Electrical Engineering Department
Faculty of Engineering
Alexandria University
EE391: Control Systems and Components
Lecturer: Dr. Mohammed Morsy Farag
Overview
This course introduces basics and fundamentals of classical and modern automatic feedback control engineering. Course objectives include:
- Define a control system and describe a control system’s design process.
- Understand the basic concepts and disciplines of automatic control.
- Model electrical and mechanical systems in the time and frequency domains.
- Analyze and design feedback control systems using both classical and modern techniques.
- Use Matlab to analyze and design control systems.
Teaching Load (Spring 2013):
- Lectures (4 hours), Tutorials (2 hours), Lab (2 hours)
- Office Hours: Saturday from 11:30AM to 2:00PM.
- Teaching Assistant: Eng. Bassant Hamza
Course work and assesment (out of 150) are as follows:
- 5 Labs + Attendance (10 marks)
- 2 Projects (10 marks)
- Classic Control Project: Read this file [PDF] for the project details and important dates.
- Modern Control Project: Read this file [PDF] for the project details and important dates.
- Homeworks (10 marks)
- A Midterm exam (30 marks)
- A Final Exam (90 marks)
Tools to be used are:
- Matlab and Simulink: http://www.mathworks.com/products/matlab/
- Control System Toolbox: http://www.mathworks.com/products/control/
- Introduction to control systems.
- Mathematical modeling of control systems.
- Time-domain analysis of control systems.
- The root-locus method.
- Frequency-domain analysis.
- State-space (modern control) methods
- State-space representation and transformations to and transfer function
- State-space realizations: Frobeneous, Observer, and Canonical forms.
- Stability, Controllability, and Observability
- State and output feedback
- State estimators
Resources
- Textbook:
- “Modern Control Systems”, 12th Edition, Richard Dorf, Robert Bishop
- “Linear System Theory and Design”, 3rd Edition, Chi-Tsong Chen
- Supplementary References:
- “Automatic Control Systems”, 9th Edition Benjamin C. Kuo & F. Golnaraghi
Lectures
| Lecture 1 | Introcuction | [PDF] |
| Lecture 2, 3 | Modeling of Control Systems | [PDF] |
| Lecture 4 | Modern Control | [PDF] |
| Lecture 5, 6 | State Space Solutions and Realizations | [PDF] |
| Lecture 7,8 | State Space Solutions and Realizations (2) | [PDF] |
| Lecture 9 | Stability, Observability, and Controllability | [PDF] |
| Lecture 10 | State Feedback | [PDF] |
| Lecture 11 | Output Feedback | [PDF] |
| Lecture 12 | State Estimators | [PDF] |
| Lecture 13 | State Estimators (2) | [PDF] |
| Lecture 14 | Reference Input and Prescaling | [PDF] |
Sheets
| Sheet 1 | Modeling of Control Systems | [PDF] |
| CP1 | Computer Problems 1 | [PDF] |
| Sheet 2 | State Space Solutions and Realizations | [PDF] |
| Sheet 3 | Stability, Controllability, and Observability | [PDF] |
| Sheet 4 | State Feedback and State Observers | [PDF] |
| Review Questions | State-Space Control Review Questions | [PDF] |
Lab Assignments
| Lab 1 | Cruise Control using PID Controllers | [PDF] |
| Lab 2 | DC Motor Speed: Frequency Domain Methods for Controller Design | [PDF] |
| Lab 3 | Suspension system control using root locus control method | [PDF] |
| Lab 4 | Aircraft Pitch: State-Space Methods for Controller Design | [PDF] |
Course Materials (2013)
Lectures
| Lecture 1 | Introcuction | [PDF] |
| Lecture 2,3 | Mathematical Modeling of Control Systems | [PDF] |
| Lecture 4-6 | Time-Domain Analysis of Control Systems | [PDF] |
| Lecture 7-14 | Modern Control | [PDF] |
Sheets
| Sheet 2 | State-space control Sheet | [PDF] |
Lab Assignments
| Lab 1 | Cruise Control using PID Controllers | [PDF] |
| Lab 2 | DC Motor Speed: Frequency Domain Methods for Controller Design | [PDF] |
| Lab 3 | Suspension system control using root locus control method | [PDF] |
Previous Exams
| Mid-term Exams | 2013, 2015 |
| Final Exams | 2013 |
Announcements
- 3/4/2015: The project of the
state-space control part is announced.
- Read this file [PDF] for the project details.
- Teams are allowed (the maximum number of team members is four).
- You are requirred to submit a report summarizing your work and the project design files compressed in a zipped file.
- The project deadline is 25/6/2015 and you should submit the project files to the course TAs (Mohamed Megahed, Bassant Hamza ) by the deadline.
- The project is graded out of 5 and late submissions will be downgraded (each day of delay == -1 grade).
- 15/5/2015: The mid-term is announced. Read this [PDF].