System Modeling and Control
An undergraduate course on modeling physical dynamical systems, analyzing their responses, and designing feedback controllers.
An undergraduate course on modeling physical dynamical systems, analyzing their responses, and designing feedback controllers.
Course materials
Mathematical foundations
- 2. Laplace Transforms — Slides
- 3. Differential Equations and Stability — Slides
Physical modeling
- 4. Mass-Spring-Damper Systems — Slides
- 5. Rigid Body Rotational Dynamics — Slides
- 6. The Physics of the DC Motor — Slides
Feedback and classical design
- 7. Block Diagrams — Slides
- 8. System Responses — Slides
- 9. Tracking and Disturbance Rejection — Slides
- 10. Pole Placement, 2-DoF Controllers, and Internal Stability — Slides
- 11. Frequency Response Methods — Slides
- 12. Root Locus — Slides
- 13. Inverted Pendulum, Magnetic Levitation, and Cart on a Track — Slides
State-space methods and robustness
- 14. State Variables — Slides
- 15. State Feedback — Slides
- 16. State Estimators and Parameter Identification — Slides
- 17. Robustness and Sensitivity of Feedback — Slides
Syllabus and references
- ME/ECE 360 · System Modeling and Control · Fall 2025 (PDF)
- ECE/ME 461/561 · Control Systems · Spring 2024 · John Chiasson (PDF)
The slides follow An Introduction to System Modeling and Control by John N. Chiasson (Wiley, 2022). Chapter numbers follow the textbook; the available slides begin at Chapter 2. The two syllabi above document the course offerings associated with these materials.