Continuous Control Systems - 525.609

This course closely examines classical methods of representation, analysis, and design of continuous control systems, and introduces state-space representation, analysis and design techniques. Topics include dynamic system representation by linear time invariant ordinary differential equations, state-space representation of linear time-invariant systems, block diagrams and signal flow graphs, performance measures, sensitivity, stability, root locus analysis, frequency domain analysis, similarity transformations, controllability, and control design methods. Some practical examples are considered. MATLAB is used as a computational tool. Prerequisite(s): Background in linear algebra and linear differential equations.