88151 - Automatic Control P

Academic Year 2023/2024

  • Docente: Gianluca Palli
  • Credits: 3
  • SSD: ING-INF/04
  • Language: Italian
  • Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
  • Campus: Bologna
  • Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in Mechatronics (cod. 5818)

    Also valid for First cycle degree programme (L) in Mechatronics (cod. 6009)

Learning outcomes

At the end of the course the student knows: - Basic elements for analyzing dynamical systems both in the time domain and in the frequency domain; - Concepts of identification of elementary systems; - The principles of feedback and frequency domain design techniques; - The calibration of elementary controllers with proportional, integral and derivative action.

Course contents

- Introduction to feedback control

- Continuous-time dynamical systems

- Laplace transform and transfer function

- Stability and responses of elementary systems

- Harmonic Analysis

- Bode diagrams: plotting via Matlab

- Introduction to Control

- Examples of trial and error projects

- Design of corrector networks

- PID regulators

- Examples

Readings/Bibliography

- Course Slides

- G. Marro, "Controlli Automatici'', Zanichelli;

- P. Bolzern, R. Scattolini, N. Schiavoni, "Fondamenti di controlli Automatici'', McGraw-Hill

Teaching methods

Theory part with slides and blackboard

Part of Laboratory via Matlab/Simulink

Assessment methods

Oral exam with in-depth analysis of Matlab/Simulink

Teaching tools

Matlab/Simulink


Office hours

See the website of Gianluca Palli