Course Objectives
- To train the students in systems approach by introducing Laplace transformation, transfer function and block diagram concepts, and their application to physical systems.
- To teach student the concepts of trim, operating point, and equilibrium, and show how nonlinear systems may be linearized, around an equilibrium
- To teach time response of linear time invariant systems to standard inputs, stress the issue of stability, and performance specifications in time domain.
- To introduce automatic control systems, and teach why, and how they are used.
- To teach frequency response behaviour of linear time invariant systems, and asymptotic Bode plot method.