Understanding Model Predictive Control, Part 5: How To Run MPC Faster

This video starts by providing quick tips for implementing MPC for fast applications. If you need to further decrease the sample time for your fast applications, you can use explicit MPC...

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Direct Design Example for PID Controller

I go through an example problem of how we can use Direct Design (also called Direct Synthesis) to determine the tuning parameters for a PID controller, given...

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Control Bootcamp: Cruise Control Example with Proportional-Integral (PI) co...

In this video, we show that introducing integral control reduces the steady-state tracking error to zero in the cruise control example. We also use a more sophisticated model for the...

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Peter Ponders PID - Integrated Time Absolute Error - 4 Pole example

This video shows how to calculate the coefficients for a 4 pole ITAE and how to use the 4 pole ITAE to calculate closed loop controller gains.

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State Space to Transfer Function

In this video we show how to transform a linear state space representation of a dynamic system to an equivalent transfer function representation. We will de...

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Manipulating Aerodynamic Coefficients

In this video we discuss some potential problems you may encounter when attempting to perform operations with dimensionless aerodynamic coefficients such as CL and CD.

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Peter Ponders PID - FeedForwards - Basics - What they do

The video shows the importance of using feed forwards to reduce error while following a motion profile. See More

Using a Homogeneous Transformation Matrix to Combine Rotation and Translatio...

In this video we discuss how to properly deal with coordinate frames that are both rotated and translated from one another. We develop a homogeneous transfo...

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Fourier Analysis: Overview

This video presents an overview of the Fourier Transform, which is one of the most important transformations in all of mathematical physics and engineering. This series will introduce the...

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Root Locus Plot: Common Questions and Answers

In this video I go through some of the common questions I've received on my other root locus videos. 1) Why do we call the poles of a system the roots?2) How do I plot the damping ratio...

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Designing a PID Controller Using the Ziegler-Nichols Method

In this video we discuss how to use the Ziegler-Nichols method to choose PID controller gains. In addition to discussing the method and providing a Matlab i...

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The Fourier Transform and Derivatives

This video describes how the Fourier Transform can be used to accurately and efficiently compute derivatives, with implications for the numerical solution of differential equations.

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Gain and Phase Margins Explained!

In this video I explain gain and phase margins. If you are confused by this topic I hope this video will help tie all of the concepts together that go into understanding what gain and phase...

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Control Systems with MATLAB - Time Domain Analysis

Time domain analysis has been carried out using MATLAB in this video. Second order systems have been discussed in detail. How to obtain different time domain... See More

Solving the 1D Heat Equation

In this video we simplify the general heat equation to look at only a single spatial variable, thereby obtaining the 1D heat equation. We solving the result...

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Randomized SVD: Power Iterations and Oversampling

This video discusses the randomized SVD and how to make it more accurate with power iterations (multiple passes through the data matrix) and oversampling.

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Posicast Control 6 - ( In English)

This video presents the transition from half-cycle to other cycles ( third-cycle, fourth-cycle,..)

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Tutorial on Root Locus

Few numerical problems using Root locus has been explained in this video See More

Time domain - tutorial 11: system properties from impulse response

In this video, we learn how to find system properties from the impulse response. Specifically, memoryless, causal, stable and invertible systems will be ful...

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SVD: Image Compression [Matlab]

This video describes how to use the singular value decomposition (SVD) for image compression in Matlab.

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Lectures on Adaptive Control and Learning by Tansel Yucelen

A serie of lectures on the topic of adaptive controllers.

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SVD: Optimal Truncation [Python]

This video describes how to optimally truncate the singular value decomposition (SVD) for noisy data (Python code).

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Stability and Eigenvalues [Control Bootcamp]

Here we discuss the stability of a linear system (in continuous-time or discrete-time) in terms of eigenvalues. Later, we will actively modify these eigenvalues, and hence the dynamics...

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Designing a Lag Compensator with Bode Plot

This video walks through a phase lag compensator example using the Bode Plot method.

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Frequency domain – tutorial 4: Gibbs phenomenon

In this video, we quickly review the Gibbs phenomenon which involves two facts:1) Fourier sums overshoot at a jump discontinuity2) overshoot does not disapp...

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