Course materials

Course program: A short course program in pdf format is available here.  Download course program in pdf format is available here. 

 

Lecture notes: There is a collection of lecture notes that covers the course. ( Download Swe

) / ( Download Eng). This is the main text reference for the course.   

Exercises: There is a booklet with a collection of problems and solutions: ( Download Swe

) /( Download Eng).

Labs: The course contains three laboratory experiments. The guidelines for these are given in

Collection of formulae: There is a collection of common results and formulae (formelsamling) ( Download Swe

) / ( Download Eng). It also can be used during the examination.

The Swedish versions of the above course materials are sold at KFS!

 

Previous exams: Old exams Links to an external site. together with solutions are available.

Exam 2022-03-17  Download Exam 2022-03-17 

Exam 2022-04-21 Download Exam 2022-04-21

 

Recommended textbooks: The course material and further reading is also provided by the following books: Reglerteknik - Grundläggande teori by T Glad and L Ljung  and Feedback Systems: An Introduction for Scientists and Engineers by K J Åström and R Murray. The latter book can be downloaded here Links to an external site..

 

More theory: Control Theory course FRTF15

We offer the 3 ECTS credit course Control Theory in parallel to this course. It starts on January 28, 2022 and is available to the F and Pi students. The materials are available on the Control Theory Canvas page . Even if you do not plan to follow that course for credits, Richard Pates's excellent YouTube videos Links to an external site. may be very helpful if you want to understand a topic on a deeper level.

 

Miscellaneous:

A useful set of math problems for revising important concepts is available here: Math repetition

You can download Download Bode diagrams in pdf-format

to print out and draw your own Bode diagrams. When printing, don't forget to set page format to A4 in Acroreads print setup.

An English-Swedish control dictionary can be found here Links to an external site..

There is a set of Interacting Learning Modules Links to an external site. for use in learning Automatic Control.

Control Tutorials for Matlab Links to an external site. includes examples on Cruise Control, DC Motor, Bus Suspension, Inverted pendulum. You will need access to Matlab on your computer.

 

Errata

Please let us know if you find any errors in the course material. We will post them here, and correct them in time for the next iteration of the course. General improvement suggestions are also welcome!

 

 

Videos on select topics:

Below are some short videos on topics from the course. The videos are in Swedish.