Robust Control, Part 4: Working with Parameter Uncertainty

The previous two videos showed a few different ways to quantify how robust a system is to model and plant uncertainty by looking at how much input and output variation it can handle before...

Sprint - Test Flight 8 and Data Review

This video is part of a series that details the design, build, and test of Sprint - a thrust vector controlled model rocket by Joe Barnard of BPS Space.

Linearizing Around a Fixed Point [Control Bootcamp]

This lecture describes how to obtain linear system of equations for a nonlinear system by linearizing about a fixed point. This is worked out for the simple pendulum "by-hand" and in...

Modeling Perturbations and Element Failures in a Sensor Array

This MATLAB example shows how to model amplitude, phase, position and pattern perturbations as well as element failures in a sensor array.

Control Systems in Practice, Part 5: A Better Way to Think About a Notch Fil...

This video describes an intuitive way to approach notch filter design by thinking about the problem as an inverted, lightly damped, second-order low-pass filter. Then, two additional poles...

Why Padé Approximations Are Great! | Control Systems in Practice

Watch an introduction to Padé approximations. Learn what Padé approximations are and how to calculate them, why they are important, and when to use them—specifically in the context of time...

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...

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...

Peter Ponders PID - Introduction

The purpose of this video is to inform the viewer about what to expect. My videos go much deeper than the typical videos. They are geared for graduate st...

Systems Engineering, Part 2: Towards a Model-Based Approach

The role of systems engineering is to help find and maintain a balance between the stakeholder needs, the management needs, and the engineering needs of a project. So we can think of it as...

Extremum Seeking Control Applications

This lecture highlights some of the many applications of extremum-seeking control (ESC) performed by Steve Brunton and collaborators.

Introduction to Linear Quadratic Regulator (LQR) Control

In this video we introduce the linear quadratic regulator (LQR) controller. We show that an LQR controller is a full state feedback controller where the gain matrix K is computed by solving...

Control Bootcamp: Cautionary Tale About Inverting the Plant Dynamics

Here we show an example of why it can be a very bad idea to invert some plant dynamics, for example with unstable eigenvalues, for loop shaping.

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

This second video introduces some of the methods that engineers use to build control systems.  It shows how we use science to help us derive models of systems from both measurements and...

Reinforcement Learning with MATLAB.

This repository contains series of modules to get started with Reinforcement Learning with MATLAB.

It is divided into 4 stages.

In Stage 1, we start with learning RL concepts by manually...

Using Transfer Learning | Deep Learning for Engineers, Part 4

This video introduces the idea of transfer learning. Transfer learning is modifying an existing deep network architecture and then retraining it to accomplish your task rather than the task...

Introduction to Classic Control Theory (Japanese)

A collection of video lectures by Yuki Nishimura covering an introduction to classic control theory.

How are Beamforming and Precoding Related?

Explains the relationship between Beamforming and Precoding in multi-antenna communication systems. Also discusses the relationship to Diversity.

Using ‘fminsearch’ to Minimize a Function Specified by a File with Extra Par...

In this video we show 4 different ways to use/call Matlab’s ‘fminsearch’ function to perform unconstrained optimization.Topics and timestamps:0:00 – Introduc...

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...

Model Identification and Adaptive Control - From Windsurfing to Telecommunic...

This book is based on a workshop entitled: "Model Identification and Adap­tive Control: From Windsurfing to Telecommunications" held in Sydney, Aus­tralia, on December 16, 2000. The workshop...

Control System Lectures - Bode Plots, Introduction

This lecture is an introduction to frequency response methods, and in particular describes the Bode plot. I go through how it is generated and why we use it to visualize the frequency...

Intro to Data Science: What is Data Science?

This lecture provides an overview of the various components of data science, including data collection, cleaning, and curation, along with visualization, analysis, and machine learning (i.e...

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...

Control Bootcamp: Overview

Overview lecture for bootcamp on optimal and modern control. In this lecture, we discuss the various types of control and the benefits of closed-loop feedback control.