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EE362K: Introduction To Automatic Control: Spring Semester 2015

This document provides information about the EE362K Introduction to Automatic Control course offered in the spring semester of 2015 at The University of Texas at Austin. The course will be taught by Constantine Caramanis and cover topics like linear feedback systems, stability analysis, root locus, and frequency response design. It will meet Tuesday and Thursday from 2-3:30pm in CLA 1.106. The prerequisites are Electrical Engineering 438 and Mathematics 340L with a grade of C or higher. Coursework will include homework, midterm exams, a final exam, and class participation. The textbook is Feedback Systems by Astrom and Murray.

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EE362K: Introduction To Automatic Control: Spring Semester 2015

This document provides information about the EE362K Introduction to Automatic Control course offered in the spring semester of 2015 at The University of Texas at Austin. The course will be taught by Constantine Caramanis and cover topics like linear feedback systems, stability analysis, root locus, and frequency response design. It will meet Tuesday and Thursday from 2-3:30pm in CLA 1.106. The prerequisites are Electrical Engineering 438 and Mathematics 340L with a grade of C or higher. Coursework will include homework, midterm exams, a final exam, and class participation. The textbook is Feedback Systems by Astrom and Murray.

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The University of Texas at Austin


Deptartment of Electrical and Computer Engineering

EE362K: Introduction to Automatic Control


Spring Semester 2015

Some Basic Information

Instructor: Constantine Caramanis

Email: [email protected]
Phone: (512) 471-9269
Office: UTA 7.206
Office Hours: TBA

TA: Ye Wang

Email: [email protected]
Office: TBA
Office Hours: TBA

Lectures:

Time: Tuesday ad Thursday, 2:00 - 3:30 PM,


Location: CLA 1.106

Course Overview
The concept of feedback is central in the study of systems and control. Feedback loops naturally appear in
the most basic biological phenomena, including macroscopic scale (population evolution, extinction, etc.)
but also physiological function, for example, regulation of glucose level in the blood. In Engineering,
feedback has long played an important role in mechanical, electronic, and now also digital systems. More
generally, systems theory and feedback are central to understanding, analyzing, and designing systems
with interconnected components.

The purpose of this class will be to gain a basic intuition for and understanding of, linear feedback
systems, and also to develop the mathematical tools to understand the basics of design and analysis of
single-input single-output feedback control systems.

Official Course Description

Analysis of linear automatic control systems in time and frequency domains; stability analysis; state
variable analysis of continuous-time and discrete-time systems; root locus; Nyquist diagrams; Bode plots;
sensitivity; lead and lag compensation.Important topics we will cover include:
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Course Outline (tentative):

What is a dynamical system, control, and feedback?


Concepts from state space design.
Linear algebra review and some new concepts.
State-space solution to linear systems.
Controllability. Observability.
Review of basics in Laplace transforms.
System diagrams. Significance of pole and zero locations. System stability test.
Basic equations of feedback. Performance measures, such as stability, disturbance rejection, noise
attenuation, and tracking.
Proportional-Integral-Derivative (PID) controller.
Frequency response design. Bode and Nyquist plots, and the Nyquist criterion.
Stability, and stability margins. Robustness.
Time permitting: nonlinear systems, digital control.

There will be a big effort to draw interesting examples illustrating the basic concepts from a wide area, in
order to give an idea of the applicability and impact ideas from Systems Theory have had, and are
currently continuing to have.

Course Prerequisites
The prerequisites for this class are: Electrical Engineering 438, as well as Mathematics 340L, with a
grade of at least C in each. Much of what we cover in this class is cumulative. Thus these prerequisites
are strict. Indeed, this class draws heavily on previous work in: linear algebra, transforms, and differential
equations. In addition to these, part of the assignments will require use of Matlab. You do not need to
have prior exposure to Matlab, but knowledge of basic programming will be helpful.

General Note: If you are concerned about the prerequisites or your background, or what the course will
cover, please don't hesitate to contact me by e-mail, or come by my office hours.

Homework and Exams

In this class there will be roughly weekly homeworks; there will be two or three mid-term exams in class,
and then a final exam. The weighting will be as follows:
Homework: 15%
Midterm Exams: 40%
Final Exam: 40%
Class participation: 5%

For each midterm exam, there will be the REDO option. You may take the marked up exam and work on
it for a week, using your notes and the book, though you must absolutely work alone. Subject to the
regulations described in the class, this will allow you to gain back up to 30% of the points lost.

Policy on Collaboration: Discussion of homework questions is encouraged. Please be sure to submit


your own independent homework solution. This includes any matlab code required for the assignments.
Late homework assignments will not be accepted.

Text and References

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The course will be taught from the book: Feedback Systems: An Introduction for Scientists and
Engineers, by Karl J. Astrom and Richard M. Murray. This book is available (for free) from Richard
Murray's web page. Please note that this is a different book than what is used in past years and other
sections.

Additional References (Optional)

Feedback Control of Dynamic Systems by G.F. Franklin, J.D. Powell, and A. Emami-Naeini.
Control Systems: Principles and Design by M. Gopal.

Other helpful references

Linear Algebra Done Right by Sheldon Axler.


Advanced Calculus for Applications by F.B. Hildebrand.

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