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If anyone's studying control theory, you're doing yourself a disservice if you don't use Brian Douglas's resources. His videos on YouTube are phenomenal at expl
by ubj 4y ago
If anyone's studying control theory, you're doing yourself a disservice if you don't use Brian Douglas's resources. His videos on YouTube are phenomenal at explaining not only the theory and techniques, but why you should care in the first place.
Also, why should anyone study control theory? It's the math behind making real-world systems perform what you want them to do. In particular, robotics and autonomous vehicles rely heavily on techniques from control theory.
If you watch Brian's videos, keep in mind that they bifurcated into two places: his original videos [1], and his more recent MATLAB tech talk videos [2].
[1]: https://www.youtube.com/controllectures https://www.youtube.com/controllectures
[2]: https://engineeringmedia.com/videos https://engineeringmedia.com/videos
- lagrange77 4y ago> If anyone's studying control theory, you're doing yourself a disservice if you don't use Brian Douglas's resources. The same is true for Steve Brunton. Control theory, systems theory, computational engineering and the interface of the latter to ML. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCm5mt-A4w61lknZ9lCsZtBw https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCm5mt-A4w61lknZ9lCsZtBw
- raydiatian 4y agoWhere’s the Christopher Lun plug? Great explanations by him on how to do LQR.
- kranner 4y agoLum with an M for anyone else who had trouble locating his channel. https://www.youtube.com/c/ChristopherLum https://www.youtube.com/c/ChristopherLum
- raydiatian 4y agoAh crap. Thanks. He is fantastic.
- tankster 4y agoI have found https://www.collimator.ai/ https://www.collimator.ai/ as a very useful tool to learn and try out control theory concepts. I am a software systems engineer with limited understanding of control systems. But watching Brian Douglas's videos on youtube and then following along by building simple examples in Collimator and simulating them started to give me a better sense of the tutorials. Good luck! Brian's stuff is great :)
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- DonHopkins 4y agoWho is Mr. Big in the field of Chaos Theory, and isn't Control Theory diametrically opposed to Chaos Theory? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g1eUIK9CihA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g1eUIK9CihA James Gleick, Doyne Farmer, Jim Crutchfield, Ken Wilson, or Leo Kadanoff maybe? https://petterhol.me/2022/08/11/the-golden-age-of-complexity-science-books/ https://petterhol.me/2022/08/11/the-golden-age-of-complexity... >J Gleick, 1987. Chaos: Making a New Science. Viking Penguin, New York. The name aside, Gleick’s Chaos is the quintessential complex systems book, providing a prototype for the golden age. It does an excellent job of capturing the frenzied mid-80s dynamical-systems scene, culminating* in Jeff Goldblum’s chaos theorist character in Jurassic Park (allegedly inspired by Gleick himself). But Chaos spans adjacent fields too, namechecking future Santa Fe Institute luminaries like Doyne Farmer and Jim Crutchfield and statistical physicists like Ken Wilson and Leo Kadanoff. All-in-all still a worthwhile read, not only for the zeitgeist.