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Control Bootcamp: Overview

Control Bootcamp: Overview on HackerTube: recommended by 4 Hacker News commenters across 4 separate months, 2020–2023.

Steve Brunton

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The opening lecture of Steve Brunton's Control Bootcamp, covering the kinds of control and why closed-loop feedback matters. It starts a series that follows the control chapter of the Brunton and Kutz data-driven science book.

Why Hacker News recommends it

HN recommends the series as an approachable but rigorous way to learn control theory, with good production quality.

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2020–2023
“a sweet lecture series called the Control Bootcamp that dives deep into control fundamentals while still being approachable”
— acidbaseextract, Aug 2020, in “Efficiency is dangerous and slowing down makes life better”

What HN commenters said

4 Hacker News comments link this video. Each one links back to its thread.

RugnirVikingApr 2023Strongly recommends

Big fan of steve brunton's control bootcamp series. Helped me through my control systems courses greatly ▶ this video Great for robotics, or anything where you need to control complex physical systems, from f1 cars to 3d characters in games

in “Ask HN: What are some of the best university courses available online for free?” · View on HN

lagrange77Jun 2022Strongly recommends

Not a book, but this series on Youtube is excellent. ▶ this video > familiar with Nyquist-Shannon's theorem BTW: In control theory there is also [link]

in “You need to know what right-half-plane zeros are” · View on HN

acidbaseextractAug 2020Strongly recommends

Steve Brunton, a University of Washington professor has a sweet lecture series called the Control Bootcamp that dives deep into control fundamentals while still being approachable. Great production values too: ▶ this video

in “Efficiency is dangerous and slowing down makes life better” · View on HN

cashsterlingJan 2022Recommends

I really like the Control System Bootcamp videos by Prof. Steve Brunton on youtube: ▶ this video Good book's to accompany the videos are: - linear systems theory by Joao Hespanha (has some MATLAB code) - Linear state-space control systems by Willams and Lawrence (has some MATLAB code) - Control system design by Bernard Friedland (20 usd dover paperback available) - Data-Driven Science & Engineering by Steve Brunton (video guy above) and Kutz Some other interesting books: - Control system engineering: design and implementation using ARM Cortex-M Micro-controllers (some MATLAB and C code) - Linear Feedback Control: analysis and design with MATLAB by Xue, Chen and Atherton (MATLAB, obviously) ...a lot basic MATLAB control system functions are also available in Octave, Scilab, Python, and Julia packages

in “Introduction to Model Predictive Control” · View on HN

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University lectures & coursesMechanical & precision engineeringMath & theory (other)control systemsfeedback controlsteve bruntonlinear systemsoptimal control