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Control Systems Engineering

Control systems play a critical role in space flight Control engineering or control systems engineering is an engineering discipline that applies control theory to design equipment and systems with desired behaviors in control environments. The discipline of controls overlaps and is usually taught along with electrical engineering and mechanical engineering at many institutions around the world. 

The practice uses sensors and detectors to measure the output performance of the process being controlled; these measurements are used to provide corrective feedback helping to achieve the desired performance. Systems designed to perform without requiring human input are called automatic control systems (such as cruise control for regulating the speed of a car). Multi-disciplinary in nature, control systems engineering activities focus on the implementation of control systems mainly derived by mathematical modeling of a diverse range of systems.

from Control Engineering - Wikipedia

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Temperature Control Lab (TCL)

John Hedengren
Beginner
Hardware
Application

The temperature control lab is an application of feedback control with an Arduino, an LED, two heaters, and two temperature sensors. The heater power output is adjusted to maintain a desired...

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The Map of Control Theory

Brian Douglas
Beginner
Image
Theory

All of control theory in one map.  The idea behind this map is not to capture everything within control theory, it is to highlight some of the main areas of the field and provide a few...

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Everything You Need to Know About Control Theory

Mathworks - Brian Douglas
16 min
Beginner
Video
Theory

Control theory is a mathematical framework that gives us the tools to develop autonomous systems. Walk through all the different aspects of control theory that you need to know.

Some of the...

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Experience Controls App

Quaser
Beginner
App
Theory

The Experience Controls app is a unique interactive mobile textbook introducing students to control systems fundamentals in an engaging way, through accessible language, real-time dynamic...

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Various games for learning Controller Design

Institute for Systems Theory and Automatic Control
Intermediate
App
Theory

Since 2005, we are using educational games in the course „Einführung in die Regelungstechnik“ (Introduction to automatic control). 

The project started with the game spaceballRT, which uses...

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Virtual Labs for control education

Prof. José Luis Guzmán
Intermediate
Virtual Lab
Theory

This resource provides different links to virtual and remote labs that can be used for control education. Virtual and remote labs are very powerful tools for learning and teaching, that...

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What's a Control System and Why Should I Care?

Daniel Y. Abramovitch
Beginner
Article / Blog
Theory

This paper is designed as a primer for college level STEM students about to take their first formal class in feedback control systems. This means that the explanations assume the reader has...

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Interactive Tools for Control Purposes

Prof. José Luis Guzmán
Intermediate
App
Theory

This resource provides different links to Interactive Tools that can be used for control education. Interactive Tools are very powerful educational resources as support to learning and...

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MATLAB toolbox for control 101 course

Anthony Rossiter
Beginner
Software
Theory

Community toolbox project led by Anthony Rossiter and sponsored by MathWorks. The project incorporates input from various international collaborators. The aim is to make the developed...

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Interactive Course for Control Theory

Erasmus+
Beginner
Course
Theory

Control Theory is a topic that finds a widespread application throughout engineering and natural sciences. It is very common in electrical, mechanical and process engineering. Especially...

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MATLAB Online

Mathworks
Beginner
App
Application

Use MATLAB and Simulink through your web browser. No downloads or installations. MATLAB® Online™ provides access to MATLAB and Simulink from any standard web browser wherever you have...

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Python Control Systems Library

python-control.org
Intermediate
Software
Application

The python-control package is a set of python classes and functions that implement common operations for the analysis and design of feedback control systems. The initial goal is to implement...

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Toys for Control Education

Ichiro Maruta
Intermediate
App
Theory

Teaching materials for control engineering education that run in web browsers. Speed control, position control, step response of 2nd order system, pole and impulse response, and rocket.

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Basic course of control theory (Hungarian and English)

BME - Automatizálási és Alkalmazott Informatikai Tanszék
Beginner
Article / Blog
Theory

The basic course of control theory is taught in the 3rd year for the students specialized in information technology at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Informatics of the Budapest...

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Modelling, dynamics and control

Anthony Rossiter
Beginner
Course
Theory

How do we model the world around us and use this to understand its behaviour? How does behaviour depend upon the engineering choices we make and therefore how do we undertake design to...

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Thoughts on Furthering the Control Education of Practicing Engineers

Dr. Daniel Y. Abramovitch, Agilent Technologies, American Automatic Control Council Education Committe Chair
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 to...

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