The Braitenberg Vehicles

This video explores the world of simple logical robots as described by Valentino Braitenberg in his book Vehicles, Experiments in Synthetic Psychology. With very simple linkages between...

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Peter Ponders PID - Observers/Estimators

Observers can provide betters estimates of state variables when there is noise and low resolution feed back. This is often necessary to compute the higher d... See More

Lecture 10: Second Order Underdamped Systems: Unit step response and time do...

The unit step response of a Second order underdamped system has been derived in this lecture. Further, different time domain specifications have also been de... See More

Control Bootcamp: Full-State Estimation

This video describes full-state estimation. An estimator dynamical system is constructed, and it is shown that the estimate converges to the true state. Further, the eigenvalues of the...

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Solving the 1D Wave Equation

In this video, we solve the 1D wave equation. We utilize the separation of variables method to solve this 2nd order, linear, homogeneous, partial differenti...

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What Is a Control System and Why Should I Care? (Part 2)

This talk gives a glimpse of some of the methods and math that allow us to understand feedback systems. Continuing on from Part 1, it gives a description of how we use scientific principles...

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Designing a Lag Compensator with Root Locus

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

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Frequency domain – tutorial 12: FT of periodic signals

In this video, we learn how to find the Fourier transform for periodic signals. The following materials are covered:1) relation between Fourier transform and...

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Posicast Control - 1 ( In English)

This video is an introduction to a learning journey about Posicast Control structured as follows: - Preface - Motivation - Introduction to Posicast Control - Half-Cycle Posicast

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Time domain - tutorial 6: elementary signals

In this video, we cover two elementary signals, unit step and unit impulse, which will be extensively used in this course. The following materials are covere...

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Dynamic Behavior and Input Types in Process Control

An introduction to the four types of dynamic behavior and five types of inputs (step, ramp, pulse, impulse, and sinusoidal), and why transfer functions are u...

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CORRECTION: Bode Plots by Hand: Complex Poles or Zeros

I explain how to determine the straight-line estimate of the Bode Plot for a second order transfer function with a pair of complex poles. This video is a repeat of the last half of the Bode...

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Intro to Process Control

I discuss the motivation and introduce the logic behind controllers that engineers design to respond to errors in outputs (deviations from set points). P and...

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Fuzzy Inference System Walkthrough | Fuzzy Logic Part 2

This video walks step-by-step through a fuzzy inference system. Learn about concepts like membership function shapes, fuzzy operators, multiple-input inference systems, and rule firing...

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Routh Array and Stability

I show how we can find the range of allowed controller gains for a system that will allow us to maintain stability using a Routh Array.

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Control Bootcamp: Benefits of Feedback on Cruise Control Example (Part 2)

Here we investigate the benefits of feedback for systems with uncertain dynamics and disturbances, as illustrated on a cruise control example. (Part 2)

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Nonhomogeneous Linear Ordinary Differential Equations

In the previous video (https://youtu.be/3Kox-3APznI) we examined solving homogeneous linear ordinary differential equations (the forcing function was equal t...

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Stanford CS229: Machine Learning | Autumn 2018

Autumn 2018 Stanford course on machine learning by Andrew Ng.

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The Fourier Transform and Derivatives

This video describes how the Fourier Transform can be used to accurately and efficiently compute derivatives, with implications for the numerical solution of differential equations.

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Principal Component Analysis (PCA)

Principal component analysis (PCA) is a workhorse algorithm in statistics, where dominant correlation patterns are extracted from high-dimensional data.

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Partial Fraction Expansion/Decomposition

In this video we discuss how to perform partial fraction expansion (PFE) to rewrite a ratio of polynomials as simpler expressions. Topics and time stamps:(0...

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Peter Ponders PID, Natural Frequency vs Frequency of Acceleration

This video is intended for servo hydraulic system designers and those that program hydraulic servo systems but it does show how several of the techniques sho...

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Lecture 28: Lag Compensator Design using Bode Plots

This video explains how a lag compensator can be designed using Bode plots. A numerical example has also been taken up. See More

Sketching Root Locus Part 1

Sketching a root locus by hand can be done by following some simple rules. However, more important than actually being able to sketch to plot is being able to use our knowledge to design...

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Time Domain Analysis: Performance Metrics for a First Order System

In this video we introduce the concept of time domain analysis for dynamic systems. We examine a first order dynamic system and derive how various performan...

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