Course overview
Students will be introduced to various applications of feedback control systems and develop fundamentals associated with modelling, analysis, design and simulation of automatic control systems. This course also aims to introduce the basic concepts of machine dynamics and their engineering applications, and deals with the analysis, kinematic design and application of a variety of mechanisms.
Course learning outcomes
- Explain the principles of machine dynamics and mobility in different coordinate systems
- Apply vector analysis to planar mechanisms to quantify the displacement, velocity and acceleration of the mechanism components
- Use kinetics of mechanisms for determination of forces and moments
- Use kinematic analysis and design of gears and simple, compound, reverted and epicyclical gear trains
- Explain the concept of inertial forces and apply the principles of static and dynamic balancing for rotating and reciprocating systems
- Explain the concept of feedback in control systems
- Generate the transfer functions and block diagrams of any dynamical systems
- Analyse the stability and performance of any linear feedback control systems
- Design linear controllers using root locus technique
- Use software tools to design, analyze and evaluate control systems in the time domain.