BISON ACADEMY

Courses taught in the

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

North Dakota State University

ECE 463/663: Modern Control

Syllabus: Spring 2025

Syllabus - HW & Solutions - Resources - Comments

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Instructor: Jacob Glower

Email: Jacob.glower@ndsu.edu
Class Times: MWF 10am, ECE 123 & on Zoom

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	Date	Topic	Lecture YouTube PlayList	Handouts	Code Used in lecture	Homework
M	Jan 13	Holiday	0: Intro to ECE463			HW #1
W	Jan 15	Syllabus Sides #0 MATLAB Review Slides #1	1 Matlab Review
F	Jan 17	LaPlace Transforms Slides #2	2 LaPlace Transform	2 1^st &2^nd Order Approx - 2^nd Order Approximations
M	Jan 20	Holiday				HW #2
W	Jan 22	State Space Slides #3	3 State Space	3 State Space
F	Jan 24	Eigenvalues and Eigenvectors Slides #4	4 Eigenvalues	4 Eigenvalues	Heat
M	Jan 27	Canonical Forms & Similarity Transforms Slides #5	5 Canonical Forms	5 Canonical Forms		HW #3
W	Jan 29	LaGrangian Dynamics Slides #6	6 LaGrangian Dynamics	6 LaGrangian Dynamics	Ball BallDisplay BallDynamics
F	Jan 31	Cart & Pendulum System Slides #7	7 Cart & Pendulum		Cart CartDisplay CartDynamics Gantry GantryDisplay GantryDynamics
M	Feb 3	Ball and Beam System Slides #8	8 Ball and Beam		Beam BeamDisplay BeamDynamics	HW #4
W	Feb 5	Dynamics of a 2-Link Robot Slides #9	9 2-Link Robot		TwoLink TwoLinkDynamics
F	Feb 7	Dynamics of a Double Pendulum Slides #10	10 Double Pendulum DP Demo		Cart2 Cart2Display Cart2Dynamics Gantry2 Gantry2Display Gantry2Dynamics
M	Feb 10	Controllability / Observability Slides #11	11 Controllability
W	Feb 12	Review
F	Feb 14	Test #1
M	Feb 17	Holiday				HW #5
W	Feb 19	Full-State Feedback Slides #12	12 Feedback
F	Feb 21	Bass Gura Slides #13	13 Bass Gura		Heat
M	Feb 24	Pole Placement: Heat Eq Slides #14	14 PPL Heat		Sp24 Versions Beam BeamDynamics BeamDisplay	HW #6
W	Feb 26	Pole Placement: Cart & Pendulum Slides #15	15 PPL Cart		Cart Cart Dynamics Cart Display
F	Feb 28	Servo-Compensators Slides #16	16 DC Servo Comp		Gantry2 Gantry2Display Gantry2Dynamics - Beam Heat
M	Mar 3	SC for Sinusoidal Setpoints Slides #17	17 AC Servo Comp		Step3	HW #7
W	Mar 5	Generalized Servo-Compensator Slides #18	18 General Servo
F	Mar 7	Full-Order Observers Slides #19	19 Full Order Observers		Gantry GantryDisplay Heat
M	Mar 10	Holiday
W	Mar 12	Holiday
F	Mar 14	Holiday
M	Mar 17	The Separation Principle Slides #20	20 The Separation Principle		Cart CartDisplay Heat Heat2	HW #8
W	Mar 19	Observers and Disturbances Slides #21	21 Observers and Disturbances		Beam BeamDisplay Heat Heat2
F	Mar 21	Reduced Order Observers Slides #22	22 Reduced order Observers
M	Mar 24	Test #2: Q & A			Test #2 Starting Code Gantry GantryDynamics GantryDisplay
W	Mar 26	Test #2: Q & A
F	Mar 28	Test #2: Q & A
M	Mar 31	Calculus of Variations Slides #23	23: Calc of Var		Cost3 Cost_Chain	HW #9
W	Apr 2	The Ricatti Equation Slides #24	24: Ricatti Eq
F	Apr 4	Optimal Control (LQG) Slides #25	25: LQG
M	Apr 7	LQG Control with Multiple Inputs Slides #26	26: LQG MI			HW #10
W	Apr 9	LQG Control with Servo-Compensators Slides #27	27: LQG & Servo		Heat
F	Apr 11	LQG with MIMO Servo-Compensators Slides #28	28: MIMO LQG		Cart CartDisplay CartDynamics
M	Apr 14	LQG Observers Slides #29	29: LQG Observers		Gantry GantryB GantryDisplay GantryDynamics Heat	HW #11
W	Apr 16	Kalman Filters Kalman Filter Example Slides #30	30: Kalman Filters		Heat
F	Apr 18	Holiday
M	Apr 21	Holiday				HW #12
W	Apr 23	LQG/LTR Control Slides #31	31: LQG/LTR		Cart Cart Dynamics Cart Display
F	Apr 25	LQG/LTR with Servo-Compensators Slides #32	32: LQG/LTR Servo		Cart Same dynamics and display as lecture #31
M	Apr 28	VSS and Saturating Control Slides #34	34: VSS			HW #13
W	Apr 30	Pink Noise and Noise Cancellation Slides #33	33: Pink Noise		Gantry GantryB GantryDisplay GantryDynamics
F	May 2	Follow-On Courses Adaptive Control, Robust Control, Multivariable Control, Nonlinear Control, Robotics, Self-Tuning Regultors
M	May 5	Test #3 (Due May 5^th)
W	May 7	Q & A: Test #3 & Homework #13
F	May 9	Q & A: Test #3