Systems and control design

Higher education teachers: Atanasijević-Kunc Maja

Subject description

Prerequisits:

• enrolment in the 2nd year of study,
• basic knowledge of high school mathematics, physics, modelling and simulation is expected.

Content (Syllabus outline):

• presentation of control design purposes and important control structures,
• introduction of cyclic control design approach,
• survey of control system descriptions, closed-loop transformations and analysis,
• computer aided design using Matlab and Control System Toolbox,
• description of important quality criterion in time and frequency domain,
• presentation of important control design structures and methods (on-off controllers, PID controllers, PID – tuning, root – locus analysis, Routh’s criterion of stability, lead-lag controller design in frequency domain, optimization using simulation),
• case studies of design using laboratory pilot plants

Objectives and competences:

• to introduce systems' control,
• to present the extend usage of control systems and the multidisciplinary nature of this scientific field,
• to present basic control algorithms of continuous systems,
• to introduce cyclic procedure of control design,
• to present some important computer aided control design features, which are important for efficient control design

Intended learning outcomes:

Basic knowledge of dynamic control system design.

Learning and teaching methods:

• Lectures,
• laboratory exercises,
• homeworks,
• possibility of cooperation in seminar and project student's work,
• participation in excursions visiting industrial enterprices.

Study materials

Readings:

1. Ogata K. Modern Control Engineering, Prentice-Hall International Ed., New Jersey, 2010.
2. Golnaraghi F., Kuo B.C., Automatic Control Systems, John Wiley & Sons, 2010.