MECH417 - Final Exam Review Topics

new reading assignments covered: Chapters 3, 9, 10
(see the syllabus for section details)

  1. specific comprehensive material (although, anything throughtout the semester is fair game)
    1. control system terminology (characteristic equation, open loop function, closed loop transfer function, etc.)
    2. modeling (transfer function from free body diagrams)
    3. Root Locus construction, interpretation, stability conditions
    4. Bode Diagram interpretation and stability margins
    5. Nyquist diagram interpretation and stability condition
    6. effect of zero pole on Nyquist path
  2. frequency response design
    1. basics of gain, phase lag, phase lead, and PID controllers
    2. effects of controllers on Bode diagrams
  3. pole balancer case study
    1. equations of motion
    2. small angle approximations
    3. transfer function from equation of motion
  4. state-space model
    1. notation, terminology, standard form
  5. miscellaneous
    1. reading assignments
    2. homework assignments
    3. Lab exercises