new reading assignments covered: Chapters 3, 9, 10
(see the syllabus for section details)
- specific comprehensive material (although, anything throughtout the semester is fair game)
- control system terminology (characteristic equation, open loop function, closed loop transfer function, etc.)
- modeling (transfer function from free body diagrams)
- Root Locus construction, interpretation, stability conditions
- Bode Diagram interpretation and stability margins
- Nyquist diagram interpretation and stability condition
- effect of zero pole on Nyquist path
- frequency response design
- basics of gain, phase lag, phase lead, and PID controllers
- effects of controllers on Bode diagrams
- pole balancer case study
- equations of motion
- small angle approximations
- transfer function from equation of motion
- state-space model
- notation, terminology, standard form
- miscellaneous
- reading assignments
- homework assignments
- Lab exercises