Control Systems I. 3 credits, 3 contact hours

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Prerequisites: ECE 601 or equivalent. Introduction to feedback control. Review of state-space analysis. Frequency-domain methods for analysis: Routh-Hurwitz stability algorithms, Root-loci; Nyquist and Bode plots; system ?type.? Controllability and observability. The separation principle and design by pole placement. Linear observers. Optimization of quadratic performance criteria. Elements of random processes. The Kalman filter as an optimum observer. Robustness considerations. Prior undergraduate trainings in Signals and Systems ( ECE 333 ) or Dynamic Systems ( ME 305 ) are necessary.