MAE 476 - Mechanical Control Systems I

(3 units)

Prerequisite: MAE 376 with a grade of “C” or better.
Feedback control systems in mechanical engineering. Modeling, analysis, and design. System performance and design criteria: stability, transient response, frequency response and compensation, root locus. Introduction to nonlinear control systems, state space analysis and design.

Letter grade only (AF). (Lecture-problems 2 hours, laboratory 3 hours) Same course as MAE 476H. Not open for credit to students with credit in MAE 476H.