EE 571 ­ Feedback Control Design

Fall Semester 2011

2011 CATALOG DATA:

A study of modern and classical control analysis and design techniques including: system representation via transfer function and state variables; root locus analysis; Bode analysis; feedback control analysis and design; sensitivity analysis; compensation design via root­locus; compensation design via frequency response methods; observability and controllability; design of state feedback regulators and controllers.

COORDINATOR: Dr. Bruce L. Walcott, Associate Dean, College of Engineering

PREREQUISITES BY TOPIC:

1. State variable analysis of analog systems.

2. Signal representation and time domain analysis

3. Fourier and Laplace transform analysis.

GOALS: This course is designed to give juniors and seniors in electrical engineering a fundamental understanding of the theory and design of modern and classical feedback control systems.

ABET OUTCOMES: The following competencies should be imparted to the students:

1. Ability to reduce functional block diagrams into state space or frequency domain models

2. Ability to analyze these models using time domain and frequency domain techniques

3. Ability to simulate and realize models, controllers, and compensators using MATLAB or analog electronics.

4. Ability to obtain block diagrams of real-world dynamic systems using time response, frequency response, and steady-state DC methods.

5. Ability to design continuous state feedback regulation, tracking, and estimation schemes for continuous time MIMO systems as well as ability to design analog compensators for SISO systems based upon root-locus and frequency methods.