Course information
Important note on Admission
There is a limit of 25 seats in this course. The admission is done in two steps. In August we check the eligibility of all students that have applied via antagning.se and universityadmissions.se. If the number of eligible students is higher than 25, a ranking based on grades in previous control courses is made. The remaining seats (if any) will be given to students that become eligible later (for example re-exams in August), or to students that apply late. This is done upon contact with the course responsible teacher on a first-come-first-served basis. You can not register late directly with the student office without getting prior OK from the course responsible teacher. Such registrations will be cancelled. New master students that start at KTH this semester will normally not be eligible and should consider this course for year two. If you are a new master student and you believe that you are eligible then you must contact the course responsible teacher to find out if there are any available seats left.
Note that a prerequisite for this course is a final grade in either of our advanced control courses (or equivalent courses from other universities):
EL2520 Control Theory and Practice
EL2450 Hybrid and Embedded Control Systems
EL2700 Model Predictive Control
EL2800 Stochastic Control and Optimization
Project Course in Automatic Control, 7.5 hp
The overall purpose of the course is to give the student practical knowledge and experience of project work in design and implementation of control systems. The students get to consolidate their previously acquired knowledge in control theory by solving a problem on a laboratory system. The student also gets experience in project work and technical communication.
After the course the student should have the ability to:
- work effectively in a smaller project group
- systematically design, implement, test and demonstrate a prototype control system that meets given specifications
- use adequate engineering tools and methods and acquire new knowledge and skill when needed
- document and communicate results in written and oral presentations
Main content
The majority of the work is project work in a small group of 4-6 students, dealing with:
- project planning
- control design
- modeling and simulation
- implementation of real-time control systems
- validation and test
- communication, documentation and demonstration
There might also be a number of compulsory workshops/tutorials, for example on the development tools that are used in the course.