Examples of controlled systems, open loop and feedback control, control system components – modeling of physical systems, block diagrams – review of Laplace transform, transfer function – time domain and frequency domain responses – stability, poles and zeros, Routh-Hurwitz cri- terion – root locus – Bode plot, Nyquist criterion – PID controller, lead and lag compensators – examples from aerospace and mechanical systems – introductions to state-space representa- tion – stability criterion – concepts of controllability and observabilty.

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