The course consists of a mixture of lectures, demonstrations, exercises and experiments. For the exercises a userfriendly Matlab application is used, whereas the experiments are performed with RTLinux based instrumentation.
The following topics are covered:
- Modelling of mechanical servo systems
- Time domain tuning
- Introduction frequency domain
- Stability
- Experimenting in the frequency domain
- Mechanical design for servo control
- Filters
- Design competition
- Design for performance
- Feedforward steering
- Digital control
- Interaction between control loops
- Robust and learning control