EE 250A (Control System Analysis) - Spring 2018

D EPARTMENT OF E LECTRICAL E NGINEERING , IIT K ANPUR

Instructor Practice components

Name Dr. Ramprasad Potluri. Tutorials Each tutorial assignment will contain about 5 –
Office Hours Primarily by appointment through e-mail or 10 problems. Each tutorial assignment will be posted
phone. Also, if you find me in my office, please ask me about 2 – 3 days before the current week’s tutorial.
if it is convenient for me to meet with you. We may be M-Tutorials Three tutorials to help you quickly learn the
able to meet immediately. basics of GNU Octave. GNU Octave has many of the
E-mail [email protected]. functions that Matlab has, and is adequate for many
tasks that we encounter in designing simple control sys-
Office Western Labs 217 A. tems. In this course, we visit only those functions of
Lab Western Labs 217 B. GNU Octave that are also present in Matlab. These tuto-
rials aim to help you learn GNU Octave to a stage from
Phone 259-6093 (office), 259-7735 (lab).
where you can further explore it and Matlab on your
own. These tutorials will be conducted by the TAs.
Tutors Dates: Will be announced later.
Prof. Parthasarathi Sensarma (sensarma@iitk. . .) M-quiz We plan to have one 50-minute quiz on GNU Oc-
Prof. Pradeep Sircar (sircar@iitk@. . .) tave. This quiz will help you round off your practice of
Dr. Nishchal Verma (nishchal@iitk. . .) this software.
Dr. Ramprasad Potluri (potluri@iitk. . .) Date: After mid-semester recess.
Teaching Assistants In-tutorial quizzes There will be three 20 – 30 -minute
quizzes evenly spaced before the mid-semester recess.
Chintu Gurbani (cgurbani@iitk. . .)
Mahathi T Bhargavapuri (mahathi@iitk. . .) Mid-semester exam and End-semester exam 1 exam of 2
Dileep Kumar (dlpkmr@iitk. . .) hours, and 1 exam of 3 hours. Based on lectures, tutori-
Arunava Karmakar (arunava@iitk. . .) als, quizzes. Questions to test recall of concepts, analyt-
Sandeep Gupta (sngupta@iitk. . .) ical & creative thinking.
Sanjay Chaturvedi (17204276@iitk. . .)
Arun Kumar Sharma (17204263@iitk. . .) If you find any topic in the course hard to understand, I
Biraj Guha (17204264@iitk. . .) suggest that you first discuss it with your course-mates. If
you and they are still unable to figure out the answer, you
Course meeting are welcome to e-mail me your questions (I will send an
answer to the entire class), or visit me in my office.
Lecture TThF 11:00-12:00, L1.
Grading system
Tutorial W 11:00-12:00, T103 – T106.
Your letter grade will be based on:
Course Web page BRIHASPATI. (For announcements of
tutorial problems, lecture notes, quiz/exam solutions, 3 20 – 30 -minute in-tutorial quizzes 18%
marks, etc). 1 M-quiz 13%
1 Mid-sem Exam 25%
References 1 End-sem Exam 40%
As the subject of this course matured by the 1950’s, many EI Extraordinary insights 4%
good books are available in the Indian market. Some are
The EI component is as follows. If you demonstrate
listed below (editions are as of 2013):
through the semester insights that I feel are extraordinary,
Control Systems — Principles and Design, 3rd ed., Madan I may award you up to 4 points at the end of the semester.
Gopal, Tata McGraw-Hill, 2008. These points are not open to debate, and are based purely
Feedback Control of Dynamic Systems, 5th ed., Gene on my impressions in my interaction with you.
Franklin, J. David Powell, Abbas Emami-Naeini, Pear-
son Education, 2006. Policy on make-up quiz/exam
Modern Control Engineering, 4th ed., K. Ogata, Prentice Failure to take a test as per the schedule agreed upon in our
Hall, 2002. lectures will result in a grade of zero for that test. Due to
Automatic Control Systems, 8th ed., B.C. Kuo & F. Gol- the large number of students in the class and, consequently,
naraghi, John Wiley & Sons (Asia), 2003. due to the large volume of grading involved, make-up ex-
Modern Control Systems, 8th ed., R.C. Dorf & R.H. Bishop, ams will not be given.
Addison Wesley Longman Inc., USA, 1998
Notes Course content
Negative feedback control systems, Linear time-invariant
The lectures are based on my notes, which I will post peri-
dynamic systems, Transfer function, Mason’s gain formula,
odically on Brihaspati.
Frequency and time domain analysis, Performance analy-
My notes adapt from the above-listed books and other sis, Nyquist stability criterion, Bode plots, Feedback system
sources the minimum set of topics that I have found nec- design using Bode plots, Analysis using root locus, PID
essary to design a control system based on a 38 – 42-hour control, State space models.
lecture course.