Control Systems Knowledge Base

2026-10-05BY Anjaneya Balkrishna Damle

control systemskalman filterPID control

Introduction

How a robot turns "where I want to be" into "what voltage/torque to send to the motors, right now, correctly, every millisecond." Covers classical and modern control.

What's covered

Classical control basics (open-loop vs closed-loop, transfer functions): https://drive.google.com/file/d/14D6Yr4m3n5vGUJR6BTXpbubLHtevKUiF/view?usp=sharing
PID control:https://colab.research.google.com/drive/1d_4wFjOr2zwhEEo2bHRZcAnPzOYXtVMp?usp=sharing
State-space representation & modern control:
Kalman filtering & state estimation:https://drive.google.com/file/d/19FkX436m1dvM0sdVxV5cIyB7rzh1cFme/view?usp=sharing
Stability analysis

Resources

Books

State estimation and Filtering: Estimation with Applications to Tracking and Navigation: Theory, Algorithms and Software, Yakov Bar-Shalom

Papers

Easiest Intro to Kalman filtering: https://web.mit.edu/kirtley/kirtley/binlustuff/literature/control/Kalman%20filter.pdf Courses / Videos
Classical Control Systems: _
Modern Control: