Syllabus Application
Control System Design
ME 303
Faculty:
Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences
Semester:
Fall 2025-2026
Course:
Control System Design - ME 303
Classroom:
FASS-G025,FENS-L063
Level of course:
Undergraduate
Course Credits:
SU Credit:3.000, ECTS:6, Engineering:6
Prerequisites:
ENS 206
Corequisites:
ME 303R
Course Type:
Lecture
Instructor(s) Information
Kemalettin Erbatur
- Email: erbatur@sabanciuniv.edu
Course Information
Catalog Course Description
This courses introduces fundamental approaches to control system design. Specific topics include: cascade compensation networks; design in frequency domain; design using the Root Locus; systems with a prefilter; design of state variable feedback systems; controllability; observability; pole placement using state feedback; Ackermann's formula; ; limitations of state variable feedback ; state observers; the design of robust control systems.
Course Learning Outcomes:
| 1. | Characterize the performance of linear control systems in terms of steady-state error and time-domain specifications |
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| 2. | Analyze the basic objectives of closed-loop control systems, such as stability and tracking |
| 3. | Design and analyze linear controllers with realistic constraints using root-locus, state-space and frequency-domain design methods |
| 4. | Use MATLAB/Simulink in control system design |
| 5. | Convert continuous time controllers into digital ones using discretization methods and implement control algorithms using embedded controllers |
| 6. | Design experiments, test the impact of controller parameters on the response of physical systems and analyze the measured response |
Course Objective
Objective of the course is to enable students to understand why automatic control is useful, recognize the value of integrated control and process design, identify when a process is easy or difficult to control, learn key ideas and concepts in dynamics and feedback, grasp relevant mathematical theory, be able to solve some important control problems and recognize difficult ones, and be aware of computational tools.
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Course Materials
Resources:
Feedback Control of Dynamic Systems
Eighth Edition
Gene. F. Franklin
L. David Powell
Abbas Emami-Naeini
Eighth Edition
Gene. F. Franklin
L. David Powell
Abbas Emami-Naeini
Technology Requirements:
MATLAB and Simulink Program