Increasing Angular Resolution with Virtual Arrays

This MATLAB example introduces how forming a virtual array in MIMO radars can help increase angular resolution. It shows how to simulate a coherent MIMO radar signal processing chain using...

First Order Plus Dead Time Tuning App for PI Controllers

The FOPTD_PI Tool is a Matlab-Interactive tuning tool of PI controllers for First Order PlusTime Delay processes. It can be used to teach basic control concepts based on a set of PI tuning...

MATLAB Example: Doppler Estimation

This example shows a monostatic pulse radar detecting the radial velocity of moving targets at specific ranges. The speed is derived from the Doppler shift caused by the moving targets. We...

Multifunction Phased Array Radar (MPAR) for Aircraft and Weather Surveillanc...

MIT Lincoln Laboratory and M/A-COM are jointly conducting a technology demonstration of affordable Multifunction Phased Array Radar (MPAR) technology for Next Generation air traffic control...

Cascade Control

What is Cascade Control and why use it?

Real-Time Software Implementation of Analog Filters

Modelling analog filters, discretisation, and implementation of the digitally-equivalent filters on a real-time, embedded system (STM32). Includes theory, DSP, firmware, and results.

Simulink example: Adaptive MPC Control of Nonlinear Chemical Reactor Using O...

This example shows how to use an Adaptive MPC controller to control a nonlinear continuous stirred tank reactor (CSTR) as it transitions from low conversion rate to high conversion rate.

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Orifice Calibration

The ISO method for orifice design and calibration is grounded in the ideal square-root relation between pressure drop and flow rate, specifies the in-pipe structure for an orifice, and...

Bumpless Transfer and Tuning

Switching from MAN to AUTO mode or LOCAL to CASCADE or changing the controller integral time should not cause a change in the controller output, a bump.  But a primitive coding of the PID...

Feedforward Control

When and how to use Feedforward Control

Interactive Tool about PID tuning rules

Hundreds of PID design methods are available in literature. Many of them are very similar and sometimes it is not straightforward to understand their purposes. This interactive software tool...

Interpreting Lines on PFDs and P&IDs

Lines on a process flow diagram (PFD) indicate material flow.  In contrast, on a piping and instrument diagram (P&ID), the control overlay for the PFD, the lines represent information flow. ...

Cascade Control 2

An Implementation Recipe for Cascade Control

Ratio Control - the right and wrong approach

A discussion as to why the ratio should be the MV (controller output) not the CV.

How I put the Google Maps Algorithm on my Autonomous Drone

This fully autonomous drone has an onboard computer ‘brain’, camera ‘eyes’, and an algorithm that generates the fastest path around unknown obstacles as they’re detected mid-flight. Let’s...

Online Fault Detection for a DC Motor

Program embedded processors to estimate parameters and detect changes in motor dynamics in real time using System Identification Toolbox™.

MATLAB Example: Train Multiple Agents for Area Coverage

This example demonstrates a multi-agent collaborative-competitive task in which you train three proximal policy optimization (PPO) agents to explore all areas within a grid-world environment...

Understanding Valve Flow Characteristics

The response of flow rate through a control valve depends on the friction losses in the piping in which it is installed as well as the controller signal.  The installed characteristic (a...

Scaled Transmission Signals, Engineering Units, and Conversions

Information is transmitted in scaled signals (4-20 mA, 3-15 psig, 0-100%, digital counts), which are also deviations from some reference vales (such as psi gage is to psia).  But process...

Ratio Control and Scaled Signal Calculations

When and how to use Ratio Control and use Scaled Signals

Projectile Motion Practice Problems

In this video, practice along questions on an important topic of Kinematics i.e Projectile Motion. Practicing would help you remember the concepts and also understand them better.

FOPDT Models from Skyline Inputs

The classic textbook method to generate FOPDT models is the reaction curve technique, a pre-computer era technique:  Start from a steady state, make a step and hold in the controller output...

Cascade Control 1

Cascade Control Overview

MATLAB Command: goodnessOfFit

Goodness of fit between test and reference data for analysis and validation of identified models

Control Loop Foundation Batch and Continuous Processes - Interactive Source ...

Control Loop Foundation contains workshops that allow the reader to get hands on experience through this web interface. Once a lab is selected, then you may access workshop directions and...