ME304 CONTROL SYSTEMS
| Course Code: | 5690304 |
| METU Credit (Theoretical-Laboratory hours/week): | 3 (3.00 - 0.00) |
| ECTS Credit: | 5.0 |
| Department: | Mechanical Engineering |
| Language of Instruction: | English |
| Level of Study: | Undergraduate |
| Course Coordinator: | Assoc.Prof.Dr. ALİ EMRE TURGUT |
| Offered Semester: | Spring Semesters. |
Course Objectives
Course Content
Introduction and basic concepts. Modeling physical systems. Control system components. Transient response. Stability. Steady state response and error. Sensitivity. Basic control actions and controllers. Root-Locus methods. Frequency response.
Course Learning Outcomes
1. At the end of this course, students will be able to model a physical system and express its internal dynamics and input-output relationships by means of block diagrams and transfer functions.
- SLO1-1: Ability to identify the components and the inputs of a system.
- SLO1-2: Ability to model the components of a system as linear elements and to write the constitutive and connectivity equations for them.
- SLO1-3: Ability to draw block diagrams and to obtain transfer functions.
2. At the end of this course, students will know the basic control architectures (OL, FB, FB+FF) and also know how to generate and why to use the basic FB control actions (P, PD, PI, PID).
- SLO2-1: Basic knowledge about OL, FB, and FB+FF control architectures and ability to choose one of them suitably for a specified task.
- SLO2-2: Knowledge of the effects produced by P, PD, PI, and PID control actions and ability to choose one of them suitably for a specified task.
- SLO2-3: Ability to adjust the parameters of a PID controller and to construct one if necessary.
3. At the end of this course, students will know the relationships between the parameters of a control system and its stability, accuracy, transient behavior, tracking ability, disturbance rejection ability, and parameter sensitivity.
- SLO3-1: Ability to identify the parameters that the system is sensitive to.
- SLO3-2: Ability to check stability of a system and to find parameter ranges for a desired degree of stability.
- SLO3-3: Ability to determine the effect of a control action and its parameters on the accuracy.
- SLO3-4: Ability to determine the effect of a control action and its parameters on the transient response.
4. At the end of this course, students will know how to determine the control parameters for low-order systems in a compromising way under the time response requirements of accuracy, relative stability, and speed of response.
- SLO4-1: Ability to decide on a compromise between conflicting requirements.
- SLO4-2: Ability to design a P, PD, PI, or PID controller based on the transient and steady state response criteria.
5. At the end of this course, students will be able to determine the frequency response of a control system and use it to evaluate or adjust the relative stability, speed of response, tracking accuracy, and noise rejection ability of the system by means of the Bode plots of amplitude ratio and phase angle variations.
- SLO5-1: Ability to determine the amplitude ratio and the phase shift between the input and output sinusoids.
- SLO5-2: Ability to relate the amplitude ratio and the phase angle variations to the time response of the system.
- SLO5-3: Ability to determine the control parameters to satisfy the requirements on the frequency response.
Program Outcomes Matrix
| Contribution | |||||
| # | Program Outcomes | No | Yes | ||
| 1 | Ability to establish the relationship between mathematics, basic sciences and engineering sciences with engineering applications. | ✔ | |||
| 2 | Ability to find and interpret information | ✔ | |||
| 3 | Ability to follow the literature and technology related to his/her topic of interest | ✔ | |||
| 4 | Recognition of the need to keep oneself up to date in his/her profession | ✔ | |||
| 5 | Possession of written and oral communication skills | ✔ | |||
| 6 | Ability to conduct team work (within the discipline, inter-disciplinary, multi-disciplinary) | ✔ | |||
| 7 | Ability to produce original solutions | ✔ | |||
| 8 | Use of scientific methodology in approaching and producing solutions to engineering problems and needs | ✔ | |||
| 9 | Openness to all that is new | ✔ | |||
| 10 | Ability to conduct experiments | ✔ | |||
| 11 | Ability to do engineering design | ✔ | |||
| 12 | Awareness of engineering ethics, knowledge and adoption of its fundamental elements | ✔ | |||
| 13 | Ability to take societal, environmental and economical considerations into account in professional activities | ✔ | |||
| 14 | Possession of pioneering and leadership characteristics in areas related to the profession | ✔ | |||