Model a Car and Design a PID Controller in MATLAB/SIMULINK (Udemy.com)

Really good. I have a Masters in Systems and this was very interesting. I was a bit surprised in the actions of the models with the caps and windup which were very strong. Often I describe PID tuning has use P only for the most part although I think the autotuning nowadays has kinda broken that rule of thumb... In this case the (due to caps and windup) its back to P only for the most part at least to start with. Thanks, Dan...

Overall, this course was pretty informative. It touches on the basic forces that act on an electric vehicle and how to model them in Simulink. The instructor assumes that the student has a basic understanding of many principles of Electrical Engineering, so some things may be confusing. The Simulink implementation is interesting, but does not follow many of the standards that are used by companies. For instance, all variables are entered directly into the Simulink blocks rather than using an M-script to manipulate variables. While this is helpful for understanding the math, it is missing an important function of MatLAB and Simulink.

The course is more or less solid in this point to get the basic knowledge on how to model any system (electrical, mechanical etc.) in MATLAB Simulink with the help of some rules. In order to understand most of the course topics, you should be familiar with the concept of how to transfer the differential equation into the laplace domain and why it is so important for the analysis of the system as well as the design of the controller. Unfortunately you are not going to develop an actual model of the the electrical machine of an Tesla Model S P85, as the title implies it. You are going to mimic the behavior of the three phase AC electrical machine with an brushed DC machine. Also the coordinate transformation (park and clarke) which are state of the art, in order to effectively control the electrical machine in the dq-reference frame were not discussed and are not present in this course. In addition to that, the whole power electronics part (keywords: inverter, pulse-width-modulation (PWM)) were not covered in this course. Furthermore the course is lacking effective control strategies like MTPA, in order to control the torque of the electrical machine. The concept of cascading PI controllers is not picked up in general. So in summary your final simulation model will be very basic and consist of only one PID controller and a transfer function. Furthermore the design of the PID controller follows and trial-and-error principle. For a first try this can be a valid option but if you want to fellow a specific system response and behavior, you have to use other approaches. If you have taken fundamental classes in control engineering or control theory you should know, that their are a couple of ways in order to adjust and calculate the optimal values for your PID controller (keywords: optimum amount or symmetrical optimum). All the other necessary and important bits and pieces were neglected, so your simulation model does not really describe the actual and real behavior of an Tesla Model S P85.

Thank you Eliott for this course, It was amazing and very well explained. Being an Electrical and Electronics Engineering student at university, I have already come across control systems and was familiar with the theory but real life examples is not something I had looked at. Merci!

It is a course designed for all kinds of backgrounds and proficiency in Control systems. I will be looking forward to seeing more complicated systems with including more noise and disturbances. Thank you Elliot, great job and waiting for more videos

Very good course. Could you please make a more indepth course on simulation for advanced students taking the course which will include 3 phase motors, dq transformation, power electronics module and drive cycles. Btw, love your work very much. Lets collaborate. I am an electrical engineer with master's degree in power electronics and drives from UK. I have worked on EV simulations and motor control hardware designing for my academic coursework. Hope to hear from you soon regarding any collaboration. My e-mail id is in my udemy profile. Regards, Antarip Giri.

The course was very helpful in learning the design and implementation of an electric vehicle (Tesla Model S P 85) in Matlab/Simulink and it can help model the system in a virtual environment and test the outputs. Overall, a very well thought out course with a lot of real-life implementations possible with other models as well. I am for sure going to try to implement what I have learned from Eliott's course on other models as well. Thank you, Eliott Wertheimer!

One of the lectures was very poor in comparison to all other lectures including those in the instructors control course. Very poorly explained regarding the extraction of the back emf component from the Transfer function and then the separation into two blocks in Simulink. It would only have taken a single slide to show how you extracted the Transfer function.

This course is a pretty decent quick introduction to people who are interested in MATLAB/SIMULINK for vehicle control modelling. It has covered the basics of PID in SIMULINK with a step by step approach. I enjoy it, but this might be too basic for any non-beginners.

I like how the lecturer starts from the basics of theory and mathematical modeling, and transitions into applying those mathematical calculations into actual Matlab simulation. This way of teaching gives lots of insight into how the control system works and actually applying the theoretical knowledge. This is helpful for engineer who wants to create an actual feedback system.