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  • ACE-Core | ACE-Lab

    ACE-Core

    A structured pathway from entry-level control concepts to university-level model-based design.

    Each link below opens a short, bitesize webpage focused on one introductory topic.

    CO

    ACE-CO

    Comprehend Operate
    • What is automatic control?→
    • Why control matters→
    • Systems, signals, and variables→
    • Inputs and outputs→
    • Setpoints and measurements→
    • Open-loop and closed-loop control→
    • Feedback→
    • The error signal→
    • Basic control actions→
    • System response→
    • Using the ACE-Box→
    • Sensors and actuators→
    • Potentiometers, buttons, and LEDs→
    • DC motors and servo motors→
    • Encoders→
    • Running a practical test→
    • Reading response plots→
    • Data logging basics→
    • Safety and good practice→
    • Describing system behaviour→

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    COR

    ACE-COR

    Comprehend Operate Refine
    • Block diagrams→
    • Summing junctions→
    • Transfer functions: introduction→
    • First-order systems→
    • Time constant→
    • Steady-state error→
    • Transient response→
    • Sampling and discretisation→
    • Data logging and plots→
    • Step tests→
    • Disturbance tests→
    • Comparing responses→
    • Performance measures→
    • Rise time and settling time→
    • Overshoot→
    • Proportional control→
    • Integral control→
    • Derivative control→
    • PID tuning basics→
    • Iterative testing→

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    CORE

    ACE-CORE

    Comprehend Operate Refine Engineer
    • Model-based design→
    • Control system workflow→
    • From requirements to tests→
    • Plant modelling→
    • Parameter identification→
    • Model validation→
    • Simulation models→
    • Controller design→
    • PID design in simulation→
    • Root locus: introduction→
    • Frequency response: introduction→
    • Stability margins→
    • State-space introduction→
    • From simulation to hardware→
    • Real-time implementation→
    • Hardware-in-the-loop testing→
    • Noise and filtering→
    • Disturbance rejection design→
    • Verification and validation→
    • Engineering documentation→

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