Systems and controls involves the analysis, design, modeling, estimation, identification, and control of physical systems and processes. It is used in a variety of applications including power systems, manufacturing, robotics, process control, flight control and navigation, network control, and biomedical systems. At Georgia Tech, courses in systems and controls are offered covering topics such as introduction to systems and controls, software fundamentals for engineering systems, neural networks and fuzzy logic in control, and industrial controls and manufacturing. Systems and controls courses are also offered at Georgia Tech's campus in Lorraine, France.

1. SYSTEMS AND CONTROLS:
What is it?
the analysis, design, modeling, estimation,
identification, and control of physical systems
or processes
Professor Bonnie Heck

2. Feedback Control
Controlled signal Measured
outputs
Process or
System to be
Controlled

3. Feedback Control
Desired Measured
Controlled signal
Value outputs
Error Control System Process or
+ (analog or System to be
-
digital) Controlled

4. Lego Motor Control
Desired
Angle
Error Motor Voltage Angle
+ Microcontroller Motor Assembly
-

5. Process Control
From R. Stenz and U. Kuhn, Automation of a Batch Distillation Column Using Fuzzy and Conventional
Control," IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology, vol. 3, no. 2, June 1995, page 172.

6. Power System
From:P. Kundar, Power System
Stability and Control, McGraw Hill,
1994, page 9.

7. Printed
Circuit
Board test
From: J. Shim, H. Cho and S. Kim, "An
Actively Compliable Probing System," IEEE
Control Systems Magazine, vol. 17, no. 1,
February 1997, page 15.

8. Biomedical
From: R. Dorf and R. Bishop, Modern Control Systems, Addison
Wesley, 7th edition, 1995, page 706.

9. Baking Processes

10. Applications
• Power Systems
• Manufacturing
• Robotics
• Process Control
• Flight Control and Navigation
• Network Control
• Biomedical
• Process Scheduling (in Computers)

11. Courses (To be offered)
• ECE 3085 - Introduction to Systems and
Controls (3-0-3)
• ECE 3090 - Software Fundamentals for
Engineering Systems ( 3-3-4 )
• ECE 4562 – Neural Networks and Fuzzy
Logic in Control
• ECE 4761 Industrial Controls and
Manufacturing
• Computational Computer Vision
• Embedded Control Systems

12. Georgia Tech Lorraine
Courses in Systems and Controls, Digital Signal
Processing, Communications, Optics