Course description
This five-day course has been developed to provide knowledge of advanced control engineering theory and techniques and their application to automotive control.
You will be introduced to the tools and methodology associated with multivariable control design techniques and gain practical experience in designing and simulating advanced modern controllers within the context of multi-domain automotive systems.
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Suitability - Who should attend?
This course is aimed at practising control engineers who already have a strong grasp of classical control and wish to develop their understanding of advanced multivariable control techniques based on optimisation. Although useful theory will be introduced, the emphasis will be on its application. The course is targeted at delegates from the automotive sector but the principles and methods are equally applicable in many other applications.
At the start of the course, the learner will be expected to have a good grounding in the fundamentals of control engineering. (There will be some degree of recap, but delegates will be expected to be familiar with the key concepts of single-variable feedback control and classical frequency-domain design, e.g. gain/phase margins, PID control and lead-lag compensation.) Learners will also benefit from a conceptual understanding of optimization. Familiarity with MATLAB and Simulink will be expected.
Outcome / Qualification etc.
What you will learn
In completing this course you should be able to:
- Create theoretical and computer models of multivariable automotive systems.
- Apply different advanced control techniques to automotive control problems.
- Use MATLAB and Simulink (commercial software packages) to design control algorithms for automotive systems.
- Design state estimators for multivariable automotive control systems using established techniques.
- Judge the suitability of a given control technique to a particular application in the context of automotive control.
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