The Navigation Equations: Computing Position North, East, and Down

In this video we show how to compute the inertial velocity of a rigid body in the vehicle-carried North, East, Down (NED) frame. This is achieved by rotating the velocity expressed in the...

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Complex Fourier Series

This video will describe how the Fourier Series can be written efficiently in complex variables.

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Laplace domain – tutorial 4: Laplace transform examples

In this video, we solve lots of examples to practice how to quickly find Laplace transform using the table of pairs & properties and five golden rules on ROC...

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Peter Ponders PID. Second Order Plus Dead Time , SOPDT, Temperature Control,...

In this video I derive the equations for the controller gains and a low pass filter for a SOPDT system with a very long dead time To make the simulation mo...

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Derivation of Rodrigues’ Rotation Formula

In this video we explain and derive Rodrigues’ Rotation Formula. This functions describes how to rotate an arbitrary vector about another arbitrary axis of rotation. This has applications to...

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The Discrete Fourier Transform (DFT)

This video introduces the Discrete Fourier Transform (DFT), which is how to numerically compute the Fourier Transform on a computer. The DFT, along with its fast FFT implementation, is one...

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Internal Model Control Example Problem

I walk through how to design a feedback controller based on a given process transfer function, using Internal Model Control.

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Peter Ponders PID - Tank Level Control

How to control the level in tank 2 that is being feed by tank 1 that is also feed by a pump. The video shows how to compensate for non-linearities using dif... See More

Direct Synthesis Method Numerator Dynamics Problem

I walk through how to design a PID feedback controller when given a second order process with numerator dynamics, using the Direct Synthesis Method.

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Teaching resources for a reinforcement learning course

Teaching resources by Dimitri P. Bertsekas for reinforcement learning courses. The website has links for freely available textbooks (for instructional purposes), videolectures, and course...

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Lecture 3: Electrical and Mechanical System Transfer Functions

Transfer functions for electrical networks and mechanical systems (translational and rotational) are explained in this video See More

Predicting Second Order Transfer Function Behavior

Given a second order transfer function, I'll cover how we can predict the system behavior and derive the appropriate time constants and damping coefficient.

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TikZ source Code: An interconnection of MIMO subsystems

TikZ source Code: An interconnection of MIMO subsystems

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Stanford CS234: Reinforcement Learning | Winter 2019 | Lecture 15 - Batch Re...

Professor Emma Brunskill
Assistant Professor, Computer Science
Stanford AI for Human Impact Lab
Stanford Artificial Intelligence Lab
Statistical Machine Learning Group

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Lecture 7: More on Signal Flow Graphs and Block Diagram Reduction

In this video lesson, extra problems on SFGs are considered, how to obtain an SFG from a block diagram is explained with the help of armature controlled dc m... See More

Robotic Car, Closed Loop Control Example

I demonstrate the value of closed loop control in an uncertain environment using my Zumo Robot car. If you're interested in building one yourself and trying this out I think I've given you...

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The Taylor Series

In this video we discuss the Taylor Series (and the closely related Maclaurin Series). These are two specific types of Power Series that allow you to approx...

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TikZ source Code: Switching Smooth Filippov

TikZ source Code: Switching Smooth Filippov

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