436-470 Control Systems 2

Students will be expected to be familiar with material covered in 436-382 Control Systems 1. (Prior to 2005 436-356 Design/Control 2, 436-371 or equivalent).

Upon completion students should understand the concepts of linearisation, and state-space control and estimation, be able to obtain state-space realisations of systems in several canonical forms and assess stability, controllability and observability; be able to design a state feedback control law and a state estimator to achieve desired closed looped-response; understand the effects of sampling rates and quantisation, be able to design simple digital controllers to single-output systems using classical and state space-methods; understand how to implement continuous and discrete controllers in the real world; be familiar with case studies or real world controller-design problems, and be able perform least squares identification on linear systems.

Two 1-hour mid-semester tests (7.5% each); two group assignments, each up to 8000 words (10% each) due throughout the semester; one end-of-semester 3-hour examination (65%).