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

Advanced Control Design Lab

ECE 238 - Fall 2011

Instructor: Prof. Katie Byl
(katiebyl@ece.ucsb.edu)

Schedule:   Tue, Thur 2:00-3:50pm   HFH 3120A
 
Note room change above! Lecture will be held in lab, to facillitate in-class demos and lab exercises.

Link to course HANDOUTS, including assignments and readings.

Course Description: This is a project-based course in digital control. We will cover a variety of topics relevant and typical to real-world control implementations: sampling, filters, digital control design, and a variety of non-linear dynamic effects (saturation, slew rates, friction, backlash, etc.). Typical projects include: inverted pendulum swing up and stabilization, pendubot control, a chaotic bouncing ball, a maglev device, and a balancing seesaw. Additional student-designed options are certainly possible (and encouraged!), but you must demonstrate working hardware by the mid-term review to continue work on any project using equipment that is not already in the Control Lab (HFH 3120A).

Syllabus: Syllabus_ece238_F11.pdf

Prerequisites: A good graduate course in Controls.

Office Hours: Mon, Wed 3-4pm (and/or by appointment), in HFH 5115.

Lab: Open hours, by card access, in HFH 3120A. Lab is NOT available 7-10 Tue and Thurs, which conflicts with ECE 147A.

Required Text/Readings: There is no required text for this course. If you want a reference, I suggest “Digital Control of Dynamic Systems” by Franklin, Powell and Workman (FPW) [3rd ed., Addison Wesley Longman, Inc., 1998]. The book is also available as a slightly lower-quality reprint (and at lower cost) at either Powell's Books or Ellis-Kagle Press.

Grading: The goal of this course is to get hands-on experience at “making things work” via digital control, and this will require completion of a term project of your choice. The homework assignments should be helpful toward this goal, but are of secondary importance. Your grade will be the higher of the following two options:
         Option 1:    20% Homework  and   80% Final Project
         Option 2:    50% Homework  and   50% Final Project

Homework: Homework will consist of a combination of on-paper problems and in-lab assignments. Homework assignments will be turned in either electronically or in the homework drop box outside of HFH 3120A, as appropriate.

 

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Last Updated: Oct 3, 2011