Jorge Cortés
Professor
Cymer Corporation Endowed Chair
A crash course in feedback control - a MATLAB-based introduction with
one prerequisite: high school algebra
W. B. Dunbar, J. Cortés
Proceedings of the 45th IEEE Int. Conf. Decision and Control, San
Diego, California, USA, 2006, pp. 3900-3905
Abstract
This paper presents an overview of a recently designed and implemented
introductory course on feedback control amenable to traditional and
nontraditional audiences. The course material is based on fundamental
concepts in dynamical systems, modeling, stability analysis,
robustness to uncertainty, feedback as it occurs naturally, and the
design of feedback control laws to engineer desirable static and
dynamic response. The material also includes an introduction to
\matlab, provides many \matlab exercises to reinforce concepts, and
concludes with a control design and simulation-based analysis to
achieve wall tracking with a kinematic robot. The only prerequisite
for the course is high school algebra. The paper also reports the
authors' recent experience implementing the presented material in a
four-week course of the California State Summer School for Mathematics
and Science (COSMOS) program at the University of California, Santa
Cruz. All materials are freely available online.
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