AE 3531-A: Ctrl Sys Analysis&Design
Instructor: Dr. Lu Gan
Office hours: 2:00-3:15pm, Thur
Office: Guggenheim 448A
Email: [email protected]
Lecture: 2:00-3:15pm, Wed/Fri
Classroom: Weber SST III 2
TA: Samuel I Ibidapo
Office hours: 11:00am-12:00pm, Tues.
Location: Loewy Library
Email: [email protected]
Course Description
This course covers control system performance analysis and specifications, classical methods of control system analysis and design, and an introduction to modern control methods – with a focus on aerospace applications. By the end of this course, you should be able to:
- Create mathematical models of physical systems and use those models to analyze the system’s dynamic behavior
- Design and evaluate control systems for a dynamic system of interest to achieve the desired performance from that system using both classical and modern control methods
- For a given system of interest, mathematically describe the system and develop an appropriate model, choosing the correct laws, relationships, and equations to appropriately analyze the system and obtain desired information about its behavior and stability
- Correctly produce and insightfully interpret the results of an analysis of a control system
In support of these goals, we will cover the following general topics:
- Control system introduction and types of control systems
- Laplace transforms and their role in solving linear, time-invariant systems
- Modeling systems with block diagrams
- Modeling in the state space
- Transfer functions
- Transient and steady state response analysis
- Root locus analysis
- Frequency-response analysis
- Classical control system design
- Linear-quadratic regulator