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The advancement of technology during the 20th century put control engineering on the map - and it plays a critical role in everything from simple household washing machines to high performance fighter aircraft. This module will give you a fundamental understanding of control engineering. It starts by providing the necessary mathematical foundation; including Laplace transform techniques and theorems, for modelling and analysing the dynamics of engineering systems. You will learn about the modelling of engineering systems, including mechanical, electrical and electro-mechanical systems, using differential equations and transfer function analysis. Furthermore, you will analyse the fundamental concept of feedback and its impact on system dynamics. You will study the performance of closed loop systems from a time domain and frequency domain perspective. Classical approaches to studying closed loop systems will be introduced including root-locus, Nyquist and Bode diagram methods. The module introduces you to the fundamentals of proportional-integral-derivative (PID) control, which you will use to analyse and design control engineering systems. The lectures are supported by computer laboratories for modelling and simulation of systems using the Control Engineering toolbox in Matlab.

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