COURSE NUMBER:
ME 461 |
COURSE TITLE:
Automatic Control |
REQUIRED COURSE OR ELECTIVE COURSE:
Elective |
TERMS OFFERED:
Fall |
TEXTBOOK / REQUIRED MATERIAL:
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PRE / CO-REQUISITES:
MECHENG 360. I (3 credits) |
COGNIZANT FACULTY:
D. Tilbury |
COURSE TOPICS:
- System modeling, time-domain and frequency-domain techniques
- Control specifications (overshoot, rise time, settling time, steady-state error)
- Stability
- PID controllers
- Root locus method for control design
- Frequency response
- Lead and lag compensation
- State-space method for control design
- Digital control
- Computer methods for analysis and simulation of dynamic systems
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BULLETIN DESCRIPTION:
Feedback control design and analysis for linear dynamic systems with emphasis on mechanical engineering applications; transient and frequency response; stability; system performance; control modes; state space techniques; digital control systems.
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COURSE STRUCTURE/SCHEDULE:
Lecture: 2 days per week at 1.5 hour |
COURSE OBJECTIVES:
for each course objective, links to the Program Outcomes are identified
in brackets.
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- Model mechanical systems [1, 5]
- Express control specifications [3, 5]
- Determine system performance [1, 5]
- Design compensators to meet control specifications [3, 5]
- Understand digital implementation of control systems [3, 11]
- Use software tools to model, analyze, and simulate control system performance [3, 5, 11]
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COURSE OUTCOMES:
for each course outcome, links to the Course Objectives are identified
in brackets.
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- Find differential equation and transfer function of single-input, single-output mechanical system [1]
- Draw feedback system block diagram and find closed-loop transfer function [1]
- Translate time-domain specifications into frequency-domain requirements [2]
- Determine steady-state error to step and ramp inputs and disturbances [2, 3]
- Given a system transfer function, find time-domain behavior (impulse, step and frequency response) [3]
- Design PI, PD, PID, lead, and lag compensators to meet control goals [4]
- Use software tools to design state-space controllers to meet control goals [4]
- Use software tools to translate continuous-time controllers into digital equivalent [5]
- Find closed-loop transfer function, system poles, frequency response using software tools [6]
- Simulate system behavior using software tools [6]
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ASSESSMENT TOOLS:
for each assessment tool, links to the course outcomes are identified
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- Regular homework problems
- Exam(s) and/or project(s)
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