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...

Feedback in the Squishy Stuff: Introducing Chemical and Biological Process ...

Feedback doesn’t just happen in robots and self-driving cars, but in the regulation of our very bodies and in the ways in which we transform raw ingredients into materials we can use, be...

Measuring Angles with FMCW Radar | Understanding Radar Principles

Learn how multiple antennas are used to determine the azimuth and elevation of an object using Frequency Modulated Continuous Wave (FMCW) radar.

By looking at the phase shift between the...

Control Bootcamp: Limitations on Robustness

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

Why Do Radars Chirp? | Pulse Waveform Basics

This tech talk covers how different pulse waveforms affect radar and sonar performance. See the difference between a rectangular pulse and a linear frequency modulated pulse, as well as...

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...

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...

1D Kinematics - Speed, Velocity, Acceleration

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...

Data-Driven Control: Overview

Overview lecture for series on data-driven control. In this lecture, we discuss how machine learning optimization can be used to discover models and effective controllers directly from data...

Suspending a pendulum in its inverted position using a jig saw (Take 1, norm...

When a pendulum is attached to a jig saw, strange things can happen! :)

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...

What is a Matched Filter?

This video explains the Matched Filter from a signals perspective.

Controlling Robotic Swarms

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...

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...

Understanding Control Systems (Playlist)

Learn the basic concepts behind controls systems. Walk through everyday examples that outline fundamental ideas, and explore open-loop and feedback control systems. These videos explore open...

A Tutorial on PES Pareto Methods for Analysis of Noise Propagation in Feedba...

This is the recorded talk of the paper by the same title.

Robotic Car - A Simple Way to Build a Model

You don't always have to work out the math in order to build up a model of your system. Sometimes generating a model is as easy as running a simple test and inspecting the results. I show...

What are Phased Arrays?

This video introduces the concept of phased arrays. An array refers to multiple sensors, arranged in some configuration, that act together to produce a desired sensor pattern. With a phased...

Intro to Data Science: Answering Questions with Data

This lecture describes the central aspect of data science: asking and answering questions with data. In particular, we discuss the thought process and progression of questions one might ask...

So You Want to be a Systems Engineer

A presentation by Gentry Lee on what qualities and characteristics make a great systems engineer. At the time of the presentation, Gentry Lee was the Chief Engineer for the Solar System...

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...

Sending digital information over a wire | Networking tutorial (1 of 13)

This video lecture is the beginning of an exploration of computer networking with the basics of sending digital information with a copper wire.
 

Control Bootcamp: Overview

Overview lecture for bootcamp on optimal and modern control. In this lecture, we discuss the various types of control and the benefits of closed-loop feedback control.

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

This second video introduces some of the methods that engineers use to build control systems.  It shows how we use science to help us derive models of systems from both measurements and...