The Kalman Filter

This article introduces the Kalman filter at a high level and tries to provide some insight into how the filter is able to estimate state by combining measurements and models. 

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How a Kalman Filter Works in Pictures

This article builds up some intuition about the Kalman filter using pictures before diving into the mathematics.  A beginner will come away with an understanding of what the Kalman filter is...

Free Video Course in Radar Systems Engineering

This Free Radar Systems Engineering Course (video, audio and screen captured ppt slides) and separate pdf slides) has been developed as a first course in Radar Systems for first year...

An Introduction to the Kalman Filter

The purpose of this paper is to provide a practical introduction to the discrete Kalman filter. This introduction includes a description and some discussion of the basic discrete Kalman...

Stanford Engineering Everywhere: CS223A - Introduction to Robotics

The purpose of this course is to introduce you to basics of modeling, design, planning, and control of robot systems. In essence, the material treated in this course is a brief survey of...

Radar Tutorial (English)

This page provides a detailed overview of radar principles and technologies, including mathematical, physical and technical explanations. “Radartutorial” explains the fundamentals of radar...

What's a Control System and Why Should I Care? A whirlwind tour through the ...

This paper aims to provide some introduction, a cheat sheet, and some context for college level STEM students about to take that first controls class. In some cases, it provides context...

System Identification Overview

System identification is a methodology for building mathematical models of dynamic systems using measurements of the input and output signals of the system.  This overview from Mathworks...

Introduction: PID Controller Design

In this tutorial we will introduce a simple, yet versatile, feedback compensator structure: the Proportional-Integral-Derivative (PID) controller. The PID controller is widely employed...

What's a Control System and Why Should I Care?

This paper is designed as a primer for college level STEM students about to take their first formal class in feedback control systems. This means that the explanations assume the reader has...

3-DOF Orientation Tracking with IMUs

This document is not meant to be a comprehensive review of orientation tracking for virtual reality applications but rather an intuitive introduction to inertial measurement units (IMUs) and...

Modelling, dynamics and control

How do we model the world around us and use this to understand its behaviour? How does behaviour depend upon the engineering choices we make and therefore how do we undertake design to...

How Simulations Work

This article sets out the critical aspects of building good simulations — that is, simulations that are accurate, easy to develop and analyze, and fast. The first sections deal with how a...

Process Dynamics and Control Course

This course focuses on a complete start to finish process of physics-based modeling, data driven methods, and controller design. Although some knowledge of computer programming is required...

Learning From Data

This is an introductory course in machine learning (ML) that covers the basic theory, algorithms, and applications. ML is a key technology in Big Data, and in many financial, medical...

How Kalman Filters Work, Part 1

This article looks at four popular estimation filter architectures: particle filter, sigma point filter, extended Kalman filter, and the Kalman filter. It discusses how all four of these...

Systems modeling and representations (French)

Complete course on systems modeling. Includes examples, MATLAB code, and quizzes.

Improving the Beginner's PID - Introduction

In conjunction with the release of the new Arduino PID Library Brett has released this series of posts that explain his PID code. He start's with what he call's “The Beginner’s PID.”  He...

Pathfinding with A*

An interactive visual explanation of the A* pathfinding algorithm.  This resource uses motivating examples from computer games. 

A Hybrid Lab Experience: Blending Hands-on Explorations with the Flexibility...

This case study examines how the Earth and Space Science and Engineering (ESSE) department at York University in Toronto offered a meaningful remote laboratory experience to over 180...

First-Order Filters

Use data filters to temper noise - relation of options to lag and variance reduction

Post-Pandemic: A Hybrid Lab Experience

This article discusses the importance of a hybrid laboratory model, blending physical hardware with digital twins. Example using the Quanser Interactive Lab (QLabs) platform is given.

Interactive Course for Control Theory

Control Theory is a topic that finds a widespread application throughout engineering and natural sciences. It is very common in electrical, mechanical and process engineering. Especially...

My Sole Advise to Data Scientists on Coursera & Quora

This blog post by Tarry Singh answers questions including "How do I get started in the field on Machine Learning, Deep Learning or Artificial Intelligence" and "How do I advance from the...

Matlab: The Radar Equation

This Mathworks page explains the parameters of the radar range equation. The point target radar range equation estimates the power at the input to the receiver for a target of a given radar...