Integral Wind-Up and Solution

What is integral wind-up and how velocity mode solves it.

Modeling Perturbations and Element Failures in a Sensor Array

This MATLAB example shows how to model amplitude, phase, position and pattern perturbations as well as element failures in a sensor array.

Introduction to the A* Algorithm

An interactive visual explanation of the A* algorithm using motivating examples from computer games.

What Is Online Estimation?

This Mathworks document describes online estimation. Online estimation algorithms estimate the parameters and states of a model when new data is available during the operation of the...

Bridging the Gap: Using Real World Problems to Unveil Deep Control Principle...

This is a plenary lecture given at the 2020 IEEE Conference on Control Systems Technology, Montreal, Canada, August 24-26, 2020. There is no paper, but this is the video of the talk.

Simulink Onramp

Learn the basics of how to create, edit, and simulate models in Simulink®. Use block diagrams to represent real-world systems and simulate components and algorithms.

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...

Automotive Radar MATLAB Documentation and Examples

MATLAB documentation and examples for probabilistic and physics-based radar sensor models, simulation of MIMO antennas, waveforms, I/Q radar signals, micro-Doppler signatures, detections...

Quanser QUBE-Servo 2: Low-cost Teaching Platform for Controls

The Quanser QUBE-Servo 2 is a fully integrated, modular servomotor lab experiment designed for teaching mechatronics and control concepts at the undergraduate level. Ideal for teaching speed...

DSP Lecture 1: Signals

This is a video lecture for ECSE-4530 Digital Signal Processing by Rich Radke, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.

Why multichannel beamforming is useful for wireless communication

Wireless communication systems like 5G and WiFi usually have to serve many users simultaneously and they have to deal with multiple paths between two radios when operating in a scattering...

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...

Measurements, Transmission Signals, and Issues

This is an introduction to scaled information transmission signals (for example 4-20 mA, 3-15 psig, etc.), the actual sensed signals (like using orifice dP to infer flow rate, or temperature...

Online Tuning using Simulink’s Closed-Loop PID Autotuner Block

Learn how to conduct an online tuning of a PI-speed controller using the MATLAB/Simulink Closed-Loop PID Autotuner Block. Tuned controller is validated on a Quanser QLabs Virtual QUBE-Servo...

MATLAB Example: Waveform Analysis Using the Ambiguity Function

This example shows how to use the ambiguity function to analyze waveforms. It compares range and Doppler capabilities of several common pulsed waveforms such as the rectangular waveform, the...

What are Nonlinear ARX Models?

This Mathworks page provides an overview of Nonlinear ARX Models.Nonlinear ARX models extend the linear ARX models to the nonlinear case. The structure of these models enables you to model...

Cascade Control

When and how to use Cascade Control

CS224n: Natural Language Processing with Deep Learning | Winter 2021

This course covers the foundations of the effective modern methods for deep learning applied to NLP, a big picture understanding of human languages and the difficulties in understanding and...

Dealing with Non-Stationarity in Multi-Agent Deep Reinforcement Learning

From the abstract

Recent developments in deep reinforcement learning are concerned with creating decision-making agents which can perform well in various complex domains. A particular...

Vectors, Dot Products, Cross Products - 3D Kinematics

Walter Lewin is one of the most reputed professors and was a former lecturer at MIT. His free to watch series on YouTube titled 8.01 is an excellent one for undergrads and high school...

MATLAB Discovery Page - Anomaly Detection

Anomaly detection is the process of identifying events or patterns that differ from expected behavior. Anomaly detection can range from simple outlier detection to complex machine learning...

Online and Recursive System Identification | System Identification, Part 4

Online system identification algorithms estimate the parameters and states of a model as new data is measured and available in real-time or near real-time. Brian Douglas covers what online...

First Order Plus Dead Time Tuning App for PI Controllers

The FOPTD_PI Tool is a Matlab-Interactive tuning tool of PI controllers for First Order PlusTime Delay processes. It can be used to teach basic control concepts based on a set of PI tuning...

Jupyter Notebook: Code used to generate vibrational control of inverted pend...

Jupyter Notebook: Code used to generate vibrational control of inverted pendulum figures

Tuning PID Controllers

Tuning controllers is the procedure for choosing the coefficient values for the P, I and D modes.  It must be simple to execute, fast, and non-disruptive to the operating process.  Heuristic...