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  • ESE 434: Solid-State Power Circuits and Applications

    3.00 Credits
    Washington University in St Louis

    Study of the strategies and applications power control using solid-state semiconductor devices. Survey of generic power electronic converters. Applications to power supplies, motor drives, and consumer electronics. Introduction to power diodes, thyristors, and MOSFETs. Prerequisites: ESE 232, 351.
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  • ESE 435: Electrical Energy Laboratory

    3.00 Credits
    Washington University in St Louis

    Experimental studies of principles important in modern electrical energy systems. Topics include: power measurements, single-phase transformers, batteries, three-phase circuits and transformers, static frequency converters, thermoelectric cooling, solar cells, electrical lighting, induction, commutator, and brushless motors, and synchronous machines. Prerequisites: ESE 230 and 232.
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  • ESE 436: Advanced Electronic Devices

    3.00 Credits
    Washington University in St Louis

    The physics of state-of-the-art electronic devices. Devices to be studied include novel diode structures (light-emitting diodes, semiconductor laser diodes), high-power devices (SCRs, TRIACs, and power transistors), and high-speed devices. High-speed devices include heterojunction bipolar (HBT), heterojunction field-effect (HFET), and high electron mobility (HEMT) transistors used in very high-speed systems (up to 100 GHz). Advanced bipolar transistors (poly-Si), used in high-speed microprocessors, examined; also materials properties, transport mechanisms, band structure, and physics of these devices. Prerequisite: ESE 336.
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  • ESE 437: Sustainable Energy Systems

    3.00 Credits
    Washington University in St Louis

    We survey the field of sustainable energy and explore current and future contributions within electrical and systems engineering. Specific areas and selected topics include energy distribution and storage, smart and robust power grids, energy and building efficiency, energy conversion, photovoltaics, and control of wind turbines. The course consists of lectures, laboratory experiments, review and discussion of literature, and student projects. Prerequisite: ESE 317 and junior or senior standing, or permission of the instructor.
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  • ESE 438: Applied Optics

    3.00 Credits
    Washington University in St Louis

    Topics relevant to the engineering and physics of conventional as well as experimental optical systems and applications explored. Items addressed include geometrical optics, Fourier optics such as diffraction and holography, polarization and optical birefringence such as liquid crystals, and nonlinear optical phenomena and devices. Prerequisite: ESE 330 or equivalent.
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  • ESE 441: Control Systems

    3.00 Credits
    Washington University in St Louis

    Introduction to theory and practice of automatic control for continuous-time systems. Representations of the system: transfer function, block diagram, signal flow graph, differential state equation and output equation. Analysis of control system components. Transient and steady-state performance. System analysis: Routh-Hurwitz, root-locus, Nyquist, Bode plots. System design: PID controller, and lead-lag compensators, pole placement via state feedback, observer, stability margins in Nyquist and Bode plots. Emphasis on design principles and their implementation. Design exercises with a MATLAB package for specific engineering problems. Prerequisite: ESE 351 or MASE 431.
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  • ESE 442: Digital Control Systems

    3.00 Credits
    Washington University in St Louis

    The control of physical systems with digital computer, microprocessor, or special-purpose digital hardware is becoming very common. Course continues ESE 441 to develop models and mathematical tools needed to analyze and design these digital, feedback-control systems. Linear, discrete dynamic systems. The Z-transform. Discrete equivalents to continuous transfer functions. Sampled-data control systems. Digital control systems design using transfer and state-space methods. Systems composed of digital and continuous subsystems. Quantization effects. System identification. Multivariable and optimum control. Prerequisite: ESE 351 and 441 (or MAE 431), or permission of instructor.
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  • ESE 444: Sensors and Actuators

    3.00 Credits
    Washington University in St Louis

    The course provide engineering students with basic understanding of two of the main components of any modern electrical or electromechanical system; sensors as inputs and actuators as outputs. The covered topics include transfer functions, frequency responses and feedback control. Component matching and bandwidth issues. Performance specification and analysis, Sensors: analog and digital motion sensors, optical sensors, temperature sensors, magnetic and electromagnetic sensors, acoustic sensors, chemical sensors, radiation sensors, torque, force and tactile sensors. Actuators: stepper motors, DC and AC motors, hydraulic actuators, magnet and electromagnetic actuators, acoustic actuators. Introduction to interfacing methods: bridge circuits, A/D and D/A converters, microcontrollers. This course is useful for those students interested in control engineering, robotics and systems engineering. Prerequisites: one of the following four conditions: (1) prerequisite of ESE 230 and corequisite of ESE 351; (2) prerequisites of ESE 230, ESE 317, and MASE 255 (Mechanics II); (3) prerequisites of ESE 105/251 and ESE 351; and (4) permission of instructor.
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  • ESE 446: Robotics: Dynamics and Control

    3.00 Credits
    Washington University in St Louis

    Homogeneous coordinates and transformation matrices. Kinematic equations and the inverse kinematic solutions for manipulators, the manipulator Jacobian and the inverse Jacobian. General model for robot arm dynamics, complete dynamic coefficients for six-link manipulator. Synthesis of manipulation control, motion trajectories, control of single- and multiple-link manipulators, linear optimal regulator. Model reference adaptive control, feedback control law for the perturbation equations along a desired motion trajectory. Design of the control system for robotics. Prerequisites: ESE 317, 351 or 441, and knowledge of a programming language.
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  • ESE 447: Robotics Laboratory

    3.00 Credits
    Washington University in St Louis

    Introduces the students to various concepts such as modeling, identification, model validation and control of robotic systems. The course focuses on the implementation of identification and control algorithms on a two-link robotic manipulator (the so-called pendubot) that is used as an experimental testbed. Topics include: introduction to the mathematical modeling of robotic systems; nonlinear model, linearized model; identification of the linearized model: input-output and state-space techniques; introduction to the identification of the nonlinear model: energy-based techniques; model validation and simulation; stabilization using linear control techniques; a closer look at the dynamics; stabilization using nonlinear control techniques. Prerequisite: ESE 351 or MAE 417.
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