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 | 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 from the day on which the assignment is posted 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%