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ECEN 5418 - Automatic Control Systems 1

3 credit hours

Catalog Description: Covers principles of control systems and Multiple Inputs and Multiple Outputs (MIMO). Topics include MIMO state-space theory, applications of the singular value decomposition (SVD), coprime factorization methods, frequency domain topics, and an introduction to H-infinity design.

Prerequisite: ECEN 4138, Control Systems Analysis

Textbook:

Goals: Development of freqency domain techniques for the analysis andsynthesis of control systems with multiple inputs and outputs.

Topics:

  1. Review of SISO feedback design.
  2. Poles and zeros of a transfer-function matrix.
  3. Smith-McMillan form.
  4. Matrix fraction descriptions: polynomial and rational factorizations.
  5. Internal stability; multivariable Nyquist criteria.
  6. Operator norms; singular value decomposition.
  7. Structured and unstructured uncertainty; the structured singular value.
  8. Stability and performance robustness.
  9. Parameterization of stabilizing controllers: the Youla (or Q) parametrization.
  10. H[[infinity]] optimal control.
  11. Hankel approximation.
Computer Usage:
  1. MATLAB.
Laboratory Projects:
  1. None.
ABET Category Content:
  • Engineering Science: 2.25 credits or 75%
  • Engineering Design: 0.75 credits or 25%