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Digital Control

Lecture Handouts and Schedule


ECE 147B Homepage Homework Lecture Materials Laboratories


Schedule below is subject to change.

See also: Syllabus and Calendar of significant dates.
"FPW" stands for [Franklin, Powell, and Workman], our required text.
"O&W" refers to optional reading from "Signals and Systems," by Oppenheim and Willsky.
"RS" means Roy Smith's ECE 147b lecture notes, which are all worth reviewing. Links for those lectures are given below:
RS1, RS2, RS3, RS4, RS5, RS6, RS7, RS8, RS9, RS10, RS11, RS12, RS13, RS14, RS15, RS16, RS17,

Week     Pre-lab due
noon Monday
in dropbox
     Report due
in lab
     HW due
5pm Friday,
in dropbox.
     Topics     Reading    
----     ------------     --------     --------     -----------------------------     ----------------    
1     Lab starts this week!
(But no write-ups.)
     HW0 (no grade)     L1,L2: (Review) CT systems. Freq resp (Bode).
Lag, lead, phase margin, crossover. Z- vs S-plane.
     FPW: Ch. 1,2,3; RS 1,2    
2     (1/10) 1a     -     HW1     L3: Difference eqns; integration approxns.; DT TF's
L4: Sampled-data systems; ZOH
     FPW 4.1, 6.1, 4.2, RS 3
FPW 4.3.1-4.3.4, 6.3.1, RS 5
    
3     (1/17) 1b     1a     Mod5     L5: Tustin with prewarp; DT Transfer Fn
L6: Time responses; ZOH; pole-zero matching
     FPW 4.2.4; 6.3.1,4.3.1; p.194,RS4p14-18 (4.5)
FPW 4.4; 6.2
    
4     (1/24) 2a     1b     HW2     L7: Freq. Resp.; deadbeat control; Prop's of the Z Xform
L8: Sampling: Effect of ZOH on dynamics
     FPW 4.5, 4.6.1, 4.6.2; RS 7
FPW Ch. 5 RS 6
    
5     (1/31) 2b     2a     Mod6     L9: Intro to State Space
L10: Controller design: emulation vs pole placement.
     FPW 4.2.3; RS 8
FPW 7.2, 8.1; RS 11
    
6     (2/7) Week of the MIDTERM EXAM.
(Tentatively 2/8@3:30)
     L11: Review for Midterm
L12: Midterm (FPW CH. 4-7.2, 8.1-8.4)
     Pre-midterm handout
1 single-sided sheet of notes
    
7     (2/14) 3a     2b     Mod7     L13: Estimator design via pole placement.
L14: Red.-order est.; Separation principle.
     FPW 8.2.1-8.2.4; RS 12
FPW 8.2.5, 8.3; RS 13
    
8     (2/21) 3b     3a     HW3     L15: Frequency response methods, Pt 1
L16: Frequency response methods, Pt 2
     FPW 7.4    
9     (2/28) 3c     3b     HW4     L17: Integral control via state augmentation
L18: Intro to LQR; least-squares estimation
     FPW 8.5.1
FPW 9.3.5, 9.4.1
    
10     (3/7) Lab 4 is E.C.     3c     Mod8     L19: Quantization
L20: Review for Final
     FPW 10.1
(See L3-L19 above.)
    

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Last Updated: Feb. 16, 2011