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Introducing Feedback Control to Middle and High School STEM Students, Part 2...
60 min
Intermediate
Article / Blog
Demonstration
This paper was presented at the 2019 IFAC Advances on Control Education Conference (IFAC-ACE), Philadelphia, PA, USA, July 7-9, 2019, and is in the conference proceedings. This paper aims at...
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Modeling Physical Systems, An Overview
7 min
Beginner
Video
Theory
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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FMCW Radar for Autonomous Vehicles | Understanding Radar Principles
18 min
Beginner
Video
Theory
Watch an introduction to Frequency Modulated Continuous Wave (FMCW) radar and why it’s a good solution for autonomous vehicle applications. This demonstration will show how FMCW radar can...
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An Introduction to Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning
Beginner
Video
Theory
Learn what multi-agent reinforcement learning is and some of the challenges it faces and overcomes. You will also learn what an agent is and how multi-agent systems can be both cooperative...
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Interactive Tool for PID understanding
Intermediate
App
Application
The module PID Basics is designed to explore the properties of a simple feedback loop by showing the time and frequency responses of a closed-loop system and demonstrating how these...
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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
Theory
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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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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Advances in feedforward control for measurable disturbances
35 min
Intermediate
Video
Theory
The efficient compensation of load disturbances is one of the most important tasks in any control system. Most industrial processes are affected by disturbances and only feedback is commonly...
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Autonomous Navigation, Part 4: Path Planning with A* and RRT
18 min
Beginner
Video
Theory
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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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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Introducing Feedback Control to Middle and High School STEM Students, Part 1...
60 min
Intermediate
Article / Blog
Demonstration
This paper was presented at the 2019 IFAC Advances on Control Education Conference (IFAC-ACE), Philadelphia, PA, USA, July 7-9, 2019, and is in the conference proceedings. This paper aims at...
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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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Model Predictive Control
12 min
Beginner
Video
Theory
This lecture provides an overview of model predictive control (MPC), which is one of the most powerful and general control frameworks. MPC is used extensively in industrial control settings...
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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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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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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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Reinforcement Learning for Engineers, Part 2: Understanding the Environment ...
13 min
Beginner
Video
Theory
In this video, we build on our basic understanding of reinforcement learning by exploring the workflow. We cover what an environment is and some of the benefits of training within a...
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Discrete Fourier Transform
Intermediate
Article / Blog
Theory
The discrete Fourier transform, or DFT, is the primary tool of digital signal processing. The foundation of the product is the fast Fourier transform (FFT), a method for computing the DFT...
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Linear Algebra Review
Intermediate
Course
Theory
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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TinyEKF: Lightweight C/C++ Extended Kalman Filter with Python for prototypin...
Intermediate
Software
Application
TinyEKF is a simple C/C++ implementation of the Extended Kalman Filter that is general enough to use on different projects. In order to make it practical for running on Arduino, STM32, and...
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Understanding PID Control, Part 4: A PID Tuning Guide
12 min
Beginner
Video
Theory
It can be difficult to navigate all the resources that promise to explain the secrets of PID tuning. Some proclaim that PID tuning is an art that requires finesse and experience, while...
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Artificial Intelligence
6 min
Beginner
Video
Theory
This lecture discusses artificial intelligence (AI) in the context of data science and machine learning.
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Algorithms to Antenna: Increasing Angular Resolution Using MIMO Radar
Intermediate
Article / Blog
Theory
Articles in Microwaves & RF that talks about how forming virtual arrays with multiple-input, multiple-output waveforms makes it possible to generate more focused beam patterns.
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MPCTools: Nonlinear Model Predictive Control Tools for CasADi (Python Interf...
Intermediate
Software
Application
This Python package is a collection of model predictive control tools that build on CasADi by providing a simpler interface. Along with the python package, there are a bunch of example files...
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