Course: EW301 System Modeling and Simulation

3 Credits – 2 Recitation Hours – 2 Laboratory Hours


Course Description:

This course covers the fundamentals of developing, simulating, and validating models for dynamic systems. Using first principles, students develop equations of motion for mechanical and electrical systems. Transfer functions and state space are introduced as forms for representing these dynamic models. Dynamic system responses are evaluated numerically using Matlab and Simulink. Additionally, the frequency response of linear dynamic systems is evaluated and used in the design of filters.


Pre-requisites:

EW202 and EM232. Co-req: EW305/EW305H

Course Coordinator:

CAPT Frontera

Textbook:

Control Systems Engineering, 8th Ed, Norman S. Nise

Course Objectives:

  1. Derive a physics based dynamic model of a system using first principles

  2. Numerically evaluate a dynamic model to predict system response

  3. Collect and analyze experimental data

  4. Understand the frequency response of a system

  5. Run experimental tests to determine system parameter values

Topics:

  1. Rotational and Translational Mechanical Systems

  2. Gear Trains and Kinematic Constraints

  3. Electrical Systems

  4. Transfer Functions

  5. State Space

  6. Numerical Integration

  7. Simulink Diagrams

  8. Non-linear Systems and Linearization

  9. Frequency Response

  10. Linear Filtering