Introducing Feedback Control to Middle and High School STEM Students, Part 1...

This paper was presented at the 2019 IFAC Advances on Control Education Conference (IFAC-ACE), Philadelphia, PA, USA, July 7-9, 2019, and is in the conference proceedings. This paper aims at...

Discrete Fourier Transform

The discrete Fourier transform, or DFT, is the primary tool of digital signal processing. The foundation of the product is the fast Fourier transform (FFT), a method for computing the DFT...

Introduction to Noise Filtering

Introduction to filtering - moving average, first-order, anti-aliasing, set point softening

Kalman Filter Design

This example shows how to perform Kalman filtering. Both a steady state filter and a time varying filter are designed and simulated.

Introducing Feedback Control to Middle and High School STEM Students, Part 2...

This paper was presented at the 2019 IFAC Advances on Control Education Conference (IFAC-ACE), Philadelphia, PA, USA, July 7-9, 2019, and is in the conference proceedings. This paper aims at...

Road Sign Detection using Transfer Learning on RetinaNet

This blog outlines a number of open-source resources for transfer learning that are worthy of exploring, ands show the result of using transfer learning on RetinaNet to develop a road sign...

Nonlinear Model Identification

Mathwork overview page describing nonlinear model identification. Use nonlinear model identification when a linear model does not completely capture your system dynamics. You can identify...

MATLAB Function: phased.MVDRBeamformer

The phased.MVDRBeamformer System object™ implements a narrowband minimum-variance distortionless-response (MVDR) beamformer. The MVDR beamformer is also called the Capon beamformer. An MVDR...

MATLAB Example: Online Recursive Least Squares Estimation

This example shows how to implement an online recursive least squares estimator. You estimate a nonlinear model of an internal combustion engine and use recursive least squares to detect...

Algorithms to Antenna: Increasing Angular Resolution Using MIMO Radar

Articles in Microwaves & RF that talks about how forming virtual arrays with multiple-input, multiple-output waveforms makes it possible to generate more focused beam patterns.

Using Simscape™ to Model a Quanser QUBE-Servo 2 with Friction

Modelling a DC servomotor is one of the common examples used in control system textbooks and courses. Given that so many systems use DC motors, e.g. robot manipulator arms, it’s an important...

MIMO Radar: TI Application Report

MIMO radar is a key technology in improving the angle resolution (spatial resolution) of mmwave-radars. This article introduces the basic principles of the MIMO-radar and the different...

Algorithms for Automated Driving

Each chapter of this (mini-)book guides you in programming one important software component for automated driving. Currently, this book contains two chapters: Lane Detection, and Control...

TCLab PID Control

Implement a PID controller on the Temperature Control Lab hardware to drive the temperature from room temperature to 60 degrees C. This resource lets you attempt the design yourself first...

Thoughts on Furthering the Control Education of Practicing Engineers

This paper was presented at the 2019 IFAC Advances on Control Education Conference (IFAC-ACE), Philadelphia, PA, USA, July 7-9, 2019, and is in the conference proceedings. This paper aims to...

Model Reference Adaptive Control of Aircraft Undergoing Wing Rock

This example shows how to control roll and roll rate of a delta wing aircraft undergoing wing rock. For this example, the system model is unknown. Therefore, you use model reference adaptive...

MATLAB Example: Fault Detection Using an Extended Kalman Filter

This example shows how to use an extended Kalman filter for fault detection. The example uses an extended Kalman filter for online estimation of the friction of a simple DC motor...

Using the Reinforcement Learning Toolbox™ to Balance an Inverted Pendulum

Reinforcement learning (RL) is a subset of Machine Learning that uses dynamic data, not static data like unsupervised learning or supervised learning. Reinforcement learning is used in many...

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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Nonlinear Control Output Signal Characterization

If the process gain makes large changes over the operating range, then tuning PID (or other linear) controllers is difficult.  If tuned for one region, the controller is undesirably sluggish...

Integral Wind-Up and Solution

What is integral wind-up and how velocity mode solves it.

MATLAB Command: lqr

MATLAB command documentation for the Linear-Quadratic Regulator (lqr) function.

Linear Model Identification Basics

This is a curated list of Mathworks products, examples, and topics that cover identifying linear models, selecting suitable model structures, constructing and modifying model object...

Measurements, Transmission Signals, and Issues

This is an introduction to scaled information transmission signals (for example 4-20 mA, 3-15 psig, etc.), the actual sensed signals (like using orifice dP to infer flow rate, or temperature...

Cascade Control

What is Cascade Control and why use it?