Control Systems

This subject provides an introduction to automatic control systems, with an emphasis on classical techniques for the analysis and design of feedback interconnections. The main challenge in automatic control is to achieve desired performance in the presence of uncertainty about the system dynamics and the operating environment. Feedback control is one way to deal with modelling uncertainty in the design of engineering systems. This subject is a core requirement in the Master of Engineering (Electrical, Electrical with Business, Mechanical, Mechanical with Business and Mechatronics).

• 1Qualitatively and quantitatively describe the role of feedback in engineering systems;
• 2Apply classical frequency-domain techniques in the analysis and design of linear feedback control systems in a variety of contexts; and
• 3Use software tools to simulate and design automatic control systems.