Systems and controls

Lectures: 1 or 2 sessions / week; 1 hour / session

Combined Lectures/Labs: 2 sessions / week; 1.5 hours / session

This course provides an introduction to linear systems, transfer functions, and Laplace transforms. It covers stability and feedback, and provides basic design tools for specifications of transient response. It also briefly covers frequency-domain techniques. This course includes laboratory experiments and a control design project.

There are no formal prerequisites for this course; however you will need some knowledge of material from the following courses:

8.01 Physics I: Classical Mechanics (OCW Scholar Version)

8.02 Physics II: Electricity and Magnetism (OCW Scholar Version)

18.03 Differential Equations (OCW Scholar Version)

Either course 2.003 or 2.03 is a corequisite for this course:

2.03 Dynamics I

2.003 Dynamics and Control I (OCW Scholar Version)

Nise, Norman S. Control Systems Engineering. John Wiley & Sons, 2010. ISBN: 9780470547564.

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