Understanding Control Systems: The Disturbance Rejection Problem

This video provides a demonstration using a car to show how you can simulate open- and closed-loop systems in Simulink®.

First, you will learn how to model and tune open-loop systems. The...

Understanding Control Systems: Components of a Feedback Control System

This video introduces the components of a feedback control system and how they interact with each other.  

Learn basic terminology by walking through examples that include driving a car...

Resonance in Nature and Bioinspired Squid Robots

Bioinspired robots combine the best of both biology and engineering. Using tools learned from nature, we can build squid-like and other squishy robots to improve current capabilities in...

Understanding Closed-Loop Control

This lecture discusses the differences between open loop and closed loop control in a very easy and intuitive way. Daily examples, like a dishwasher, plant irrigation, and car speed systems...

Feedback in the Squishy Stuff: Introducing Chemical and Biological Process ...

Feedback doesn’t just happen in robots and self-driving cars, but in the regulation of our very bodies and in the ways in which we transform raw ingredients into materials we can use, be...

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...

What Is a Control System and Why Should I Care? (Part 1)

This video is the first of a two part series.  It in introduces the basic concepts of feedback with lots of visual examples.  The idea is to show that not only are these principles...

TCLab: An Inexpensive Experimental Platform for Students to Learn Feedback

The temperature control lab (TCLab) reinforces process feedback control  with real data. The TCLab hardware consists of an Arduino® shield that fits onto a standard Arduino Leonardo...

Learning Dynamic Systems & Control Engineering with a Video Game

Engineering Students at Northern Illinois University are learning one of their core subjects, Dynamic Systems & Control, with the aid of a video game.

Suspending a pendulum in its inverted position using a jig saw (Take 1, norm...

When a pendulum is attached to a jig saw, strange things can happen! :)

What Is a Control System and Why Should I Care?

This is a 25 minute abbreviated version of the Part 1 & Part 2 talk.  It goes through the basic ideas while skipping some of the details and examples of the longer talks.   The talk abstract...

OIT System Design Laboratory (Japanese)

A collection of video lectures from OIT SDL.

Apollo's Flight Computer: Epitome of Engineering

The Apollo missions' success can be vastly accredited to the success of building a robust, one-of-a-kind flight computer for its guidance, navigation and control. Follow this video to...