Lecture 26 - Control Systems/Loops

Date: 11/17/16

Summary

We often need our apparatus to maintain some set of conditions. It could be controlling the temperature, pressure, humidity, of speed of some process. Taking a noisy real world signal and controlling an apparatus is a complex process. We will introduce the elements of PID control and show practical examples of control loops.

Class Plan

  • Why do we need control systems
  • Open-loop vs. Closed-loop control
  • Logic control
  • On-Off control
  • Linear control
  • Proportional control
  • PID control