A real control system - how to start designing

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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
    @WalidIssa6 жыл бұрын

    Amazing, this is what we should learn in unis

  • @rabeash711

    @rabeash711

    5 жыл бұрын

    Your channel is amazing too 😍

  • @simonriley7750

    @simonriley7750

    4 жыл бұрын

    Too bad we don't. Almost getting master's degree in control engineering and all we have done practically are 3 lab exercises with total lab time of 10h. put into perspective, it's 2 days worth of theory classes (3% of the whole semester)...

  • @qdav5

    @qdav5

    3 жыл бұрын

    Agree. Control classes almost always start with the assumption that your plant model is linear, time-invariant and known. And even more so with advanced classes. A lot of professors seem to get side-tracked with all of the elegant mathematics and neglect many of the practical aspects of control system design.

  • @heithemboufrioua7237

    @heithemboufrioua7237

    3 жыл бұрын

    mr walid your channel helps me a lot thank you so much

  • @nrdesign1991

    @nrdesign1991

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@qdav5 Exactly this! But this isnt the real world, only some abstracts to get you started - The same thing was trigonometry in school, completely abstract and seemingly impractical. Putting it into practice, and it starts making sense.

  • @AlexTaradov
    @AlexTaradov6 жыл бұрын

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

  • @tuloca011
    @tuloca0116 жыл бұрын

    This is pure gold

  • @apm
    @apm6 жыл бұрын

    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.

  • @WalidIssa

    @WalidIssa

    6 жыл бұрын

    Great work to you as well

  • @nismoskys
    @nismoskys3 жыл бұрын

    This was an incredible overview. Loved how you build it up starting with an open loop, adding the closed loop, and showed the graph giving a real sense of the value of characterizing the system, and showing how feed forward and model predictive control can be used too (many questions on these). Superb content. Thank you!

  • @Bear_wonder
    @Bear_wonder6 жыл бұрын

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

  • @RobSummers993
    @RobSummers9936 жыл бұрын

    GREAT video! It really helps to see a real-world application of this subject. This has really helped to solidify my foundation. Thanks again!

  • @vmxavier7
    @vmxavier76 жыл бұрын

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

  • @themerpheus
    @themerpheus6 жыл бұрын

    This is the best content I have ever seen in youtube for the control theory's sample applications. Keep forward with practical applications sir. Thank you.

  • @epeglab1o1
    @epeglab1o16 жыл бұрын

    This is brilliant. Would love to see more!

  • @yesmamsire
    @yesmamsire4 жыл бұрын

    This is perfect. I would love to see more practical videos like this. Bridging the gap from control theory to real-world application is something that is hard to find and I personally learned a ton from this video. Your videos are great, man. Keep up the good work.

  • @techgeek9901
    @techgeek99016 жыл бұрын

    I am really looking forward to seeing your book getting published! Great video, I would love to see more videos like that in the future! Keep up the good work!

  • @nathancleavinger6975
    @nathancleavinger69753 жыл бұрын

    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.

  • @AthanCondax
    @AthanCondax6 жыл бұрын

    Hey Brian, I've been watching your videos (and supporting your Patreon) for a while now. This is truly excellent. Your videos have already helped to bridge the gap between theoretical and practical applications of control theory and this video took it to another level. Based on the feedback in this comments section, I definitely think that doing things like this are what people truly want to see. I'd love to see more.

  • @emiliotanowe4323
    @emiliotanowe43235 жыл бұрын

    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)!

  • @greg6294
    @greg62946 жыл бұрын

    Great video! I'm so glad you tied in all of the different aspects of the system like heat transfer, the controller, optimization, etc. This tied together many of the things I've learned in the past year at school.

  • @Tuong11a
    @Tuong11a6 жыл бұрын

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

  • @fikunmiajayi
    @fikunmiajayi Жыл бұрын

    Hey Brian, you're a legend. I think you're doing the most for Control Students all over the world, your videos often address all the issues I have in my head, they answer questions that my lecturers often don't care about. I loved the one on Laplace and this has quickly become my second favorite. Words cannot express how much I think of you but thanks man!

  • @gabrielanghinoni4623
    @gabrielanghinoni46236 жыл бұрын

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

  • @Marchel0522
    @Marchel05224 жыл бұрын

    I really love your videos, all of them, doesn't matter if it's theory or practical applications, they do help me to see the connections between paper and the real world. When you talked about how it was for you right after you graduated from university with that mindset "there has to be an optimal solution", it really resonated with me. Hope you're doing well man, your work has a good cause. Greetings from Mexico!

  • @sunkist848
    @sunkist8486 жыл бұрын

    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!

  • @inigomeniego4906
    @inigomeniego49064 жыл бұрын

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

  • @michaelleslie111
    @michaelleslie1116 жыл бұрын

    Great video (even considering your super-high standards). You said it'd be a marathon... but the pacing was great, and you had me on the edge of my seat the whole time! I'd love to see more videos in this series demonstrating different controller design techniques with actual hardware. Having a real system responding to the controller makes it so easy to visualize and contextualize everything. Thanks for all your hard work.

  • @OrangeDurito
    @OrangeDurito Жыл бұрын

    This is what I want to learn. It's very hard to tie the theory with practice when all you are fed is the mathematics and simulation at best. To see the implementation on an actual hardware and you reasoning through the problems made the theory much more clear. Thank you so much! Your videos have helped me a ton.

  • @ejkitchen
    @ejkitchen6 жыл бұрын

    Fantastic video. Very well done. Love the detail and the effort put into it. The length was perfect for this topic.

  • @benanciorodriguez7308
    @benanciorodriguez73086 жыл бұрын

    I'm so glad and fortunate for people like you, thanks! Hopefully one day when I am more knowledgeable I will also share my experiences as you have done for me. :)

  • @nismoskys
    @nismoskys3 жыл бұрын

    Also, really appreciate you setting the stage with the career questions you were trying to answer. That's very helpful.

  • @Jacob011
    @Jacob0116 жыл бұрын

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

  • @hibak8196
    @hibak81966 жыл бұрын

    This was so useful! And the pace is okay actually Please keep making this type of video!

  • @electron_
    @electron_ Жыл бұрын

    Amazing video, you walked thru my college knowledge and brought me back where I am working now as onboard ETO, A lot completely I meet here starting from basic PID up to Calman filter. The best engineers always have a strong mathematical knowledge, I can see it now after 11 years onboard.

  • @poopjackable
    @poopjackable5 жыл бұрын

    Awesome! This video really helped me understand how to approach my MSc project. Thank you! Also, great work on the textbook.

  • @gordonjohnson3265
    @gordonjohnson32656 жыл бұрын

    Oh wow! This is really amazing and inspiring stuff. I'm studying EE with a specialization in Automation and this is really inspiring to me. I passed control theory and now I'm taking digital control and I'm loving it! Please continue this series of desgining real stuff!!

  • @bhawya2564
    @bhawya25645 ай бұрын

    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 !

  • @puneetpanwar2907
    @puneetpanwar29076 жыл бұрын

    Brian, first of all thank you for making such an informative video; which I found is a perfect blend of theory and practical aspect for building control systems. I would suggest you to continue this series with implementing advanced controllers(like MPC, Optimal and robust controllers). It would be great of you to explain the orange box to beginners so they may get an overview of communication between computer and arduino board. In the end, a big thumbs up for your work !

  • @eamonhannon1103
    @eamonhannon11032 жыл бұрын

    Great video . I really like the way you analysed a practical problem and then showed the use of tools and control theory you can use to design the controller .

  • @clarkc7367
    @clarkc73676 жыл бұрын

    Fantastic, I myself have used this device for learning control theory in the context of chemical processes at the undergraduate level. It is refreshing to see the benefit of using this device from another perspective, and I learned a couple things I didn't know about the overall control system design process. Thanks for this excellent lecture!

  • @jdiogoforte
    @jdiogoforte6 жыл бұрын

    I find your videos quite inspiring! I really liked this one, its nice to show, from time to time, how things are done "in real life" to add some spice to the theory.

  • @monkeysRsweet
    @monkeysRsweet4 жыл бұрын

    I love this style of video! It helps me understand my EE classes much more clearly

  • @isagumus1
    @isagumus1 Жыл бұрын

    Brian, amazing explanation. I watched it without a blink. Please keep up contributing exactly this kind of beneficial content more!

  • @JamesUsevitch
    @JamesUsevitch6 жыл бұрын

    This video is an amazing video demonstrating a bridge between theory and practice. Thanks for making this!

  • @benjwils
    @benjwils6 жыл бұрын

    This is brilliant - it's this bridge over to applying the knowledge that schools and unis are missing. Thanks, and please keep the vids coming!

  • @tolgahankarayaz5007
    @tolgahankarayaz50076 жыл бұрын

    I'm at my freshman year as a control and automation engineer and this video was so helpful to foresee what I will do in the real world with all those theorems. Please keep making like this kind of videos. Thank you so much!

  • @classicalbhargav
    @classicalbhargav2 жыл бұрын

    This was so helpful and informative! I'm working on Battery TMS for an EV application and I was super curious as to how a practical control system would be developed for this application as well as other real-life applications. This video definitely answered a lot of the questions I had!

  • @woodywiest
    @woodywiest5 жыл бұрын

    This is phenomenal, thank you! KZread is awash in content created from limited understanding in the workings of whatever systems they are attempting to instruct on. This video serves as a first class example of the much needed filling that huge void; Knowledge in the field, examples, real world application, use of various tools, and information clarity. Thank you for this. I highly anticipate your content.

  • @SohilShah_Melodyman
    @SohilShah_Melodyman5 жыл бұрын

    As always, I love the ease with which you explain control systems! Very well illustrated; it strengthened my interest in control systems. I truly appreciate the efforts you put in making such videos. Thanks a lot!

  • @anglebertmasunda6132
    @anglebertmasunda61322 ай бұрын

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

  • @hamzaramzan5121
    @hamzaramzan51216 жыл бұрын

    Man you are great. please come with more of such problems.

  • @MrRajchohan
    @MrRajchohan6 жыл бұрын

    This is amazingly well structured video with flawless narration.. thumbs up!! Thanks

  • @bluckow
    @bluckow5 жыл бұрын

    Thanks, Brian. Great description of modeling the plant, in a practical sense.

  • @veltwolfsleer
    @veltwolfsleer3 жыл бұрын

    I really appreciate you going through this process and discussing how the practical aspects of control theory that I never got to experience at University!

  • @joaogil6012
    @joaogil60124 жыл бұрын

    We need more of these! Thanks a lot for all the awesome videos you posted

  • @YashRaj-ix1dp
    @YashRaj-ix1dp5 жыл бұрын

    I am currently struggling in tunning PID for my drone. Now I feel I know how to approach like an engineer. Kudos for this video. I have started liking control engineering.

  • @qianyangchen4062
    @qianyangchen40626 жыл бұрын

    Thank you Brian, this video is amazing! I have been looking for something like this for a long time. It's very helpful.

  • @aleph285
    @aleph2852 жыл бұрын

    I appreciate the quality of your video especially the drawing, they are amazingly drawn

  • @hizarahmed109
    @hizarahmed1095 жыл бұрын

    Wonderful demonstration of the practical steps required to solve a real-life control problem! Would absolutely love to see more! Hats off to you sir for inspiring us control engineers!

  • @genesams993
    @genesams9936 жыл бұрын

    Great video, thank you Brian. It'd be great to see more videos like this!

  • @AdrianDV
    @AdrianDV5 жыл бұрын

    Beautifully explained. Thank you so much Brian.

  • @Yuri53able
    @Yuri53able6 жыл бұрын

    Great video, and a far better explanation than what could be given by my controls professor at University. Please keep making them and I look forward to when your book is complete.

  • @nunziobarone5102
    @nunziobarone51026 жыл бұрын

    Thank You for this video, i'm a control engineering student and this i what i need, a practical example of what i study at university

  • @ayebillaavoka4242
    @ayebillaavoka42425 жыл бұрын

    Greatest piece ever! We need more of this, Brian.

  • @vasimbiradar1980
    @vasimbiradar19803 жыл бұрын

    Waiting for more like this projects .....That was an epic concept man,U nailed it

  • @volkanyildirim48
    @volkanyildirim484 жыл бұрын

    it is a blessing to see all the concepts taught at school to put in action. it is even better to see while still in school :)

  • @hurshasnarayan
    @hurshasnarayan6 жыл бұрын

    Very good explanation and an awesome video. Kudos to you. 👍🏼

  • @ketansharma8094
    @ketansharma80943 жыл бұрын

    Brian this is so good! The problem statement itself is so exciting! Thanks for sharing this

  • @rightfootedlibra4349
    @rightfootedlibra43492 жыл бұрын

    This is top tier explanatory stuff, man. Well done

  • @baspro75
    @baspro755 жыл бұрын

    Great and awsome practical application. Thank you Brian.

  • @andaliavortten2980
    @andaliavortten29806 жыл бұрын

    As a young professional I am happy for every video (especially more practical ones) that you produce. Please do more!

  • @abhishekranjan1081
    @abhishekranjan10816 жыл бұрын

    Brian, Thanks for these wonderful videos showing actual applications with real data! Just as everyone already mentioned, I would also request you to keep making more such videos in future too, especially on different techniques of system identification in various scenarios. :)

  • @adityachakraborty5863
    @adityachakraborty58635 жыл бұрын

    Thanks a lot for this video. We really lack such practical examples to play with. More of such system designing will be greatly appreciated.

  • @prakashpatil2062
    @prakashpatil20626 жыл бұрын

    Super informative! Please do such more videos.

  • @Buzzlightyear706
    @Buzzlightyear7066 жыл бұрын

    Great video Brian! I think we all should learn a lot more concerning more practical and useful approach to engineering problems. Not only academic equations and theoretical graphs. I wish you did more videos like this - with actual examples of specific control systems. I graduated from Aerospace Engineering and your videos helped me a lot in understanding basics of control systems and then auto-flight systems.

  • @shirishu.deshpande4790
    @shirishu.deshpande47903 жыл бұрын

    your best, humble and kind person. Thank you.

  • @rehmannazir796
    @rehmannazir7962 жыл бұрын

    Love the way how you explained it.

  • @souar2
    @souar25 жыл бұрын

    This made me so motivated to experiment with control theory! Please do more videos like this

  • @kentvandervelden
    @kentvandervelden6 жыл бұрын

    Wow, fantastic video! Loved it!

  • @MrJwoodOo
    @MrJwoodOo6 жыл бұрын

    Excellent video as always!

  • @EricHallahan
    @EricHallahan6 жыл бұрын

    As always, just in time for me. This is really useful.

  • @danieltrigo2928
    @danieltrigo29282 жыл бұрын

    I really appreciate this practical video. If you have the time to include more of them in your current videos it will be amazing!! very helpful!

  • @sixstation6480
    @sixstation64803 жыл бұрын

    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

  • @jeffagbor4362
    @jeffagbor43623 жыл бұрын

    this is more than GOLD Thank you very much for such knowledge

  • @abdulmajeedmohameed6398
    @abdulmajeedmohameed63986 жыл бұрын

    It is just what I need .. thank you sir Waiting for more

  • @luisn7798
    @luisn77986 жыл бұрын

    Brian for Prez! Thanks for your dedication! this really helps! :)

  • @harrypehkonen
    @harrypehkonen4 жыл бұрын

    Ever since I learned about PID controllers, I felt that something was missing -- for example, the delay. I think you explained very nicely how the "missing parts" are actually just part of the search for correct parameters! Great explanation!

  • @user-db4hg3hh5h
    @user-db4hg3hh5h2 жыл бұрын

    Thank you, I’m looking forward to seeing next video!

  • @nirbhaythacker6662
    @nirbhaythacker66626 жыл бұрын

    I'm at school and don't have enough time to watch the video, but I'm happy that you're back to posting great educational content.

  • @lavanyaverma3653
    @lavanyaverma36533 жыл бұрын

    This was absolutely fabulous! Seriously man. Great Job!

  • @fetch9143
    @fetch91436 жыл бұрын

    this is one of the best videos on control systems , thank you

  • @nathik19
    @nathik195 жыл бұрын

    Hey Brian, I am one of your Patreons. I deeply agree with the other people who have commented on these videos. I have my masters in electrical engineering and I have learn about the theory repeatedly but the only thing I know to do in practice is tuning PID controllers. For the first time, I understand the significance of the step response and I can't thank you enough for that. Please please please post more videos of practical, even if there isn't hardware, just working within a simulator is great! Some of the stuff I would love to see are state space equations in practice.

  • @user-wj5qd5fy1n
    @user-wj5qd5fy1n5 жыл бұрын

    All your videos are great, but I think this is special because after two semesters of control theory I could not answer the question of what exactly I am learning? Some equations? Math? You give me the answer to this question and give a sense to me and motivation! Big thanks!

  • @hassanalismail4986
    @hassanalismail49865 жыл бұрын

    I really enjoyed watching your video continue posting these videos that relate theories with practical.

  • @konturgestalter
    @konturgestalter6 жыл бұрын

    excellent video!!!! please more of this!!

  • @thuctranminh2170
    @thuctranminh21704 жыл бұрын

    really love you sir. Your videos is more usefull and time-saving than a bunch of classes in my university

  • @BHAVYAMATHURBEE
    @BHAVYAMATHURBEE6 жыл бұрын

    We need more videos like this. Amazing video

  • @danielwilesmith6227
    @danielwilesmith62273 жыл бұрын

    Good stuff Brian i will go over this and when time permits go through the exercise of the temp controller

  • @ethan073
    @ethan0735 жыл бұрын

    First video I’ve seen on this channel. I like!

  • @omarelnaggar5841
    @omarelnaggar58416 жыл бұрын

    Best KZreadr when it comes to educational content and presentation skills

  • @dalonso
    @dalonso5 жыл бұрын

    Awesome video seriously. Please do more videos like this!

  • @louishenn3028
    @louishenn30282 жыл бұрын

    This is so cool. I feel more confident in my degree now. Followed a similar approach in a project

  • @alirahimi8303
    @alirahimi83033 жыл бұрын

    HI I have never seen a realistic video like this before. spatially with this amount of details. It was really great

  • @punkson
    @punkson6 жыл бұрын

    Amazing work. Thanks so much!