Automatic Control Engineering (English Exam)

What it is about

You will learn to model, analyze and design control systems so that their output signals exhibit a desired behavior. In the end you will be able to perform linearizations and time-/frequency-domain analyses, assess stability, design simple and extended controllers, apply state feedback and discretize continuous controllers for digital implementation.

What you will be able to do

• Derive models of simple mechanical and electrical systems in time and frequency domain
• Linearize characteristic curves and differential equations
• Analyze system properties (e.g., stability, transfer behavior, linearity)
• Compute system responses using Laplace transform
• Create and interpret Bode diagrams and root locus plots with confidence
• Carry out simple controller designs in time and frequency domain and apply stability criteria
• Develop advanced control structures (disturbance rejection, feedforward control, cascade)
• Develop and evaluate constant state feedback and state observers
• Apply E/A-linearizing state feedback for single-input nonlinear systems
• Convert continuous controllers to discrete computing rules for a digital computer

What the module consists of

• LectureSystematically conveys the methods and theory; covers examination-relevant material
• TutorialSolving and discussing exercise sheets; deepens understanding through examples and model solutions

Teaching method

• Lecture and board workMethods are systematically derived and illustrated with examples
• Script and supplemental materialSupporting material for deepening and following up the lecture content
• Exercise sheets with model solutionsApplication and consolidation of what has been learned through independent work and supervision in exercises