Purdue University

ECE 382 Feedback Systems Analysis and Design

Spring 2007, MWF 3:30 - 4:20, Room UNIV 317



Instructor: Xiaojun Lin
Tel: 4-0626
E-mail: linx@ecn.purdue.edu
Office hour (updated!): W 11:30am-12:30pm, F 10:00-11:00AM at MSEE 340.


TA: Dongchun Zhu
E-mail: zhu21@purdue.edu
Office hour (updated!): T 2:45-5:45pm, Th 12:15-1:15pm, 3:00-5:45pm at Potter 370.


Course Description (pdf)

Note that the TA and instructor office hours have been updated.


Course Outcomes (from ECE catalog)

A student who successfully fulfills the course requirements will have demonstrated:
  1. an ability to obtain mathematical models of simple electrical and mechanical systems,
  2. an ability to construct block diagrams and signal flow graphs of system interconnections,
  3. an ability to perform stability and sensitivity analyses of linear time-invariant feedback systems,
  4. an ability to design compensators to meet specifications in time or frequency domain,
  5. an ability to use computer-aided tools for control system analysis and design.

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Exams

Homeworks

Weekly Coverage and Readings

Week Coverage Readings Notes and Handouts
01/08/2007 Introduction to Control. Laplace transforms Chapters 1 and 2 (intro1)
01/17/2007 Review of Laplace transforms and inverse Laplace transforms Chapter 2 (intro2) (intro3)
01/22/2007 Transfer functions, block diagram reduction Chapter 3-1 to 3-3 (model1)
01/29/2007 Signal flow graphs, Mason's rule Chapter 3-9 (model2)
02/05/2007 Mechanical and Electrical Systems Chapter 3-7, 3-8 (model3)
02/12/2007 Linearization, intro to time-domain analysis Chapter 3-10, Chapter 5-1 (model4) (time1)
02/19/2007 time-domain analysis Chapter 5-1 to 5-4 (time2)
02/26/2007 high-order systems, steady-state analysis, Routh stability criterion Chapter 5-4, 5-7, 5-9 (time3) (routh)
03/05/2007 PID controllers, root-locus Chapter 5-8 and Chapter 6-1 to 6-3 (pid) (rlocus1)
03/19/2007 Root-locus for positive feedback systems, lead compensator design Chapter 6-5, Chapter 7-1 to 7-3 (rlocus2) (rldesign1)
03/26/2007 Root-locus design, Bode-plots Chapters 7-3 to 7-5, Chapter 8-1 to 8-3 (rldesign2)
04/02/2007 Bode-plots, Nyquist plots Chapter 8-2 to 8-5 (freq1)
04/09/2007 Nyquist plots, Nyquist stability Chapter 8-4, 8-5, and 8-7 (freq2)
04/16/2007 Mapping theorem, Nyquist stability criterion with poles on imaginary axis Chapter 8-7 (stability1) (stability2)
04/23/2007 Phase/gain margins. Frequency domain design using lead/lag compensators. Chapter 8-9, 9-2 and 9-3 (fddesign1) (fddesign2)