Flight Control Systems (Spring 2016), ASE 370L
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- Time: Mon & Wed 11am-12:30pm
- Room: WRW 102
- Instructor: Ufuk Topcu, email
- Teaching assistants: Deep Mukherji email and Deep Mukherji email
- Office hours: Mon 5pm-6pm (Deep Mukherji in WRW 312) and Tue 5pm-6pm (Ufuk Topcu in WRW 305B.
- Textbook: Feedback Systems: An Introduction for Scientists and Engineers, Astrom and Murray, complete book in pdf, including errata sheets, individual chapters, version optimized for e-readers
- Syllabi for the course during previous offerings are available at this link.
Announcements
- Office hour times changed (see the information above).
- HW 2 posted, due on Feb 10th.
- HW 1 posted, due on Feb 4th.
- Class cancelled on Jan 27 (Wed)
Schedule
Date | Subject | Notes | Assignments | |
---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Jan 20 | Logistics and intro to feedback control | slides | |
2 | Jan 25 | Intro to feedback control and modeling | slides | HW1 |
3 | Jan 27 | No class | cancelled | |
4 | Feb 1 | Modeling | slides | |
5 | Feb 3 | Examples | slides | HW2 |
6 | Feb 8 | Dynamic behavior and stability | slides | |
7 | Feb 10 | Stability and linear systems | slides | HW3 |
8 | Feb 15 | Linear systems (1) | ||
9 | Feb 17 | Linear systems (2) | HW4 | |
10 | Feb 22 | Linear systems (3) | ||
11 | Feb 24 | Reachability | Midterm 1 | |
12 | Feb 29 | State feedback (1) | ||
13 | Mar 2 | State feedback (2) | HW5 | |
14 | Mar 7 | State feedback (3) | ||
15 | Mar 9 | Observability | ||
16 | Mar 21 | Estimation and output feedback | HW6 | |
17 | Mar 23 | Recap | ||
18 | Mar 28 | Transfer functions | ||
19 | Mar 30 | Block diagrams | Midterm 2 | |
20 | Apr 4 | Bode diagrams | HW7 | |
21 | Apr 6 | Nyquist criterion (1) | ||
22 | Apr 11 | Nyquist criterion (2) | HW 8 | |
23 | Apr 13 | Stability margins | ||
24 | Apr 18 | PID design (1) | ||
25 | Apr 20 | PID design (2) | HW9 | |
26 | Apr 25 | Frequency domain design (1) | ||
27 | Apr 27 | Frequency domain design (2) | HW10 | |
28 | May 2 | Frequency domain design (3) | ||
29 | May 4 | Recap |
Homework assignments
- Each assignment is due in class on Wednesday that is no sooner than a week and no later than two weeks from the day on which the assignment is posted.
Grading
The grade will be based on homework assignments, two midterm exams, a final exam and participation. The midterm examples with be take-home. The final exam will be during the official scheduled slot and in class. The participation portion includes in-class discussions and any other effort the student shows to sincerely grasp the course material.
- Homework assignments -- 30%
- Midterm exam 1 -- 15%
- Midterm exam 2 -- 20%
- Final exam -- 25%
- Participation -- 10%