The course covers how feedback influences properties of dynamic system such as stability, speed of response, sensitivity and robustness. The course contains analysis and design of feedback systems with regard to these properties. In particular, the following is studied
- basic concepts and problems: Application examples of automatic control in society, representation of dynamic system, in and output signals, differentia equation models, Laplace transform, transfer functions, block diagrams, step response, poles, zeros, linearisation and state space models
- analysis of feedback systems: stability, root locus, the Nyquist criterion, Nyquist and Bode diagrams, speed of response, error coefficients, sensitivity and robustness
- design of control systems with one input signal and one output signal: specifications, PID-controllers, compensation in the frequency domain, feed-forward control, time delays, state feedback, observers and pole placement
- implementation: choice of sampling time, anti alias filters and discretisation of controllers
- control terminology in Swedish and English.