88151 - Automatic Control P

Academic Year 2024/2025

  • Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
  • Campus: Bologna
  • Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in Mechatronics (cod. 6009)

Learning outcomes

At the end of the course the student knows: - Basic elements for analyzing dynamical systems both in the time domain and in the frequency domain; - Concepts of identification of elementary systems; - The principles of feedback and frequency domain design techniques; - The calibration of elementary controllers with proportional, integral and derivative action.

Course contents

- Introduction to feedback control

- Continuous-time dynamical systems

- Laplace transform and transfer function

- Stability and responses of elementary systems

- Harmonic Analysis

- Bode diagrams: plotting via Matlab

- Introduction to Control

- Examples of trial and error projects

- Design of corrector networks

- PID regulators

- Examples

Readings/Bibliography

- Course Slides

- G. Marro, "Controlli Automatici'', Zanichelli;

- P. Bolzern, R. Scattolini, N. Schiavoni, "Fondamenti di controlli Automatici'', McGraw-Hill

Teaching methods

Theory part with slides and blackboard

Part of Laboratory via Matlab/Simulink

Assessment methods

Oral exam with in-depth analysis of Matlab/Simulink

Teaching tools

Matlab/Simulink

Office hours

See the website of Umberto Soverini