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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Designing a Lead Compensator with Root Locus

This video walks through a phase lead compensator example using the Root Locus method.

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Posicast Control -3 - ( In English )

In this video a Gantry-Crane control simulation problem is introduced. The problem is presented and some introductory simulations are shown.

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Control Systems Lectures - LTI Systems

This lecture describes what it means when we say a system is linear and time invariant. I also try to give an example as to why these systems are so important when designing control systems...

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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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Lectures on Adaptive Control and Learning by Tansel Yucelen

A serie of lectures on the topic of adaptive controllers.

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Machine Learning Overview

This lecture provides an overview of machine learning, and how it fits into this introductory video sequence on data science. We discuss how machine learning involves "modeling with data".

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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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Neural Networks: Caveats

This lecture discusses some key limitations of neural networks and suggests avenues of ongoing development.

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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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Digital Twins

This lecture discusses the use of data-driven digital twins in advanced model-based design and engineering, and the related digital thread, which ties together the data throughout an entire...

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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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Control Systems Lectures - Closed Loop Control

This lecture discusses the differences between open loop and closed loop control.

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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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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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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

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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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

Direct Synthesis for PID Design Intro

Direct Synthesis for PID Design Intro

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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

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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