Control Systems Engineering (EECE 4251/6251)

Fall 2021

Instructor: Bonny Banerjee, Ph.D.

Contact Information:

Office: 208B Engineering Science Bldg

Phone: 901-678-4498

E-mail: BBnerjee@memphis.edu (email communication preferred)

Office Hours: Just after class or by appointment

When: MWF 11:30 am-12:25 pm

Where: Engineering Science Bldg. Room 220

Course Description:

General equations of physical linear systems and their transfer functions; transient analysis and stability of control systems; Bode plot, Nichols chart, Nyquist plot, Routh-Hurwitz criterion, root locus method, introduction to compensation techniques and systems in state space.

Prerequisites:

EECE 3203 Signals and Systems I (3 credits), MATH 3242 Introduction to Linear Algebra (3 credits)

Required Text:

Modern Control Systems (12th Edition, Prentice Hall) by Richard C. Dorf and Robert H. Bishop.

Topics (16 weeks):

Course aims and agenda

Chapter 1: Introduction to Control Systems

Chapter 2: Mathematical Models of Systems

Chapter 3: State Variable Models

Chapter 4: Feedback Control System Characteristics

Chapter 5: The Performance of Feedback Control Systems

Chapter 6: The Stability of Linear Feedback Systems

Chapter 7: The Root Locus Method

Chapter 13: Digital Control Systems

Important Dates:

8/23 (Monday): First class

9/6 (Monday): No class -- Labor Day

10/8 (Friday): Midterm exam

10/11 (Monday): No class -- Fall Break

11/24, 11/26 (Wednesday, Friday): No class -- Thanksgiving

12/1 (Wednesday): Last class (project reports due)

12/6 (Monday): Final exam 10:30 am-12:30 pm

Evaluation and Final Grades:

Final grades will be assigned based on homeworks (25%), a project (25%), a midterm (25%) and final (25%) exams. The 4251 and 6251 sections will be graded separately. In each exam, the students enrolled for 6251 will have to answer one more question. Also, they will receive one more homework.