Mounting and Configuring the IMU - dRehmFlight VTOL

This video will show you how to verify proper operation of the IMU for dRehmFlight VTOL before your first flight. It will also show you how to correctly mount the IMU to your aircraft. The...

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Trimming a Simulink Model Using the Linear Analysis Tool

In this video we show how to use the Linear Analysis Tool to trim a non-linear Simulink model. This is also known as finding an operating point or an equili...

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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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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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Stanford CS229: Machine Learning | Autumn 2018

Autumn 2018 Stanford course on machine learning by Andrew Ng.

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Bode Plots by Hand: Poles and Zeros at the Origin

This is a continuation of the Control Systems Lectures. This video describes the benefit of being able to approximate a Bode plot by hand and explains what a Bode plot looks like for a...

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Peter Ponders PID - Closed Loop Zeros

This video covers closed loop zeros, what causes zeros and the benefits and drawbacks of closed loop zeros.

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Designing a Lead Compensator with Bode Plot

This video walks through a phase lead compensator example using the Bode Plot method.

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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- Motor position control

Symbolic pole placement is used to place the poles on the negative real axis in the s-domain so that the response never overshoots. See More

Drone Simulation and Control, Part 3: How to Build the Flight Code

This video describes how to create quadcopter flight software from the control architecture developed in the last video. It covers how to process the raw sensor readings and use them with...

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Unitary Transformations

This video discusses unitary matrix transformations and how they relate to the geometry of the singular value decomposition (SVD).

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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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TikZ source Code: Both passivity indices applied

TikZ source Code: Both passivity indices applied.

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Fourier Analysis: Overview

This video presents an overview of the Fourier Transform, which is one of the most important transformations in all of mathematical physics and engineering. This series will introduce the...

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TikZ source Code: Feedback systems

TikZ source Code: Feedback systems

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Fourier Series: Part 1

This video will show how to approximate a function with a Fourier series, which is an infinite sum of sines and cosines. We will discuss how these sines and cosines form a basis for the...

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Machine Learning Control: Tuning a PID Controller with Genetic Algorithms

This lecture shows how to use genetic algorithms to tune the parameters of a PID controller. Tuning a PID controller with genetic algorithms is not generally recommended, but is used to...

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Frequency domain – tutorial 3: filtering (periodic signals)

In this video, we learn about filtering which enables us to manipulate the frequency content of a signal. A common filtering application is to preserve desi...

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Closed Loop Feedback Control

Intro to closed loop (feedback) control motivation, theory, block diagrams and block diagram algebra, and PID controllers

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TikZ source Code: Simulation Graph

TikZ source Code: Simulation Graph

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Neural Network Architectures

This lecture describes the wide variety of neural network architectures available to solve various problems.

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Bode Plot Gain and Phase Margin Determination

I'll show you how we can determine the Gain and Phase Margin from a Bode Plot (at some fixed controller gain).

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Lecture 16: More on Root Locus and Gain Compensation

Extra numerical problems using Root locus is discussed in this video. Then follows, Gain compensation using Root Locus See More

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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