A real control system - how to start designing

Let’s design a control system the way you might approach it in a real situation rather than an academic one. In this video, I step through a control problem and show how control theory is intimately tied to all aspects of engineering. Plus there's real hardware too!

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[WalidIssa]

Amazing, this is what we should learn in unis

[AlexTaradov]

Please do more of practical things. The stuff at the beginning is exactly how I felt out of the Uni.

[apm]

Brian, thanks for another great video and for highlighting the Temperature Control Lab. It is great to see how control system theory works with real data. You've done a great job fitting an overview of controller development into one video.

[emiliotanowe]

Great video, Brian! I used to watch your videos while I was a Bachelor's student, and I still watch them now as a PhD student (in Control Engineering)!

[ddskimmer]

Brian thank you so much for your generosity! I'm 58 years old and always loved tinkering as a kid but, my family situation growing up was not conducive to supporting my desires. I became a sales person, then a technical sales person and had to retire early do to my health. I thank you for being such a good teacher. Now I have some time in my hands, and hope...God Willing to be able to put it into building me some things from scratch. I hope and pray to build an EV, ATV...machine. I have ideas that I'd like to pursue and your videos are letting me know whether or not they are realistic. I feel great to an extent by what you said about just learning the background of the processes "the philosophy" of it is what comes to mind now, and that indeed we are working with existing components / systems...that have done all the math work already.
I would be lost without your in put and I do need to learn my electronics and math all over again. I know, I have a long way to go. Thanks to you I am becoming able to relate with the "WHY" aspect of things. My math teacher when I was in High School tried to explain the "Why?" purpose of the Algebra but I never recalled him succeeding with me in this area. Then again we didn't have MatLab, and such richness of electronics to workout these algorithms. The concepts and how you explain them give universal understanding for correct EV applications and anything to do with EV or Hybrid or anything one needs to automate using control systems. I have subscribed and will share it on facebook...with the hopes your coverage will increase and you get many more subscribers. God Bless and all the very Best!
Have you tried publishing some of your courses in Udemy (dot com) ?

[Tuonga]

Thanks. I studied Automatic control at University, but pure of theory and math. Your video opens my eyes :)

[Jacob]

This is leaps and bounds better than any paid course I've ever seen!

[vmxavier]

After all the control classes I've attended to....your videos still amaze me. What a great way to teach!

[huanmin]

Your video has been incredibly helpful for engineering students in understanding control theory and its real-life applications. Applying control theory to real-world scenarios is a key focus of my research. Your video has inspired me and provided valuable guidance for this goal.

[gabrielanghinoni]

Probably the best video about Control theory in the whole internet. Amazing work, one day I will give it back too. Thank you!

[nathancleavinger]

Thank you so much, Brian! As a senior getting ready to graduate (and struggling in my controls class), I really appreciated the way you bridged academic knowledge and real world experience.

[sunkist]

Amazing video! Literally shortcuts years of learning that a student usually would need to actually understand how to apply controls principals in a real life scenario. I wish this is how they taught controls in universities!

[sixstation]

Trying to design a control system for a model greenhouse...heater, vents, fan...not a mechanical engineer, rather an electronics tech...so a video like this is great to understand the issues involved, and the underlying principles and fundamentals. Thanks

[devinmckee]

First of all, WOW, this is such an incrediblle video! You have such an incredible talent for teaching!

Second of all, I am on my senior year for a BS in ME. I have been putting SO much time and effort into trying to understand all of the subtle, complex, and outrageous concepts involved in my clasess up to this point.

However, there has always been the ever looping thought to myself, why put in SO much effort? What is the point of truely understnad every distinct concept of Thermo, heat transfer, programing, dynamics, physics, circuits...the list goes on... What if this is all a waste of time, and I will never need to know these subtlties in my future, real world engineering profession.

But this video does a fantastic job of detailing that proves to myself that everything can tie back together if I know how to connect the pieces when it comes to reality situations. From what I've learned in my classes is that everything comes back, don't cheat yourself cause it'll come back again.

Thank you for being the post-school engineer that takes the time to showing us students why everything can potentially matter. You showed me my hard earned effort can and will make me the best engineer I can be.

[anglebertmasunda]

Thank you Brian. This really helped in getting an overview of all the critical steps involved.

[humzahalkindi]

I found this video very helpful. It gives me a big picture overview of the entire process.

[anonymousowl]

Really appreciate the video! I have my first interview to be a controls engineer coming in about an hour!

[inigomeniego]

I have so many tabs with your videos that I feel I will never end them. Thank you!

[Bear_wonder]

I liked it. The beginning aspect of the video explaining the setup was fantastic.

[bhawya]

Hi Brian, It's first time I am watching your video and I must admit, it give me quite a good understanding. I have much clarity now how to approach my control system problem and model it into the Simulink. Thank you !