ELEC372 Fundamentals of Control Systems, Winter 2010

Mathematical models of control systems. Characteristics, performance, and stability of linear feedback control systems. Root-locus methods. Frequency response methods. Stability in the frequency domain. Design and compensation of feedback control systems.

Course Outline

Ethics and Professionalism
Signals, Systems, and Control Demonstrations
Control Tutorials for MATLAB

Lecture Notes

Week 1

Week 2

Week 3

Week 4

Week 5

Week 6

Week 7 (color print preferred)

Week 8 (color print preferred)

Week 9 (color print preferred)

Week 10 (color print preferred)

Week 11 (color print preferred)

Week 12 (color print preferred)

Assignments

Homework 1 (due on Monday January 11)

Supplementary Problem Set 1 (Quiz 1 will be very similar to one of these supplementary problems)

Homework 2 (due on Monday January 18)

Homework 3 (due on Monday January 25)

Supplementary Problem Set 2 (Quiz 2 will be very similar to one of these supplementary problems)

Homework 4 (due on Monday February 1)

Homework 5 (due on Monday February 8)

Supplementary Problem Set 3 (Quiz 3 will be very similar to one of these supplementary problems)

Homework 6 (due on Monday March 1)

Homework 7 (due on Monday March 8)

Supplementary Problem Set 4 (Quiz 4 will be very similar to one of these supplementary problems)

Figure of Supplementary Problem Set 4

Homework 8 (due on Monday March 22)

Homework 9 (due on Monday March 29)

Homework 10 (due on Monday April 5)

Supplementary Problem Set 5 (Quiz 5 will be very similar to one of these supplementary problems)

Homework 11 (due on Monday April 12)

Tutorials

o UA – Mondays 11:45 to 12:35 – MB-3.265 – Tutor: Kaveh Moezzi Madani

o UB – Mondays 11:45 to 12:35 – MB-S2.105 – Tutor: Mohsen Zamani Fekri

Important Messages

• Please check this page every Wednesday and Friday before coming to the class.
• Tutorials will start in the week of January 11.
• Labs will start in the week of January 18 (see the lab schedule).
• Students must hand in the Homework in the beginning of the tutorials. No late homeworks will be accepted.
• Quiz 2 will be on Monday February 1 (the first 15 minutes of the tutorial).
• Midterm test will be on Friday February 19 in the class. It will cover the material of lecture notes of week 1 to week 5 (Homework 1 to Homework 5).
• Students are allowed one 8.5×11 inch formula sheet. Anything can be written on this sheet and both sides may be written on. You may photocopy things and tape/glue them to your crib sheet. However, the taping/gluing must be on all 4 corners so that the attachment is not a "flap" that can be lifted up and more written underneath. The surface area available is only for the one 8.5 by 11 inch piece of paper. Only non-programmable calculators whose models are approved by the university, pens, pencils, erasers and straightedges are also allowed. If you only have a calculator whose model is not in the list approved by the university for the examinations, you will have to finish the exam without using a calculator. You are not allowed to share a calculator with other students.
• Quiz 3 will be on Monday March 1 (the first 15 minutes of the tutorial).
• Sample final exam problems with solution can now be purchased from the copy center at the Library Building.
• Sample midterm problems with solution can be purchased from the copy center at the Library Building after 1pm, Tuesday February 16.
• I will have extended office hours on Thursday February 18 from 11:00am to 11:30am (Note: I have a meeting right before this time and a lecture right after this time).
• Marked homeworks and quizzes can be picked up from the box outside EV014.177.
• One of the final exam problems will be directly related to a discussion made in the remaining lectures (March 5 to April 9). It is to be noted that this discussion is not in the lecture notes.
• Please note that today (Friday March 5) I deleted one of the problems from Homework 7, and it now has 6 problems (instead of 7). Make sure you have the updated version of this homework.
• Quiz will be on Monday March 15 (the first 15 minutes of the tutorial).
• Please note that I have made slight changes in the outline (I have added the information about the eleventh edition of the text book, and have also clearly stated the dates instead of week numbers in the revised outline).
• Midterm marks (note that the marks for each question has also been provided; Question 1 out of 7, Question 2 out of 6, and Question 3 out of 7).
• The final mark will be calculated as follows: HW: 3%, Quiz: 12%, Lab: 15%, Midterm: 20%, Final: 50% OR HW: 3%, Quiz: 12%, Lab: 15%, Final: 70% WHICHEVER IS BETTER.
• Quiz 4 will be on Monday March 15.
• Please note that due date for Homework 8 has been extended to Monday March 22.

Last modified: March 12, 2010