AY2015 NIT Ibaraki College

Makoto KIKUCHI
Control Engineering I Email: mkikuchi@ss.ibaraki-ct.ac.jp

Basic Information

Course Regular Course Compulsory / Elective Elective

Grade 4th Number of Credits 2
Semester 1st Semester Credit Type Special Credit Type 2
Class Type Technical Subject

Course Objectives

The course is designed to study control technology about electrical engineering, mechanical engineering
and system engineering in general.
The course objective is to help the students acquire minimum knowledge about control technology via
concepts of “transfer function” and “stability”.

Topic Outline / Schedule

Week Topic Outline

1 Introduction What is CONTROL TECHNOLOGY?
2 Laplace transformation (1) What is Laplace transformation?
3 Laplace transformation (2) Nature of Laplace transformation
4 Control element and transfer function (1) Transfer functions of fundamental element
5 Control element and transfer function (2) Major transfer functions
6 Transfer function and block diagram Representation and the equivalent conversion
7 Mid-term Exam
8 Mid-term Exam Review
9 Transient response (1) Transient response of fundamental element
10 Transient response (2) 1st order lag element / 2nd order lag element
11 Frequency domain method (1) Representation of system
12 Frequency domain method (2) Vector locus / Bode diagram
13 Stability of linear system (1) Routh-Hurwitz Criterion / Characteristic root
14 Stability of linear system (2) gain margin / phase margin
15 Final Exam
16 Final Exam Review

Textbooks and Other Readings

Other Reading:
Hiroyuki Imai, Yasashiku manaberu control engineering (New Edition), Morikita Publishing Co., Ltd., 1-4-11,
Fujimi, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 102-0071 Japan, 2014*(in Japanese)
*... available in our library

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Relevant Online Resources

Brian Douglas: Why Learn Control Theory

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oBc_BHxw78s

Grading Policy

Grading will be based on assignments, reports, and exams. The weighting is as follows:
reports 30%
exams 70%
total 100%
To get credits, you need to get 60 or more points in total.

Course Description

To prepare for a lecture, you need to check the following:

- review of lecture notes
- a textbook that introduced in class
It is important to understand what you learned today.

Notes