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Lecture Topic
Introduction, Systems in radio-controlled car.
Basic electrical units & symbols, Kirchhoff's laws.
Reading
Ch. 1, 2.1-3
2.5-7, 17
Lecture/Notes
Lect 1
Lect 2-4
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5
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Resistance, Ohm's law, Power, Resistors in parallel & series.
Nodes, Grounds, Branches, Meters, Voltage and current dividers.
I vs V curves of, sources, resistors, bulbs, and diodes. Thevenin. Max pwr xfer
2.11-12, 3.5
2.10, 2.13-16
3.2, 2.19
Lect 5 and 6
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8
Lab 1
Lab 2
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Thevenin examples
Intro to AC and time-varying v(t) & i(t). Concept of signal. Sinusoids. Fourier.
Power transmission, Transformer.
Introduction to lab, procedures, basic equipment. Measure I-V curves of
devices.
Measurements of I and V for RC car battery. Create model of the car's battery.
MEMORIAL DAY
PWM duty cycle and power, AM, FM
A/D conversion, Capacitors
Exam 1
cont.
Learn about oscilloscope. Motor drive control RC car. PWM circ. with func gen.
RC Circuits. First-order transients.
Op amps
Op amps and the PWM circuit
Op amps
Make PWM circuit with op-amps.
Model PWM circuit in PSpice
Introduction to block diagrams, feedback
Feedback control, esp. as it relates to steering position control of the car.
Stability and Performance of Control Systems.
Exam 2
cont.
Steering position control. Pots as sensors. Measure system response of servo.
Introduction to digital circuits, esp. related to encoding and decoding RC signals
Boolean algebra, Digital gates
Flip-flops
State machines
Construct digital adder circuit
Construct counter circuit
Steady-state sinusoids, Phasors, & Complex numbers.
Phasors, Impedance, and AC circuits
AC circuit examples
Filters and frequency-response plots
cont.
Build and test audio circuit.
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N. Cotter
Date
M 14 May
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SCHEDULE
1250
Lab 2
Lab 3
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Lab 4a
Lab 4b
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Lab 4b
Lab 5
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Lab 6
Lab 7
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Lab 7
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Jun
6/28/12
2.20, 3.8
Lect 7
Lect 8
CTools
Sources,
Passive Sign,
K's Laws
Ohms Law
V I Dividers
Thevenin Equiv,
Max Power Xfer
Fourier Series
2.23, C.8, C.9
2.34
Lect 9
A/D Converters
RLC Circuits
Ch 6
Ch 7
Notes: Op Amps
Op-Amps
13.1-4
Notes: Systems
Ch 12
Ch 12
Ch 12
Notes: Digital
2.34
2.27
2.29-30
2.33
Notes: Phasors Intro
Notes: Phasors Ex
Complex #'s
Phasors
Impedance
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Lab M1
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Lab M2
Lab M3
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M6: 3-D plots using meshgrid and surfl, Array processing, Fourier theory,
Creating 3-D surfaces
Alter sound waveform (apply functions [= distort], add noise, delete parts, etc.).
Process and plot sound waveforms: spectrogram, sound effects, filtering, plots.
M7: Solving simultaneous equations, Fitting lines or other functions to data,
Comparison operators: ==, >=, ~=, >, <, Any and All functions
M8: 3-D plot example with array processing,And and Or operators, Any and All
operators, If else control flow
Exam 4
M9: Digital Signal Processing, Fast Fourier Transform, Spectrum
Lab M3
Lab M4
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Process and plot sound waveforms: spectrogram, sound effects, filtering, plots.
Create a sound effect: write functions, plot waveforms, create sound effect.
M10: Control flow: switch, for loops
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M11: Writing Matlab® functions
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Lab M4
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M12: Writing Matlab® functions
M13: Examples of writing functions, Digital filter function
Create a sound effect: write functions, plot waveforms, create your sound effect.
M14: Matlab® input/output to and from files, dlmread, wavread, imread
Review for final
Final Exam 10:00-12:00 a.m. (regular classroom)
EE595R-2 S91
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F 3
Exam 3
4TH of JULY
M1: Overview of Sounds and Speech; Matlab® Intro; Starting and quitting;
Matlab® Primer book, Desktop; Matlab® as powerful graphics calculator
M2: Variables, Arrays, Matrices: entering, addition, transpose, inverses,
products, element-by-element operations, Concatenation, Complex Numbers
Experiment with sound files using simple script functions (provided).
M3: Script files, Array indexing, Colon operator, Indexing using arrays, Sum
function, Functions operating on columns, Generating matrices
M4: Operators, Identity matrix (eye), min, max, size, character strings,
Advanced indexing
M5: Advanced indexing continued, Writing script files, Clearing functions
Aug
6/28/12
N. E. Cotter
Lect_M1
Lect_M2
Lect_M3, Advanced
Indexing
Lect_M4
Lect_M5,
my_script.m
Lect_M6, bumps.m
Lect_M7
Lect_M8
Lect_M9,
chop_spec.m,
real_fft.m
Lect_M10,
parallel.m,
standard_R.m,
vibrato.m,
butter_filter.m
Lect_M11,
dig_filter.m
Lect_M12
Lect_M13
Lect_M14