This lecture covers the electrical and mechanical dynamics of a DC motor, including voltage, back-EMF, resistance, torque, inertia, and viscous friction. It also explains open-loop block diagrams and responses to step inputs.
Colin Jones is an Associate Professor in the Automatic Control Laboratory at the Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL) in Switzerland. He was a Senior Researcher at the Automatic Control Lab at ETH Zurich until 2011 and obtained a PhD in 2005 from the University of Cambridge for his work on polyhedral computational methods for constrained control. Prior to that, he was at the University of British Columbia in Canada, where he took a BASc and MASc in Electrical Engineering and Mathematics. Colin has worked in a variety of industrial roles, ranging from commercial building control to the development of custom optimization tools focusing on retail human resource scheduling. His current research interests are in the theory and computation of predictive control and optimization, and their application to green energy generation, distribution and management.
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Provides the students with basic notions and tools for the analysis and control of dynamic systems. Shows them how to design controllers and analyze the performance of controlled systems.
Covers corrected exercises from the 2020 exam in the field of robotics, including topics such as accuracy, speed, DC motors, optimal gear ratio, dynamics of robot arms, encoders, and kinematics.
