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Syllabus

Course Meeting Times

Lectures: 2 sessions / week, 1.5 hours / session

Labs: 5 sessions / term, 3 hours / session

Recitations (Graduate Only): 1 session / week, 1 hour / session

Text

Buy at Amazon Nise, Norman S. Control Systems Engineering. 4th ed. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley, 2004. ISBN: 9780471445777.
This will be supplemented with handouts from Prof. Trumper.

Homework

Weekly problem set assignments will be due on Thursday in lecture. No late problem sets will be accepted except in extenuating circumstances.

Laboratory Sessions

Students will attend one assigned three hour lab session in the 5 weeks indicated on the schedule. Note that graduate students and undergraduate students will meet in alternate weeks, and that there are 5 labs scheduled during the term. Students will receive a grade of zero for missed lab sessions. A prelab will be assigned in the week preceding the lab exercise. The prelab is due at the start of the assigned lab session. Prelabs will not be accepted more than 5 minutes after the start of the lab session. Lateness to the lab will also reduce the lab portion of the student's score. Each student must submit an individual lab report at the end of the lab session. Lab reports will not be accepted after the end of the lab session. The lab grade will be based upon the prelab (50%), and lab report scores (50%).

Quizzes

Two closed-book quizzes will be given. There are no laboratory sessions during the weeks of quizzes. The quizzes are closed-book. One sheet of notes will be permitted in Quiz #1. Two sheets of notes will be permitted in Quiz #2.

Final Exam

A three hour closed-book final exam will be held during the final exam period. Four sheets of notes will be permitted in the final.

Grading

The course grade will be based upon the students' performance in the laboratories, homework, quizzes, and final exam.

ACTIVITIES PERCENTAGES
Laboratories 20%
Homework 25%
Quizzes 25%
Final exam 30%

The department of Mechanical Engineering has adopted the following guidelines for the grade distribution in undergraduate courses: approximately 25% A, 40% B, 25% C, not more than 10% D and F. We will use this as a starting point in assigning grades, but will not be bound to such a distribution.

Calendar

WEEK # LECTURES LAB/QUIZ KEY DATES
1 Intro and organization; circuits and Op-Amps   Problem set 1 out
2

Op-Amps as feedback systems

Actuators and transformers

 Orientation session (all)

Problem set 1 due

Problem set 2 out
3 State-space review Lab 1 (G): Op-Amp feedback circuits

Problem set 2 due

Problem set 3 out
4 Root locus Lab 1 (U): Op-Amp feedback circuits

Problem set 3 due

Quiz 1 review
5 Frequency response, Bode and Nyquist plots Quiz 1 (all) Problem set 4 out
6 Frequency-domain design Lab 2 (G): Op-Amp PID controller

Problem set 4 due

Problem set 5 out
7 Frequency-domain design (cont.) Lab 2 (U): Op-Amp PID controller

Problem set 5 due

Problem set 6 out
8 State-space control design Lab 3 (G): Frequency domain design

Problem set 6 due

Problem set 7 out
9 State-space control design (cont.) Lab 3 (U): Frequency domain design

Problem set 7 due

Quiz 2 review
10 Discrete-time design Quiz 2 (all) Problem set 8 out
11

Discrete-time design (cont.)

Nonlinear systems, linearization

 Lab 4 (G): State-space design

Problem set 8 due

Problem set 9 out
12 Describing functions Lab 4 (U): State-space design

Problem set 9 due

Problem set 10 out
13 Design examples Lab 5 (U): Discrete-time control Problem set 10 due
14 Advanced topics; overview and wrapup Lab 5 (G): Discrete-time control Final exam review
15   Final exam