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.