BISON ACADEMY

Courses taught in the

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

North Dakota State University

ECE 461: Controls Systems

Resources & Reference Material

Syllabus - HW & Solutions - Resources - Comments

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Text Books:

▪ Control System Design: An Introduction to State-Space Methods, by bernard Friedland ($22 new)

▪ Linear System Theory and Design, by Chi-Tsong Chen ($88 used)

▪ Linear Systems, by Thomas Kalith ($19 used)

▪ Schaum’s Outline on Controls Systems ($10 used)

Reference Material

▪ 2nd Order Approximations

Matlab

▪ Download Matlab (link to NDSU license)

▪ Matlab for Beginners

Altair Embed (a.k.a. VisSim)

▪ Download student (free) version

HP35s Calculator

▪ RPN and Stacks

▪ Complex Numbers

▪ Solving f(x) = 0

▪ Phasor Analysis

SciLab Information:

▪ Tutorial on using SciLab

▪ Download the latest version of SciLab (link here)

▪ SciLab version 5.3.3

▪ Controls System Toolbox for SciLab 5.3.3.

▪ Instructions for the Control Systems Toolbox