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11: Control Fundamentals

  • Franz S. Hover & Michael S. Triantafyllou
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology via MIT OpenCourseWare

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  • 11.1: Introduction to Control Fundamentals
    The scope of controller design and the need for modeling, using linear systems analysis.
  • 11.2: Partial Fractions
    Applying partial fraction expansions to a signal created by solving LTI systems through the Laplace Transform method, to find the time-domain output signals.
  • 11.3: Stability
    Stability in linear systems, in partial fraction expansions, and in general systems.
  • 11.4: Representing Linear Systems
    The transfer function description of linear systems has already been described in the presentation of the Laplace transform. The state-space form is an entirely equivalent time-domain representation that makes a clean extension to systems with multiple inputs and multiple outputs, and opens the way to many standard tools from linear algebra. This section addresses writing linear systems in state-space form and the interconversion of state-space models and transfer functions.
  • 11.5: Block Diagrams and Transfer Functions of Feedback Systems
    The use of block diagrams to model a feedback system, including the three external inputs that augment any such actual system and the derivation of these inputs.
  • 11.6: PID Controllers
    Introduction to the proportional-integral-derivative (PID) control law.
  • 11.7: Example: PID Control
    Example illustrating the difference between a proportional-only, proportional-derivative only, and proportional-integral-derivative control system, addressing stability and bias.
  • 11.8: Heuristic Tuning
    Transforming the characteristics of a step response to create a reasonable PID design; approximating the response curve by a first-order lag and pure delay.


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