Lecture

Experimental Model Identification

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This lecture covers experimental model identification in the frequency domain for control systems, focusing on the dynamic relationship between input and output signals, using PRBS signals, sinusoids, and empirical transfer function estimates. Students will learn about Bode plots, bandwidth, cutoff frequency, and how to estimate transfer functions from input-output data. Practical experiments include PRBS signal excitation, frequency fitting, sinusoidal excitation, and Bode plot analysis. The remote experimentation tool computes empirical transfer function estimates, allowing students to apply theoretical concepts to real-world systems.

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Frequency response

In signal processing and electronics, the frequency response of a system is the quantitative measure of the magnitude and phase of the output as a function of input frequency. The frequency response is widely used in the design and analysis of systems, such as audio and control systems, where they simplify mathematical analysis by converting governing differential equations into algebraic equations.

Bode plot

In electrical engineering and control theory, a Bode plot ˈboʊdi is a graph of the frequency response of a system. It is usually a combination of a Bode magnitude plot, expressing the magnitude (usually in decibels) of the frequency response, and a Bode phase plot, expressing the phase shift. As originally conceived by Hendrik Wade Bode in the 1930s, the plot is an asymptotic approximation of the frequency response, using straight line segments.

Control system

A control system manages, commands, directs, or regulates the behavior of other devices or systems using control loops. It can range from a single home heating controller using a thermostat controlling a domestic boiler to large industrial control systems which are used for controlling processes or machines. The control systems are designed via control engineering process. For continuously modulated control, a feedback controller is used to automatically control a process or operation.

Industrial control system

An industrial control system (ICS) is an electronic control system and associated instrumentation used for industrial process control. Control systems can range in size from a few modular panel-mounted controllers to large interconnected and interactive distributed control systems (DCSs) with many thousands of field connections. Control systems receive data from remote sensors measuring process variables (PVs), compare the collected data with desired setpoints (SPs), and derive command functions that are used to control a process through the final control elements (FCEs), such as control valves.

Nichols plot

The Nichols plot is a plot used in signal processing and control design, named after American engineer Nathaniel B. Nichols. Given a transfer function, with the closed-loop transfer function defined as, the Nichols plots displays versus . Loci of constant and are overlaid to allow the designer to obtain the closed loop transfer function directly from the open loop transfer function. Thus, the frequency is the parameter along the curve. This plot may be compared to the Bode plot in which the two inter-related graphs - versus and versus ) - are plotted.

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