IMC based PID Design for a First Order Process

IMC based PID Design for a First Order Process

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Drawing the root locus (Interactive Tool)

This page was developed to help student learn how to sketch the root locus by hand. You can enter a numerator and denominator for G(s)H(s) (i.e., the loop gain) and the program will guide...

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Linear Systems of Equations, Least Squares Regression, Pseudoinverse

This video describes how the SVD can be used to solve linear systems of equations. In particular, it is possible to solve nonsquare systems (overdetermined or underdetermined) via least...

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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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PID Control with Posicast Control 8 - ( In English )

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

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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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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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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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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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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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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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Frequency domain – tutorial 8: frequency spectra

In this video, we learn about frequency spectra which can be divided into two parts: phase and magnitude spectrum. Some examples will be provided to practice...

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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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Frequency domain – tutorial 11: equalization

In this video, we learn about equalization technique which is used in communication systems to compensate for the destructive effect of the channel between t...

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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

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 - 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

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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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

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

IMC PID Design with Dead Time

IMC PID Design with Dead Time

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Control Bootcamp: Linear Quadratic Gaussian (LQG)

This lecture combines the optimal full-state feedback (e.g., LQR) with the optimal full-state estimator (e.g., LQE or Kalman Filter) to obtain the sensor-based linear quadratic Gaussian (LQG...

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Introduction to Ordinary Differential Equations

In this video we introduce the concept of ordinary differential equations (ODEs). We give examples of how these appear in science and engineering as well as...

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