20801959 - DIGITAL CONTROL

Students who successfully complete the course will demonstrate knowledge and understanding of:
- z transform analysis of sampled data feedback loops
- a suite of techniques for digital controller design
- expressing real engineering problems as an exercise in linear digital controller design
- choice of appropriate design methodology
- choice of performance analysis tools
- ability to program control system design and analysis problems in matlab
- ability to use the matlab control toolbox
- ability to successfully design a linear digital controller
- write and debug a matlab program
- formulate a digital control problem, design a solution, and test the result by simulating it via matlab
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Programme

Introduction to Digital Control System
-Discrete time system representation
-Mathematical modelling of sampling process
-Data reconstruction
Modeling discrete time systems
-Pulse transfer function
-Mapping of s-plane to z-plane
Stability analysis of discrete time system
-Routh Hourwitz stability test
-Jury stability test
Time response of discrete systems
-Transient and steady state responses
-Time response parameters of a prototype second order system
Design of sampled data control systems
-Bode plot
-Steady state compensator
-Discretization of Continuous Controllers
-Difference Approximations
-Impulse/Step Discretization
-Zero-Pole Matching
-Compensator design in w domain
PID controllers
-PID actions
-System identification
-PID parameters tuning
Quantization errors
Introduction to microcontroller: the Arduino board

Core Documentation

Charles L. Phillips, Troy Nagle, Aranya Chakrabortty, "Digital Control System Analysis & Design", Pearson Education,2014





Reference Bibliography

A. Cavallo, Roberto Setola, Francesco Vasca, "Using Matlab Simulink Control Toolbox", Pearson Education (US),1996

Type of delivery of the course

The course is composed by theoretical lectures (80%) and practical lessons (20%) Both of them are located in the assigned room.

Type of evaluation

EXAMS home-works oral presentation During COVID-19 emergency the exams will be taken according to art.1 Decreto Rettorale n. 703 May, 5th 2020