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ECEN 4638 - Control Systems Laboratory

Elective - 2 credit hours
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Catalog Description: Control system design and analysis with experience both in real hardware and computer simulation. Emphasis is placed on the entire control system design cycle – modeling the system, synthesizing a controller, conducting simulations, analyzing the design to suggest modifications and improvements, implementing the design for actual testing.

Prerequisites: ECEN 3300, Linear Systems, and APPM 2360, Linear Algebra and Differential Equations
Corequisite: ECEN 4138, Control Systems Analysis

Textbook: LabView manual to be determined; Franklin, Powell, Emani-Naeini, Feedback Control of Dynamic Systems, Addison Wesley 4e, 2002.

Course objectives: This is a companion to ECEN 4138, Control Systems Analysis, which covers the mathematical aspects of control theory. This laboratory course covers the “real-world” practical issues involved in actual implementation of complex control systems. It leads students through the actual control system design cycle.

Topics:

  1. Modeling (2 weeks)
  2. Simulation and Introduction to Simulink Environment (1 week)
  3. Common Feedback Controllers and Properties, System Types (2 weeks)
  4. Control System Design Cycle (2 weeks)
  5. Non-parametric Design (2 weeks)
  6. Observers, State-feedback, Observer-based Design (2 weeks)
  7. Start to Finish Design and Implementation for a Physical System (4 weeks)
Class schedule: 4 hours of laboratory per week.

Contribution of course to meeting Criterion 4, the professional component: This course provides 2 semester hours of electrical engineering topics consisting of engineering sciences and engineering design.

Relationship of course to program outcomes: This course is not required and is not included in outcomes assessment.

Prepared by: David Meyer and Vincent Heuring
April 13, 2005.