Multihazard Engineering Collaboratory on Hybrid Simulation
A Research Coordination Network

hs/rths CURRICULUM

Students and researchers interested in learning how to implement HS/RTHS for doing their own testing should take advantage of this list of recommended core concepts and classes. 

Use the flow chart below to follow through the topic links to build your knowledge base. A more complete list of the relevant courses is to the right. 

Recommended Curriculum

Fundamentals (Essentials)

Linear Systems (1, 2)
Transfer functions (1, 2)
Block diagrams (1, 2)
Discrete-Time Systems and Sampling (1, 2, 3)

Modeling and Frequency Response (Essentials)

Feedback behavior
Frequency response (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9)

Feedback Control (Essentials)

Feedback and control (1, 2, 3)
Stability (1, 2, 3)
PID control (1, 2, 3, 4)

Modern Control

State-space models (1, 2, 3, 4)
Stability (1, 2, 3, 4)
State feedback - controllability (1, 2, 3, 4)
Controllability (1, 2)
LQR control (1, 4)
Observability (1, 2, 3, 4, 5)
State estimation (1, 2, 3)
LQG control (1, 2)
Tracking control

Special topics

Control-structure Interaction (CSI)
RTHS demo
Robust control (1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 7, 8)

The list of courses below provides the broad  background needed for understanding HS/RTHS outside and within earthquake/wind/hazard engineering. 

Not typically in a Civil Engineering program

Classical Control Theory
Control Systems Engineering

Dynamics and Control
Control theory
Classical Control theory

Digital Signal Processing

Signals and Systems

Probability and Statistics
Statistics 110: Probability

Modern Control Theory
Control Bootcamp
Linear System Theory

Nonlinear Control
Slotines Lectures on Nonlinear Systems

Multivariable Robust Control

Inside a typical Civil Engineering program

Structural Dynamics
"Modal Space - Back to Basics" articles
CEE 541: Structural Dynamics

Numerical Methods
Finite Element Methods
Experimental Methods
Earthquake Engineering
Wind Engineering



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