Course detail
Control Theory
FEKT-BPC-RREAcad. year: 2025/2026
Basic terms is Control Theory.Feedforward and feedback control.Simple on-off and proportional control (continuous and discrete type).Stability of feedback systems.Steady state and dynamics errors. PID controllers. Systems with multi feedback loops.Digital PSD controllers.
Language of instruction
Czech, English
Number of ECTS credits
3
Mode of study
Not applicable.
Guarantor
Entry knowledge
The subject knowledge on the secondary-school level and pre-intermediate level of English.
Rules for evaluation and completion of the course
30 points for tests and activities during seminar works and computer experiments.
70 points for final written exam
The content and forms of instruction in the evaluated course are specified by a regulation issued by the lecturer responsible for the course and updated for every academic year.
70 points for final written exam
The content and forms of instruction in the evaluated course are specified by a regulation issued by the lecturer responsible for the course and updated for every academic year.
Aims
To design, use and manage simple control systems (feedforward and mainly feedback)
Ability to apply control systems. To design, use and maintain systems of applied infromatics mainly in industrial technologies.
Ability to apply control systems. To design, use and maintain systems of applied infromatics mainly in industrial technologies.
Study aids
Not applicable.
Prerequisites and corequisites
Not applicable.
Basic literature
Blaha, P., Vavřín, P. Řízení a regulace I. Elektronické texty VUT. (CS)
Franklin, G. F., Powell, D., & Emami-Naeini, A. F.. Feedback Control of Dynamic Systems, Global Edition. Pearson Education, 2019, ISBN 9781292274546. (CS)
Skogestad, S., Multivariable Feedback Control: Analysis and Design, Wiley India, 2014, ISBN 9788126552672 (CS)
Franklin, G. F., Powell, D., & Emami-Naeini, A. F.. Feedback Control of Dynamic Systems, Global Edition. Pearson Education, 2019, ISBN 9781292274546. (CS)
Skogestad, S., Multivariable Feedback Control: Analysis and Design, Wiley India, 2014, ISBN 9788126552672 (CS)
Recommended reading
Not applicable.
Classification of course in study plans
- Programme BPC-APE Bachelor's 3 year of study, winter semester, compulsory
Type of course unit
Lecture
13 hod., optionally
Teacher / Lecturer
Syllabus
- Introduction. Control systems. Open-loop and closed-loop circuits. Examples of control systems. Terminology. Basic variables in control.
- Stability definitions. Stability of continuous and discrete-time systems. Hurwitz, Routh, and simplified Nyquist criteria of stability.
- Simple controllers: P, I, PI, PD, and PID types. Quality of control, dynamic parameters, cost functions.
- Controller design methods. Method of optimal time response, Ziegler-Nichols method.
- PSD control. Special properties of the discrete-time control. Approximation of sample and hold circuit by time delay.
- Control Systems with additional loops. Cascade control. Smith predictor.
- Revision, reserve.
Exercise in computer lab
13 hod., compulsory
Teacher / Lecturer
Syllabus
- Introduction to MATLAB.
- System representation in MATLAB.
- System interconnection in MATLAB.
- PID controller tuning in MATLAB Simulink. Project assignment.
- Presentations 1.
- Presentations 2.
- Presentations 3.