CDS 101: Principles of Feedback and Control

Lecture 6.1: Transfer Functions

4 November 2002

Lecture

Lecture

This lecture is the first lecture of the course to introduce transfer functions in a formal way (we have already seen frequency response and body plots). The lecture uses the example of a spring, mass, damper system to show how transfer functions can be used to compute the frequency response of an interconnected system of components. We also define poles and zeros and indicate how they affect the frequency response of a system. Finally, we introduce the general computations of block diagram algebra.

Lecture Presentation

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Reading Material and Handouts

Handouts from lecture

The following materials were handed out in lecture. These have been updated to include any corrections.

Required reading

Packard, Poola and Horowitz, Dynamic Systems and Feedback, Section 5-6
Astrom, Control Systems Design, Sections 5.1-5.3

Supplemental reading

A. D. Lewis, A Mathematical Introduction to Feedback Control, Chapter 3 [pdf] and Chapter 4 [pdf]

Homework

This homework set covers basic transfer function concepts. The conceptual problems show how to create a frequency response for a complex system of components using MATLAB. The analytical problems cover basic anaytical concepts in transfer functions.

Homework Assignment [pdf]

Modifications to the homework (link above is always the latest version):

4 Nov 02: problem set release

Frequently asked questions on homework and TA hints:

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