- Docente: Alessandro Bosso
- Credits: 6
- Language: Italian
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Bologna
- Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in Engineering Management (cod. 0925)
Learning outcomes
The course aims at providing the basic theoretical and practical tools for the use of mathematical models in automatic control.
Course contents
Introduction to automatic control and autonomous systems, and main application fields. Dynamical systems and state-space representation. Examples of state-space dynamical systems in different domains.
Classification of dynamical systems. Main properties of linear systems. Trajectories and equilibria of dynamical systems. Linearization of nonlinear systems.
Stability of trajectories and equilibria of a dynamical system. Stability of linear time-invariant systems. State feedback control.
Laplace transform and inverse transform. Transfer function. Step response. Response for first and second order systems.
Fourier series and transform. Frequency response. Bode diagrams. Filtering action of dynamical systems.
Introduction to control systems. Phase and gain margins. Sensitivity functions. Control specifics and schemes. Frequency domain controller design. Design of main control schemes.
Simulation tools for analysis and design of control systems.
Readings/Bibliography
P. Bolzern, R. Scattolini, N. Schiavoni, "Fondamenti di Controlli Automatici", McGraw-Hill.
Teaching methods
Traditional lectures and exercising on simulation tools for control design.
Teaching tools
Virtuale (course content and material, useful infos). Software for the simulation of dynamical systems and control design.
Office hours
See the website of Alessandro Bosso