Course info

This course deals with the basics of control systems; terminologies and diagrams; homogenous and transient responses of systems; systems representation such as transfer functions, state-space analysis of phase variables and techniques, nth order linear differential equations, modeling, pole-zero gain data and frequency response data, Laplace transforms; block diagrams interconnections and simplifications, signal flow graphs; conversion of block diagrams to signal flow graphs and vice versa; root locus; Body, Nyquist, and Polar plots; PID controllers; sensitivity and stability criteria; linear feedback systems; and compensation techniques.