UVic ECE Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering



ECE 460 (1 1/2) CONTROL THEORY AND SYSTEMS II





  • Mid-term:

    Monday, February 28, 8:30- 9:40 am, COR A225.
    Two pages (a page is one side of a sheet) of notes and copies of tables (2.1 and 2.2) are recommended.
    For the solution in pdf format, Click here.

  • Final Exam:

    Tuesday, April 26, 7:00pm - 10:00pm, ECS 124.
    Four pages (a page is one side of a sheet) of notes and copies of tables (2.1 and 2.2) recommended.

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  • Office hours before exam:

    Thuesday, April 9, 10:45-11:45; Wednesday, April 10, 2:30-3:30pm.

    Review for Final Exam:

    Monday, April 25, 2:30pm 4:20pm, ECS 104.
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    Assignments

    • Assignement problems (from section B of the textbook) will be posted here.
    • Completed assignments should be submitted using UVic's Brightspace site by 6pm the date they are due.
      Watch an example of assignment submission.
    • Solutions to the assignments will be posted here.

    Assignment #1 (REVISED:Due Tuesday, Jan 25)

    Problem: Consider the unity negative feedback system with G(s)=20*K/[s(s+1)(s+20)].
    1. Sketch the root locus.
    2. Find Kv.
    3. Sketch Bode and Nyquist plots.
    4. Find K so that zeta=sqrt(2)/2 for the closed loop system.
    5. Find phase and gain margins for this K.
    6. Sketch the step and ramp responces of the closed loop system for this K.
    7. Discuss the connection between Kv, zeta, margins and the responce of the closed loop system.
    For the solution in pdf format, Click here.

    Assignment #2 (Due Tuesday, February 1) :

    Questions B-2-7, B-2-12, B-2-17 from the textbook.
    For the solution in pdf format, Click here.

    Assignment #3 (Due Friday, February 8) :

    • Problem 1: Sample the two signals x1(t)=sin(2*pi*3*t) and x2(t)=sin(2*pi*0.3*t) with sampling period T=0.2.
      Sketch the spectrum of the continuous signal, the spectrum of the sampled one and the reconstructed signal obtained by ideal lowpass filtering of the sampled signal. Confirm your results with Matlab. For a .m file, Click here.
    • Questions B-3-4, B-3-6, B-3-7, B-3-15, B-3-19 from the textbook.

    For the solution in pdf format, Click here.

    Assignment #4 (Due Tuesday, February 15) :

    Questions B-3-20, B-4-4, B-4-8, B-4-12 from the textbook.
    For the solution in pdf format, Click here.

    Assignment #5 (Due: Friday, March 4)

    • Study Examples 7.26 and 7.27 form K. Ogata, "Modern Control Engineering" and Example 4-12 from K. Ogata, "Discrete Time Control Systems".
      The .m files ex_4_12.m, lead_c.m, lag_c.m and ex_4_12.out are helpful for this.

    • Solve questions B-4-10 (Use PI control) and B-4-15 from the textbook.
      The .m files ass_5.m, lead_c.m, lag_c.m, and ass_5.out are helpful for compensator design B-4-15.

    For the solution of B-4-10 and B-4-15 in pdf format, Click here.
  • Assignment #6 (Due Wednesday, March 16) :

    Questions B-5-4, B-5-5, B-5-8 (except the dagonal form) and B-5-15 from the textbook.
    For the solution in pdf format, Click here.

    Assignment #7 (Due Friday, March 25) :

    Questions B-5-18, B-5-22, B-6-1, B-6-3 and B-6-5 from the textbook.
    For the solution in pdf format, Click here.

    Assignment #8 (Due Thursday, March 31):

    For the solution of Ass #8 in pdf format, Click here.

    Assignment #9 (Due Thursday, April 7) :

    For the solution of Ass #9 in pdf format, Click here.


    Copies of Lecture Slides

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    Course Lecture Notes

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    Textbook

    1. Required

    Title : Discrete Time Control Systems, 2nd Edition
    Author : K. Ogata
    Publisher : Prentice-Hall
    Year : 1995

    2. Recommended

    Title : MATLAB student Version
    Publisher : The MathWorks
    See also https://www.mathworks.com/academia/students.html

    3. For information on Matlab available at UVic computers see here


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    Course Assessment

    Assignments : 5%
    Mid-term : 35% Monday, February 28
    Final : 60%

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