Syllabus
Examples of controlled systems, open loop and feedback control, control system components – mod- eling of physical systems, block diagrams – review of Laplace transform, transfer function – time domain and frequency domain responses – stability, poles and zeros, Routh-Hurwitz criterion – root locus – Bode plot, Nyquist criterion – PID controller, lead and lag compensators – examples from aerospace and mechanical systems – introductions to state-space representation – stability criterion – concepts of controllability and observabilty.
Text Books
D’Azzo, H., Feedback Control System Analaysis and Synthesis, CRC Press (2007).
References
1. Ogata, K., Modern Control Engineering, 5th ed., Pearson Education (2009).
2. Gopal, M., Control Systems: Principles and Design, 3rd ed., Tata McGraw Hill (2008).
3. Xue, D., Chen, YQ., and Atherton, D. P., Linear Feedback Control Analysis and Design with MATLAB, SIAM (2007).
Course Outcomes (COs):
CO1: Develop transfer function model of LTI systems.
CO2: Compute and analyse the transient behaviour and steady state characteristics from the mathematical model.
CO3: Assess the stability of LTI systems.
CO4: Design simple controllers like PID and lag-lead compensators for LTI systems.