1Introduction to modelling techniques – Part I

2Introduction to modelling techniques – Part II

3System analysis – Part I

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4System analysis – Part II

5System analysis – Part III

6System analysis – Part IV

7Design techniques – Part I

8Design techniques – Part II

9Design techniques – Part III

10State-space representation – Modelling & analysis

11State-space representation - Design

12Digital control systems, Future scope

1Who can take your course?

• Anyone who is from control and automation industry.
• Anyone from a certain disciplinary field trying to implement control theory to predefined processes.
• A PhD or entry level engineer looking to revise control system concepts. 
• Anyone looking to understand first-hand implementation of control theory.
• Anyone applying for job opportunities in the field of control and automation.

2What is included in your course?

• Basic understanding to the building blocks of control theory.
• Time and frequency domain modelling and design.
• Transfer function, state-space, root-locus, bode plots, Nyquist plots.
• Time response, frequency response, steady-state error analysis.
• Digital control systems.
• Course includes,
• Video tutorials.
• Challenges.
• Two projects and its corresponding solutions.
• Enhances thinking ability and problem-solving capabilities.

3What will the student gain from your course?

After taking the course and completing its assessments successfully, the student will be able to,

• Understand and convert a given physical system into its control system equivalent.
• Analyse and design a rule (or a set of rules) using control metrics and defined objectives.
• Implement various feedback control design strategies using MATLAB/Simulink.
• Attain competence to gain advanced level control subjects explored by industries and research avenues.
• Ideate conversion of computer simulation models to its hardware-in-loop (HIL) and independent hardware equivalent.
• Upgrade themselves in terms of algorithms present in the market, making them easily approachable by the industries or project themselves as a freelancer.

4What software skills are you teaching and how well are these tools used in the industry?

• MATLAB/Simulink is going to be the prime tool for the course.
• MATLAB/Simulink is an analysis and design tool widely deployed in maximum industries/academia across the globe.

5What real world application for the tools and techniques will you teach in this course?

We will look into some of the examples in the field of,

• Autonomous vehicles.
• Electrical applications.
• Mechanical applications.

6Which companies use these techniques and for what?

In particular, control and its advanced variants are deployed extensively in many sectors including,

• Automobile.
• Process control.
• Synthetic Biology.
• Robotics.
• Power systems.
• Manufacturing and many more.

7How is your course going to help me in my path to MS or PhD?

• Prime theories for control and automation require a platform developed using control system fundamentals.
• Apart from conventional ideologies in control, this course will develop ability to provide deeper, newer insights to advanced control theories. This would in turn allow the students to gain aptitude to solve various and difficult control problems in real-time environments.
• Being a PhD myself, I believe control systems are ubiquitous and hence needs to be understood (at the core) for variety of applications right from biology to mechanical, automobiles and electrical.

8How is this course going to help me get a job?

• Though a primitive concept and a well-established one, newer control theories integrated in modern day industries and academic projects require basic understanding of control system fundamentals. Thus, companies look for skilled personnel in the field of advanced control or at least with an aptitude of basic control.
• Having the ability to implement control for real-time applications using standard tools would make you a ready-to-go product in the market; hence an obvious choice.
• Additionally, the candidate would be skilled enough to start anything on a freelance basis.