Fourier Series: Part 1

This video will show how to approximate a function with a Fourier series, which is an infinite sum of sines and cosines. We will discuss how these sines and cosines form a basis for the...

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Second Order Dynamics Example

How will a second order process respond in the time domain when subjected to a unit step input? What other behaviors can we expect to see and why? Tune in to...

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Fuzzy Logic, Part 3: Design and Applications of a Fuzzy Logic Controller

This video walks you through the process of designing a fuzzy inference system that can balance a pole on a cart. You can design a fuzzy logic controller using just experience and intuition...

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Lecture 24: Stability using Bode plots

This module discusses how to draw asymptotic Bode plots. It also tells how to calculate stability via the Gain Margin and Phase Margin as read from the Bode ... See More

Peter Ponders PID - KalmanFilters, Alpha-Beta-Gamma filters

A Kalman filter example with all the math is used to estimate the position, velocity and acceleration after corrupting perfect data with measurement and pro... See More

Lecture 27: Lead Compensator Design using Bode plots

In this video lecture, design of a lead compensator using Bode plots is discussed. A numerical example has also been taken up See More

A Nonlinear, 6 DOF Dynamic Model of an Aircraft: the Research Civil Aircraft...

In this video we develop a dynamic model of an aircraft by describing forces and moments generated by aerodynamic, propulsion, and gravity that act on the ai...

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Peter Ponders PID - System Identification Advanced

System Identification of a more complex system with noise and truncation errors. This is the same open loop transfer function used in the root locus videohtt... See More

Humans, Robots, and Non-Prehensile Manipulation

This is a fun video that was inspired by a presentation I saw at the 2015 International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA). I wanted to see if humans could duplicate the...

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Lecture 1 Introduction to Automatic Control

This video gives an introduction to control systems. Open loop and closed loop control systems have been explained See More

Control Bootcamp: Sensitivity and Complementary Sensitivity (Part 2)

Here we explore the sensitivity and complementary sensitivity functions, which are critical in understanding robustness and performance. (Part 2)

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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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Practical Implementation Issues with a Full State Feedback Controller

In this video we investigate practical implementation issues that may arise when attempting to use a full state feedback controller on a real system. We ill...

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PID Control with Posicast Control 8 - ( In English )

This is the follow up of PID Control with Posicast ( Part II )

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Time domain - tutorial 7: system properties

In this video, we cover system properties. The concept of memoryless, causal, stable, invertible, time-invariant and linear systems is intuitively explained...

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Introduction to System Stability and Control

This video attempts to provide an intuitive understanding of concepts like stability and stability margin. I briefly describe both of these topics with examples and explain how you can...

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Time domain - tutorial 10: interconnection of LTI systems

In this video, we learn how to connect LTI systems to make a bigger system. The learning objectives are to:1) get familiar with parallel and series intercon...

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Controllability, Reachability, and Eigenvalue Placement [Control Bootcamp]

This lecture explains the equivalence of controllability, reachability, and the ability to arbitrarily place eigenvalues of the closed loop system.

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Euler (Gimbal Lock) Explained

In this video we explore Euler Rotations, the most common method for orienting objects in 3d. It's by-product "gimbal lock" can cause headaches for animators because the animated motion can...

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Overview of Dempster-Shafer Theory (Evidence Theory)

This is an overview of Dempster-Shafer Theory (Evidence Theory) that provides an introduction, definition, basic information about combination rules, some issues with the theory, and the...

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Discrete control #5: The bilinear transform

This is video number five on discrete control and here, we’re going to cover the famous and useful bilinear transform. The bilinear transform is yet another method for converting, or mapping...

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Finding Transfer Functions from Response Graphs

Given a system response to a unit step change, in this video I'll cover how we can derive the transfer function so we can predict how our system will respond...

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Drone Simulation and Control, Part 4: How to Build a Model for Simulation

This video describes how a good model of the drone and the environment it operates in can be used for simulation and test. It shows how nonlinear and linear models are both needed for...

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Closed Loop Feedback Control

Intro to closed loop (feedback) control motivation, theory, block diagrams and block diagram algebra, and PID controllers

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Solving the Heat Equation with the Fourier Transform

This video describes how the Fourier Transform can be used to solve the heat equation. In fact, the Fourier transform is a change of coordinates into the eigenvector coordinates for the...

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