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• DYNAMIC SYSTEMS 
  • TRANSFER FUNCTION MODELS
    • Gain
    • Integrator
    • Time constant
    • Second order system
    • Time delay
    • Transfer function (with two poles and one zero)
  • PHYSICAL SYSTEMS
    • Liquid tank with valve and pump outlets
    • Blending tank
    • Heated tank
    • Mass-spring-damper
    • RC-circuit
    • DC-motor
  • STABILITY
    • Stability and poles
• CONTROL 
  • APPLICATIONS (INCL. BASIC PID TUNING)
    • You - the controller!
    • Level control of wood chip tank
    • Temperature control of liquid tank
    • Plant control
    • Control of separator train
    • Speed servo
    • Flow smoothing with buffer tank
    • Transfer function based PID tuning
  • PRACTICAL PROPERTIES OF PID-CONTROLLERS
    • Anti wind-up
    • Measurement noise in PID control loop
    • Discrete-time PID controller
    • Reverse and direct action of a PID controller
    • Reducing control kicks in PID controller
    • Serial and parallel PID controller
    • Bumpless transfer PID controller
    • Pulse width modulated (PWM) control signal
  • CONTROL METHODS
    • Cascade control (of product temperature in vessel)
    • Feedforward control (of liquid level)
    • Gain scheduling (of tank temperature)
    • Control of product quality and flow including ratio control
    • Multivariable control using linear decoupling
    • Linear quadratic (LQ) optimal control of inverted pendulum
    • Smith-predictor (Dead-time compensation)
• LOGICAL AND SEQUENTIAL CONTROL
  • Logical functions
  • Sequential control of a batch process
• ESTIMATION AND SYSTEM IDENTIFICATION
  • Kalman Filter
• SIGNALS AND SIGNAL PROCESSING
  • SIGNAL TYPES
    • Signal types
    • White and coloured noise
  • SAMPLING PHENOMENA
    • Signal quantizer
    • Aliasing at sampling
  • FILTERING/FREQUENCY RESPONSE
    • Lowpass filter (time-constant filter with sinusoidal and random inputs)
    • Filter types
  • SPECTRAL ANALYSIS
    • Spectral analysis
  • TIME-DOMAIN ANALYSIS
    • Correlation

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