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Digital Control Systems

SoSe 2015

Overview

• Motivation
• Organisation
• Literature
• Contents

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Motivation

• Implementation of controllers, designed in continuous-time, on a micro-controller or PC (digital

realisation of an ‘analogue’ controller)

Clock

r(t) e(t) e(k) u(k) u(t) y(t)

DAC &
ADC Computer Plant
ZOH

Controller

ADC - Analog-Digital-Converter, DAC - Digital Analogue Converter, ZOH - Zero Order Hold

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Motivation

• Direct design of a digital controller for a discretised plant

– or for identified time-discrete models
– or for inherently sampled systems (e.g. control of neuro-prosthetic systems)
– enables larger sampling times compared to the digital realisation of ‘analogue’ controllers
– enables other features that are not possible in continuous time control (e.g. dead-beat
control, repetitive control)

Clock

r(k) e(k) u(k) u(t) y(t) y(k)

DAC &
Computer Plant ADC
ZOH

Dicretised Plant

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Organisation

• Lecturer: Thomas Schauer - E-Mail: schauer@control.tu-berlin.de

• 4 hours weekly
• Tuesday: 9–11 o’clock, EN656
• Thursday: 14–16 o’clock, EN656
• Integrated course (lectures, tutorials, computer exercises, labs)
• Computer exercises will be announced in advance and take place in EN656
• Labs: three weeks at the end of the semester in EN222
• Course language: German
• Material: Slides in English
• Used Software: Scilab 5.5.2 (www.scilab.org)

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Organisation

• Grading: portfolio exam (100 points in total):

– two lab experiments (protocol required) (2 x 16 points)

– written test (68 points)

Literature

1. K.J. Aström and B. Wittenmark. Computer Controlled Systems: Theory and Design.
Prentice Hall (20x in library)

2. G.F. Franklin, J.D. Powell, and M.L. Workmann. Digital Control of Dynamic Systems.
Addison Wesley

3. I.D. Landau, G. Zito. Digital Control Systems: Design, Identification and Implementation.
Springer

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Contents

• Stronger focus on control system design than before

• Less repetition of signals and systems
• Introduction to state-space methods and system identification
• Use of computer tools for design & implementation of control systems
• New: Design of a controller for a quadrocopter (live demo)
• two lab experiments

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Final Remark

• Best preparation for a bachelor thesis in order to solve practical control problems in the field of
biomedical engineering!

• We offer interesting bachelor thesis projects in our running research projects!

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