MECH304 CONTROL SYSTEMS
| Course Code: | 3650304 |
| 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: | Prof.Dr. EŞREF EŞKİNAT |
| Offered Semester: | Spring Semesters. |
Course Objectives
The goal of the course is to develop an understanding and ability to use tools to model, analyze, and design/modify mechanical and electromechanical and control systems to achieve desired behavior in face of external disturbances.
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. Frequency response.
Course Learning Outcomes
1. Identify basic components of control systems, Understand feedback, stability, gain. Apply Laplace transform.
2. Modeling dynamic behavior of mechanical and other systems
2. Draw block diagrams, find transfer functions
3. Analyze a system in time domain, identify transient and steady state responses
4. Inspect stability by Routh Hurwitz, and Root Locus techniques
5. Tune a PID controller by various methods.
6. Have some knowledge of frequency response and stability margins.
Program Outcomes Matrix
| Level of Contribution | |||||
| # | Program Outcomes | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 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 economic considerations into account in professional activities | ✔ | |||
| 14 | Possession of pioneering and leadership characteristics in areas related to the profession | ✔ | |||
0: No Contribution 1: Little Contribution 2: Partial Contribution 3: Full Contribution