Robotic Car - How to read Gyro Datasheets (Part 1)

Have you ever been lost trying to understand the information in a gyro datasheet? This video should help! In this first part I go through the mechanical characteristics of a MEMS gyro and...

Computer Aids for Chemical Engineering

A curated list of resources for Chemical Engineering students. The resources include syllabi, schedules, course notes, textbooks, screencasts, software, hardware, and other useful links.

System Identification: DMD Control Example

This lecture gives a Matlab example of dynamic mode decomposition with control (DMDc) for full-state system identification.

Introduction to Radar Systems: Target Radar Cross Section

This course is presented by Robert M. O'Donnell, a former researcher at MIT Lincoln Laboratory, and is designed to instill a basic working knowledge of radar systems.

The set of 10 lectures...

Control Bootcamp: LQG Example in Matlab

This video combines the LQR and Kalman filter in Matlab on the example of an inverted pendulum on a cart. We stabilize the full nonlinear system with a measurement of a single variable (the...

Advanced process control (APC): Theory & Applications in SAGD

This webinar is presented by Thiago Avila and covers what APC is, why we do it, examples of APC in the SAGD industry, what optimization opportunities are available, and where this technology...

Autonomous Navigation, Part 3: Understanding SLAM Using Pose Graph Optimizat...

This video provides some intuition around Pose Graph Optimization—a popular framework for solving the simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) problem in autonomous navigation.

We’ll...

Use First-Principles Modeling to Get FOPDT Coefficient Values

Conventionally, we obtain model coefficient values by open-loop step-testing of the process; but this creates undesirable process upsets, and only reveals the local process behavior.  This...

How I put the Google Maps Algorithm on my Autonomous Drone

This fully autonomous drone has an onboard computer ‘brain’, camera ‘eyes’, and an algorithm that generates the fastest path around unknown obstacles as they’re detected mid-flight. Let’s...

Control Systems in Practice, Part 5: A Better Way to Think About a Notch Fil...

This video describes an intuitive way to approach notch filter design by thinking about the problem as an inverted, lightly damped, second-order low-pass filter. Then, two additional poles...

Feedback in the Squishy Stuff: Introducing Chemical and Biological Process ...

Feedback doesn’t just happen in robots and self-driving cars, but in the regulation of our very bodies and in the ways in which we transform raw ingredients into materials we can use, be...

Control Bootcamp: Limitations on Robustness

This video describes some of the fundamental limitations of robustness, including time delays and right-half plane zeros.

Automotive Adaptive Cruise Control Using FMCW Technology

This MATLAB example shows how to model an automotive adaptive cruise control system using the frequency modulated continuous wave (FMCW) technique. This example performs range and Doppler...

An Artificial Intelligence Primer

This blog post is a great primer providing definitions for basic terms used in AI and machine learning (ML) such as supervised learning, unsupervised learning, and transfer learning...

Interactive Tool for Loop Shaping understanding based on PID control

Loop shaping is a design method where it is attempted to choose a controller such that the loop transfer function obtains the desired shape. In this module the loop transfer function is...

System Identification: Sparse Nonlinear Models with Control

This lecture explores an extension of the sparse identification of nonlinear dynamics (SINDy) algorithm to include inputs and control. The resulting SINDY with control (SINDYc) can be used...

Suspending a pendulum in its inverted position using a jig saw (Take 1, norm...

When a pendulum is attached to a jig saw, strange things can happen! :)

Multibeam Radar for Adaptive Search and Track

This MATLAB example shows how to use radarDataGenerator for a closed-loop simulation of a multifunction phased array radar (MPAR). The example starts by defining MPAR system parameters and...

Systems Engineering, Part 5: Some Benefits of Model-Based Systems Engineerin...

Learn how model-based systems engineering (MBSE) can help you cut through the chaos of early systems development and get you from definition to execution more seamlessly.

You’ll hear the...

Min IAE Tuning

Procedure and Commentary on tuning for minimum Integral of the Absolute Error

Introduction to Linear Quadratic Regulator (LQR) Control

In this video we introduce the linear quadratic regulator (LQR) controller. We show that an LQR controller is a full state feedback controller where the gain matrix K is computed by solving...

Pulse Waveform Analyzer App

The Pulse Waveform Analyzer app lets you explore the properties of signals commonly used in radar. You can display 2-D and 3-D plots that let you visualize waveform time series and spectra.

Ratio Control and Scaled Signal Calculations

When and how to use Ratio Control and use Scaled Signals

MATLAB scripts for "Nonlinear System Identification | System Identification,...

This Github repo contains the data files and MATLAB scripts that were used in "Nonlinear System Identification | System Identification, Part 3".

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

This is the recorded talk of the paper by the same title.