Online and Recursive System Identification | System Identification, Part 4

Online system identification algorithms estimate the parameters and states of a model as new data is measured and available in real-time or near real-time. Brian Douglas covers what online...

Peter Ponders PID - Introduction

The purpose of this video is to inform the viewer about what to expect. My videos go much deeper than the typical videos. They are geared for graduate st...

The Demod Squad: A Tutorial on the Utility and Methodologies for Using Modul...

Video talk of the paper by the same name.

Koopman Spectral Analysis (Continuous Spectrum)

In this video, we discuss how to use Koopman theory for dynamical systems with a continuous eigenvalue spectrum. These systems are quite common, such as a pendulum, where the period...

MATLAB Discovery Page - Visual Inspection

Visual inspection is the image-based inspection of parts where a camera scans the part under test for both failures and quality defects. Automated inspection and defect detection are...

Why Do Radars Chirp? | Pulse Waveform Basics

This tech talk covers how different pulse waveforms affect radar and sonar performance. See the difference between a rectangular pulse and a linear frequency modulated pulse, as well as...

Using Transfer Learning | Deep Learning for Engineers, Part 4

This video introduces the idea of transfer learning. Transfer learning is modifying an existing deep network architecture and then retraining it to accomplish your task rather than the task...

Feedback Systems: An Introduction for Scientists and Engineers

This is the wiki for the text Feedback Systems (second edition) by Karl J. Åström and Richard M. Murray. On this resource you will find the complete text of the book as well as additional...

edX course: Dynamics and Control

This is an interactive course about the basic concepts of Systems, Control and their impact in all the human activities. First, the basic concepts of systems, dynamics, structure and control...

Vectors, Dot Products, Cross Products - 3D Kinematics

Walter Lewin is one of the most reputed professors and was a former lecturer at MIT. His free to watch series on YouTube titled 8.01 is an excellent one for undergrads and high school...

The Radar Range Equation - radartutorial.eu

This article describes the radar range equation. The radar range equation represents the physical dependences of the transmit power, which is the wave propagation up to the receiving of the...

Controlling Robotic Swarms

Come with me to the Robotics, Aerospace, and Information Networks lab at the University of Washington to learn the basics of swarm robotics. Find out how simple distributed algorithms can...

Autonomous Navigation, Part 3: Understanding SLAM Using Pose Graph Optimizat...

This video provides some intuition around Pose Graph Optimization—a popular framework for solving the simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) problem in autonomous navigation.

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Systems Engineering, Part 5: Some Benefits of Model-Based Systems Engineerin...

Learn how model-based systems engineering (MBSE) can help you cut through the chaos of early systems development and get you from definition to execution more seamlessly.

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Dealing with Non-Stationarity in Multi-Agent Deep Reinforcement Learning

From the abstract

Recent developments in deep reinforcement learning are concerned with creating decision-making agents which can perform well in various complex domains. A particular...

Machine Learning Control: Overview

This lecture provides an overview of how to use machine learning optimization directly to design control laws, without the need for a model of the dynamics.

Passivity-Based Control to Guarantee Stability | Control Systems in Practice...

Learn about passivity-based control to guarantee closed-loop stability of feedback systems. Consider different ways to assess the stability of systems other than looking at gain and phase...

Computer Aids for Chemical Engineering

A curated list of resources for Chemical Engineering students. The resources include syllabi, schedules, course notes, textbooks, screencasts, software, hardware, and other useful links.

Full Stack Deep Learning

There are many great courses to learn how to train deep neural networks. However, training the model is just one part of shipping a deep learning project. This course teaches full-stack...

Control System Lectures - Bode Plots, Introduction

This lecture is an introduction to frequency response methods, and in particular describes the Bode plot. I go through how it is generated and why we use it to visualize the frequency...

Intro to Data Science: What is Data Science?

This lecture provides an overview of the various components of data science, including data collection, cleaning, and curation, along with visualization, analysis, and machine learning (i.e...

Model Reference Adaptive Control of Satellite Spin

This example shows how to control satellite spin using model reference adaptive control (MRAC) to make the unknown controlled system match an ideal reference model. The satellite system is...

Averaging and Vibrational Control of Mechanical Systems

Abstract. This paper investigates averaging theory and oscillatory control for a large class of mechanical systems. A link between averaging and controllability theory is presented by...

System Identification: Dynamic Mode Decomposition with Control

This lecture provides an overview of dynamic mode decomposition with control (DMDc) for full-state system identification. DMDc is a least-squares regression technique based on the singular...

Wind Tunnel Corrections and Data Reduction

This is the second of our 3 part series on wind tunnel testing. In this video, we discuss 11 different corrections and data reduction processes that are applied to raw wind tunnel data to...