Courses Detail Information
VM461 – Automatic Control
Instructor: Lei Shao
Instructors (Faculty):
Credits: 3 credits
Pre-requisites: Vm 360
Description:
Feedback control design and analysis for linear dynamic systems with emphasis on mechanical engineering applications; transient and frequency response; root locus, Nyquist and Bode plot; stability; system performance; control modes; state space; digital control; computer methods for simulation of control systems.
Course Topics:
- Review of mathematical foundations, modeling, control specifications, PID controllers
- Stability
- Root locus method
- Frequency response method and Nyquist plot
- State-space method
- Controller design techniques and lead/lag compensation
- Digital control
- Automatic control laboratory
- Computer methods for analysis and simulation of dynamic systems