Controllability, Reachability, and Eigenvalue Placement [Control Bootcamp]

This lecture explains the equivalence of controllability, reachability, and the ability to arbitrarily place eigenvalues of the closed loop system.

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Control Systems Lectures - LTI Systems

This lecture describes what it means when we say a system is linear and time invariant. I also try to give an example as to why these systems are so important when designing control systems...

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Bode Stability Criterion in Frequency Response Analysis Intro

The Bode stability criterion allows us to quickly determine the stability and relative stability of a transfer function. It uses a graphical method that can ...

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Time domain - tutorial 2: signal representation

In this video, we review how to represent information as a signal. The information can be anything such as voice (1D) or an image (2D) or even a video (3D). ...

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Peter Ponders PID - Feed Forward Theory and Calculations

The formulas for feed forwards are derived for motors and hydraulic actuators. See More

Discrete control #5: The bilinear transform

This is video number five on discrete control and here, we’re going to cover the famous and useful bilinear transform. The bilinear transform is yet another method for converting, or mapping...

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Machine Learning Overview

This lecture provides an overview of machine learning, and how it fits into this introductory video sequence on data science. We discuss how machine learning involves "modeling with data".

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Feedforward Control Intro

If we know how a disturbance will affect an output, we can proactively change our manipulated variable to counteract it.

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Final Value Theorem and Steady State Error

This Final Value Theorem is a way we can determine what value the time domain function approaches at infinity but from the S-domain transfer function. This is very helpful when we're trying...

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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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Direct Synthesis for PID Design Intro

Direct Synthesis for PID Design Intro

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TikZ source Code: A single MIMO system

TikZ source Code: A single MIMO system

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The Fast Fourier Transform (FFT)

Here I introduce the Fast Fourier Transform (FFT), which is how we compute the Fourier Transform on a computer. The FFT is one of the most important algorithms of all time.

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Understanding PID Control, Part 3: Expanding Beyond a Simple Derivative

This video describes how to make an ideal PID controller more robust when controlling real systems that don’t behave like ideal linear models. Noise is generated by sensors and is present in...

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Introduction to Ordinary Differential Equations

In this video we introduce the concept of ordinary differential equations (ODEs). We give examples of how these appear in science and engineering as well as...

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A Visual Introduction to Machine Learning

Machine Learning Explained in interactive visualizations (part 1).

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Lecture 9: Time response and Time domain specifications

In this lecture, Time response is discussed in detail. Also discussed are different time domain specifications See More

Gaussian/Normal Distributions

In this video we discuss the Gaussian (AKA Normal) probability distribution function. We show how it relates to the error function (erf) and discuss how to ...

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Lecture 26: Stability examples, GM and PM using Nyquist Stability Criterion

This video discusses some numerical examples to show how stability can be determined using Nyquist stability criterion. Also explained is how to calculate ga... See More

Control Bootcamp: Sensitivity and Robustness

Here we show that peaks in the sensitivity function result in a lack of robustness.

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The Routh-Hurwitz Stability Criterion

In this video we explore the Routh Hurwitz Stability Criterion and investigate how it can be applied to control systems engineering. The Routh Hurwitz Stabi...

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Posicast Control 2 - ( In English )

This video is about the Half-Cycle Posicast. It includes some hints about how to simulate this type of control using Simulink

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PID Control with Posicast 7 - ( In English )

In this video closed-loop configurations with PID controllers and Posicast are introduced.

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The Laplace Transform - A Graphical Approach

A lot of books cover how to perform a Laplace Transform to solve differential equations. This video tries to show graphically what the Laplace Transform is doing and why figuring out the...

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Standing Waves Demonstration

In this video we demonstrate standing waves. We show how the system can be excited by oscillating at specific frequencies to generating standing waves. The...

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