SYSTEMS AND CONTROLS:

What is it?

the analysis, design, modeling, estimation,

identification, and control of physical systems
or processes
Professor Bonnie Heck
Feedback Control

Controlled signal Measured

outputs
Process or
System to be
Controlled
 Feedback Control

Desired Controlled signal Measured

Value outputs
Error
Control System Process or
+ (analog or System to be
-
digital) Controlled
 Lego Motor Control

Desired
Angle
Error Motor Voltage Angle
+ Microcontroller Motor Assembly
-
 Process Control

From R. Stenz and U. Kuhn, Automation of a Batch Distillation Column Using Fuzzy and Conventional
Control," IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology, vol. 3, no. 2, June 1995, page 172.
Power System

From:P. Kundar, Power System

Stability and Control, McGraw Hill,
1994, page 9.
Printed
Circuit
Board test

From: J. Shim, H. Cho and S. Kim, "An

Actively Compliable Probing System," IEEE
Control Systems Magazine, vol. 17, no. 1,
February 1997, page 15.
 Biomedical

 
From: R. Dorf and R. Bishop, Modern Control Systems, Addison
Wesley, 7th edition, 1995, page 706.
Baking Processes
 Applications
• Power Systems 
• Manufacturing 
• Robotics 
• Process Control
• Flight Control and Navigation
• Network Control
• Biomedical
• Process Scheduling (in Computers)
 Courses (To be offered)
• ECE 3085 - Introduction to Systems and
Controls (3-0-3)
• ECE 3090 - Software Fundamentals for
Engineering Systems ( 3-3-4 )
• ECE 4562 – Neural Networks and Fuzzy Logic
in Control
• ECE 4761 Industrial Controls and Manufacturing
• Computational Computer Vision
• Embedded Control Systems
 Georgia Tech Lorraine

Courses in Systems and Controls, Digital Signal

Processing, Communications, Optics