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Helene Demont, Program Manager
Office of Engineering Outreach
129 Kurt F. Wendt Library
215 North Randall Avenue
Madison, WI 53706
Phone: 608/262-5516 (toll-free: 888/661-9551)
Fax: 608/265-2833 (toll-free: 877/267-6172)
Email: demont@engr.wisc.edu
Web: oeo.engr.wisc.edu

 

 

ME 446 Automatic Controls

3 graduate credits

Instructor: Professor Neil A. Duffie
Phone: 608/262-9457
E-mail: duffie@engr.wisc.edu

Course objective:
To provide a comprehensive understanding of single input, single output (SISO) closed-loop control analysis and design; analyze a closed-loop control design; and discuss implementation and the z domain.

Course description:
Introduction to SISO closed-loop control theory and design. Includes modeling review; linearization using Taylor's Series; transfer function; state-space system descriptions; controllability and observability; Laplace transforms; partial fraction expansion; system type analysis; Routh-Hurwitz Stability Criterion; gain and phase margins and their limitations; controller design; loop shaping for command following/disturbance and noise rejection; z transforms; stability and system response in the z domain; A/D and D/A conversion; and discrete implementations of continuous designs.

Prerequisite:
Dynamic systems course or instructor's consent.

Homework:
Weekly problem sets.

Laboratory:
None.

Exams:
Three exams.

Computer software:
MATLAB student version along with Controls Toolbox. Visit this webpage for information about software availability: Tethered Software at Computer-aided Engineering. A student version of MATLAB is available for purchase. Contact the Office of Engineering Outreach for details.

Textbook:
Modern Control Systems, R.C. Dorf and R.H. Bishop, 10th Ed., Addison-Wesley, ISBN 0-131-45733-0.

Course notes:
Sent upon receipt of enrollment.

Projects:
None.

Course homepage:
http://mechatronics.me.wisc.edu

 



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