ME161/261 Control, Vibration, and Design of Dynamic Systems Fall 2011-2012

Announcements Class Handouts Program Downloads Motion Genesis Lab Handouts News and Interesting Stuff Course Staff Old Exams Dynamic Systems Hall of Fame

Announcements

• Do not purchase the course reader unless you are sure you are taking the class. There are no returns. Instead, browse to the rainbow buttons at the bottom of the following webpage - with hyperlinks to the first two homework sets. (course reader)
• Invoice for course reader (pdf)
• Information on the Dynamics Summer Program (pdf)

Homework Guidelines

1. Homework is due according to the Syllabus.
   You must turn in a hardcopy of your lab/homework during class -- in the BOX.
2. To receive full credit, you must:
   • Show your work -- you'll get no credit for answers without explanations.
   • Circle / Highlight your answers -- if we can't find your answers, we can't grade your assignment.
   • Use Proper Notation -- use the notation of the class e.g. subscript, superscript and definition symbol.
   • Write your name on each page legibly -- if we can't read your name, we can't grade your assignment.
   • Staple pages -- if pages go missing, we can't grade your assignment.
3. If you use any computation tool (e.g. MotionGenesis Matlab, C, etc)
   you must submit a computational file that includes both the input commands and the output results.

Class Handouts

• Syllabus (pdf)
• Textbook: Early chapter and Homework 1 (pdf)
• Linears System Frequency Domain Analysis (pdf)
• Solutions to the Inverted Pendulum on a Cart example (pdf)
• Alternate explanation of the spinning book phenomena (seen in problem 5.5) (pdf)
  (props to Cameron Schaeffer for this!)
• Notes on Fourier series and Fourier transforms (courtesy of Dr. Brad Osgood) (pdf) (pdf)
• Fourier series problem set (pdf) (page1 correction)
• Matrix tutorials (part 1a) (part 1b) (part 1c) (part 2a) (part 2b)

Software Program Downloads

• Motion Genesis
• MotionGenesis Getting Started
• Download Motion Genesis software
• Install/run off USB port of Stanford PC (without admin rights)

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• Working Model PC download (exe)
• Working Model tutorial (pdf)
• Working Model for Macintosh user?
  Download and install Working Model PC version (45MB) to USB chip and run off USB port of Stanford PC computer

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MotionGenesis Tutorial

1. Download and install
2. Basic input/output
3. Vectors and vector commands
4. Matrices and matrix commands
5. Solving linear algebraic equations
6. Solving nonlinear algebraic equations
7. Solving ODEs (differential equations)

Lab Handouts

• Lab 1: 1^st Order Systems
  - Handout (pdf)
  - Working Model part I (wm2d)
  - Working Model part II (wm2d)

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• Lab 2: 2^nd Order Systems
  - Handout (pdf)
  - Working Model (mass/spring/damper) (wm2d)
  - Working Model (natural frequency/damping ratio) (wm2d)

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• Lab 3: Bifilar Pendulum
  - Handout (pdf)
  - Aircraft Supplement (pdf)
  - Working Model (inertia/spring/damper) (wm2d)
  - Working Model (natural frequency/damping ratio) (wm2d)
  - Working Model (nonlinear) (wm2d)

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• Lab 4: Harmonic Forcing
  - Handout (pdf)
  - Working Model (pogo stick) (wm2d)

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• Lab 5: Filters and Audio
  - Handout (pdf)
  - Matlab scripts (script) (script)
  - Music (wav) (wav)

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• Lab 6: Motor Control
  - Handout (pdf)
  - Working Model (Kp/Ki) (wm2d)
  - Working Model (On/Off and deadband) (wm2d)

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• Lab 8: MIPSI
  - Handout (pdf)

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• Lab 9: Inverted Pendulum
  - Working Model (Intuition) (wm2d)
  - Working Model (Pole placement) (wm2d)

News and Interesting Stuff

• Job talk (pdf)
• Salaries after graduation (html)
• Summer internship opportunities at JPL (html)
• CalTech MURF Undergraduate Research Fellowships (summer research) (html)
• Caltech's Amgen Scholars Program (html)

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• Video of a mass-spring-damper (avi)
• Dynamic systems song (mp3)

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• The MacTutor History of Mathematics archive (html)
• A brief history of negative numbers (pdf)

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• Hadron Collider and black hole to end life on planet Earth? (html)
• The Chernobyl nuclear experiment (no accident?) (html)
• Life without Engineers (pdf)
• Humans lose concrete recipe for 1300 years (html)
• NASA loses critical Apollo heat shielding recipe (pdf)
• NASA looks for heat shields in Smithsonian museum (html)
  "...according to the Orion program executive the Orion project originally intended to use the heat shield from the Apollo program as a fallback technology for the Orion thermal protection system, but was unable to recreate the Apollo material."
  
• NASA has trouble with Newton's Law (link) (pdf)
• Tacoma Narrows Bridge Collapse (youtube)
  

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• MotionGenesis (formerly Autolev)    Interactive Physics    Working Model    Dynamic celt (rattleback)

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• PhD comics (html)
• xkcd comics (html)
• Abbott and Costello with "creative math" (video)
• Kenneth Chang, What Makes an Equation Beautiful (link) (New York Times, October 24, 2004. via Dr. Dan Laser)

Course Staff

Eric Younge	Helen Lu	Betai Koffi
Paul Mitiguy	Kaushik Mani

Old Exams

• 2002 Midterm (pdf)
• 2003 Midterm (pdf)
• 2004 Midterm (pdf)
• 2008 Midterm with solutions (pdf)

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• 2003 Final (pdf)
• 2003 Final solutions (pdf)
• 2004 Final (pdf)
• 2004 Final solutions (pdf)
• 2005 Final (pdf)
• 2005 Final solutions (pdf)

Dynamic Systems Hall of Fame

Dr. Jorge Cham - Ph.D. Comics, Former Professor Cal Tech	Dr. Allison Okamura - Professor: John Hopkins	Dr. Will Provancher - Professor: University of Utah
Dr. Matt Spenko - Professor: Illinois Institute of Technology	Dr. Jonathan Clark - Professor FSU/FAMU (Florida)	Dr. Dan Laser - CEO Wave 80 Biosciences
Susan Lee – NASA Scientist	Brandon Stafford - Principal/Product Engineer at GreenMountain Engineering, Ideo, MindTribe	Mike Derse - Engineer at Volkswagon (and Water Polo Coach)
Dr. Jennifer (Bower) Dawson - Professor York College of Engineering	Alex Bulitt	Abe Chiang
Melody Wu	Peling Lee	Michael Posa
Tarm Casebolt	Alex Starns - Mechanical Engineer at Google	Katrina Bell
Ryan Hanson	Robert Usiskin	Christopher Edmunds
Dr. Jonathan Karpick	Dr. Weston Griffin	Dr. Christopher Richard
Dr. Sean Bailey
Paul Csonka	LeAnn Duong	Holly Liske
Katy Keenan	Alex Perkins	Apoorva Rajagopal
Linus Park	Chris Tsoufakis	Samson Phan