Jianghai Hu

Fall 2008

ECE 483: Digital Control Systems - Analysis and Design

Course Information

When and Where: TTh 3-4:15pm, EE 115.

Instructor: Jianghai Hu.

Office: MSEE 220.
Phone: 496-2395.
Email: jianghai@purdue.edu.
Office Hours: TTh 2-3pm (or send e-mail for appointments).
Teaching Assistant: N/A

For up-to-date information about the course, consult the web page

http://dynamo.ecn.purdue.edu/~jianghai/ECE483/

Course Materials

• Textbook: Digital Control System Analysis and Design, 3rd edition, C. L. Phillips
and H. T. Nagle, Jr. Prentice Hall, N.J., 1995, ISBN:0-13-309832-X. (A new edition,
the 4th edition, has been published. However, we will use the 3rd edition in this class)

• Supplementary Books: Discrete-Time Control Systems, 2nd edition, K. Ogata,

Prentice Hall, 1995; Digital Control of Dynamic Systems, 3rd edition, G. F. Franklin,
J. D. Powell, and M. L. Workman, Addison Wesley, 1998.

• Class Notes: to be distributed during classes.

Prerequisite:

• ECE 382 or equivalent;

• Access to MATLAB (a student edition is sufficient).

Homework:

• There will be approximately 7 homework assignments, each will be announced in class

and due one week later;
 • Homeworks are due at the beginning of the class on the due date. No late homework
will be accepted;
• All necessary steps towards obtaining the solution, including printouts of the
MATLAB code and plots if necessary, must be included for full credit;
• One homework with the lowest scores will be dropped;
• You are strongly advised to solve independently as many of the homework problems
as you possibly can. Discussion with other students is allowed only when this is not
possible.

Exams:
• There will be two midterms and one final exam (time/location to be announced);
• During the exams, you can only refer to a single-sided, A4-sized formula sheet and a
calculator, but nothing else, to solve the problems;
• There will be no makeup exam without a note from a doctor or the Dean of Students.
If you have an unavoidable conflict with a scheduled exam, please let me know at least
one week in advance so we can make arrangements.
Regrading policy: All requests for regrading must be submitted within one week of the
exam return in order to receive consideration. If you desire a regrading on an exam, please
attach a note to your paper stating which problems and discrepancies you found and submit
the paper to me. Be sure to look at the solutions before asking for a regrading.

Final Grade:

• Homework: 15%;
• Midterms: each 22.5%, thus in total 45%;
• Final: 39.5%;
• Completing the course evaluation: 0.5%. At the end of the semester, by completing
the course evaluation online at

https://engineering.purdue.edu/ECE/evals.html

and notifying me by email, you will receive this credit.

• After all the scores are obtained and summed up according to the above weights, the
accumulative scores will be used to determine the letter grade through a set of cutoff
points. These cutoff points will only be available after the final exam.
Course Content: The course introduces feedback computer controlled systems, the com-
ponents of digital control systems, and system models on the z-domain (z-transfer functions)
and on the time domain (state variable representations.) The objectives for system design
and evaluation of system performance are considered. Various discrete-time controllers are
designed including PID-controllers, state and output feedback controllers, and reconstruc-
tion of states using observers. The systems with the designated controllers are tested by
simulations.

Course Outcome:
A student who successfully fulfills the course requirements will have demonstrated:

1. An understanding of digital feedback control systems

2. A knowledge of constructing discrete-time mathematical model system

3. A knowledge of analyzing the system behavior using discrete-time model and evaluating
the system performance

4. A knowledge to use controller design techniques to make the system behavior satisfy
specified design objectives

5. An ability to evaluate and test the system performance using digital simulations

Course Outline (Tentative):

Number of Lectures Topics Text Pages

1 Introduction 1-26
9 State, Discrete-Time Systems and Z-Transform 27-76
5 Sampling and Reconstruction 89-110
3 Open-Loop Discrete-Time Systems 131-172
4 Closed-Loop Systems 173-201
3 System Time-Response Characteristics 202-221
9 Stability Analysis Techniques 235-280
7 Digital Controller Design 281-336