Why Learn Control Theory

In this video I present a few reasons why learning control theory is important and try to give some motivation to continue learning.

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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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Data Preprocessing and the Short-Time Fourier Transform | Deep Learning for ...

Data in its raw form might not be ideal for training a network. There are some changes we can make to the data that are often desired or sometimes necessary in order to make training faster...

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Discrete control #1: Introduction and overview

So far I have only addressed designing control systems using the frequency domain, and only with continuous systems. That is, we’ve been working in the S domain with transfer functions. We...

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Standard HW Problem #1: PID and Root Locus

A walk through of a typical homework problem using the root locus method to tune a PID controller. This is the first in what may be a series of homework style problems I'll cover. This is...

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How to Land on a Planet (and how it'll be done in the future!)

This video covers the basic ideas behind how engineers develop the algorithms that allow autonomous robots to land on other planetary bodies.

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Designing a PID Controller Using the Ziegler-Nichols Method

In this video we discuss how to use the Ziegler-Nichols method to choose PID controller gains. In addition to discussing the method and providing a Matlab i...

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Control Bootcamp: Sensitivity and Complementary Sensitivity

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

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Derivation of Rodrigues’ Rotation Formula

In this video we explain and derive Rodrigues’ Rotation Formula. This functions describes how to rotate an arbitrary vector about another arbitrary axis of ...

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Peter Ponders PID - Yet Another Linear Quadratic Control Video but...

This videos covers topics not found or hard to find in control books or other videos.This video converts tracking position, velocity and acceleration for a m... See More

Control Systems with MATLAB - Root Locus

Few root locus examples have been explained in this video using MATLAB comand rltool. Also, the MATLAB GUI called rltool with which user can click and insert... See More

Frequency domain – tutorial 13: sampling (theory of everything in signal pro...

In this video, we learn about sampling which enables us to travel from analog to digital world. The following materials are covered:1) why traveling to the ...

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Peter Ponders PID - Controlling non-integrating single pole system. Part 1 ...

Part 1 shows why P only control shouldn't be used because the set point or target is never reached.Part 2 shows why I only control shouldn't be used because ...

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Control System with MATLAB - Block Diagram Reduction

Carrying out block reduction using MATLAB has been explained in this video See More