ECE 4375  Automatic Control Systems

UH Catalog Data: Cr.3 (3-0)

Prerequisites: ECE 3364 (Network II)

Analysis and synthesis of continuous-time control systems: mathematical
preliminaries, transfer functions, block diagrams, time domain analysis,
frequency domain analysis, stability, root locus, and s-plane designs.

Textbook (required):
K.Ogata: Modern Control Engineering, Prentice-Hall, 3rd edition, 1996.

Reference (required):
G.R.Chen: ECE 4375 Class Notes

Topics:

1. Signal and System Modeling Concepts
2. Linear Systems: Transfer Functions and Block Diagrams
3. Laplace and Inverse-Laplace Transforms
4. State-Space Description of Control Systems
5. Dynamic-Response Analysis
6. Stability Analysis
7. Root-Locus Analysis
8. PI, PD and PID Controllers and Performance Analysis
9. Feedback Controllers Design
10. Optimal LQR Compensation
 
 

ECE 4115:  LAB for Automatic Control Systems

Computer simulations for analysis and synthesis of continuous-time control
systems: transfer functions, time domain analysis (transient analysis),
frequency domain analysis (stability via root-locus analysis), and PID
controllers design.

Textbook (required):
K.Ogata: Modern Control Engineering, Prentice-Hall, 3rd edition, 1996.

Software (required): MatLab (available in Engineering Public Domain)

Simulation Projects with MatLab:

1. Transient Response Analysis (pp.160-187)
2. Root-Locus Analysis (pp.338-352)
3. Bode Plots (pp.492-504)
4. Niquist Plots (pp.512-519)
5. PID Controllers Design (pp.676-679)