INC341: Feedback Control Systems

feedback control 

Centrifugal governor in a Boulton & Watt engine of 1788

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Midterm Exam

Description

Introduction to feedback control of physical system behavior, closed-loop and openloop control systems; mathematical models of physical systems; block diagrams; signal flow graphs; transfer functions; time domain analysis, transient-response analysis, steady state errors, Routh's stability criterion; Root locus method, Nyquist stability criterion, Frequency domain design.

Course Syllabus

Core text

  • Norman S. Nise, “Control Systems Engineering”,6th edition, 2011

Text

  • Gene F. Franklin, J. David Powell, Abbas Emami-Naeini, Feedback Control of Dynamic Systems, 4th Edition, Prentice Hall, 2002.

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