EE371 LEARNING OBJECTIVES

  1. Define control system.
  2. List the four reasons control systems are built.
  3. Draw the open-loop control system block diagram.
  4. Draw the closed-loop control system block diagram.
  5. Compare and contrast open and closed loop control.
  6. State the principle disadvantage of open-loop control.
  7. List the advantages of closed loop control.
  8. Define plant.
  9. Define the system input.
  10. Define input transducer.
  11. Define sensor.
  12. Define error signal.
  13. List the two other common names for the controller block.
  14. Define the feedback path.
  15. Define the actuating signal.
  16. Define regulator control systems.
  17. Define servomechanism control systems.
  18. Compare and contrast analog and digital control systems.
  19. State the ideal terminal I and V behavior of an operational amplifier.
  20. List two example op-amp ICs used in EE371.
  21. List the pins of the classic op-amp ICs used in EE371.
  22. Analyze classic inverting and inverting summation op-amp configurations.
  23. Design classic inverting and inverting summation op-amp configurations.
  24. Derive transfer functions for op-amp circuits using circuit theory.
  25. Apply limit theory to predict the s-domain (filter) behavior of op-amp transfer functions.
  26. Calculate the corner frequency of a first-order op-amp filter.
  27. Create Bode plots from transfer functions in Matlab.
  28. Simulate op-amp circuits using the PSPICE input text language.
  29. Implement transfer functions as op-amp circuits.
  30. Define the pole of a transfer function.
  31. Define the zero of a transfer function.
  32. Calculate poles and zeros of transfer functions.
  33. Draw pole-zero maps (plots) for a transfer function. Label each axis correctly.
  34. Tabulate the mechanical and electrical elements in a table that compares the describing equations and the system symbols.
  35. List the fundamental Laplace transforms.
  36. Find the Laplace transform of a differential equation.
  37. Draw systems as block diagrams using gain blocks, summation nodes, and pickoff points.
  38. Reduce cascade (series) blocks to a single block equivalent.
  39. State the classic closed-loop feedback equation for a system with forward gain G and feedback gain H.
  40. Derive system transfer functions using the classic closed-loop feedback equation on reduced block diagrams.
  41. Draw the complete system block diagram for a DC servomotor from Va to angular velocity or Va to angular position.
  42. Derive the single block equivalent for a DC servomotor given the motor specifications.
  43. State the equations used to find the step response characteristics of first-order systems.
  44. Derive the step response of a given first order system.
  45. Design first order systems to meet step response parameters.
  46. Derive the step response of a given second order system using provided equations.
  47. Transform a mechanical system to an electrical analogue.
  48. Derive transfer functions for mechanical systems with up to two degrees of freedom.
  49. Derive the time domain differential equation for mechanical systems.
  50. Derive the transfer function of a block diagram using block diagram reduction.
  51. Design second order systems to meet step response parameters.
  52. Describe how pole-position determines response type in second-order systems. In other words, suppose the two poles are on the negative real-axis -- what is the reponse type? If the poles are vectors in the LHP, what is the response type? And so on.
  53. Implement first or second order systems using the given plant (setting the order) and a proportional controller (K). Use op-amps for proportional gain and output buffering.
  54. Use Routh-Hurwitz tables to determine system stability.
  55. Derive the steady-state behaviors of a given system using Routh-Hurwitz tables to determine stability, limit equations to find the error constants for position, velocity, and acceleration inputs, and the steady-state error equations to determine the error values.
  56. Identify the type of a system by analyzing the forward path gain for the number of pure integrations in the denominator.
  57. Change the type of a system to reduce steady-state error by adding pure integrations in the denominator. Draw the new block diagram that shows integration in the forward path.
  58. Describe how pole-position changes with increasing proportional gain (K) in an abstact sense and state why it is important.
  59. Draw root-locus plots for a given system by using the poles of GH to start the plot and the five rules of the root-locus to draw the plot.
  60. State the importance of the root-locus plot.
  61. Describe the terms P, PI, and PID controllers.
  62. Design ideal integral compensators to eliminate steady-state error given transfer functions and circuit components.
  63. Design lag compensators to reduce steady-state error given transfer functions and circuit components.
  64. Apply pole cancellation to change the response of a plant. This is similar to a laboratory exercise we completed. It is a lead-compensator.