EE341.01: LINEAR SYSTEMS AND CONTROL THEORY

Fall 1998 Schedule: MWF 10:00am-10:50am in MSEC 195

Instructor: Kevin Wedeward, Office: Workman 221, Phone: (505)835-5708, email: wedeward@ee.nmt.edu, homepage: www.ee.nmt.edu/~wedeward/

Help Session: T 07:00pm-09:00pm in MSEC 195

Office Hours: MTWF 02:00pm-03:00pm and by appointment

Grader: Mark Hanna

Course Objectives: Develop an understanding of

These topics of study will be the basis for later courses in control theory and digital signal processing.

Course Prerequisites:

Topic Prerequisites:

  1. RLC circuit modeling and responses.
  2. Introduction to Laplace Transforms.
  3. Matrix algebra.

Required Text: "Fundamentals of Signals and Systems Using Matlab" by E.W. Kamen and B.S. Heck

Topics: The following chapters and topics in the text will be covered:

  1. Chpt. 1: Fundamental Concepts of Signals and Systems
  2. Chpt. 2.1-2.2: Systems Defined by Differential Equations
  3. Chpt. 3.3-3.4: Convolution
  4. Chpt. 4: Fourier Series and Transforms
  5. Chpt. 5: Frequency-Domain Analysis of Systems
  6. Chpt. 7: Laplace Tranforms and Transfer Functions
  7. Chpt. 8.1-8.3: System Analysis using Transfer Functions
  8. Chpt. 9.1-9.2: Introduction to Controls

Reading Assignments:

  1. Chapter 1.
  2. Sections 2.1,2.2.
  3. Sections 3.3,3.4.
  4. Chapter 4.
  5. Chapter 5.
  6. Chapter 7.

Homework: Homework will be assigned, collected, and graded on a weekly basis. You are encouraged to work with other students as long as the written work turned in is your own.

  1. PS1 (in postscript) due BOC W 09/02/98
  2. PS2 due BOC F 09/11/98: Problems 1.1 (do for figures P1.1a and P1.1c only); 1.3c,d,f,j; 1.7 (add a part (c) where you will put each signal in the form shown in problem 1.6); 1.8
  3. PS3 (in postscript) due BOC F 09/18/98
  4. PS4 due BOC F 09/25/98: Problems 2.8a,b, 2.11, 3.15d, 3.17, 3.18, 3.20
  5. PS5 due BOC W 09/30/98: Problem 4.3
  6. PS6 due BOC M 10/12/98: Problems 4.2a,b,c,e, 4.5a,b,c
  7. PS7 due BOC W 10/21/98: Problems 4.14c,d, 4.15c,d
  8. PS8 due BOC W 10/28/98: Problems 4.11, 4.16, 4.18a,b (should read x(t) = te^(-t)u(t)),c
  9. PS9 (in postscript) due BOC M 11/09/98
  10. PS10 due BOC W 11/11/98: Problems 5.14a,b,e-b, 5.18, 5.19e,f, 5.20
  11. PS11 due BOC W 11/25/98: Problems 7.1, 7.2b, 7.3b,d, 7.4, 7.5
  12. PS12 due BOC M 12/07/98: Problems 7.7a,b, 7.9, 7.11b,e, 7.14b,c, 7.16, 7.18
  13. PS12 due BOC F 12/11/98

Exams: Two exams during regular class periods and one final exam will be given.

Grading:

Handouts:

Example M-Files: