Middle East Technical University Department of Mechanical Engineering Me 304 Control Systems SPRING 2017 Staff
Middle East Technical University Department of Mechanical Engineering Me 304 Control Systems SPRING 2017 Staff
Assistants
Abdülhamit Dönder D-105 adonder@metu.edu.tr 210 2558
Tayfun Efe Ertop G-134 ertop@metu.edu.tr 210 7240
İsmail Özçil D-102 iozcil@metu.edu.tr 210 5236
Sedat Pala G-134 spala@metu.edu.tr 210 7240
Lecture Hours
Section-1 Tuesday 12:40-13:30 G101 Wednesday 10:40-12:30 G101
Section-2 Monday 09:40-11:30 G101 Wednesday 09:40-10:30 G101
Section-3 Tuesday 10:40-12:30 D101 Thursday 08:40-09:30 D101
Section-4 Tuesday 15:40-16:30 G103 Thursday 13:40 15:30 G103
Textbook
Ogata, K., Modern Control Engineering, 5th Editions, Pearson, 2009.
References
There are a large number of books on control systems in the university library which may be useful in
addition to the course textbook. A selection of these are listed below.
Dorf, R.C. and Bishop, R.H., Modern Control Systems, 12th Ed., Pearson Prentice-Hall, 2010.
Franklin, G.F., Powell, J.D., and Emami-Naeini, A., Feedback Control of Dynamic Systems, 6th
Edition, Pearson Prentice Hall, 2010.
Kuo, B.C. and Golnaraghi, F., Automatic Control Systems, 9th Ed., John Wiley & Sons, 2010.
Nise, N. S., Control Systems Engineering, 6th Ed., John Wiley, 2010.
Phillips, C.L., and Parr, J., Feedback Control Systems, 5th Ed., Prentice-Hall, 2010.
Raven, F. H., Automatic Control Engineering, 5th Ed., McGraw-Hill, 1995.
Grading
Midterm Exams 25% each, Final Exam 40%, Homework 10%
Examinations
Official dates of midterm and final examinations will be announced by the Department. The use of
calculators is allowed but not handheld or laptop computers. Make-up examinations may be given to
those who have valid excuses, which are approved by the department. If you need to take a make-up
examination, you must contact the department with an official document proving your condition. Do
not be surprised if you find comparatively harder questions in the make-up examinations.
Web Site
METU-Class will be used throughout the semester for announcements and course materials. Please
check it regularly on https://odtuclass.metu.edu.tr.
The course website on the department web page can also be reached on
http://www.me.metu.edu.tr/courses/me304.
Attendance
Attendance will be collected but not graded. However, you are expected to attend all lectures. The
basics concepts, key points, applications, methods, sample problems, important explanations and
announcements will all be covered by the course instructors during the regular class hours.
Even though team-work efforts are encouraged, they must not go beyond discussions on the solution
methods used and/or cross-checking the results of your number-crunching. Every homework solution
that you will be handing in should fully and correctly reflect your own personal approaches and
efforts in it. You will have to face with all consequences of handing in solutions, which are duplicates
of others.
In your homework solutions, if you use sources other than your lecture notes, they should be properly
referenced. When you need to use Matlab, you must supply all the input/output evidences in printed
form.
You may use Matlab in Computer Labs (B-206, B-207) in B-Building of our department at allocated
times when there is a Matlab assignment. During this time interval, there will be assistants available
in these laboratories to help you on the use of Matlab. Please check with Matlab tutorials posted on
the course web page as well.
You should indicate all the necessary explanations and details (such as free-body diagrams) clearly in
your solutions. Neatness will be graded.
Ethics
Students are expected to meet and exceed the highest ethical standards. Any form of unethical
behavior such as plagiarizing and signing an attendance sheet in the name of another person will have
severe consequences. Disciplinary action will be taken for students displaying unethical behavior.
Course Outline
Introduction and Basic Concepts
Transfer Functions and Block Diagrams
Modeling Physical Systems
Basic Features of Control Systems
Basic Control Actions and Electronic Controllers
Time Response
Stability
Steady State Response and Error
Transient Response
Frequency Response
COURSE OBJECTIVES
Students will be able to model a physical system and express its internal dynamics and input-
output relationships by means of block diagrams and transfer functions.
Students will know the basic control architectures (OL, FB, FB+FF) and also know how to
generate and why to use the basic FB control actions (P, PD, PI, PID).
Students will know the relationships between the parameters of a control system and its
stability, accuracy, transient behavior, tracking ability, disturbance rejection ability, and
parameter sensitivity.
Students will know how to determine the control parameters for low-order systems in a
compromising way under the time response requirements of accuracy, relative stability, and
speed of response.
Students will be able to determine the frequency response of a control system and use it to
evaluate or adjust the relative stability, speed of response, tracking accuracy, and noise
rejection ability of the system by means of the Bode plots of amplitude ratio and phase angle
variations.