Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

ECE 417: Digital Control

Spring Semester 2008

Instructor: Prof. Dan Cobb
Office: 3621 Engineering Hall
Email: cobb@engr.wisc.edu
Office Hours: 3:30 WF (Pleasse email in advance.)
Text: C.L. Phillips, H.T. Nagle, Digital Control Systems Analysis and Design, Third Edition, Prentice Hall, 1995.
Lecture: 2:30-3:45 TR, 3345 EH
Homework: 7 assignments
Grading: Homework - 30%, Midterm Exam - 30%, Final Exam (Cumulative) - 40%
Prerequisites: ECE 334; ECE 332 or concurrent registration

FINAL EXAM: Tuesday, December 16, 10:05 AM


Homework

Assignment #1 Solutions
Assignment #2 Solutions (Matlab Files: jury.m polycomp.m)
Assignment #3 Solutions
Assignment #4 Solutions
Assignment #5 Solutions
Assignment #6 Solutions
Assignment #7 Solutions (Matlab Files: leadlag.m bilin.m)


Midterm Exam

Practice Problems
Exam Solutions


Final Exam

Practice Problems
Exam Solutions


Tables

z-Transforms
Pulse Transfer Functions



Syllabus

Week

Beginning

Topics

1

Sep 1

Introduction

2

Sep 8

Transform Concepts: Laplace and z-transforms

3

Sep 15

Transform Concepts: starred transform, pole-zero cancellation

4

Sep 22

DT System Analysis: transfer functions, stability

5

Sep 29

DT System Analysis: mixed rational functions

6

Oct 6

DT State Equations: state-transition matrix, stability

7

Oct 13

DT State Equations: controllability, observability

8

Oct 20

Sampling Signals: Nyquist theorem, aliasing

9

Oct 27

Sampling Systems: frequency response, effect on system properties

10

Nov 3

Feedback System Analysis: state-space methods

11

Nov 10

Feedback System Analysis: frequency response

12

Nov 17

Compensator Design by Approximation: signal invariance

13

Nov 24

Compensator Design by Approximation: frequency mapping

14

Dec 1

Direct Compensator Design: loop shaping

15

Dec 8

Direct Compensator Design: separation principle