Digital Control of Physical Systems

MAE 171B Digital Control of Physical Systems. (Instructor: Tsao, T-C.) Lecture, four hours; discussion, two hours; outside study, six hours.

Enforced requisite: course 171A or Electrical Engineering 141.

Analysis and design of digital control systems.

Sampling theory.

Z-transformation.

Discrete-time system representation.

Design using classical methods: performance specifications, root locus, frequency response, loop-shaping compensation.

Design using state-space methods: state feedback, state estimator, state estimator feedback control.

Simulation of sampled data systems and practical aspects: roundoff errors, sampling rate selection, computation delay.