Control Systems

Learning Plan

Full curriculum overview — 10 lessons + exercises + debugging

01 — What Is Control?

02 — Modeling DC Motors

03 — PID Controller

04 — Discrete-Time Control

05 — MCU Motor Control Hardware

06 — Fixed-Point PID on a Microcontroller

07 — Cascaded Control Loops

08 — Trajectory Tracking and Path Following

09 — Two-Layer Architecture: MCU ↔ Jetson

10 — Advanced Control: Beyond PID

Exercise 01 — Block Diagrams and Transfer Functions

Exercise 02 — PID Tuning

Exercise 03 — Discrete-Time Control

Exercise 04 — Fixed-Point Arithmetic

Exercise 05 — Motor Modeling and Identification

Exercise 06 — Cascade Controller Design

Exercise 07 — Trajectory Tracking

Exercise 08 — Full Pipeline: Motor to Waypoint

Debug: Debug Session 1 — Motor Oscillation: "The Wheel Won't Stop Shaking"

Debug: Debug Session 2 — Integral Windup: "The Robot Lurches After E-Stop Release"

Debug: Debug Session 3 — cmd_vel Gap: "The Robot Drifts Between Waypoints"

Senior Q: Senior Interview Questions — Control Theory Deep Dive

Senior Q: Senior Interview Questions — Embedded Control

Senior Q: Senior Interview Questions — System Integration