Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

• 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.

Assignment #1 (Due Friday, September 13) :

For the questions Click here.
For the solution in pdf format, Click here.

Assignment #2 (Due Saturday, September 28) :

Questions B-2-3, B-2-7, B-2-9 and B-2-11 from the textbook.
For the solution in pdf format, Click here.

Assignment #3 (Due Saturday, October 5) :

Questions B-2-8, B-5-2 and B-5-3 from the textbook. Question B-3-13 is optional.
For the solution in pdf format, Click here.

Assignment #4 (Due Satuday, October 12) :

Questions B-5-6, B-5-8, B-5-16 and B-5-20 from the textbook.
For the solution in pdf format, Click here.

Assignment #5 (Saturday, October 19) :

Questions B-5-26, B-5-27, B-6-1, B-6-2, B-6-5 from the textbook.
For the solution in pdf format, Click here.

Assignment #6 (REVISED: Due Monday, October 28) :

Questions B-6-6, B-6-7, B-6-11 and B-6-16 from the textbook.
(For B-6-11 sketch the root locus using the construction rules discussed in the slides and use matlab to find the closed-loop poles corresponding to K=2)
For the solution in pdf format, Click here.

Assignment #7 (Due Saturday, November 9) :

Questions B-7-1, B-7-4, B-7-5, B-7-7, from the textbook.
Hint: For B-7-7 use the Bode diagram to sketch the polar plot.
Note the questions on margins. We have not covered it yet.
For the solution in pdf format, Click here.

Assignment #8 (Due Sunday, November 17) :

Questions B-7-9, B-7-16, B-7-23, B-7-26 from the textbook.
For the solution in pdf format, Click 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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