Control Bootcamp: Overview

Steve Brunton · 561.7K views · 2017-01-23 · 19:32

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Overview

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.

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

Recommended by 4 HN people across 4 months · HN mentions 2020–2023

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University lectures & courses Mechanical & precision engineering Math & theory (other)

What people said

RugnirViking · 2023-04 · Strong recommendation
Big fan of steve brunton's control bootcamp series. Helped me through my control systems courses greatly [VIDEO] Great for robotics, or anything where you need to control complex physical systems, from f1 cars to 3d characters in games
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lagrange77 · 2022-06 · Strong recommendation
Not a book, but this series on Youtube is excellent. [VIDEO] > familiar with Nyquist-Shannon's theorem BTW: In control theory there is also [LINK]
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acidbaseextract · 2020-08 · Strong recommendation
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: [VIDEO]
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