain - tutorial 1: what is signal processing?

In this video, we review the concept of signal processing and why it is useful to learn it. Learn Signal Processing 101 in 31 lectures covering time, frequen...

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Peter Ponders PID - LQR Optimizing Two Outputs

To make this LQR video different I use LQR to control two output and find the best 'compromise' between controlling the level and temperature in a mixing tan... See More

Lecture 16: More on Root Locus and Gain Compensation

Extra numerical problems using Root locus is discussed in this video. Then follows, Gain compensation using Root Locus See More

Bode Stability Criterion in Frequency Response Analysis Intro

The Bode stability criterion allows us to quickly determine the stability and relative stability of a transfer function. It uses a graphical method that can ...

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Peter Ponders PID - Controlling a non-integrating single pole system. Part 3...

Part 3 uses PI control which is the only practical means of control a non-integrating single pole system.http://deltamotion.comhttp://forum.deltamotion.com

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Lecture 23: Bode plots

Discusses Bode plots and Bode plots for some common factors in a transfer function See More

Feedforward Control Intro

If we know how a disturbance will affect an output, we can proactively change our manipulated variable to counteract it.

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Direct Synthesis for PID Design Intro

Direct Synthesis for PID Design Intro

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Posicast Control 5 - (In English)

In this video Posicast in closed-loop is illustrated using a gantry-crane system simulations.

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Control Systems Lectures - Time and Frequency Domain

This lecture introduces the time and frequency domains. A very quick description of the Laplace Transform is given which will be the base of many of classical control lectures in the future...

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