Controls/Concept List Summer 2021

Lecture 1 - 6/28

• Course web page: http://classes.pratt.duke.edu/ControlsSS21/ and overview of contents of page
• Definition of control system
• Four main purposes of control systems
• Response characteristics (transient, steady state, steady state error)
• General open and closed loops systems (input transducer, controller, and plant for both; add output transducer and difference to generate error signal for closed)

Lecture 2 - 6/29

• Review of linearity and time invariance
• Review of singularity functions
• Review of step, impulse, step response, and impulse response
• Review of convolution
• Review of Laplace Transform, region of convergence, basic transform and property pairs