Welcome to ELEC 3004/7312: Signals Systems & Controls!

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News:

• Homework 3 Posted  (REVISED ... 1(c) x = 10(u + 0.1*int(u) + 2*du/dt), 1(e) sin(x) changed to sin(t))
• Final Exam Formula Sheets posted
• Quiz 1 and Quiz 2 posted
• Digital Control Lecture posted
• Lab 4: Reader (complete) -- Part 1 Files (zip) and Part 2 Files (zip)

Course Information:

• Contact (elec3004@itee.uq.edu.au) ...
• Email: elec3004@itee.uq.edu.au
  Please address ALL course communication here
• Schedule: Semester 1, 2012 ...
• Lectures:  Mondays 2-4 & Thursdays 4-5 in Hawken T105/T103
• Tutorials (plesae come to the one assigned):  Monday 9-10, 10-11, 11-12 OR Thursday 5-6 in Hawken 50-S202
• Practical / Laboratory sessions (details in class, please come to the one assigned): 
  Tuesday 12-2  OR Wednesday 8-10, 10-12, 2-4 in Hawken 50-S202
• Lecturers & Tutors: ...
• Surya P. N. Singh -- UQ Robotics, GP South (Bldg 78), Office 531 -- x58328
• Prof. Brian Lovell -- NICTA, GP South (Bldg 78)
• Dr. Paul Pounds -- UQ Robotics, GP South (Bldg 78)

Online Resources: 

• MIT 6-007: Signals & Systems (by Oppenheim) on OpenCourseWare
• Stanford EE 102: Introduction to Signals & Systems
• WikiBooks: Signals & Systems
• ELEC 3004 Wiki
  (general class resources, supplementary materials)
• MATLAB Self-Guided Tutorial 
   (from Kamen and Heck, Fund. of Signals & Systems Using Matlab)
• Blackboard (ITS simply doesn't want to fix it.  Sorry!)

Laboratory (Practicals):

1. Practical One: Introduction to the NEXYS II
• Pre-Lab: Introduction to the NEXYS II
• Nexys Files: Lab 1 Nexys Files (zip)
• Guide: Lab 1 Introduction to the Nexys 2
• Assessment: *** Lab 1 Report Assignment Guide ***
  DUE April 20 (Along with the Lab 2 Report) (Lab1 + Lab2: 10%)
2. Practical Two: Sampling and Reconstruction
• Prac 2: Files (zip)
• Preparation for Lab 2
• Assessment: *** Lab 2 Report Assignment Guide ***
  DUE April 20 (Along with the Lab 1 Report) (Lab1 + Lab2: 10%)
3. Practical Three: Echo filters on the Nexys 2

o Preparation for Lab 3

o Prac 2: Files (zip)

o Lab 3 Reader and Instructions

o Assessment: *** Lab 3 Report Assignment Guide ***  
DUE May 25

4. Practical Four: IIR filtering on the Nexys 2
• Compete Lab Guide
• Files:  Part 1 (zip)  &  Part 2 (zip)

Assesments (Homeworks):

	Out	Topic	Due Date
1	15-Mar	Signals & Systems (10%) Solutions	23-Mar
2	29-Mar	Fourier Transforms & Filters (10%) Solutions	27-Apr (1 week free extension)
3	14-May	Digial Controls (10%)	25-May

Tutorials

1. Tutorial 1 (Introduction to Signals)
2. Tutorial 2 (Introduction to basic LTI tools of the Controls Toolbox in MATLAB)
3. Tutorial 3 (Filter Design)
• Matlab Files to Help with Filter Design
4. Practice Quiz Posted

Supplemental Material:

• Quiz One Review Materials:
  • Quiz Review from Wikipedia
  • Practise Problems:  Signals, Sampling & LTI
  • Note that the "triangle" in S&S Fig. 7.4(b) is an abitary signal picked by Oppenheim as an example signal
• Quiz Two Review Materials:
  • Practice Quiz

Lectures:

Week	Date	Lecture Title
1	1-Mar	Overview -- Lecture (#1)
2	5-Mar	Signals & Systems -- Tutorial 1 (Introduction to Signals) -- MATLAB Self-Guided Tutorial   (from Kamen and Heck, Fund. of Signals & Systems Using Matlab) -- Lecture Slides (#2) -- Overhead (freehand) Notes Recommended Practise Set Problems: Problems: 1, 5 + All evens (From Chapter 1 of S&S) Noteworthy lectures/web-links: -- MIT OCW: Signals and Systems Part I and Part II -- Stanford EE 102: Signals
	8-Mar	Sampling -- Lecture (#3) -- Audio (MP3 Format) -- Figures from Chapter 7 of S&S that were mentioned during the lecture (NOTE:  The "triangle" in 7.4(b) is an arbitary signal picked by Oppenheim as an example signal) Recommended Practise Set Problems: Problems: 1, 2, 3, 6, 7, 9, 16, 17 (From Chapter 7 of S&S)
3	12-Mar	Laplace Transforms -- Lecture Notes (#4)
	15-Mar	LTI Systems & Lab 1 Reveiw -- Lecture Notes (#5) -- Audio (MP3 Format) Recommended Practise Set Problems: Problems: 1, 3, 7 (From Chapter 2 of S&S)
4	19-Mar	Convolution & Discrete Fourier Series -- Lecture Notes (#6)
	22-Mar	Fourier Transform -- Lecture Notes (#7) -- Audio (MP3 Format)
5	26-Mar	Fourier Transform Operations  -- Lecture Notes (#8)
	29-Mar	Applications: DFFT and DCT -- Lecture Notes (#9)
6	2-Apr	Quiz 1 (10%)
	5-Apr	Filters: -- Lecture Notes(#10)
7	16-Apr	FIR Filters: -- Lecture Notes (#11) -- Lecture Notes (#12)
	19-Apr	Filters
8	23-Apr	Filters --Lecture Notes (#13)
	26-Apr	Multirate Filters --Lecture Notes (#14), LectureNotes (#15)
9	30-Apr	IIR Filters --Lecture Notes(#16)
	3-May	Multirate Filters Data Acquisition & Interpolation & Noise  (extra materials)
10	7-May	Holiday
	10-May	Quiz 2 (10%)   --- Practice Quiz Posted ---
11	14-May	Digital Control & z-Transform
	17-May	Introduction to Digital Control
12	21-May	Stability of Digital Systems
	24-May	Estimation
13	28-May	Kalman Filters & GPS
	31-May	Applications in Industry

Textbook:

Signals and Systems (2^nd Edition) Alan V. Oppenheim and Alan S. Willsky (with S. Hamid) ISBN: 0138147574 [BibTeX] @book{bk.0138147574, Author = {Alan V. Oppenheim and Alan S. Willsky and with S. Hamid}, Title = {Signals and Systems (2nd Edition)}, Publisher = {Prentice Hall}, Year = {1996}, ISBN = {0138147574}}

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General Course Information:

1. Courses & Program Page

2. Course Profile

3. UQ My SiNet for ELEC3004

4. Student Learning Outcomes: On completion of this unit of study, students should be able to:

· Understand a linear system

· Fundamentally describe a signal from said system

· Use digitial logic to process said signal including filtering it and actively controlling it

· Apply these processes to multi-dimensional systems (temporal signals, images, etc.)

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