Analysis and Design of Digital Control Systems
MIT OpenCourseWare offers this advanced course on control systems built around digital computers. Topics include real-time computer architecture, input-output interfaces and data converters, and the analysis and synthesis of sampled-data control systems using both classical and modern state-space methods. The course also examines trade-offs in control algorithms related to computation speed and quantization effects. Laboratory projects give hands-on experience with digital servo interfacing, covering practical implementation problems such as timing, noise, and nonlinear devices. Materials are freely available through MIT OpenCourseWare under a Creative Commons license, with no certificate offered. The course suits students who already have a background in control theory and want to see how digital computation reshapes classical design methods into practical, implementable systems.