Laplace domain – tutorial 5: Inverse Laplace transform

In this video, we cover inverse Laplace transform which enables us to travel back from Laplace to the time domain. We will learn how to use simple tricks alo...

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Peter Ponders PID. Second Order Plus Dead Time , SOPDT, Temperature Control,...

In this video I derive the equations for the controller gains and a low pass filter for a SOPDT system with a very long dead time To make the simulation mo...

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Frequency domain – tutorial 3: filtering (periodic signals)

In this video, we learn about filtering which enables us to manipulate the frequency content of a signal. A common filtering application is to preserve desi...

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Peter Ponders PID - Tank Level Control

How to control the level in tank 2 that is being feed by tank 1 that is also feed by a pump. The video shows how to compensate for non-linearities using dif... See More

Cartesian, Polar, Cylindrical, and Spherical Coordinates

In this video we discuss Cartesian, Polar, Cylindrical, and Spherical coordinates as well as develop forward and reverse transformations to go from one coord...

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Time domain - tutorial 6: elementary signals

In this video, we cover two elementary signals, unit step and unit impulse, which will be extensively used in this course. The following materials are covere...

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Peter Ponders PID - Why PID with 2nd Derivative Gain?

If you have ever tuned a hydraulic system and wondered why PID control didn't work better than PI control the answer is here. Since the 1980s people have kn...

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Fourier Series: Part 2

This video will show how to approximate a function with a Fourier series, which is an infinite sum of sines and cosines. We will discuss how these sines and cosines form a basis for the...

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Routh-Hurwitz Criterion, Special Cases

This video presents two special cases that you can encounter when filling out the Routh Array. The first case is when there is a zero in a row with at least one non-zero element following...

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Understanding and Sketching the Root Locus

In this video we discuss how to sketch the root locus for a system by developing a series of 5 core rules augmented by 5 supplemental rules (for a total of 1...

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Stanford CS234: Reinforcement Learning | Winter 2019 | Lecture 11 - Fast Rei...

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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What Is a Control System and Why Should I Care? (Part 2)

This talk gives a glimpse of some of the methods and math that allow us to understand feedback systems. Continuing on from Part 1, it gives a description of how we use scientific principles...

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Lecture 4: Electromechanical system Transfer functions and Analogous circuit...

The transfer function of a dc motor driving a mechanical load [an electromechanical system] has been derived following which a quarter car model is discussed... See More

Simulating the Lorenz System in Matlab

This video shows how simple it is to simulate dynamical systems, such as the Lorenz system, in Matlab, using ode45.

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SVD and Optimal Truncation

This video describes how to truncate the singular value decomposition (SVD) for matrix approximation.

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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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Control System with MATLAB - Block Diagram Reduction

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The Frobenius Norm for Matrices

This video describes the Frobenius norm for matrices as related to the singular value decomposition (SVD).

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Stability of Closed Loop Control Systems

This video explains why we need design tools like the Routh-Hurwitz Criterion, Bode Plots, Nyquist Plots, and Root Locus. This is an introduction into the difficulties of determining the...

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Designing a Lag Compensator with Root Locus

This video walks through a phase lag compensator example using the Root Locus method.

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Control Systems Lectures - Time and Frequency Domain

This lecture introduces the time and frequency domains. A very quick description of the Laplace Transform is given which will be the base of many of classical control lectures in the future...

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Routh Stability Criterion Intro and Example

I introduce and walk through an example problem of how we can use the Routh Stability Criterion to rigorously determine the necessary and sufficient conditio...

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Reachability and Controllability with Cayley-Hamilton [Control Bootcamp]

Here we use the Cayley-Hamilton Theorem to show that the full state space is reachable if and only if the system is controllable.

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IMC Design of an Unstable Process Example

In this video, I cover how we can use IMC method to rigorously design a controller for an inherently unstable process (has a positive pole).

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Tuning a Fuzzy Logic Controller with Data | Fuzzy Logic, Part 4

This video covers the basics of data-driven approaches to tuning fuzzy inference systems. See what it means to find an optimal solution, which fuzzy inference parameters are being tuned...

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