Uploaded December 2017 | Updated September 2026, 2 hours ago

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Dear Mechanical, Aerospace, Eng Phys, and Electrical/Computer Engineers!

If you are a student in ME/AE/EP/EE or CE, there will be a time where you will take an introductory course in control systems. In this video I teach you how to design a PD controller for a missile silo by using MATLAB, hand formulas, and the Bode Plot Frequency Method. Specifically this video covers:

Proportional, Integral, and Derivative Gain - what they do
Transfer Functions
Gain Margin / Phase Margin / Crossover Frequency / Time Response
Settling Time / Rise Time / Percent Overshoot
Bode Plots

This video also covers implementing this basic control system using MATLAB and Simulink. In addition, Simulink 3D Animation is used in order to visualize this system with a CAD model developed in Solidworks.

I hope you find this video helpful. I wish you all a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year (from Canada). Let us reach 2000 subscribers by the end of 2018!

If you are curious as to how I implement Simulink 3D Animation, I highly recommend you all to watch my old video covering this topic in full detail here at: youtube.com/watch?v=--9d8jYzLpg&t=435s and here at: youtube.com/watch?v=HPLl8kZgvsE

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