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Control Systems in Practice, Part 10: Nichols Chart, Nyquist Plot, and Bode ...
18 min
Beginner
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Explore three popular methods to visualize the frequency response of a linear time-invariant (LTI) system: the Nichols chart, the Nyquist plot, and the Bode plot. Learn about each method...
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Understanding PID Control, Part 7: Important PID Concepts
12 min
Beginner
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Now that you ’ve gotten an overview of PID tuning techniques, this video moves on to discussing two important concepts in PID control: cascaded loops and discrete systems. Both concepts are...
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An introduction to Beamforming
14 min
Beginner
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This video talks about how we actually have more control over the shape of the beam than just adding additional elements, or adjusting the position and orientation of the elements. We can...
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Reinforcement Learning for Engineers, Part 4: The Walking Robot Problem
14 min
Beginner
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This video shows how to use the reinforcement learning workflow to get a bipedal robot to walk. It also looks at how to modify the default example to make it look more like how one would set...
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Understanding Sensor Fusion and Tracking, Part 1: What Is Sensor Fusion?
12 min
Beginner
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This video provides an overview of what sensor fusion is and how it helps in the design of autonomous systems. It also covers a few scenarios that illustrate the various ways that sensor...
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Radar Tutorial (English)
Beginner
Article / Blog
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This page provides a detailed overview of radar principles and technologies, including mathematical, physical and technical explanations. “Radartutorial” explains the fundamentals of radar...
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Stanford Engineering Everywhere: CS223A - Introduction to Robotics
Beginner
Course
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The purpose of this course is to introduce you to basics of modeling, design, planning, and control of robot systems. In essence, the material treated in this course is a brief survey of...
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Autonomous Navigation, Part 2: Understanding the Particle Filter
16 min
Beginner
Video
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This video presents a high-level understanding of the particle filter and shows how it can be used in Monte Carlo localization to determine the pose of a mobile robot inside a building. We...
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Free Video Course in Radar Systems Engineering
Beginner
Course
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This Free Radar Systems Engineering Course (video, audio and screen captured ppt slides) and separate pdf slides) has been developed as a first course in Radar Systems for first year...
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An Introduction to the Kalman Filter
45 min
Beginner
Article / Blog
Theory
The purpose of this paper is to provide a practical introduction to the discrete Kalman filter. This introduction includes a description and some discussion of the basic discrete Kalman...
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Control Systems in Practice, Part 9: The Step Response
15 min
Beginner
Video
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This video covers a few interesting things about the step response. We’ll look at what a step response is and some of the ways it can be used to specify design requirements for closed loop...
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Kalman Filter Virtual Lab
Intermediate
Virtual Lab
Application
The Kalman Filter virtual laboratory contains interactive exercises that let you study linear and extended Kalman filter design for state estimation of a simple pendulum system. The virtual...
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ITCLI: An Interactive Tool for Closed-Loop Identification
Intermediate
App
Application
The Interactive Tool for Closed-Loop Identification (ITCLI) is an interactive software tool for understanding SISO closed-loop identification using prediction-error techniques. The tool...
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Modeling Physical Systems, An Overview
7 min
Beginner
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This video sets the stage for the topics that I want to cover over the next month or two. This is an overview of how you go from a physical system to a linear model where you can design a...
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Introduction to Noise Filtering
20 min
Intermediate
Article / Blog
Application
Introduction to filtering - moving average, first-order, anti-aliasing, set point softening
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The AVA Flight Computer
18 min
Beginner
Video
Application
This video describes the board design, hardware architecture, and software components of the All Vehicle Avionics (AVA) flight computer that was designed by Joe Barnard of BPS Space. This...
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Understanding PID Control, Part 6: Manual and Automatic Tuning Methods
13 min
Beginner
Video
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The previous video showed three different approaches to developing a mathematical model of your physical system. Now that we have this model, we can use it to tune a PID controller that will...
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Linear Algebra Review
Intermediate
Course
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This short course is a quick review of linear algebra, intended for students who have already taken a previous course in linear algebra or have some experience with vectors and matrices. The...
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Introduction: PID Controller Design
30 min
Beginner
Article / Blog
Application
In this tutorial we will introduce a simple, yet versatile, feedback compensator structure: the Proportional-Integral-Derivative (PID) controller. The PID controller is widely employed...
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Z-Transform - Practical Applications
26 min
Intermediate
Video
Application
Covering practical applications of the Z-transform used in digital signal processing, for example, stability analysis and frequency response of discrete-time systems. Theory, C code, and...
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Reinforcement Learning for Engineers, Part 3: Policies and Learning Algorith...
17 min
Beginner
Video
Theory
This video provides an introduction to the algorithms that reside within the agent. We’ll cover why we use neural networks to represent functions and why you may have to set up two neural...
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Autonomous Navigation, Part 4: Path Planning with A* and RRT
18 min
Beginner
Video
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This video explores some of the ways that we can use a map like a binary occupancy grid for motion and path planning. We briefly cover what motion planning means and how we can use a graph...
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What Are Dynamic Models? Chapter 1 from Dynamic Models in Biology
Beginner
Book
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Throughout this book we use a wide-ranging set of case studies to illustrate different aspects of models and modeling. In this introductory chapter we describe and give examples of different...
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System Identification Methods
17 min
Beginner
Video
Theory
System Identification is the process of determining the model or the equations of motion for your system. This is incredibly important because basing a control system design off of a bad...
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Understanding Kalman Filters, Part 4: An Optimal State Estimator Algorithm
9 min
Beginner
Video
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Discover the set of equations you need to implement a Kalman filter algorithm. You’ll learn how to perform the prediction and update steps of the Kalman filter algorithm, and you’ll see how...
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