Control systems are an integral part of modern society. Numerous applications are all around us: The rockets fire, and the space shuttle lifts off to earth orbit; in splashing cooling water, a metallic part is automatically machined; a self-guided vehicle delivering material to workstations in an aerospace assembly plant glides along the floor seeking its destination. These are just a few examples of the automatically controlled systems that we can create.

This course is comprised of the following sections

• In the  first section the basic features, configuration, analysis and design objectives of control systems is considered. Furthermre students will see the Lapalce tranform of time functions and inverse laplace transform, Solution of the differential equations using laplace trnasform, Transfer function for linear time invariant electrical,translational mechanical systems, Analogous electrical and mechanical systems.
• In the second section students analyze the poles and zeros configuration to dertermine the time response of a control system,Transient response of the first order system,general response of second order system given the pole location,Damping ratio and natural frequency of a second order system, settling time , peak time, percent overshoot, and rise time for an underdamped second-order system.
• In the third section students get the under standing of  block diagram reduction of multiple subsystems to a single block representing the transfer function from input to output, convert block diagrams to signal-flow  diagram, transfer function of mutiple subsystems using Mason's rule.
• In the fourth section students get familiar with the stability of the system by analyzing the Routh-Hurwitz Criterion, including all its cases. steady state error for a unity feed back sytem, specify a system's steady state error performance, sytems beahvior to the differnt test inputs also considered.
• in the last root locus techniques, sketching a root locus, poperties of a root locus, coordinates of points on the root locus and their associated gains. also the design of lead lag compensators and PID controller is dicussed.

Prerequisite:

                     Signal and Systems

Catalog Data:             Course Code:                           EET-323

                                    Course Title:                             Control Tchnology (Th.)

                                    Credit Hours:                            3

                                    Course Designation:                 Electrical Engineering Technology

                                    No of Sessions per week:        1 (Total 16 sessions)

                                    Session Duration:                     120 min

                                    Time of Class Meeting:             11:30 PM to 02:30 PM (Tuesday)

Recommended Books:
                                       1. Norman Nice, “Control Systems”
                                        2. B. Kuo, “Automatic Control Systems”

Evaluation Criteria:   

                                         1. Assignments                                                             10%

                                         2. Quizzes                                                                     10%

                                         3. Mid-Term Exam                                                         30%

                                         4. Final Exam                                                                50%