"Each open-loop pole has its open-loop zero friend and they draw a path between the two. And if a pole or a zero doesn't have a friend then they go off to infinity searching for them." - Brian Douglas idk why but feelsss
One of my favorite controls books is "Control Theory Second Edition" by JR Leigh. There are a lot of great books that describe the theory and show you the math, but this book explains most of the concepts in words. I think engineers can get a good understanding of "why" the theory as opposed to"what's" the theory from this book.
This channel has genuinely made me want RUclips to implement a "Buy this guy a beer" button. Your videos are all so damn straightforward to understand, and you've taught me more in two days than I've managed to understand from 19 hours of lectures on the subject. Thank you so so much.
"Each open loop pole has their open loop friend and if they don't have a friend they go out to infinity searching for them" those were probably the most beautiful words i have heard in my engineering education so far!
This video was uploaded 10 yrs ago but still impactful even today. I was struggling to sketch root locus. This video helped me pass Control Systems, my final elective for BSc Electrical Eng. Kudos to you Brian, you've earned a new subscriber.
Our professor who graduated from MIT failed so hard on teaching this course. HUGE thanks and you are not even charging anything while our university asked for $37000 CAD.
I'm a student at university. love you sir. will watch all your videos. really helpful, informative easy to understand and time-saving. thank you very much
I just wanted to say thank you for the informative videos. They are doing a fantastic job at helping me prepare for my final and are vastly more interesting and explanatory than my book or lectures have been. Keep up the great work!
Really concise and sufficient explanations in all of your videos I've seen so far. Excellent work, you have helped me so much... no need to go to lectures now, awesome content you are sharing with the world. Thank you
Your way of teaching is phenomenal and extremely easy to understand even though the material is not simplified!! Applied engineering with examples is what we need! Thank you!!
mate I don't know if its cry of joy or the fact that my professor is not the best and I might fail but I thank you for the explanation, you are a king!
I have exam about Control Engineering in University, just as you predicted and Your set of videos explained everything so much better than in the real course! I appreciate so much that people like you exist! You have great ability to explain rather complex things in a clear and structured way! Thanks a lot and wish you good luck in everything you do!
These videos are so helpful! My introductory controls professor was terrible and he tainted the subject for me forever, but this is helping me so much! Thank you!!!
I love youuuuu. Your video helps me a lot. I mean a lot. I take this course in german and can hardly understand it. You make my life easier. Can't really describe how gratefull I am.
This is a crystal clear explanation. Although I'm not English speaking, I learned so much more by watching your rather than the syllabus I'm using! Thank you so much!
Well done. All your videos are very informative. I didn't think I'd find such a straightforward video on what I thought was an obscure topic for youtube. Cheers
i would like to thank you for your awsome videos!! eventhough english is my second language and i live in Saudi Arabia, i fully get the concept behind your lectures because of the beautiful way you represent them again thanks alot
English is my second language .......I like the way you explain it at 8:55 when you say by multiplying with infinity you put more importance on Q(s) THE WAY YOU USE DOMINACE AND IMPORTANCE is very much nice
I have learned so much from watching your videos. I'm taking a controls course right now and I thought it was awful until I came upon your videos. The material is extremely cool but my professor teaches purely the mechanics and it's frustrating to not understand how this stuff applies to the real world. You do a great job at making the material interesting and I can't thank you enough for taking the time to make these.
Excellent video! Great use of colours! And nice handwriting!... But most of all, excellent presentation of ideas... We need more teachers like you in this world!
Same here, control was hell - glimpses of wonder, but only glimpses. After grad school + a few years in industry, I finally figured out what happened: my prof knew how to do the work, but he had developed zero intuition about why things work the way they do. So we had to take it on faith, which isn't very satisfying when you actually want to learn something. Brian has excellent intuition, and the ability to communicate it... in school I learned how, here I'm finally learning why. (Which rocks.)
This and part 2 are excellent videos helping one grasp the concepts of a root locus sketch. However, I wish the comment at the end of part 2 about this not answering the university required questions such as intercepting the imaginary axis etc. was mentioned as a disclaimer in the beginning of this video. I am grateful that I now understand the principles, but I now have to spend additional time researching videos that explain those other rules, which I will need to know for exams (but never again in real life, thanks to Matlab). Still a big thumbs up!
Thanks for explaining the purpose behind doing stuff, it's the only difference between being able to vomit answers in a test vs. actually knowing what you're doing and why (which is what's needed out of education)
I didn't like control system, but after seeing these videos i started understanding it. I am starting this a day before the exams and I think these videos helped me a lot. Do you have a series about signals?
(1 of 2) This is tricky. We've already thrown out realism with a linear system because no system is truly linear. And as you point out we could take the derivative of a signal and that transfer function would just be 's', which has more zeros than poles. But the problem comes when you input very high frequencies into that system. The amplitude of the output goes towards infinity as the frequency goes towards infinity and no real system behaves like that.
This is an old vid but I just recently stumbled upon these lectures... You sir, are fucking awesome. This sort of material is akin to the clarity that comes from Ben Eater, Khan Academy, and/or 3Blue1Brown. It's a shame that the education system is focused just on producing students that blindly follow rules and succeed their exams instead of insisting on building an intuition for the subjects and for really understanding the underlying principles. Anyway... love your stuff man. Thanks for a wealth of knowledge.
You are the reason many future engineers pass control systems and receive their degrees. Please keep up the good work!
YUP
agree
Some of the lecturers from my University does NOT deserve their salaries. Thank you.
+Lester H They get paid mostly for the research they do not how they teach. Most universities dont care about their profs teaching abilities.
if i happened to be a lecturer of this subject then i'll just show this channel to my students and enjoy my salaries lol
Are you talking about india?
"Each open-loop pole has its open-loop zero friend and they draw a path between the two. And if a pole or a zero doesn't have a friend then they go off to infinity searching for them."
- Brian Douglas
idk why but feelsss
he got me there too
0.0 .....poetic fucking engineering tutorial *.*
LOVE IT SO MUCH
Teaching done right. People learn so much more easily with examples like these
That one single line got me though
poor guys, forever searching for a friend. so sad D;
One of my favorite controls books is "Control Theory Second Edition" by JR Leigh. There are a lot of great books that describe the theory and show you the math, but this book explains most of the concepts in words. I think engineers can get a good understanding of "why" the theory as opposed to"what's" the theory from this book.
you are a legend, you make this very easy.
are you a practicing engineer?
can you post the notes you used in the videos so we can use them to study?
Hey Mr.Douglas, thank you so much for this textbook recommendation (& all of your lectures of course). You are a real G
This channel has genuinely made me want RUclips to implement a "Buy this guy a beer" button. Your videos are all so damn straightforward to understand, and you've taught me more in two days than I've managed to understand from 19 hours of lectures on the subject. Thank you so so much.
Best thing my Control System teacher ever did: recommend this channel.
I've been trying to understand root locus sketching for hours and this video made me understand it better than one whole semester of lectures
"Each open loop pole has their open loop friend and if they don't have a friend they go out to infinity searching for them" those were probably the most beautiful words i have heard in my engineering education so far!
This video was uploaded 10 yrs ago but still impactful even today. I was struggling to sketch root locus. This video helped me pass Control Systems, my final elective for BSc Electrical Eng. Kudos to you Brian, you've earned a new subscriber.
took 14 minutes on here to understand this compared to 32 lectures from a PHD of 22 years lol
loool same here
Colin Cassidy Exactly !
Colin Cassidy exactly!!!
Same!!!
I'm so glad i can find this video before i study that much!!
thanks brian
Very useful. I'm a Canadian engineering student and this has clarified basic things my prof has ignored!
Our professor who graduated from MIT failed so hard on teaching this course. HUGE thanks and you are not even charging anything while our university asked for $37000 CAD.
I'll always recommend this channel for whoever is studying control systems.
I'm a student at university. love you sir. will watch all your videos. really helpful, informative easy to understand and time-saving. thank you very much
So much knowledge in just one video! I dont even know what to note down, I mean everything you say is just important. THank you
I just wanted to say thank you for the informative videos. They are doing a fantastic job at helping me prepare for my final and are vastly more interesting and explanatory than my book or lectures have been. Keep up the great work!
your videos are AWESOME, I didn't learn a thing in class, but these videos saved my ass in the final exam.
thank you so much
Really concise and sufficient explanations in all of your videos I've seen so far. Excellent work, you have helped me so much... no need to go to lectures now, awesome content you are sharing with the world. Thank you
the best lecturer ever! only 13 minutes covered 3 lecture(120min) of our lecture
Your way of teaching is phenomenal and extremely easy to understand even though the material is not simplified!! Applied engineering with examples is what we need! Thank you!!
Simply amazing, control systems has been by far the only major tough subject in my degree and your lectures nail it greatly! Well done and thank you!
These videos are GREAT! Much better than the class I am paying an outrageous amount of money to take
An instructor who explains why what he is saying is important is an incredible tactic that unfortunately very few use. Amazing.
mate I don't know if its cry of joy or the fact that my professor is not the best and I might fail but I thank you for the explanation, you are a king!
I have exam about Control Engineering in University, just as you predicted and Your set of videos explained everything so much better than in the real course! I appreciate so much that people like you exist! You have great ability to explain rather complex things in a clear and structured way! Thanks a lot and wish you good luck in everything you do!
These videos are so helpful! My introductory controls professor was terrible and he tainted the subject for me forever, but this is helping me so much! Thank you!!!
I love youuuuu. Your video helps me a lot. I mean a lot. I take this course in german and can hardly understand it. You make my life easier. Can't really describe how gratefull I am.
Thank you so much for these videos. I haven't heard control theory explained this straight forward and easy to understand before.
This is amazing. Greatest teacher I've had the pleasure of listening to. Thank you
This is a crystal clear explanation. Although I'm not English speaking, I learned so much more by watching your rather than the syllabus I'm using! Thank you so much!
Well done. All your videos are very informative. I didn't think I'd find such a straightforward video on what I thought was an obscure topic for youtube. Cheers
i would like to thank you for your awsome videos!! eventhough english is my second language and i live in Saudi Arabia, i fully get the concept behind your lectures because of the beautiful way you represent them
again thanks alot
These are the best videos on net regarding control systems. Please upload more videos.
I have no idea how would have I understood it without you, when my exam days are on my head.
English is my second language .......I like the way you explain it at 8:55 when you say by multiplying with infinity you put more importance on Q(s) THE WAY YOU USE DOMINACE AND IMPORTANCE is very much nice
Finally. Finally I understand how Matlab knows where to put k. Thanks a lot.
I have learned so much from watching your videos. I'm taking a controls course right now and I thought it was awful until I came upon your videos. The material is extremely cool but my professor teaches purely the mechanics and it's frustrating to not understand how this stuff applies to the real world. You do a great job at making the material interesting and I can't thank you enough for taking the time to make these.
God bless you Brian; thanks to your way of teaching, I am finally getting it.
You saved my control journey at ust. Thanks 😎
You're doing the Lord's work, Brian.
wow watching your videos for 30 minutes took away 3 weeks of confusions
U are the best teacher for this subject .
Your video just saved me hours of struggling, thank you.
Your tutorials are sooo useful, I wish you covered the subjects in all my other papers as well
You are a legend, Brian. It is rare to come across people who make such good videos. Are you a lecturer? Because if you aren't, you should be!
Beautiful explanation, you are making the world smarter.
These videos are pure gold!
Excellent video! Great use of colours! And nice handwriting!... But most of all, excellent presentation of ideas... We need more teachers like you in this world!
Your explanations are very very clear.
Thank you so much
Same here, control was hell - glimpses of wonder, but only glimpses. After grad school + a few years in industry, I finally figured out what happened: my prof knew how to do the work, but he had developed zero intuition about why things work the way they do. So we had to take it on faith, which isn't very satisfying when you actually want to learn something.
Brian has excellent intuition, and the ability to communicate it... in school I learned how, here I'm finally learning why. (Which rocks.)
Thank you! You saved so many engineering students like me to pass their courses.
No words to say but thanks! My test of Engineering of Control is at Monday and I was about to lose my mind, thank u!
oh my god, you saved my life!
mine too :D
This and part 2 are excellent videos helping one grasp the concepts of a root locus sketch. However, I wish the comment at the end of part 2 about this not answering the university required questions such as intercepting the imaginary axis etc. was mentioned as a disclaimer in the beginning of this video. I am grateful that I now understand the principles, but I now have to spend additional time researching videos that explain those other rules, which I will need to know for exams (but never again in real life, thanks to Matlab). Still a big thumbs up!
Lifesaver. Thanks for such clear and well structured tutorial.
Brian Douglas is the greatest!
You are the saviour, man! Lots of love for you!
Hi Brian...awesome..creative...crisp...what r u..an Artist? Engineer? Teacher?...I think a combination of all...thoroughly impressed...
super
never understood this in class like I did after watching this video.! thank you!
Thanks Brian. You were right in your assumptions, I have an exam coming for control systems course. Thanks again. That's a good video. Thanks.
Thank you so much sir. Your way of explaining things is exceptional.
I cant thank you enough for these videos..
Thanks for explaining the purpose behind doing stuff, it's the only difference between being able to vomit answers in a test vs. actually knowing what you're doing and why (which is what's needed out of education)
I love you
Such an amazing mentor. Thanks Buddy. You are my new hero xD
How lucky I found your video before my quiz on control systems. :) :)
Thank for your video. It's so greater, make I wanna learn about it more !
thank you very much Douglas! I'm very expected your new videos!
The drawing at the beginning made my day!!! Exam tmr lol
iker hua yup panic time :)
This is excellent sir. I guess you could teach many subjects in electrical and control engineering. Keep it up and thanks.
Lester H1 year ago
Some of the lecturers from my University does NOT deserve their salaries. Thank you.
I'm with Lester :)
Great videos! Appreciate the content. I like playing around with digital graph parameters more even though that’s a modern luxury.
These videos are awesome! Excellent job and keep it going!
These classes are great, thanks!
You've earned my subscription.
Thanks for the initiative.
I didn't like control system, but after seeing these videos i started understanding it. I am starting this a day before the exams and I think these videos helped me a lot. Do you have a series about signals?
You made life easier and interesting, again! Thanks!
Thank you very much! This is a very clear and useful video. Keep up the good work.
Really excellent videos! Thank you for the clear explanations!
short yet very good.....great work...
You are explaining it better than my tenured professor
Great video! Thanks! Greetings from the Netherlands
As always, excellent. Thanks Brian.
You really save my life!!!Thank you!!!
Other? My degree is in aerospace engineering so closer to mechanical.
Brian Douglas hello sir. Can you explain how the zeros in transfer function showed in 5:13 will effect the root locus..
@@PavanKumar-qn8sl zeros does not effect the root locus but they do effect the forced response of the system
@@PavanKumar-qn8sl zeros means zeros of close loop transfer function not of open loop....
I promise you , this is the best video has helped me more than 11 hours of intense lectures have
Thanks for putting up this content!
(1 of 2) This is tricky. We've already thrown out realism with a linear system because no system is truly linear. And as you point out we could take the derivative of a signal and that transfer function would just be 's', which has more zeros than poles. But the problem comes when you input very high frequencies into that system. The amplitude of the output goes towards infinity as the frequency goes towards infinity and no real system behaves like that.
THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THIS, I FEEL SO ENLIGHTENED
I've always enjoyed my control systems lectures
But now they make sense lol
Brian you are awesome!!!!
This is an old vid but I just recently stumbled upon these lectures...
You sir, are fucking awesome. This sort of material is akin to the clarity that comes from Ben Eater, Khan Academy, and/or 3Blue1Brown. It's a shame that the education system is focused just on producing students that blindly follow rules and succeed their exams instead of insisting on building an intuition for the subjects and for really understanding the underlying principles.
Anyway... love your stuff man. Thanks for a wealth of knowledge.
future world control teams are learned from you, you are the keystone of humans future. President of IEEE
very nice explanation! great job! thanks a lot
thank you! you have opened my mind!
These videos are f**king good!!!!!!!!
my professor found a way to make this seem outrageously difficult
You saved my life man
this is just great man thanks for this!
You are the real MVP
Thanks for using black background saving our battery life