The Department of Automatic Control wishes to welcome you the basic control course for M,N, and C (Reglerteknik AK för M,N,C) given in study period 2, 2022. We will use Canvas to handle the contact between teachers and students, and the course schedule can be found on TimeEdit.

Although the language on Canvas is English, we will mainly use Swedish as the teaching language at the lectures, exercises, and laboratories. However, one of the four of our PhD teaching assistant and several of the lab assistants only speak English.

We appreciate all feedback that can result in improvements to the course. Over the past few years, we have made numerous changes (hopefully improvements) suggested by students. Here is how you can provide feedback:

Contact us! We are happy to hear what you believe could be improved (and how). It is also good to know if you think something works well as it is, and therefore not should be changed. You can contact any of the teaching personnel. If you prefer to communicate feedback anonymously, communicate with one of the student representatives.
Complete the CEQ evaluation. It is anonymous and you will be sent a link automatically toward the end of the course.
Use the Discussion forum.

The formal syllabus of the course is available here and CEQ-reports for the course can be found here.

What can I expect from the course?

This course will give you a solid introduction to Automatic Control. The course consists of a set of lectures, exercises, labs and an examination. In addition to being available for hard copy purchase at the KFS campus book store, all written course material can be downloaded free of charge from the Course Material page.

Lectures

The lectures will be given in Swedish. Pre-recorded video lectures in Swedish are available on the corresponding lecture page.

Exercises

Optional exercise sessions will be given on-campus, see the course schedule for time and place.

Discussions

As an alternative or complement to the ordinary exercise sessions, you can use the Discussions section at Canvas for discussing exercises and other course content. You are encouraged to answer your classmates questions on the Discussions page.

Labs

The course contains three labs that will be conducted on-campus, see the corresponding page for more information on each lab. You will need to book times for your lab sessions ahead of time, and for lab sessions 2 and 3, you are expected to complete preparatory exercises. You are expected to complete the preparatory exercises before attending your signup session. Someone from the teaching staff will then correct your hand-in at the start of the session.

Persons who fail to show up to the lab without a valid reason, forget to sign up for the lab, or fail to complete the preparatory exercises ahead of time, will have to do the lab the next time the course is given. Fortunately, this is usually in the next study period.

Lab	When	Signup	Responsible
1	week 2-3	week 1	Olle Kjellqvist
2	week 4-5	week 3	Marko Guberina
3	week 6-7	week 5	Alba Gurpegui

Exam

The exam will be conducted on-campus.

Personnel

Name	Responsibilities	E-mail
Karl-Erik Årzén	Course responsible	karl-erik.arzen@control.lth.se
Olle Kjellqvist	Teaching assistant. Lab 1,2,3	olle.kjellqvist@control.lth.se
Johanna Gustafson	Teaching assistant. Lab 1,2,3	johanna@integer.se
Alba Gurpegui	Teaching assistant. Lab 1,2,3.	alba.gurpegui_ramon@control.lth.se
Kristján Tómasson	Teaching assistant. Lab 1,2,3.	kristjan.tomasson@mac.com
Claudio Mandrioli	Lab 1,2,3.	claudio.mandrioli@control.lth.se
Felix Agner	Lab 1,2,3.	felix.agner@control.lth.se
Luka Bakovic	Lab 1,2,3.	luka.bakovic@control.lth.se
Marko Guberina	Lab 1,2,3.	marko.guberina@control.lth.se
Mika Nishimura	Ladok	mika.nishimura@control.lth.se

All teaching personnel (with an @control.lth.se-adress) have offices in the corridor of the Automatic Control department. The department, normally placed in the M-building, is temporarily and due to renovations, placed in the KC-Building (3rd floor, house 4) . More info on the department's personnel page.

Official Covid-19 teaching policy

We are hoping there will be no need for Covid restrictions during this years course. More information about the department's official Covid-19 teaching policy can be found at http://www.control.lth.se/education/covid-19-teaching-policy-at-automatic-control-fall-2020/.