Control and Dynamical Systems module (EG32001)

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Credits

15

Module code

EG32001

The principal aims are twofold: first to give students a working knowledge of the way lumped parameter systems vibrate and how to calculate important quantities of that vibration such as natural frequency and nodal positions; second to introduce automatic control systems so that they can design controllers for a variety of simple systems.

Core contents includes: vibration of two-degree-of-freedom systems, vibration absorption, transverse vibration of beams, three term controllers, steady state errors, frequency response, introduction to Laplace Transform, the concept of stability, Routh-Hurwitz criterion, gain and phase margins, the Nyquist criterion, block diagram manipulation, Root Locus method (introduction only), practical control elements - actuators, sensors, simulation via MATLAB.

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