Modelling, Dynamics and Control

Overview

How do we model the world around us and use this to understand its behaviour? How does behaviour depend upon the engineering choices we make and therefore how do we undertake design to achieve desirable behaviour? In practice we ‘control’ or influence behaviour by continuously manipulating (or choosing) the system input. We introduce simple engineering techniques for ensuring this ‘control’ is effective and delivers the behaviour we want.

This website is intended to be used like a textbook, either as a reference for checking specific topics or to learn topics from scratch. It is made up of a combination of:

• PDF files with basic notes summaries.

• Video lectures which talk through topics in slower time (streamed from YouTube).

• Tutorial sheets with worked solutions that students can use for self testing.

• Occasional quick fire questions to test progress.

• MATLAB files for core engineering problem analysis.

Content covers a broad range of topics, mostly aimed at years one and two of engineering undergraduate degrees. Many of the videos on YouTube have been viewed by a global audience and received extremely positive feedback.

Resources Needed

Students will need access to MATLAB software to use the code resources associated to this.

Re-use or Adapt (for Educators)

Where the current resource is in PDF format, users can contact the author for the source format (Microsoft Word). All MATLAB resources are already editable.