The elective course in electrical/electronics and communication engineering "Advanced Control Systems" introduces the fundamental concepts, principles and application of advanced control system analysis and design to the postgraduate students.
The course material shall include the topics : configurations of controllers, time and frequency domain performance measures, PID control of SISO systems and TITO systems, PID controller, its variants and limitations, PI-PD control, effects of measurement noise and load disturbances, plant model identification, frequency domain based identification, off-line and on-line identification, accuracy of identification and sensitivity, time domain based identification, state space based identification methods, accuracy of identification and sensitivity, model based controller design, model-free controller design, automatic and on-line tuning of controllers, real time applications of the control algorithms, Field programmable analog/digital array based design of controllers.