BISON ACADEMY

Courses taught in the

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

North Dakota State University

 

ECE 461/661: Controls Systems

Syllabus - Fall 2024

Syllabus - HW & Solutions - Resources - Comments

Instructor: Jacob Glower
Contact Info: Jacob.glower@ndsu.edu or jacob_glower@yahoo.com
Class Times: MWF 10am, ECE 123

 

Date

Lecture

Videos and Code

YouTube PlayList

Handouts

Homework

M

Aug 26

Holiday!

Download Matlab (link here)

Download SciLab (link here)

VisSim (link here)

HW1

W

Aug 28

Syllabus

Intro to Ladder Logic

0: Syllabus

1 Intro to PLCs

F

Aug 30

Code Composer Workbench

PLCs and State Transition Logic

2 Logic with PLCs

3 State Transition Logic

M

Sep 2

Holiday

-

 

HW2

W

Sep 4

Timer Blocks

Counter Blocks

4 Timers

5 Counters

F

Sep 6

For-Next Loops, If-Then Statements

Analog Inputs & Comparitors

 

M

Sep 9

Structured Text (ST) Programs

6 ST Intro

7 ST Counters

8 ST Timers

HW3

-

HW4

W

Sep 11

LaPlace Transforms

Slides #10

10 LaPlace

10 LaPlace

F

Sep 13

1st and 2nd Order Approximations

Slides #11

11 1st & 2nd Order

11 Find G(s)

2nd Order Approx

M

Sep 16

Block Diagrams

Slides #12

12 Block Diag

12 Block Diagrams

HW5

W

Sep 18

State-Space and Canonical Forms

Slides #13

13 State Space

13 State Space

F

Sep 20

Electrical Circuits: Heat Equation

Slides #14

14 Circuits

14 RLC

Heat.m

M

Sep 23

Mass Spring Systems: Wave Equation

Slides #15

15 Mass Spring

15 MBK

Wave.m

HW6

W

Sep 25

Career Fair

(no class)

 

 

F

Sep 27

Rotational Systems & Gears

Slides #16

16 Rotational Systems

16 JDK

M

Sep 30

Modeling a DC Servo Motor

Slides #17

17 Modeling a DC Motor

 

 

W

Oct 2

Review

 

 

F

Oct 4

Test #1

 

 

M

Oct 7

Error Constants

Slides #18

18 Error Constants

18 Error Const

HW7

W

Oct 9

Routh Criteria

Slides #19

19 Routh Criteria

19 Routh Table

F

Oct 11

Sketching a Root Locus Plot

Slides #20

20 Root Locus

20 Root Locus a

M

Oct 14

Root Locus with Complex Poles

Slides #21

21 Root Locus b

21 Root Locus b

HW8

W

Oct 16

Gain Compensation

Slides #22

22 Gain Comp

22 Gain Comp

F

Oct 18

Lead Compensation

Slides #23

23 Lead

23 Lead

M

Oct 21

PID Compensation

Slides #24

24 PID

Heat.m

Heat Equation Simulation

24 PID

HW9

W

Oct 23

Meeting Design Specs

Slides #26

26 Meeting Specs

26 Meeting Specs

F

Oct 25

Systems with Delays

Slides #27

27 Delays

27 Delays

M

Oct 28

Unstable Poles and Multi-Loop Feedback

Slides #28

28 Unstable Poles

28 Unstable Poles

 

W

Oct 30

Review

 

F

Nov 1

Test #2

 

 

M

Nov 4

z-transform

Slides #29

29 z Transform

29 z Transforms

HW10

W

Nov 6

s to z Conversion

Slides #30

30 s to z

30 s to z

F

Nov 8

Root Locus in the z-Domain

Slides #31

31 Root Locus

31 Root Locus

M

Nov 11

Holiday

-

 

 

HW11

W

Nov 13

Digital PID Control

Slides #32

32 Digital PID

32 z PID

F

Nov 15

Meeting Design Specs in the z-plane

Slides #33

33 Design Specs

34 Design Specs

M

Nov 18

Digital Control of a DC Servo Motor

Slides #34

34: Digital Control of a DC Servo Motor

 

HW12

W

Nov 20

Bode Plots

Slides #35

35 Bode Plots

35 Bode Plots

F

Nov 22

Nichols Charts and Gain Compensation

Slides #36

36 Nichols

36 Nichols

M

Nov 25

Gain and Lead Compensation with Bode Plots

Slides #37

37 Gain & Lead

37 Gain & Lead

HW13

W

Nov 27

Holiday!

 

 

F

Nov 29

Holiday!

 

 

M

Dec 2

Meeting Design Specifications

Slides #39

39 Design Specs

39 Specs

 

W

Dec 4

Review

 

F

Dec 6

Test #3

 

M

Dec 9

Lag Compensators

Slides #38

38 Lag

38 Lag

 

W

Dec 11

Modern Control (preview of ECE 463/663)

 

 

F

Dec 13

Review

 

 

Tu

 

Final Exam 8am (in-person)

Also available on Blackboard: 6am-midnight

 

 

 

 

 

PID with a DC Servo Motor

Slides #25

25: PID of DC Servo Motor