CDS 111 - Introduction to Control Technology

Description:

The goal of this course is to teach students how to design and implement linear controllers on a physical systems, and to allow students to evaluate different control design methodologies on experimental hardware. For 1994-95, the physical system in the Caltech ducted fan, a vectored thrust flight control experiment being used for research in robust nonlinear control of aerospace vehicles. The design methodologies to be used are: classical control design, LQR, and H_infty (weighted sensitivity).

• Handouts:
  • Course syllabus (3 pages, postscript)
  • Matlab primer (28 pages, compressed postscript)
  • Modeling of the Ducted Fan (6 pages, postscript)
  • Ducted Fan User's Guide (12 pages, postscript, updated 1 May 95)

• Homework sets (Spring 1995, postscript):
  • Homework 1: review + intro to matlab using ducted fan altitude control
  • Homework 2: pitch/altitude control of ducted fan using classical techniqes; simulation vs experiment
  • Homework 3: XY control of ducted fan using state feedback techniques
  • Homework 4: XY control of ducted fan using Hinf techniques + guidelines for final project