Introduction

As an important course for students majoring in Automation, the goals of the course Principle of Automatic Control Systems are as follows. After complete this course, students will be able to master the basic methods of analysis and design of automatic control systems, including the modeling of the physical systems, analyzing and designing of the control system using time-domain and frequency domain methods.
The students should understand the contents of automatic control theory and its classification, master the basic components for feedback control structure as well as the typical testing signals usually used in control systems. 
The students should master three basic mathematical models used to describe a control system, which are differential equation, block diagram and signal flow chart. Starting from block diagram the students could find the gains of the system using Mason Gain Formula.