MECH-3221

Course Description 

Control system concepts, linear modelling and analysis of response and stability of physical systems, complex variables and Laplace transforms, frequency, and transient response analysis and performance specifications.

Class and lab information 

• Lecture:  3 hours/week 

• Laboratory or tutorial:  1.5 hours/week

• Additional, approximate study hours: 5 hours/week, as student requires

• Estimated division of Learning hours

  • hands-on labs and activities: 0-10%

  • group work: N/A

  • lecture: 40%

  • individual work (including homework, project, and tutorials): 40-50%

  • class discussion (during lecture time): 10%

• Credit weight: 3.5

• Course format: face-to-face content summaries, examples, and questions with online and textbook-based readings, videos, tutorials, etc.

• Pre-requisites

  • MATH-2780 and MATH-2790, and Semester 7 or higher standing

Resources  

• Course Blackboard site: available via student Blackboard login

• Interactive in-class activities via tools discussed at the beginning of the course.

  • There should be no costs to students for using these interactive tools.

• Primary text

  • Dynamic Systems: Modeling, Simulation, and Control by Kluever

• Additional resources

  • MATLAB help files

  • Control Systems Academy http://www.controlsystemsacademy.com 

  • As alternatives to MATLAB, you can use Octave or Julia, both free with similar syntax to MATLAB, however, neither include a Simulink alternative. There is an online free compiler for Octave that you can use if none of the other options work for you. There is a simple FREE Simulink Simulator online as well.  

  • QLabs Controls with Login portal 

• Web resources

  • Keywords: modelling, analysis, control

  • Organizations: Leddy Library, Knovel

  • MPC Online with Python code