TSRT23 · 6 credits · Basic level (G2F) · Bioteknik, Elektroteknik
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Active · next start HT 2026
27%
passed the latest ordinary exam
TEN1 · 16 Jan 2026 · 67 students
51%
passed the ordinary exams, all sittings over the last 5 years
TEN1 · 317 students
Unusually hard in 2025/26
27% passed the ordinary exam in 2025/26 (67 students), against 57% on average in earlier years (250 students).
Part of 2 programmes
Exam
TEN1 Written examination
- 5
- 4
- 3
- U
Ordinary exams
51% passed · 317 students
- 27%67
- 77%65
- 47%66
- 66%65
- 39%54
Re-exams
63% passed · 219 students
- 38%8
- 90%51
- 55%11
- 58%19
- 17%6
- 0%9
- 87%30
- 25%12
- 33%9
- 66%29
- 50%10
- 56%25
- Pass the re-exam: 63% (219 students), compared with 51% (317 students) on the ordinary exam
- Get 4 or 5: 11% (536 students)
Show small sittings (9)
Sittings with fewer than 5 students, often credit transfers or special sittings. They are not part of any figure on this page.
- 67%3
- 0%2
- 25%4
- 100%1
- 100%1
- 0%1
- 100%3
- 0%1
- 75%4
Other modules
Partial exams, hand-ins and labs. They are not part of the figures at the top.
Hand-in or lab
LAB1 Laboratory work
- G
Main rounds
100% passed · 229 students
- 100%70
- 100%32
- 100%64
- 100%63
Later rounds
100% passed · 103 students
- 100%17
- 100%22
- 100%64
- Pass a later round: 100% (103 students), compared with 100% (229 students) on the ordinary exam
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Sittings with fewer than 5 students, often credit transfers or special sittings. They are not part of any figure on this page.
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About the course
Aim
The course gives basic knowledge in the analysis and design of control systems. This means that students will be expected to be able to do the following after completing this course:
- Analyze models of dynamical systems in the form of differential equations and transfer functions, describe basic properties of feedback control, and design and analyze control systems with basic controllers.
- Analyze control systems and models of general dynamic systems in the frequency domain.
- Analyze and design control systems using state-space methods.
- Model, design and verify a control system for a laboratory process.
Content
- Differential equations, transfer functions, poles and zeros
- Stability, specifications, relationships between dynamical properties and pole location
- The feedback principle, block diagrams, feed-forward
- The PID controller, its structure and function, algorithmization
- Interpretation of system properties using root loci
- The importance of control technology for effective management of environmental impact as well as energy and resource use in different types of technical systems
- Frequency function, Bode plots, phase- and amplitude gain margin
- Connection between frequency function and time response
- Time delays
- Fundamental limitations in feedback, robustness criteria
- State-space models, stability, controllability and observability
- State-feedback
- Observers, feedback from estimated states
- Reinforcement learning
- Examiner
- Johan Löfberg
- Scheduled hours
- 64 h
- Main field of study
- Bioteknik, Elektroteknik