Course syllabus adopted 2025-02-27 by Head of Programme (or corresponding).
Overview
- Swedish nameReglerteknik
- CodeERE091
- Credits4.5 Credits
- OwnerTKTFY
- Education cycleFirst-cycle
- Main field of studyAutomation and Mechatronics Engineering, Engineering Physics
- DepartmentELECTRICAL ENGINEERING
- GradingTH - Pass with distinction (5), Pass with credit (4), Pass (3), Fail
Course round 1
- Teaching language Swedish
- Application code 57113
- Maximum participants100
- Open for exchange studentsNo
- Only students with the course round in the programme overview.
Credit distribution
Module | Sp1 | Sp2 | Sp3 | Sp4 | Summer | Not Sp | Examination dates |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0194 Examination 4.5 c Grading: TH | 4.5 c |
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In programmes
Examiner
- Bo Egardt
- Full Professor, Systems and Control, Electrical Engineering
Eligibility
General entry requirements for bachelor's level (first cycle)Applicants enrolled in a programme at Chalmers where the course is included in the study programme are exempted from fulfilling the requirements above.
Specific entry requirements
The same as for the programme that owns the course.Applicants enrolled in a programme at Chalmers where the course is included in the study programme are exempted from fulfilling the requirements above.
Course specific prerequisites
Mathematical analysis in one and several variables. Basic theory of matrices, in particular eigenvalues. Komplex numbers. Linear ordinary differential equations and transforms. Basic knowledge in mechanics, electricity as well as electronics for applications. Basic course in programming as a background for use of computer aids.Aim
The aim of the course is to provide students in engineering physics with tools to understand how feedback control can be used to give (technical) systems over a wide spectrum of applications desired properties. This purpose is attained with a combination of analysis based on key concepts such as dynamics, feedback, and stability, and synthesis of fundamental, linear control systems using state-space and frequency methods.Learning outcomes (after completion of the course the student should be able to)
- Understand and explain the principal function of feedback control systems, and to be able to represent these mathematically in the case of linear, time invariant systems with one input and one output.
- Show skills to use basic methods to analyse and design feedback control systems in both time and frequency domain.
Content
- The course is a fundamental course in system dynamics and control (linear systems). State-space models for linear and nonlinear systems is introduced. Linearization of state equations and obtaining transfer functions. Sampling, and time discretization
- Analysis of linear dynamical systems. Analysis of feedback systems. The Nyquist stability criterion.
- P-, I-, PI-, PD- and PID-controllers and their most important properties. Bode diagrams. Nichols charts. Non-minimum phase systems. Design of control systems, particularly using compensation in frequency domain. Sensitivity functions and robustness.
Feedforward control, cascade control and dead time compensation.
- Linear state space methodology. Stability. State transition matrices. Controllability and observability. State feedback controllers and observers. Output feedback control. A short introduction to linear quadratic control and Kalman filtering.
Organisation
The course is divided into a series of lectures and problem solving sessionsLiterature
Textbook and lecture notes (Suggestions for literature will be given at the first lecture).Examination including compulsory elements
Written exam with TH grading.The course examiner may assess individual students in other ways than what is stated above if there are special reasons for doing so, for example if a student has a decision from Chalmers about disability study support.