Handout 15: Describing functions, Introduction Eric Feron March 31, 2004 General Philosophy General reponse of arbitrary nonlinear systems is somewhat complicated. We usually know the systems we work with. Work with finite families of 'most likely
Handout 18: Dual-input describing functions Eric Feron April 5,2004 Dual-input describing functions are for mixed signals(sinusoid small constant signal) Approximating non-constant signals with constant ones
Handout 13: More about plants with right half-plane zeros Eric Feron March 15, 2004 Right half-plane zeros and sensor/actuator design Influence of sensor position on system dynamics: Star Market
Handout 8: Lead compensation Eric Feron March 1, 2004 Lead Compensation goals: Raise phase( gain) at high frequen cies while not touching low-frequency system's characteristics: Can extend bandwidth of system. Canonical lead element:
Handout 1: Bode plot rules reminder Eric Feron Feb4,2004 General: Bode plot is to plot magnitudes using logarithm scale, phases using log scales. Indeed: