Conventional and Adaptive Beamformers

This example illustrates how to apply digital beamforming to a narrowband signal received by an antenna array. Three beamforming algorithms are illustrated: the phase shift beamformer...

Improving the Beginner's PID - Introduction

In conjunction with the release of the new Arduino PID Library Brett has released this series of posts that explain his PID code. He start's with what he call's “The Beginner’s PID.”  He...

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

This paper represents a tutorial on the so called PES Pareto methodology of analyzing the sources of noise in a feedback loop. Originally conceived for analyzing noise contributors in...

MATLAB Example: Solve Constrained Nonlinear Optimization, Problem-Based

This example shows how to find the minimum of a nonlinear objective function with a nonlinear constraint by using the problem-based approach. 

Twitter Thread: Vibrational control of mechanical systems

This Twitter thread by @ahmedallibhoy walks through an explanation of controlling an inverted pendulum with an open-loop vibrational controller. 

Introduction to System Identification

In this webinar, you will have a unique chance to learn about system identification from a world-renowned subject expert, Professor Lennart Ljung. Professor Ljung will explain the basic...

Understanding Control Systems: Components of a Feedback Control System

This video introduces the components of a feedback control system and how they interact with each other.  

Learn basic terminology by walking through examples that include driving a car...

Learning From Data

This is an introductory course in machine learning (ML) that covers the basic theory, algorithms, and applications. ML is a key technology in Big Data, and in many financial, medical...

Road Sign Detection using Transfer Learning on RetinaNet

This blog outlines a number of open-source resources for transfer learning that are worthy of exploring, ands show the result of using transfer learning on RetinaNet to develop a road sign...

TCLab PID Control

Implement a PID controller on the Temperature Control Lab hardware to drive the temperature from room temperature to 60 degrees C. This resource lets you attempt the design yourself first...

Control Bootcamp: Cautionary Tale About Inverting the Plant Dynamics

Here we show an example of why it can be a very bad idea to invert some plant dynamics, for example with unstable eigenvalues, for loop shaping.

Adaptive Control (Part I) — Hypersonics and the MIT Rule

This blog post introduces the algorithm that ruled the adaptive flight control system of the first manned hypersonic aircraft, the North American X-15.

MATLAB Command: resid

This MATLAB command is part of the system identification toolbox and provides a way to compute and test residuals.

Why is a Chirp Signal used in Radar?

Gives an intuitive explanation of why the Chirp signal is a good compromise between an impulse waveform and a sinusoidal pulse waveform for radar.

Feedforward Control

When and how to use Feedforward Control

My Sole Advise to Data Scientists on Coursera & Quora

This blog post by Tarry Singh answers questions including "How do I get started in the field on Machine Learning, Deep Learning or Artificial Intelligence" and "How do I advance from the...

The Braitenberg Vehicles

This video explores the world of simple logical robots as described by Valentino Braitenberg in his book Vehicles, Experiments in Synthetic Psychology. With very simple linkages between...

The Radar Range Equation - radartutorial.eu

This article describes the radar range equation. The radar range equation represents the physical dependences of the transmit power, which is the wave propagation up to the receiving of the...

Experimental evaluation of feedforward tuning rules

This paper presents a practical comparison for some of the most relevant tuning rules for feedforward compensators that have been published in the recent years. The work is focused on the...

Peter Ponders PID - Introduction

The purpose of this video is to inform the viewer about what to expect. My videos go much deeper than the typical videos. They are geared for graduate st...

Massive MIMO Hybrid Beamforming

This MATLAB example shows how hybrid beamforming is employed at the transmit end of a massive MIMO communications system, using techniques for both multi-user and single-user systems. The...

Feedback Systems: An Introduction for Scientists and Engineers

This is the wiki for the text Feedback Systems (second edition) by Karl J. Åström and Richard M. Murray. On this resource you will find the complete text of the book as well as additional...

Nonlinear Control Output Signal Characterization

If the process gain makes large changes over the operating range, then tuning PID (or other linear) controllers is difficult.  If tuned for one region, the controller is undesirably sluggish...

Minami's Control School (Japanese)

教員のみなみゆうきです．専門は制御工学です．制御工学は「モノの動きをデザインする科学」です．制御工学を勉強したいという方に，僕の知識をすこしでも届けられると良いなと思い，YouTubeをやっています．

2019年の秋，講義ノートの作成の様子を撮影し，YouTubeに動画をアップロードしたのを契機として，動画作成をはじめました...

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...