Control systems course outline

Analysis and design of digital control systems

Transfer functions; Stability; Dynamic and steady-state performance; Root locus diagrams; Bode plots; Cascade compensation using root locus and frequency response techniques

Introduction to state-space modelling and analysis

Analysis and design of digital control systems

The successful design of control systems is an example of the ‘marriage between theory and practice’, where the various powerful mathematical tools from control theory are successfully applied to real-world control engineering problems

The study of control theory enables us to translate these practical problems into workable engineering solutions

The Control Systems course is a third-year core course offered in the School of Electrical Engineering and Telecommunications at the undergraduate level

Control engineering is one of the most multidisciplinary subjects in Engineering, and as such, relies heavily upon prior foundational courses taken in the Electrical Engineering degree