Introductory course on aerial robotics, University of Pennsylvania

This course exposes you to the mechanics, design, control, and planning of robotic flight in 3 dimensional environments for micro-aerial vehicles, with an emphasis on quadrotors.

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Particle Filter Explained without Equations

This video provides a quick graphical introduction to the particle filter. It does a good job building some intuition behind the filter without ever touching on any mathematics. It's worth a...

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Peter Ponders PID-Fuzzy Logic vs PID

There are many academic and engineering papers showing how good fuzzy logic control is relative to PID control. Every FL vs PID paper I have seen compares...

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Machine Learning and Cross-Validation

This lecture discusses the importance of cross-validation to assess models obtained via machine learning.

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Extremum Seeking Control: Challenging Example

This lecture explores the use of extremum-seeking control (ESC) to solve a challenging control problem with a right-half plane zero.

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Trimming a Model of a Dynamic System Using Numerical Optimization

In this video we show how to find a trim point of a dynamic system using numerical optimization techniques. We generate a cost function that corresponds to a straight and level flight...

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Second Order Dynamics in Process Control

How do we simulate two first order transfer functions in series, a inherently second order system, or two coupled differential equations? Tune in to find out!

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Peter Ponders PID - T0P1 Part 4, Misc Topics

This video covers another way to compute symbolic gains, the difference between having the P gain act on the error or just the feedback, extending bandwidt...

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Understanding Model Predictive Control, Part 2: What is MPC?

Learn how model predictive control (MPC) works. Using a simple car example, this video provides insight into an MPC controller’s strategy for finding the optimal steering wheel angle to...

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Fourier Series: Part 1

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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How the Flight Controller Code Works - dRehmFlight VTOL

This video will walk you through the flight controller code of dRehmFlight VTOL to give you a better understanding of the contents and structure. The hope is that it will cover almost...

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Visually Determining Transfer Functions

Process Control classes can get pretty hard to follow when you lose sight of what transfer functions really are. How do you get them in the first place?

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What Is a Control System and Why Should I Care? (Part 1)

This talk introduces the basic concepts of feedback with lots of visual examples. 

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Deploying Deep Learning Models | Deep Learning for Engineers, Part 5

This video covers the additional work and considerations you need to think about once you have a deep neural network that can classify your data. We need to consider that the trained network...

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Solving the 1D Wave Equation

In this video, we solve the 1D wave equation. We utilize the separation of variables method to solve this 2nd order, linear, homogeneous, partial differenti...

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Lecture 15: Root Locus

This video discusses about the concept of root locus. Rules for sketching Root locus are also laid out. The concept have been explained with 2 examples. If y... See More

Computing Euler Angles: The Euler Kinematical Equations and Poisson’s Kinema...

In this video we discuss how the time rate of change of the Euler angles are related to the angular velocity vector of the vehicle. This allows us to design...

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Frequency domain – tutorial 12: FT of periodic signals

In this video, we learn how to find the Fourier transform for periodic signals. The following materials are covered:1) relation between Fourier transform and...

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Sketching Root Locus Part 2

This is the second part of how to sketch a root locus by hand. However instead of following the normal rules for sketching a locus that you'd see in a book, I decided to explain the rules...

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Lecture 1 Introduction to Automatic Control

This video gives an introduction to control systems. Open loop and closed loop control systems have been explained See More

Bandwidth of a Dynamic System

In this video we discuss the definition and physical meaning of the bandwidth of a dynamic system. We’ll see that this is a performance metric that is used ...

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Bode Plots by Hand: Real Poles or Zeros

This is a continuation of the Control Systems Lectures. This video describes the benefit of being able to approximate a Bode plot by hand and explains what a Bode plot looks like for a...

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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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Cayley-Hamilton Theorem [Control Bootcamp]

Here we describe the Cayley-Hamilton Theorem, which states that every square matrix satisfies its own characteristic equation. This is very useful to prove results related to...

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Singular Value Decomposition (SVD): Mathematical Overview

This video presents a mathematical overview of the singular value decomposition (SVD).

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