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...

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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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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Systems modeling and representations (French)

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

CS224n: Natural Language Processing with Deep Learning | Winter 2021

This course covers the foundations of the effective modern methods for deep learning applied to NLP, a big picture understanding of human languages and the difficulties in understanding and...

Process Control is Inventory Control

You change the inventory of heat to change temperature.  You change the inventory of material to change level.  Understanding how the inventory relates to the controlled variable is...

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...

Radar Angular Resolution

This radartutorial.eu page describes angular resolution. Radar angular resolution is the minimum distance between two equally large targets at the same range which radar is able to...

Nyquist Stability Criterion

The Wikipedia article on Nyquist Stability Criterion.  This covers the Nyquist plot, the Cauchy argument principle, and the stability criterion itself.  A mathematical derivation is also...

DSP Related

Website with a lot of good content for any DSP scientists, researchers, and developers.

What Is Online Estimation?

This Mathworks document describes online estimation. Online estimation algorithms estimate the parameters and states of a model when new data is available during the operation of the...