STEP II: Mechanical Engineering Program

COURSE #: ME 461

COURSE TITLE: Automatic Control

TERMS OFFERED: Fall.

PREREQUISITES: ME 360: Modeling, Analysis and Control of Dynamic Systems.

TEXTBOOKS/REQUIRED MATERIAL:

Feedback Control of Dynamic Systems by Franklin, Powell & Emami-Naeini; Control Tutorials for Matlab & Simulink by Messner & Tilbury.

COGNIZANT FACULTY:

DATE OF PREPARATION:

COURSE LEADER(S): D. Tilbury

SCIENCE/DESIGN:

CATALOG DESCRIPTION: Feedback control design and analysis for linear dynamic systems with emphasis on mechanical engineering applications; transient and frequency response; stability; system performance; control modes; state space techniques; digital control systems. Three one-hour lectures per week.

 

 

 

 

COURSE TOPICS:
  1. System modeling, time-domain and frequency-domain techniques.
  2. Control specifications (overshoot, settling time, steady-state error).
  3. Stability.
  4. PID controllers.
  5. Root locus method for control design.
  6. Frequency response.
  7. Lead and lag compensation.
  8. State-space method for control design.
  9. Digital control.
  10. Computer methods for analysis and simulation.

 

 

COURSE OBJECTIVES*

 

 

(numbers shown in brackets are links to department educational outcomes)

  1. Model mechanical systems [1, 5].
  2. Express control specifications [3, 5].
  3. Determine system performance [1, 5].
  4. Design compensators to meet control specifications [3, 5].
  5. Understand digital implementation of control systems [3, 11].
  6. Use software tools to model, analyze, and simulate control system performance [3, 5, 11].

 

 

COURSE

OUTCOMES*

 

 

(numbers shown in brackets are links to course objectives)

  1. Find differential equation and transfer function of single-input, single-output mechanical system [1].
  2. Draw feedback system block diagram and find closed-loop transfer function [1].
  3. Translate time-domain specifications into frequency-domain requirements [2].
  4. Determine steady-state error to step and ramp inputs and disturbances [2, 3].
  5. Given a system transfer function, find time-domain behavior (impulse, step and frequency response) [3].
  6. Design PI, PD, lead, and lag compensators to meet control goals [4].
  7. Use software tools to design state-space controllers to meet control goals [4].
  8. Use software tools to translate continuous-time controllers into digital equivalent [5].
  9. Find closed-loop transfer function, system poles, frequency response using software tools [6].
  10. Simulate system behavior using software tools [6].

ASSESSMENT TOOLS
  1. Regular homework problems.
  2. Exam (s) and/or project (s).

*The ABET99 Group suggests up to 6 objectives and 1-3 outcomes per objective.