ELE 4701 - Control Systems Applications

• Determine the open-loop and closed-loop transfer functions of a system containing a sampler and zero-order-hold
• Determine the stability of sampled data (discrete-time, DT) systems
• Design DT system compensators
• Analyze system controllability and observability
• Design state feedback estimator-regulators
• Build a control system from the component level that includes actuation, transducer feedback, and closed-loop compensation
• Experimentally measure the step response of their control system
• Estimate a transfer function representation from their experimental step response data
• Implement a closed-loop compensator on their control system

• Simplify control system block diagrams
• Obtain continuous time system time-domain performance specifications
• Determine steady-state error of continuous time systems for typical inputs
• Design continuous time, closed-loop, and PID control systems by root-locus techniques
• Demonstrate the effects of discrete-time sampling of continuous signals

• System frequency response modeling techniques
• Sampled-data systems and the z-transform
• Design state feedback system
• Review state space representation

• Design and construct electromechanical actuation system and mechanical structure
• Design and construct transducer feedback instrumentation network
• Calibrate instrumentation network
• Experimentally measure step response of open-loop system
• Analyze frequency response data to estimate open-loop system transfer function
• Design and simulate closed-loop compensator
• Implement closed-loop compensator