Closed Loop Feedback Control

Intro to closed loop (feedback) control motivation, theory, block diagrams and block diagram algebra, and PID controllers

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Stanford CS234: Reinforcement Learning | Winter 2019 | Lecture 16 - Monte Ca...

Professor Emma Brunskill
Assistant Professor, Computer Science
Stanford AI for Human Impact Lab
Stanford Artificial Intelligence Lab
Statistical Machine Learning Group

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Bode Plots by Hand: Poles and Zeros at the Origin

This is a continuation of the Control Systems Lectures. This video describes the benefit of being able to approximate a Bode plot by hand and explains what a Bode plot looks like for a...

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Understanding Model Predictive Control, Part 6: How to Design an MPC Control...

Learn how to design an MPC controller for an autonomous vehicle steering system using Model Predictive Control Toolbox™. This video walks you through the design process of an MPC controller...

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Bode Plot Gain and Phase Margin Determination

I'll show you how we can determine the Gain and Phase Margin from a Bode Plot (at some fixed controller gain).

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Smart Projectile State Estimation Using Evidence Theory

This journal article provides a very good practical understanding of Dempster-Shafer theory using sensor fusion and state estimation as the backdrop.

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The Taylor Series

In this video we discuss the Taylor Series (and the closely related Maclaurin Series). These are two specific types of Power Series that allow you to approx...

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Humans, Robots, and Non-Prehensile Manipulation

This is a fun video that was inspired by a presentation I saw at the 2015 International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA). I wanted to see if humans could duplicate the...

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Euler Angles and the Euler Rotation Sequence

In this video we discuss how Euler angles are used to define the relative orientation of one coordinate frame to another.Topics and Timestamps:0:00 – Introd...

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Fuzzy Inference System Walkthrough | Fuzzy Logic Part 2

This video walks step-by-step through a fuzzy inference system. Learn about concepts like membership function shapes, fuzzy operators, multiple-input inference systems, and rule firing...

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The Inverse Laplace Transform

In this video we show how to perform the inverse Laplace transform on a signal in the Laplace domain to obtain its equivalent representation in the time doma...

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Peter Ponders PID - Cascade Control Part2

The inner loop pole locations and gains are calculated first so the inner loop pole locations are determined by the user. The outer loop poles are still pla...

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Extremum Seeking Control: Challenging Example

This lecture explores the use of extremum-seeking control (ESC) to solve a challenging control problem with a right-half plane zero.

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Understanding Sensor Fusion and Tracking, Part 3: Fusing a GPS and IMU to Es...

This video continues our discussion on using sensor fusion for positioning and localization by showing how we can use a GPS and an IMU to estimate and object’s orientation and position. We...

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Final Value Theorem

In this video we discuss the Final Value Theorem. Given a signal in the Laplace domain, this allows us to predict the steady state value of the signal in th...

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The Navigation Equations: Computing Position North, East, and Down

In this video we show how to compute the inertial velocity of a rigid body in the vehicle-carried North, East, Down (NED) frame. This is achieved by rotating the velocity expressed in the...

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SOPDT Sliding Mode Control ( SMC ) with Smith Predictor

I made this simulation SMC with Smith predictor just to see how it would work. I am not a process control guy but so many people struggle with temperature c... See More

Solving the Heat Equation with the Fourier Transform

This video describes how the Fourier Transform can be used to solve the heat equation. In fact, the Fourier transform is a change of coordinates into the eigenvector coordinates for the...

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Derivation of Rodrigues’ Rotation Formula

In this video we explain and derive Rodrigues’ Rotation Formula. This functions describes how to rotate an arbitrary vector about another arbitrary axis of rotation. This has applications to...

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Drawing the root locus (Interactive Tool)

This page was developed to help student learn how to sketch the root locus by hand. You can enter a numerator and denominator for G(s)H(s) (i.e., the loop gain) and the program will guide...

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Lecture 12: Steady state error

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Control Bootcamp: Laplace Transforms and the Transfer Function

Here we show how to compute the transfer function using the Laplace transform.

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Time domain - tutorial 7: system properties

In this video, we cover system properties. The concept of memoryless, causal, stable, invertible, time-invariant and linear systems is intuitively explained...

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Lecture 26: Stability examples, GM and PM using Nyquist Stability Criterion

This video discusses some numerical examples to show how stability can be determined using Nyquist stability criterion. Also explained is how to calculate ga... See More

Singular Value Decomposition (SVD): Mathematical Overview

This video presents a mathematical overview of the singular value decomposition (SVD).

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