MECH 380

Automatic Control Engineering

Units: 1.5, Hours: 3-1.5*-1

Modelling dynamic systems (linear systems and feedback control). Transfer function based analysis and design (transfer functions, root-locus, stability, transient responses). Frequency characteristics design methods (frequency responses, stability, gain and phase margins, system compensation). State-space design methods (state transition matrix, state feedback and shaping dynamic responses; linear observers).

Notes: - *Indicates a 3 hour laboratory taken by students on alternate weeks.

- Credit will be granted for only one of 380, 435.

Formerly: 435

Pre- or corequisites: 330.

Undergraduate course in Mechanical Engineering offered by the Department of Mechanical Engineering in the Faculty of Engineering.