The module descriptors for our undergraduate courses can be found below:
- Four year Aeronautical Engineering degree (H401)
- Four year Aeronautical Engineering with a Year Abroad stream (H410)
Students on our H420 programme follow the same programme as the H401 spending fourth year in industry.
The descriptors for all programmes are the same (including H411).
H401
Control Systems
Module aims
This module builds on prior understanding of dynamical systems and expands fundamental concepts in the analysis and design of automatic control systems for use in a wide range of technologies (not just Aeronautics, but also Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Finance, Biology). It introduces some applications of control systems in the aerospace industry and provides a framework and language to communicate fluently with professional control engineers.
Learning outcomes
Module syllabus
Teaching methods
The module will be delivered primarily through large-class lectures introducing the key concepts and methods, supported by a variety of delivery methods combining the traditional and the technological. The content is presented via a combination of slides, whiteboard and visualizer.
Learning will be reinforced through tutorial question sheets and laboratory exercises, featuring analytical, computational and experimental tasks representative of those carried out by practising engineers.
Assessments
This module presents opportunities for both formative and summative assessment.
You will be formatively assessed through progress tests and tutorial sessions.
You will have additional opportunities to self-assess your learning via tutorial problem sheets.
You will be summatively assessed by a written closed-book examination at the end of the module as well as through online assignments and a practical laboratory assessment.
Assessment type | Assessment description | Weighting | Pass mark |
Examination | 1hr 15 mins closed-book written examination in the Summer term | 45% | 40% |
Coursework | Applications of Control Theory coursework exercises and laboratory | 55% | 40% |
You will receive feedback both during the laboratory sessions and following the online assignments.
You will receive feedback on examinations in the form of an examination feedback report on the performance of the entire cohort.
You will receive feedback on your performance whilst undertaking tutorial exercises, during which you will also receive instruction on the correct solution to tutorial problems.
Further individual feedback will be available to you on request via this module’s online feedback forum, through staff office hours and discussions with tutors.
Reading list
Core
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Feedback Systems: An Introduction for Scientists and Engineers
2nd, Princeton University Press
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Feedback systems : an introduction for scientists and engineers
2nd ed., PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS
Supplementary
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Feedback and control for everyone [electronic resource]
Springer
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Signals and systems / Alan V. Oppenheim, Alan S. Willsky, with S. Hamad Nawab.
2nd ed., Prentice Hall
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Feedback control of dynamic systems
Eighth global edition., Pearson
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Feedback control of dynamic systems
Eighth edition., Pearson
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Modern Control Systems, Global Edition
14th ed.,