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What are the things you should keep in mind while designing a controller for a quadrotor and want to implement it on hardware (via arducopter) ?

I am designing a flight controller for a quadrotor. At first I am designing a nested/cascaded controller consisting of only proportional controllers Kp . Now, if i tune the rate controller for 10...

04 February 2021 5,215 3 View

Is it possible and practical to build an electronic box with this transfer function?

PID controller is reportedly widely built and used in control systems engineering for industrial applications. The PID-controller has a transfer function as: (Kd*s^2+Kp*s+Ki)/s. Therefore, it...

09 November 2020 7,973 10 View

How do I determine openloop transferfunction using only closedloop data?

I only have acces to historical data recorded over the course of a few years. However the data is of a closedloop proces that has already been tuned with PID. The values of P, I and D are known....

22 October 2020 2,181 5 View

Why is my Simscape model of a Furuta pendulum not fully controllable?

Dear community, I am trying to build a model of a Furuta pendulum in Simulink/Simscape. Unfortunately, when I try to linearize my model with the integrated Model Linearizer, I get an unexpected...

21 August 2020 5,023 6 View

Any information about various initial and life cycle cost models of Tuned Mass Dampers (TMD)?

Hello everybody Despite a few TMD cost models available in the literature, I am searching for more accurate initial and lifetime cost models of translational TMDs for Life Cycle Cost Analysis...

15 August 2020 8,367 5 View

Does anyone have any information about linking Life Cycle Cost Analysis (LCCA) of structures and basic principles of Building Information Model (BIM)?

Hello everybody I would like to link two topics, LCCA and BIM, each of which deals with "structural and earthquake engineering" and "construction management" in civil engineering, respectively....

07 August 2020 2,989 8 View

What are the fields related to control system Engineering?

I want to know all the things related and necessary which help me in control system field.

03 August 2020 5,743 34 View

How to Design a Controller for Vehicle XY Reference Path Tracking?

Hello everyone, I hope you have a good day, As we all know, the lateral dynamic system of vehicles has two output, lateral error and heading error, and we have one input, which is steering angle,...

30 July 2020 6,763 11 View

Can discretization method change non-observable system to became an observable one?

Is it theoretically possible, that after discretization by using Talyor Series Expansion, a non-observable nonlinear system will became an observable? It was proved, that used continuous model of...

16 May 2020 3,807 5 View

I'm seeking for short courses in the field of Control Engineering (CE), Can you help me?

Hello everyone, I'm looking for some short courses (not online) in the field of CE (more interested in Automotive control) in Europe. My field of interests are, - Robotic Control Systems -...

05 March 2020 1,464 8 View

How to scale the time of a discrete-time state-space model in order to get a better conditioned model (how to do it for a continuous model is known)?

In order to get a better conditioned A matrix, the absolute mean of the eigenvalues of the A matrix should be one (all eigenvalues are between -1 and 1, so within the unit circle and the absolute...

22 February 2020 10,029 5 View

Difference between transfer functions of dc dc converters ?

the dc-dc converters has two transfer functions , control to output and line to output TF. which one is used when design a controller? and which one is used to test step response?

07 September 2019 2,241 6 View

What are the typical time constants obtainable for modern turbine blade pitch?

What is the typical pitching speed of modern MW turbine blades and do this blades pitch fast enough compared to changing wind speeds?

04 March 2019 7,658 4 View

How can i correct "default port dimensions function of S-function" error under Simulink (See the model)?

Hi How can i correct this error?? I think it's about matrix dimensions for port e. Error in default port dimensions function of S-function 'FeedbackLinearization/Controller'. This function does...

03 January 2019 7,573 2 View

What control algorithm for position control of BLDC gimbal motor?

I have a brushless gimbal motor (with 12N14P windings) whose rotor shaft position is measured by means of a high-resolution absolute optical encoder. (The motor has no hall-sensors) The amount of...

18 July 2018 9,190 11 View

How to create motional time window in matlab?

Dear all; 1: I used SVM to fault detection, now I want to figure out effect of fault in 10 seconds time slot of 60 seconds such that I have a window of data with 10 seconds length like 0-10...

28 February 2018 8,245 2 View

I need the derivation of second order ramp response for under-damping, over-damping and critical damping conditions. How can I derive that?

Sir, I am unable to solve second ramp response. I need the derivation with partial fraction. Thank you

12 February 2018 5,028 3 View

How to perform stability analysis of a controller which designed by integrator backstepping controller?

I have designed a controller using Integrator backstepping method and that controller is based on Lyapunov Theory. I have a question How I can check stability of resulting controller?

03 December 2017 2,108 3 View

How effective is singular value decompostion (SVD) in determining the interloop interactions in MIMO systems?

I want to ascertain the level of interaction in a MIMO process and I am looking at various ways of doing that. I came across the SVD method in the book by Seborg and I would like to know how...

14 November 2017 7,449 3 View

Stimulating model variables in dSPACE Control desk NG in an HIL simulation

Is it possible to define a 2D (or n-D) Lookup table as signal/condition generators for stimulating model variables in dSPACE Control desk NG?

09 August 2017 4,180 3 View

Luenbeger observer

Hello, I want to control the steady state disturbances of DC DC boost converter by Luenberger observer but I am not getting a proper control scheme in any literature. So if someone could help me...

26 July 2017 8,175 5 View

What are different Non-linear control techniques used for inverter in Microgrid?

Non- Linear Control 1. Predictive control 2. Hysteresis Control 3. Sliding mode Control 4. Iterative learning control 5. Artificial Intelligence 6. Adaptive Control I need to know all these above...

22 July 2017 10,174 3 View

How to designa hardware MRAC for BLDC motor?

i plan to do hardware project on self tuning PID model reference adaptive controller for bldc motor. i simulated with help of matlab ,but how to implement hardware for MRAC controller ?

13 July 2017 8,613 2 View

Is there any system that operates on different variants of the PID controller (like P-only, PI, PD, PID, PI-PD) alternatively or simultaneously?

I want to know if there is any system that needs to operate on different variants (combinations of the P, I, D constants) of PID controller; like it operates on P-only controller first; then...

12 July 2017 7,636 7 View

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