General Course Information

This course is about the analysis and design of control systems with emphasis on modeling, state variable representation, computer solutions, modern design principles, and laboratory techniques.

Contact Information

Instructor: Seth Hutchinson. Office: 158 Coordinated Science Lab, E-mail: seth@uiuc.edu.
Teaching Assistants:
Alan Gostin, gostin1@illinois.edu
Eric W Iverson, iverson2@illinois.edu
Luke Wendt, wendt1@illinois.edu
Control Systems Lab Manager:
Dan Block, d-block@uiuc.edu

Lecture and Office Hours

Lecture: Tue Thu 9:30 - 10:50, Location: 163 Everitt Lab.
Instructor office hours: Mon 9:00-10:00, Location: 158 CSL
Course TA office hours: Wed 6:00 - 8:00, Location: 330M Everitt Lab.
Check the laboratory section for lab TA office hours and locations.

Course Essentials

Prerequisite: ECE 210.
Text: Franklin, Powell, and Emami-Naeini, Feedback Control of Dynamic Systems, 5th ed., Prentice Hall, 2006.
Several supplementary texts are available in Grainger reserves.
You must obtain the lab notes from the IEEE office (EL 243) prior to the first meeting of the lab, which will be the week of Aug. 31.
Grading policy: Weekly Homework - 15%, Lab - 30%, Midterm Exams (2) - 15% each, Final - 25%. Homework is due at the beginning of class. No credit will be given for late homework.
Exam times and locations:
1st Midterm - Wednesday, Oct. 14, 7:00pm, Location: EL 269
2nd Midterm - Wednesday, Nov. 18, 7:00pm, Location: TL 103
Final Exam - Friday, Dec. 11, 8:00am-11:00am, Location: Everitt Lab 163
If you have a conflict, please let me know immediately. These exams have priority over any other committments that might come up at a later date.

Brief Course Outline

I. Dynamic models and dynamic response (4 weeks)
Modeling examples, differential equations, impulse response, transfer functions, poles and zeros, state space models, feedback.

II. Root locus techniques (3 weeks)
Evans' root locus method, dynamic compensation.

III. Frequency response techniques (4 weeks)
Bode plots, Nyquist stability criterion.

IV. State feedback design (3 weeks)
State space models, similarity transformations, controllability, linear pole placement, estimator design.