systems and controls concentration

SYSTEMS AND CONTROLS:What is it?

the analysis, design, modeling, estimation, identification, and control of physical systems or processes

Professor Bonnie Heck

Feedback Control

Process or System to be

Controlled

Measured outputs

Controlled signal

Feedback Control

Process or System to be

Controlled

Measured outputs

Control System (analog or

digital)

Controlled signal

+-

Desired Value

Error

Lego Motor Control

Motor Assembly

Angle

Microcontroller

Motor Voltage

+-

Desired Angle

Error

Process Control

From R. Stenz and U. Kuhn, Automation of a Batch Distillation Column Using Fuzzy and Conventional Control," IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology, vol. 3, no. 2, June 1995, page 172.

Power System

From:P. Kundar, Power System Stability and Control, McGraw Hill, 1994, page 9.

Printed Circuit Board test

From: J. Shim, H. Cho and S. Kim, "An Actively Compliable Probing System," IEEE Control Systems Magazine, vol. 17, no. 1, February 1997, page 15.

 From: R. Dorf and R. Bishop, Modern Control Systems, Addison Wesley, 7th edition, 1995, page 706.

Biomedical

Baking Processes

Applications

• Power Systems • Manufacturing • Robotics • Process Control• Flight Control and Navigation• Network Control• Biomedical• Process Scheduling (in Computers)

Courses (To be offered)

• ECE 3085 - Introduction to Systems and Controls (3-0-3)

• ECE 3090 - Software Fundamentals for Engineering Systems ( 3-3-4 )

• ECE 4562 – Neural Networks and Fuzzy Logic in Control

• ECE 4761 Industrial Controls and Manufacturing

• Computational Computer Vision• Embedded Control Systems

Georgia Tech Lorraine

Courses in Systems and Controls, Digital Signal Processing, Communications, Optics