EEE 481 Computer Controlled Systems
FALL 2016, Time: TTh 9:00-10:15, COOR L1-10
Instructor: Kostas Tsakalis, GWC 358, 965-1467, 
Office Hours: See Schedule
Course Syllabus
Textbook:
C.L. Phillips, H.T. Nagle, A. Chakrabortty, Digital System Control Analysis and Design.Pearson, 4th Ed.
Other References:
C. Johnson. Process Control Instrumentation Technology, 4th Ed. Prentice Hall,
1993.
C.W. de Silva. Control Sensors and Actuators. Prentice Hall, 1989.
J.J. Carr. Elements of Electronic Instrumentation and Measurement. 3rd Ed.
Prentice Hall 1996.
INSTRUCTION MATERIALS: (development supported by Consortium
for Embedded & Networking Technologies)
Lecture slides-pdf
(updated 9/15)
Short presentations on Model
Uncertainty and Control Input Saturation
effects on feedback control systems.
Model files for experiments, notes
(updated 2/19/07)
REAL-TIME FURNACE TEMPERATURE EMULATION: A
MATLAB-SIMULINK/RTW/xPC-embedded project
NOTES ON BUILDING REAL-TIME APPLICATIONS WITH
MATLAB
Wafer Furnace Emulator (.zip)
xPC-Target Embedded Furnace Emulator (under development)
Sample Lab Report.doc Sample Lab Report.pdf
Course Outline:
- Wk 1:
Introduction to Computers, Matlab and Simulink, PC104 platform (notes), System simulation and
real-time applications (notes)
- Wk 2: Computer
Interfacing for Data Acquisition and Control, ADC-DAC, Signal
conditioning, quantization (notes) à HW1
- Wk 3: Review of
Z-transform and State Variables (Ch.2)
- Wk 4:
Z-transform and state variables, Linearization (Ch.2)
à HW2
- Wk 5: Sampling
and Reconstruction, CT-DT conversions, Discretization (Ch.3, Notes)
- Wk 6:
Discretization, Open-loop DT systems (Ch.4, Notes) à HW3
- Wk 7:
Closed-Loop systems, Time/Frequency response characteristics
(Notes, Ch. 5,6)
- Wk 8: Winter
Break/Test 1
- Wk 9: Feedback
and Feedforward Control, Stability Analysis, Nyquist/Bode
(Notes, Ch. 7)
- Wk 10: PID
controllers and tuning (Notes, Ch.8: Specs, PID)
- Wk 11: PID
tuning and Controller Discretization (Notes) à HW4
- Wk 12:
Feedforward Compensation (Notes) à HW5
- Wk 13: State
Estimation (Ch.9: Observers)
- Wk 14: Model
Identification (Notes, Ch. 10) à HW6
- Wk 15: Sensors,
Actuators (Notes)
Grading: 2 Tests 30%,
(best 20%, worst 10%) HW 10%, Labs 30%, Final 30%
All tests: Closed book, One 8 1/5 x 11 sheet (2pages) of notes allowed
Final Exam: Thu, 12/8, 7:30-9:20
Material: HW assignments and Labs
Lab Assignments
Grading: 2 Tests 30%, (best 20%, worst 10%) HW 10%, Labs 30%, Final
30%
All tests: Closed book, One 8 1/5 x 11 sheet (2pages) of notes allowed
HW Assignments and solutions: Link
HW#1 Due 9/8
HW#2 Due 9/22
HW#3 Due 9/29
Midterm Exam, 10/13 Solutions
Material: HW 1-2-3
HW#4
Due 10/27 Matlab code for
class example
HW#5 Due 11/8
Midterm Exam, 11/15 Solutions
Material: HW 4-5
HW#6
Due 11/22
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Resources from past semesters:
2015/2013 etc Homework and
Tests
Spring16: Link T1: Solutions T2:
Solutions
#1
Problems 1.10, 2.7, 2.11, 2.15, 2.16, 2.26, 2.36, 3.17, 3.24, 3.25
Due 3/3 SOLUTIONS
#2 Problems 6.4, 7.22, 8.16, 8.19, 8.22
Due 3/29 SOLUTIONS
#3 Problems: see
linked document
Due 4/28 SOLUTIONS
03/07 lecture Matlab History file
04/02/07 lecture Matlab
History file
04/04/07 lecture Matlab
History file
3.
Reading Material (textbook)
Ch. 1-2: Specs, PID, Continuous-time design principles, Intro State-Space
Ch. 3: Discretization principles, PID-DT
Ch. 4: Analysis, z-transform basics, State Space in DT, Linearization
Ch. 6: Discrete Equivalents (self-study)
Ch. 7: Sections 1,2,4: controller design principles, frequency domain
methods, fundamental limitations
Ch. 10: Quantization effects
MIDTERM Discretization, linearization, PID: HW1 (Roughly Ch. 1-6):
Perform linearization of nonlinear systems (compute steady-state and the
Taylor expansion of the nonlinearity around it).
Discretize systems using simple methods
(forward/backward Euler) and understand the limitations of such approximations.
Given the system frequency response, design continuous-time PID's using
crossover frequency and phase margin specs and discretize
them.
Labs E1-E4:
Serial communication and A/D converter basics (see .ppt
notes)