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.