Dynamic Mode Decomposition (Overview)

In this video, we introduce the dynamic mode decomposition (DMD), a recent technique to extract spatio-temporal coherent structures directly from high-dimensional data. DMD has been widely...

Autonomous Navigation, Part 1: What is Autonomous Navigation?

Navigation is the ability to determine your location within an environment and to be able to figure out a path that will take you to a goal. This video provides an overview of how we get a...

Systems Engineering, Part 3: The Benefits of Functional Architectures

Functional, logical, and physical architectures are important tools for designing complex systems. We describe what architectures are and how they contribute to the early stages of a project...

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...

Neural Network Overview

This lecture gives an overview of neural networks, which play an important role in machine learning today.

Minami's Control School (Japanese)

教員のみなみゆうきです．専門は制御工学です．制御工学は「モノの動きをデザインする科学」です．制御工学を勉強したいという方に，僕の知識をすこしでも届けられると良いなと思い，YouTubeをやっています．

2019年の秋，講義ノートの作成の様子を撮影し，YouTubeに動画をアップロードしたのを契機として，動画作成をはじめました...

A simple MEMS gyro model using MATLAB / Simulink

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.

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: Overview

This lecture provides an introductory overview to data science. I will discuss the high-level goals of this lecture series, and how data science is about asking and answering questions with...

DSP Lecture 1: Signals

This is a video lecture for ECSE-4530 Digital Signal Processing by Rich Radke, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.

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...

Nonlinear System Identification | System Identification, Part 3

Learn about nonlinear system identification by walking through one of the many possible model options: A nonlinear ARX model. Brian Douglas covers the importance of adding an offset term to...

System Identification: DMD Control Example

This lecture gives a Matlab example of dynamic mode decomposition with control (DMDc) for full-state system identification.

Robust Control, Part 3: Disk Margins for MIMO Systems

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...

Introduction to Linear Quadratic Regulator (LQR) Control

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...

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...

Control Systems in Practice, Part 1: What Control Systems Engineers Do

This video walks through the phases of a typical project and describes what it means to be a control systems engineer. It covers the concept formulation phase, in which your job is to help...

How I put the Google Maps Algorithm on my Autonomous Drone

This fully autonomous drone has an onboard computer ‘brain’, camera ‘eyes’, and an algorithm that generates the fastest path around unknown obstacles as they’re detected mid-flight. Let’s...

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...

Control Bootcamp: Limitations on Robustness

This video describes some of the fundamental limitations of robustness, including time delays and right-half plane zeros.

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...

System Identification: Sparse Nonlinear Models with Control

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...

Robust Control, Part 4: Working with Parameter Uncertainty

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...

Systems Engineering, Part 2: Towards a Model-Based Approach

The role of systems engineering is to help find and maintain a balance between the stakeholder needs, the management needs, and the engineering needs of a project. So we can think of it as...

How are Beamforming and Precoding Related?

Explains the relationship between Beamforming and Precoding in multi-antenna communication systems. Also discusses the relationship to Diversity.