Linear Algebra Review

This short course is a quick review of linear algebra, intended for students who have already taken a previous course in linear algebra or have some experience with vectors and matrices. The...

Interactive Tool for PID understanding

The module PID Basics is designed to explore the properties of a simple feedback loop by showing the time and frequency responses of a closed-loop system and demonstrating how these...

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.

ITCLI: An Interactive Tool for Closed-Loop Identification

The Interactive Tool for Closed-Loop Identification (ITCLI) is an interactive software tool for understanding SISO closed-loop identification using prediction-error techniques. The tool...

Advances in feedforward control for measurable disturbances

The efficient compensation of load disturbances is one of the most important tasks in any control system. Most industrial processes are affected by disturbances and only feedback is commonly...

Z-Transform - Practical Applications

Covering practical applications of the Z-transform used in digital signal processing, for example, stability analysis and frequency response of discrete-time systems. Theory, C code, and...

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...

Introduction to Noise Filtering

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

Kalman Filter Virtual Lab

The Kalman Filter virtual laboratory contains interactive exercises that let you study linear and extended Kalman filter design for state estimation of a simple pendulum system. The virtual...

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...

TinyEKF: Lightweight C/C++ Extended Kalman Filter with Python for prototypin...

TinyEKF is a simple C/C++ implementation of the Extended Kalman Filter that is general enough to use on different projects. In order to make it practical for running on Arduino, STM32, and...

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...

RADAR Engineering

Radar technology is used widely today. The principles involved are very fundamental and every engineering student studies them at least once. This playlist covers Radar Engineering for an EE...

Manuscript about ITISE: an Interactive Software Tool for System Identificati...

The paper describes the conceptual basis, main features and functionality of an interactive software tool developed in support of system identification education and discovery.

This...

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...

Why Digital Beamforming Is Useful for Radar

Learn how you can use digital beamformers to improve the performance and functions of radar systems. The MATLAB Tech Talk series on radar covered how to use radar to determine range, range...

Interactive Tools for Control Purposes

This resource provides different links to Interactive Tools that can be used for control education. Interactive Tools are very powerful educational resources as support to learning and...

Matlab Radar Designer App

The Radar Designer app is an interactive tool that assists engineers and system analysts with high-level design and assessment of radar systems at the early stage of radar development. Using...

MATLAB Example: Train MBPO Agent to Balance Cart-Pole System

This example shows how to train a model-based policy optimization (MBPO) agent to balance a cart-pole system modeled in MATLAB. For more information on MBPO agents, see Model-Based Policy...

Advances in Feedforward Control for Measurable Disturbances (slides)

These slides present several contributions to improve the feedforward control approaches when inversion problem arise:  the ideal compensator may not be realizable due to negative delay...

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.

Fixed-Point HDL-Optimized Minimum-Variance Distortionless-Response (MVDR) Be...

This example shows how to implement a fixed-point HDL-optimized minimum-variance distortionless-response (MVDR) beamformer in MATLAB.

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...

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...