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Control Systems Course Outline

This document outlines an EE-481 Control Systems course. The course aims to help students mathematically model physical systems, analyze system behavior using tools like root locus and frequency response, and design controllers to meet objectives like stability and error reduction. It is a 4-credit course with 48 hours each of theory and practical work. Student assessment includes midterm and final exams, assignments, and quizzes. Topics include system modeling, root locus, frequency response, and state space design. Practical work involves experiments in MATLAB to demonstrate controller design techniques on various physical plants.

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Control Systems Course Outline

This document outlines an EE-481 Control Systems course. The course aims to help students mathematically model physical systems, analyze system behavior using tools like root locus and frequency response, and design controllers to meet objectives like stability and error reduction. It is a 4-credit course with 48 hours each of theory and practical work. Student assessment includes midterm and final exams, assignments, and quizzes. Topics include system modeling, root locus, frequency response, and state space design. Practical work involves experiments in MATLAB to demonstrate controller design techniques on various physical plants.

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EE-481 Control Systems

Contact Hours: Credit Hours:


Theory = 48 Theory = 3.0
Practical = 48 Practical = 1.0
Total = 96 Total = 4.0
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Course outcome:
COURSE LEARNING OUTCOMES:
Upon successful completion of the course, the student will be able to:
S. CLO Domain Taxonomy level PLO
No.
1. Acquire sufficient knowledge to Cognitive 3 1
mathematically Model the behavior of
different physical systems
2. Analyze the behavior of system using Cognitive 4 2
mathematical techniques
3. Design controllers to meet the specified Cognitive 5 3
control design objectives such as faster
transient response and smaller steady
state errors while ensuring system
stability.
4. Use Modern Tools for system modeling, Cognitive 6 5
analysis, design validation and
performance comparison of different
types of controllers.

RELEVANT PROGRAM LEARNING OUTCOMES (PLOs):


The course is designed so that students will achieve the following PLOs:
1 Engineering Knowledge:  7 Environment and ☐
Sustainability:
2 Problem Analysis:  8 Ethics: ☐
3 Design/Development of  9 Individual and Team Work: ☐
Solutions:
4 Investigation: ☐ 10 Communication: ☐
5 Modern Tool Usage:  11 Project Management: ☐
6 The Engineer and Society: ☐ 12 Lifelong Learning: ☐
Course outline:

I. Systems and their models, dynamic response (4 weeks)



Modeling examples, differential equations, impulse response, transfer functions,
poles and zeros, feedback. 


II. Root locus design (4 weeks)



Evans’ root locus method, dynamic compensation. 


III. Frequency response design (4 weeks)


Bode plots, Nyquist stability criterion. 


IV. State space design (4 weeks)


Introduction to modern control, linear pole placement, estimator design, LQR. 


Practical:
S. LO Domain Taxonomy level PLO
No.
1. Perform experiments to demonstrate Psychomotor 3,4 1,2,3,5
the use of P, PI, PD and PID control
for control system behavior
enhancement on different plants e.g.
Feedback Inc. Servomotors, Inverted
pendulum, Magnetic Levitation
System, Twin Rotor MIMO System
etc. MATLAB is used for modeling
analysis and design validation in the
process.

S. No. Descriptions
1. System Modeling and Analysis in MATLAB.
2. To study Op-Amp as a summer and gain controller
3. To study speed vs input voltage of armature controlled DC motor in open loop
4. To study speed vs input voltage of armature controlled DC motor in close loop
with increased gain
5. To study speed vs applied torque of armature controlled DC motor in open
loop
6. To study speed vs applied torque of armature controlled DC motor in close
loop with increased gain
7. To study Automatic position control system in closed loop with variable gain (P
compensation)
8. To study the effect of velocity feedback on position control system (PD
compensation)
9. Introduction to three term PID control (analogue)
10. PID position control on analogue servo fundamental trainer
11. P/PI/PD/PID position control on Digital servo fundamental trainer
12. PD/PID Compensator for Position Control on Magnetic Levitation System.
13. PI/PID Compensator for Trajectory following on Twin rotor MIMO System,
with One and Two Degrees of Freedom.
14. PID stabilization of Inverted pendulum with reference input. PID Control for
reference tracking of Inverted Pendulum in Crane Configuration.
15. Experimental modeling of DC servomotor – Time Constant Measurement
16. MATLAB based PD compensator design to meet desired transient response
specifications and implementation and validation on DC Servomotor.

Teaching Methodology

 Two Lectures a week, each of 1 hour and 30 minutes duration


 Assignments for reinforcement of concepts and supplementing the lectures
 Quizzes and Exams for assessment.

Grading Policy

Mid Term (25%)


 Written (Long Questions, Short Questions) 100%

Final Term (50%)


 Written (Long Questions, Short Questions) 100%

Sessional (25%)
 Assignments 20%
 Quizzes 80%

Text book:
 Norman S. Nise, “Control Systems Engineering”, seventh edition.

Reference book:
 Franklin, Powell and Emami-Naeini, “Feedback Control of Dynamic Systems”, seventh
edition.

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