Control Systems in Practice, Part 5: A Better Way to Think About a Notch Fil...

This video describes an intuitive way to approach notch filter design by thinking about the problem as an inverted, lightly damped, second-order low-pass filter. Then, two additional poles...

Intro to Data Science: Historical Context

This lecture provides some historical context for data science and data-intensive scientific inquiry.

Introduction to Radar Systems: Target Radar Cross Section

This course is presented by Robert M. O'Donnell, a former researcher at MIT Lincoln Laboratory, and is designed to instill a basic working knowledge of radar systems.

The set of 10 lectures...

Model Reference Adaptive Control Fundamentals (Dr. Tansel Yucelen)

Forum on Robotics & Control Engineering (FoRCE, http://force.eng.usf.edu/) Seminar Series: "Model Reference Adaptive Control Fundamentals" (Dr. Tansel Yucelen)

Wind Tunnel Testing: Introduction and Data Acquisition

This is the first of our 3 part series on wind tunnel testing. In this video, we introduce the concept of wind tunnel testing as well as discuss the process for acquiring aerodynamic data in...

Autonomous Navigation, Part 6: Metrics for System Assessment

Take a systems engineering approach to verifying the autonomous navigation system end to end and learn how simulations and physical tests can complement each other. The video also covers a...

What are Transfer Functions? | Control Systems in Practice

This video introduces transfer functions - a compact way of representing the relationship between the input into a system and its output. It covers why transfer functions are so popular and...

Yann LeCun’s Deep Learning Course at CDS

This course concerns the latest techniques in deep learning and representation learning, focusing on supervised and unsupervised deep learning, embedding methods, metric learning...

Interactive Course for Control Theory

Control Theory is a topic that finds a widespread application throughout engineering and natural sciences. It is very common in electrical, mechanical and process engineering. Especially...

Robotic Car - How to read Gyro Datasheets (Part 1)

Have you ever been lost trying to understand the information in a gyro datasheet? This video should help! In this first part I go through the mechanical characteristics of a MEMS gyro and...

Lectures on Modelling and Control of Dynamic Systems (French)

Lectures on Modelling and Control of Dynamic Systems from Patrick Lanusse of Bordeaux INP, France.

Nonlinear Oscillations, Dynamical Systems, and Bifurcations of Vector Fields...

From the reviews: "This book is concerned with the application of methods from dynamical systems and bifurcation theories to the study of nonlinear oscillations. Chapter 1 provides a review...

Matlab: The Radar Equation

This Mathworks page explains the parameters of the radar range equation. The point target radar range equation estimates the power at the input to the receiver for a target of a given radar...

Model-Based Reinforcement Learning: Theory and Practice

Blog post by Michael Janner of Berkeley Artificial Intelligence Research on model-based reinforcement learning.

What is Residual Analysis?

Residuals are differences between the one-step-predicted output from the model and the measured output from the validation data set. Thus, residuals represent the portion of the validation...

Why the Riccati Equation Is important for LQR Control

This Tech Talk looks at an optimal controller called linear quadratic regulator, or LQR, and shows why the Riccati equation plays such an important role in solving it efficiently. The talk...

Pole Placement for the Inverted Pendulum on a Cart [Control Bootcamp]

Here we use the 'place' command in Matlab to design full-state feedback gains to specify the eigenvalues of the closed-loop system. This is demonstrated on the inverted pendulum on a cart.

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...

Model Identification and Adaptive Control - From Windsurfing to Telecommunic...

This book is based on a workshop entitled: "Model Identification and Adap­tive Control: From Windsurfing to Telecommunications" held in Sydney, Aus­tralia, on December 16, 2000. The workshop...

Gain a better understanding of Root Locus Plots using Matlab

In this video I go through various ways to use Matlab to plot and visualize the root locus.

Systems Engineering, Part 4: An Introduction to Requirements

Get an introduction to an important tool in systems engineering: requirements. You'll learn about the three things every requirement must have and what makes a requirement valid. You'll also...

Singular Value Decomposition (SVD): Overview

This video presents an overview of the singular value decomposition (SVD), which is one of the most widely used algorithms for data processing, reduced-order modeling, and high-dimensional...

Linearizing Around a Fixed Point [Control Bootcamp]

This lecture describes how to obtain linear system of equations for a nonlinear system by linearizing about a fixed point. This is worked out for the simple pendulum "by-hand" and in...

PID Explained

A qualitative explanation of P, I, & D actions using graphs.

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...