Course details
- It is a 1 credit course running in segments 1-2 of Jan-Apr '2024-25
- Schedule and venue: Slot-S (Tue 16h00-17h25, Fri 14h30-15h55) in BT/BM-009
- Discussion hour: Friday, 13h00-14h00, BM305
- Evaluation: (2E)- 20th January (40%), 07th February (60%)
Course contents
This course will provide basic understanding of the fundamentals of control systems from basics of control theory to control mechanisms in physiological systems. The tentative topics to be covered in the course are
- Introduction to control system, classification, open and closed loop control systems
- Transfer function, free and forced response, poles and zeros
- Response to various standard inputs, effect of poles, effect of zeros
- First and second order systems
- notion of stability, stability criterion
- Performance characterisation, steady state errors, root locus method
- Frequency Response, Bode plots, Nyquist plot, control design
- Control system analysis in state space
References
- Control Systems Engineering by Norman Nise
- Modern Control Engineering by Katsuhiko Ogata
Problem sets
- Problem set 1 (uploaded on Jan 14th)
- Problem set 2 (uploaded on Jan 22nd)
- Problem set 3 (uploaded on Jan 01st, updated on Feb 06th)
Reading materials
Python scripts, Simulink models etc.
- To be uploaded
Course logistics and policies
- Assignments: The course has no assignments. Instead, practice problems will be given at regular intervals. Students are not expected to submit the answers to these problems
- Answers/solutions to the practice problems will not be provided. Students are encouraged to utilise the discussion hour to discuss the problems if they want to.
- Exams: There are two exams scheduled (roughly) at the end of each segment. See above for dates.
- In both exams, you can bring one A4 sheet of paper with anything hand-written on it. Each student is supposed to bring their own hand-written A4 sheet. Any exchange of this material between studnts will be considered usage of unfair means. In this course, you are not allowed to use your notebooks during exam.
- Attendance: Attendance is not mandatory in the classes.
- Missing exams: On missing an exam due to a medical emergency you will be allowed to write a make-up exam on producing a medical certificate from the institute health center. Missing the exam due to any other reason will result in no marks.
- Use of unfair means (e.g. plagiarism, copying etc.) is unacceptable in the course. Any sign of it will result in a severe penalty.
Some suggestions
- The best way to follow the course is to work out the details of the topics discussed in each class by yourself after the class.
- There will be one discussion hour each week for clarification of doubts and practice problems. Take advantage of that.
- You have to take the practice problems seriously and solve them on your own. In case you are facing difficulty, you can come and meet the instructor during the discussion hour