Automatic Control
Academic Year 2022/2023
Second year, second semester, 6 CFU
Computer Engineering / Electrical Engineering for Automation and Telecommunications
The course is available on Handy, the e-learning platform used by Univeristy of Sannio.
Class schedule
Thursday, 9.00-11.00, room G12
Friday, 9.00-11.00, room G12
Tutoring schedule
Thursday, 11.00-13.00 @teacher office (send an e-mail for confirming)
Prerequisites
In order to pass the exam, it is compulsory having passed the exam of “Dynamical systems”
Course outline
- Control problems: Overview.
- Steady-state requirements.
- Transient requirements.
- Control systems architecture: Disturbance compensation. Reference compensation. Relationships between the controller gain and steady-state requirements.
- Zero steady-state error: integral action in the loop transfer function. Step disturbance robustness and parametric perturbations. Internal model principle.
- Nyquist diagram. Gain margin. Phase margin.
- Frequency requirements.
- Bode criterion: Design through the Bode criterion.
- Controller design: steady-state and transient requirements on the complex plane. Closed loop poles posistion.
- Root locus: Design through the root locus.
Books
Textbook (required):
- P. Bolzern, R. Scattolini, N. Schiavoni, “Fondamenti di Controlli Automatici”, McGraw-Hill Italia, fourth edition, 2015.
Supplementary material (only suggested):
- G.F. Franklin, J.D. Powell, A. Emami-Naeini, “Feedback Control of Dynamic Systems”, Prentice Hall, 6th ed., 2009.
- Chi-Tsong, Chen, “Analog and Digital Control System Design”, Saunders College Publihing, 1993.
Course objective
To introduce students to control problems of dynamical systems and to the concept of feedback applied to linear time-invariant single-input single-output systems.
Lectures and laboratory (numerics, Matlab/Simulink)
Outcome evaluation
Written and oral exams