Passivity-Based Control to Guarantee Stability | Control Systems in Practice...
15 min
Beginner
Video
Theory
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...
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Student's Guide to Bayesian Statistics
15 min
Beginner
Video
Theory
This video provides a summary of a textbook Bed Lambert wrote on Bayesian inference and accompanying (freely available) YouTube course.
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Robotic Car - How to read Gyro Datasheets (Part 1)
14 min
Beginner
Video
Theory
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...
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PID Controller Implementation in Software
20 min
Intermediate
Video
Application
How to implement a PID controller in software using C, discussing theory and practical considerations. Demonstration of PID controller code using a custom flight simulator.
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System Identification: DMD Control Example
8 min
Intermediate
Video
Theory
This lecture gives a Matlab example of dynamic mode decomposition with control (DMDc) for full-state system identification.
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Projectile Motion Equations and Theory
28 min
Beginner
Video
Application
In this video, an important topic under 2D Kinematics i.e. Projectile Motion, is covered. Its theory, equations, and examples are thoroughly discussed.
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Robust Control, Part 3: Disk Margins for MIMO Systems
16 min
Beginner
Video
Theory
This video shows how margin can be used to assess the robustness of multi-input, multi-output systems. We’ll show how disk margin is a more complete way to represent margin for MIMO systems...
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Extremum Seeking Control
18 min
Beginner
Video
Theory
This lecture provides an overview of extremum-seeking control (ESC), which is an adaptive equation free method of controlling nonlinear systems. A sinusoidal perturbation is added to the...
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Inverted Pendulum on a Cart [Control Bootcamp]
15 min
Beginner
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Theory
In this video, we introduce an example system to control: an inverted pendulum on a cart. We describe the state-space, find the fixed points, and simulate the system in Matlab. Because the...
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A simple MEMS gyro model using MATLAB / Simulink
16 min
Beginner
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Theory
This video walks through how to model a simple MEMS gyroscope using MATLAB/Simulink. At the end I show you how to linearize this model to use in your linear control loop design and analysis.
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Control Systems in Practice, Part 5: A Better Way to Think About a Notch Fil...
13 min
Beginner
Video
Theory
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...
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ENG 1718 - MODELAGEM DE SISTEMAS DINÂMICOS (Portuguese)
500 min
Beginner
Video
Theory
Vídeos do curso Modelagem de Sistemas Dinâmicos. Mais informações na página do curso: https://helonayala.github.io/teaching/2018-msd/
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Why the Riccati Equation Is important for LQR Control
14 min
Intermediate
Video
Theory
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...
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Model Reference Adaptive Control Fundamentals (Dr. Tansel Yucelen)
91 min
Beginner
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Theory
Forum on Robotics & Control Engineering (FoRCE, http://force.eng.usf.edu/) Seminar Series: "Model Reference Adaptive Control Fundamentals" (Dr. Tansel Yucelen)
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Geodetic Coordinates: Computing Latitude and Longitude
31 min
Intermediate
Video
Theory
In this video we show how to compute the geodetic latitude and terrestrial longitude if given the velocity north and east. This is useful for simulating a body moving over a spheroid Earth...
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Control Bootcamp: Limitations on Robustness
9 min
Beginner
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Theory
This video describes some of the fundamental limitations of robustness, including time delays and right-half plane zeros.
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System Identification: Sparse Nonlinear Models with Control
8 min
Beginner
Video
Theory
This lecture explores an extension of the sparse identification of nonlinear dynamics (SINDy) algorithm to include inputs and control. The resulting SINDY with control (SINDYc) can be used...
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Robust Control, Part 4: Working with Parameter Uncertainty
13 min
Beginner
Video
Theory
The previous two videos showed a few different ways to quantify how robust a system is to model and plant uncertainty by looking at how much input and output variation it can handle before...
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Introduction to Linear Quadratic Regulator (LQR) Control
96 min
Beginner
Video
Theory
In this video we introduce the linear quadratic regulator (LQR) controller. We show that an LQR controller is a full state feedback controller where the gain matrix K is computed by solving...
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Introduction to Anomaly Detection for Engineers
15 min
Beginner
Video
Theory
Anomaly detection is the process of identifying events or patterns that differ from expected behavior. This is important for applications like predictive maintenance but can be hard to...
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Koopman Spectral Analysis (Continuous Spectrum)
12 min
Intermediate
Video
Theory
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...
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Why multichannel beamforming is useful for wireless communication
13 min
Beginner
Video
Theory
Wireless communication systems like 5G and WiFi usually have to serve many users simultaneously and they have to deal with multiple paths between two radios when operating in a scattering...
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Introduction to Classic Control Theory (Japanese)
Beginner
Video
Theory
A collection of video lectures by Yuki Nishimura covering an introduction to classic control theory.
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Controlling Robotic Swarms
13 min
Beginner
Video
Theory
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...
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Online Fault Detection for a DC Motor
5 min
Intermediate
Video
Application
Program embedded processors to estimate parameters and detect changes in motor dynamics in real time using System Identification Toolbox™.
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