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Week | Topic-Prelab | Lab | Postlab | Refs | Extras1 |
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Week 0 02/15 - 02/19 | Diff Eqns, Nat Freqs, Tracking and Disturbances | No Lab | No PostLab | Lec Vids/Notes | Text Chapter |
Week 1 02/22 - 02/26 | Tracking, Stability, Root Locus | Keep Up The Pace | Crane Mutiny | Lec Vids/Notes | Text Chapter |
Week 2 03/01 - 03/05 | Copter Arm Example | Up Down Funk | Transforms, Transfer Functions | Lec Vids/Notes | Text Chapter |
Week 3 03/08 - 03/12 | Transforms In Action(no 3/9 class) | No Lab | No PostLab | Lec Vids/Notes | Text Chapter |
Week 4 03/15 - 03/19 | Less than Delta | PIDling | Differences to Differentials | Lec Vids/Notes | Text Chapter |
Week 5 03/22 - 03/26 | CT Transfer functions (no 3/23 class) | No Lab | No PostLab | Lec Vids/Notes | Text Chapter |
Week 6 03/29 - 04/02 | No Prelab | No Lab | No PostLab | Lec Vids/Notes | Text Chapter |
Week 7 04/05 - 04/09 | H(s)->H(jw) | Continuous Copters to Marginal Maglev | Levity | Lec Vids/Notes | No RNT |
Week 8 04/12 - 04/16 | Bode&Margins | No Lab | No PostLab | Vid+Matlab PhaseMargin Arm Controller | No RNT |
Week 9 04/19 - 04/23 | State-Space (No 4/20 class) | No Lab | No PostLab | Refs | No RNT |
Week 10 04/26 - 04/30 | LQR+Integral | Place and Minimize | Scalar LQR | LQR | No RNT |
Week 11 05/03 - 05/07 | Observe | No Lab | No PostLab | Observers | No RNT |
Week 12 05/10 - 05/14 | No Prelab | Observe and Learn | No PostLab | Observers Continued | Prof. Chen's State-Space Recitations, ALL ELEVEN! |
Week 13 05/17 - 05/21 | No Prelab | No Lab | No PostLab | What is next? | No RNT |