ECE 360 (1 1/2) CONTROL THEORY AND SYSTEMS I

• Syllabus:

  Characterization of systems; linearity, time invariance and causality. General feedback theory; time and frequency domain analysis of feedback control systems; Routh-Hurwitz and Nyquist stability criteria; root locus methods; modeling of dc servo; design of simple feedback systems; introduction to state-space methods. (Prerequisite: 260)

Click here for the Course Outline document.

• Classes:

  Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Fridays, 9:30 - 10:20 am ELL 168.
  

• Labs:

  Click here for the Lab Schedule and guidelines for Lab Reports.

  The manual for the ELEC 360 lab experiments is available here for downloading: ECE360_LabMan.pdf (about 4 MB)

  The videos for the pre-lab questions can be found here.

  A guide for the DC Servo used in the lab is available here for downloading: QIC_Getting_Started_Guide.pdf (about 0.4 MB)

• Quizes:

  Quiz # 1 : (on Laplace Transforms) Wednesday, September 18, 9:30 - 10:10 am.
  Photocopies of Laplace Transform tables and properties permitted.
  For the solution in pdf format, Click here.

  Quiz # 2 : (on Bode plots and Nyquist Stability ) Wednesday, November 20, 9:30 - 10:10 am.
  One page (page=one side of a sheet) of notes permitted.
  For the solution in pdf format, Click here.

• Mid-term:

  Friday, October 25, 9:30 - 10:20 am, ELL 168.
  Two pages (page = one side of a sheet) of notes and photocopies of Laplace Transform tables are permitted.
  For the solution in pdf format, Click here.

• Final Exam:

  Thursday, December 19, 2:00 - 5:00 PM, ECS 123.
  Four pages (page=one side of a sheet) of notes and (in addition) photocopies of Laplace Transform tables are permitted.

  Exam-Preparation Class:

  Wednesday, December 18, 9:30-11:30am, ELL 168.
  

  Office hours before exam:

  Wednesday, December 11, 10:30-11:30am,EOW 423. ;
  Monday, December 16, 9:15-10:15am (Revised), EOW 423.
  If you like to ask some questions in a Zoom meeting on Friday, December 13, 1:30pm-2:30pm, send me an email before noon on that day.

• Assignments
• Copies of Lecture Slides/Demos
• Textbook
• Useful Links
• Assessment
• Links to Policies and Regulations

Assignement problems (from section B of the textbook) will be posted here.

Completed assignments should be submitted using UVic's Brightspace site by 6pm the date they are due.
Watch an example of assignment submission.

Solutions to the assignments will be posted here.

Copies of Lecture Slides

Copies of lecture slides (in pdf format) are available here for downloading.

• ECE360_Slides_F2024 (Sections A,B,C,D combined; about 2.1MB)
• Laplace Transform Tables
• Click here for information on the ECE 260 Video Lectures on Youtube.

Course Lecture Notes

Unless otherwise noted, all course materials supplied to students in this course have been prepared by the instructor and are intended for use in this course only. These materials are NOT to be re-circulated digitally, whether by email or by uploading or copying to websites, or to others not enrolled in this course. Violation of this policy may in some cases constitute a breach of academic integrity as defined in the UVic Calendar.

Matlab Demos:

Plot the closed-loop time response for a given open-loop transfer function

Plot the root-locus and analyse the closed-loop step response

Analyse the closed-loop response using the open-loop bode plot

Lead compensator:lead_c.m and Lag compensator: lag_c.m
(see also the diary files lead_c.out and lag_c.out) for Ex. 9.1 and 9.2 respectively.

Textbook

1. Required

	Title	: Modern Control Engineering, 5th Edition
	Author	: K. Ogata
	Publisher	: Prentice-Hall
	Year	: 2010, 5th Edition

2. Recommended

	Title	: MATLAB student Version
	Publisher	: The MathWorks
	See also:	here

3. You can also find information how to use MATLAB at UVIC here.

Useful Links

• A brief history of Feedback Control
• The Impact of Control Technology
• IEEE Control Society Video Library
• Control Theory and Software Engineering

Assessment

	Assignment (incl. Quizes)	: 5%
	Labs	: 15%
	Mid-term	: 25%; October 25, 2024
	Final	: 55%

NOTE: Failure to complete all laboratory requirements will result in an N grade for the course.

The final grade obtained from the above marking scheme will be based on the following percentage-to-grade point conversion.

There will be no supplemental examination for this course.

Links to Policies and Regulations

General Information on Policies and Regulations can be found in the Course Outline.

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