Course materials

Lecture notes: Lecture notes that cover the course. (Swe Download Swe) / (Eng Download Eng). T

Lecture videos: Lecture videos from a previous course round with Tore Hägglund are available here on Canvas, see the corresponding Lecture page.
While these lecture videos, like the in-person lectures, cover the entire course, they should be seen as a complementary course material. 

Exercises (with solutions):  (Swe-ex.pdf Download Swe-ex.pdf) /(Eng-ex.pdf Download Eng-ex.pdf).

Labs: The course contains three mandatory laboratory experiments. You need to bring a physical copy of the printed guidelines to the lab.

Collection of formulae: There is a collection of common results and formulae in the course (formelsamling) (Swe Links to an external site.) / (Eng Links to an external site.). This booklet is allowed on the exam. You should bring your own copy to the exam.

The following short collection of mathematical formulae complements the collection of formulae: Swe Download Swe, and is also allowed at the exam (useful for those who do not own a "TEFYMA" book)

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

 

Previous exams, together with solutions are listed on this page: Old exams Links to an external site. 

Some additional recent examples are listed below:

Exam 2023-01-12 Download Exam 2023-01-12

Exam 2024-01-13 Download Exam 2024-01-13

 

Errata

Please let us know if you find any errors in the course material.

 

Extra material for the extra interested

Further reading is 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 for free  here Links to an external site..

 

Control Theory course FRTF15 - for those interested in more theory.

We offer the 3 ECTS credit course Control Theory in parallel to this course. It starts on January 28 (note update!) 10.15-12.00 in M:O. It is an elective course for F, Pi (and D) students. 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.

Check out this Canvas page for the course

 

Miscellaneous:

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

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

We recommend that you try out the LU pole-zero explorer, a visualisation/learning module you run in your browser Links to an external site. developed at the department in 2024

There is also set of Interacting Learning Modules Links to an external site. for use in learning Automatic Control developed by a group in Aldamera, Spain.

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

You can also have some fun with these control challenges Links to an external site..

Historical control persons (Bode, Nyquist, ...) mentioned in the course are men. Here is a description of Historical Female Influencers related to the field of Automatic Control. Links to an external site.

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. Sorry for the bad audio quality in some, these were some early experiments done a long time ago.