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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.
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Textbook:
Modern Control Systems, R.C. Dorf and R.H. Bishop, 11th Ed.,
Addison-Wesley, ISBN
9780132270281.
Course notes:
Sent upon receipt of enrollment.
Projects:
None.
