Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

ECE 332: Feedback Control Systems

Spring Semester 2008

Instructor: Prof. Dan Cobb
Office: 3621 Engineering Hall
Email: cobb@engr.wisc.edu
Office Hours: 4:00 TR (Email or see me after class.)

TA: Roengrut Rujanakraikarn
Office: B632 EH
Email: rrujanakraik@wisc.edu
Office Hours: 3:00-4:00 T, 11:00-12:00 R

Text: B. C. Kuo, F. Golnaraghi, Automatic Control Systems - 8th Edition, Prentice Hall, 2003.
Lecture: 1:00-2:15 TR, 2540 EH
Discussion: 6:00-7:30 R, 2540 EH
Homework: 7 assignments
Grading: Homework - 30%, Midterm Exam - 30%, Final Exam (Cumulative) - 40%
Prerequisites: ECE 330

MIDTERM EXAM (Weeks 1-7): Tuesday, April 1, in class Practice Problems Exam Solutions
FINAL EXAM: Wed, May 14, 12:25 PM, 2317 EH Practice Problems Exam Solutions

Homework

Assignment #1 Solutions
Assignment #2 Solutions
Assignment #3 Solutions
Assignment #4 Solutions
Assignment #5 Solutions
Assignment #6 Solutions
Assignment #7 Solutions

Old homework is available outside 3621 EH.


Syllabus

Week

Beginning

Kuo, 7th Edition

Kuo, 8th Edition

Topics

1

Jan 21

1-16

1-15

introduction to feedback, differential equations, system modeling

2

Jan 28

21-43

16-29

review of Laplace transforms, polynomials

3

Feb 4

870-881

class notes

rational functions, Bode plots

4

Feb 11

class notes

class notes

Nyquist plots

5

Feb 18

327-342

211-219

stability, Routh-Hurwitz conditions

6

Feb 25

539-550

352-358

frequency response

7

Mar 3

361-410

233-272

time response, 2nd-order systems, dominant poles

8

Mar 10

557-570

365-375

unity feedback, Nyquist theorem

9

Mar 24

605-620, 636-638

386-398, 407-409

phase margin, crossover frequency, sensitivity

10

Mar 31

class notes

class notes

compensator feedback

11

Apr 7

class notes

class notes

gain compensation

12

Apr 14

470-505

318-330

root locus

13

Apr 21

664-714

433-471

PID compensation

14

Apr 28

714-760

471-507

lead-lag compensation

15

May 5

class notes

class notes

algebraic design