Starting

15 Jan

Lecture 1 - Introduction
(slides, notes, recording)

Lecture 2 - Time Domain view of Signals
(slides, notes, recording) 

• Course Planning Doc (PDF)
  
• Video on discrete vs continuous time signals
  
  

18 Jan

Lab 1 - Signal Processing with Matlab

• Guidelines on using electronics logbook   

19 Jan

Lecture 3 - Frequency Domain view of Signals
(slides, notes, recording) 

Tutorial 1 - Matlab & Lab 1 explained

• Video on frequency domain view of signal
  
• Video on Tidal Machine Animation
  

Starting

22 Jan

Lecture 4 - Fourier Transform
(slides, notes, recording) 

Lecture 5 - Sampling
(slides, notes, recording) 

Problem sheet 1

• Video on the Sampling Theorem and aliasing

25 Jan

Lab 2 - Signal Processing with PyBench

• MicroSD card contents (zipped) 
• Various files for Lab 2 (zipped)
• Various music files (zipped)
• Microphone & amplfier module (datasheet)
• online tuning fork   
• Lab 2 solutions (zipped) 
• PyBench board User's Guide  
• PyBench board schematics  

Starting

29 Jan 

Lecture 6 - DFT & Windowing
(slides, notes, recording) 

Problem sheet 2 (solutions)

Tutorial 2 - Pybench & Lab 2 explained (recording)

• Video on How DFT works
• Video on windowing

1 Feb

Lab 2 - Signal Processing with PyBench (con't)

2 Feb

Tutorial 3 - Problem Sheets 1 & 2 (recording)

Starting

5 Feb

Lecture 7 - System Analysis & Laplace Transform
(slides, notes, recording) 

Lecture 8 - System Characterization
(slides, notes, recording) 

Problem sheet 3 (solutions)

• Video on Tacoma bridge collapse
• Video on Millennium bridge
  

8 Feb

Lab 3  - System Behaviour

• Bulb Board circuit schematic
• Lab 3 solutions (zipped)

9 Feb

Tutorial 4  Lab 3 Explained (recording)

Starting

14 & 15 Feb

Lab Oral (Guidelines & Schedule)

Starting

19 Feb

Lecture 9 - IMU and Data Fusion
(slides, notes, recording)

Lecture 10 - Polling vs Interrupt
(slides, notes, recording)

• Video on accelerometer
• Video on gyroscope
  

22 Feb

Lab 4  - IMU & Data Fusion

• IMU_3D.zip
• Lab 4 solutions (zipped)

23 Feb

Lecture 11 - Discret-time Signals
(slides, notes, recording) 

Tutorial 5 - Lab 4 Explained (recording)

Starting

26 Feb

Lecture 12 - Discrete-time Systems
(slides, notes, recording) 

Lecture 13 - Impulse Response and Filtering
(slides, notes, recording)

29 Feb

Lab 5 - Motor, Polling & Interrupt

• Lab 5 solutions (zipped)
• TB6612 H-bridge (datasheet)

Starting

7 Mar

Lab 6 - Beat Detection

• audio.py   (zipped)
• Lab 6 solutions (zipped)
• beat_detect_0.py   (zipped)
• Stay'in alive (short, long)  

8  Mar

Lecture 14 - Beat detection and Dance
(slides, notes, recording) 

Project Challenges   

Tutorial 6 & Lab 7 - Tips on Challenges  (recording) 

Problem sheet 5 (solutions)

Starting

11 Mar

Lecture 15 - Feedback Control
(slides, notes, recording)

Lecture 16- PID Control
(slides, notes, recording) 

• Video on "What is control?"
• Video on "Control concepts"
  
• Video on "Introduction to PID Control"
• Video on "Example on PID Control"
• Video on "Tuning a PID controller" (long)
  


• Tips on PID controller code (PDF)
• pidc.py & pidc2.py (zipped)


• Connecting the lithium battery (PDF)

15 Mar

Lecture 17 - Revision Lecture
(slides)

Starting

19 Mar

Final week Lab Oral
(Guidelines & Schedule)