Undergraduate Course

Instructor: Dr Mahdi Alavi

School of Technologies 

Cardiff Metropolitan University

Winter 2022

Syllabus:

  • The concepts of feedback, control systems, stability, tracking, disturbance rejection, and noise rejection
  • System modeling using physics laws, which lead to differential equations
  • The concept of transfer function
  • A review of Laplace transform
  • Obtaining transfer function from differential equations using Laplace transform
  • Block diagram representation of feedback systems
  • Obtaining transfer functions from block diagrams
  • Poles and zeros of the system
  • Time response of first and second order systems to the unit-impulse, unit-step and unit-ramp inputs
  • Transient and steady-state responses
  • System stability
  • Routh’s stability criterion
  • System analysis by using Root-Locus
  • Static feedback design using Root-locus
  • Lead-lag compensator design using Root-locus
  • Bode diagram: concept, drawing, phase and gain margins
  • Nyquist diagram: concept and drawing, phase and gain margins
  • Lead-lag compensator design in frequency domain

Evaluation Policy:

  • Mid term: 25%
  • Project: 75%

Reference

  • Ogata K (2010) Modern control engineering, 5th Edition, Prentice-Hall.