University of California, Santa Barbara
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Digital Control

Lecture Handouts and Schedule

ECE 147B Homepage Homework Lecture Materials Laboratories

Schedule below is subject to change.

Tentative lecture schedule can also be found in the Syllabus.

Videos of lectures this quarter can be found here: ECE 147b Winter 2012 Lectures

"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,
in dropbox.		     Topics     Reading    
----     ------------     --------     --------     -----------------------------     ----------------    
1     (1/9) N/A     --     --     L1: Review of CT dynamics and control. Bode and Nyquist.
L2: Difference equations. Sampling. Tustin (bilinear) approx.		     FPW (Ch.1), 2.1-2.5; RS-1,2
FPW 3.1-3.2, 4.1; RS-3		    
2     (1/16*) 1a     --     HW1 (1/20)     L3: Discrete-time transfer function (DT TF).
L4: z Transform. Tustin with pre-warp.		     FPW 4.2.2; RS-4
FPW 4.2.1, 4.3.1, 4.6.1; 6.1 (pp.194-195) RS-5		    
3     (1/23) 1b     1a     -     L5: Guest lecture: Petar Kokotovic
     -     
4     (1/30) 2a     1b     HW2 (1/30)     L6: Time response. s-plane vs z-plane.
L7: Freq response. Direct control design: deadbeat control.
L8: Intro to state space (SS).		     FPW 4.4; 7.3.1; RS-3
FPW 4.5, 7.5; RS-7
Lecture 8 Byl Notes, FPW 4.3.3; RS-8		    
5     (2/6) 2b     2a     HW3 (2/7)     L9: SS numerical approx. Zero-Order Hold (ZOH).
L10: ZOH for SS eqns. Review for midterm.		     FPW 6.1 (pp.197-200); RS-9,10
Review material through Feb.7. 		    
6     (2/13) --     --     HW4 (2/13)     L11: Midterm Feb.14: Usual class time and place.
L12: Controller design: emulation vs pole placement.		     One (1) SINGLE-SIDED sheet of notes.
FPW 7.2, 8.1; RS-11 		    
7     (2/20*) 3a     2b     HW5 (2/24)     L13: Estimator design via pole placement.
L14: Reduced-order estimator. Separation principle.		     FPW 8.2.1-8.2.4; RS-12
FPW 8.2.5, 8.3; RS-13 		    
8     (2/27) 3b     3a     HW6 (3/2)     L15: Frequency response methods.
L16: Reference tracking.		     FPW 7.4
FPW 8.4.1; RS-14 		    
9     (3/5) 3c     3b     HW7 (3/9)     L17: Integral control via state augmentation.
L18: Opt. Control: LQR; least-squares (LS) est.		     FPW 8.5.1; RS-15
FPW 9.3.5, 9.4.1; RS-16 		    
10     (3/12) [4**]     3c     HW8 (3/16)     L19: Recursive LS. Kalman filtering.
L20: Review for final.		     FPW 9.4.1-9.4.2 (pp.387-394)
Review all material to date. 		    
--     --      --     --     Thursday, March 22, 4-7pm: FINAL EXAM      Two (2) single-sided sheets of notes.     
* indicates that Prelab is due Tues., due to Monday holiday.
** Lab 4 is OPTIONAL, for extra credit. Ask TA's for details on requirements for credit.

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Last Updated: Mar. 13, 2012