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Digital control: Exercise solution

Can you help me (show me how) to solve the following exercise? For the process with transfer function $G(s)=e^{-2s}/(s+1)$ design a digital controller with sampling time $T_{s} = 1$ that meets the ...
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State Space Observer Control

I am attempting to implement observer based state feedback in C and can't figure it out. Here is pseudocode of the algorithm: ...
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response of algorithm in non-equidistant time

We are investigating ways to test a control algorithm. The algorithm has a non-equidistant track of input data (i.e. not every sample is valid, and we know it), and should output a series of ...
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How do I check controllability and observability using Gramian matrixes?

I have a pending exam and this is one of the must-know questions. It will be about checking controllability/observability of a simple MIMO linear system, using Controlability Gramian/Observability ...
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Optimal inference for nonlinear state space models

When considering a linear-Gaussian state space model, it is often referred that, optimal inference is tractable which is very rare in state space models. When considering a nonlinear state space ...
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Estimating the input to a system from a system state using EKF

[ Cross-posted from: http://math.stackexchange.com/questions/164169/estimating-the-input-to-a-system-from-a-system-state ] I have a system for which I have obtained a non-linear time-varying ...
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How to do prediction using frequency domain data?

Both linear regression and Kalman filtering can be used to estimate and then predict from a time domain sequence of data (given some assumptions about the model behind the data). What methods, if ...
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survey/book on adaptive/self-tuning of PI controllers?

Can someone point me towards a good book or survey article on adaptive/self-tuning of PI controllers? All I can find online are articles which are either vague or heavy on theory.
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How to deal with a negative pole (unstable) in the pre-filter of a control system?

So while answering how to design a PI controller for a first order time delayed system (Question Here ) Here is the closed loop equation to a control system: $$ G_C(s) = ...
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What is the “waterbed effect” in control system design?

I recently stumbled across some notes on the "Waterbed effect" in some notes by A. Megretski for an MIT course on "multivariate control systems". Here's an excerpt: A common effect, usually ...