r/controlengineering

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Control Systems: Block Diagram Simplification

This visualizes the reduction of control systems block diagrams into their equivalent transfer functions.

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Code available at https://github.com/zombimann/Mathematical-video-animations-and-visualization/blob/main/Control_Systems_Block_Diagram_Simplification.ipynb

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Pursing engineering later in life

This may sounds dumb af but I’ve been considering going back to school for engineering, I’m 25 years old rn. If anyone has some tips on working while going to school, or what type of jobs are accommodating for going back to school for an engineering degree, I’d greatly appreciate since I am older I do need a job to help pay for some of my bills/expenses and work around going to school, thanks.

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u/VirusTechnical4768 — 7 days ago
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Predictive vs proactive maintenance — where do you actually draw the line?

Marketing throws "predictive," "proactive," and "preventative" around like they're interchangeable. On a recent How to Handshake episode, controls people from ENFRA and Albireo Energy drew a sharper line: predictive is using historical data to forecast a failure; proactive is the culture and action that actually does something about it. Their take — predictive analytics without the proactive side is just an expensive dashboard nobody acts on.

The other recurring theme was dirty data. Five different names for the same space temp, overrides left in, sensors flatlined for days. The argument was that you don't need to clean everything — you clean the subset tied to the use case you're actually chasing, prove it, then chip away.

For the people running this day to day: how clean does your data really need to be before analytics earns its keep? And where have you seen predictive tools deliver real value vs. turn into shelfware?

Full conversation, if useful: https://www.optigo.net/blog/how-to-handshake-ep-6/

u/OptigoNetworks — 7 days ago
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Math

Hello! I am an electrical engineering student going into my final year ish, I have 1 and half years left.

I told myself I would study math in university ever since I was 13. All the way till I applied to university. I applied to math programs and got in. but I also applied to engineering and finance programs. the hardest ever decision for me was choosing to do engineering. First year came by and i did horrible in school ;). I wanted to go into electrical engineering after my first year but did not have the marks for it. 2nd year I ended up in engineering physics. at this point i hated engineering and wanted to drop out. I loved linear algebra, vector calculus, differential equations. I overloaded during eng physics and took a math proofs class too, everyone around me was crying but I was breezing through the class.

2nd year was the tip of me dropping out and switching to math. But anyways stuck through it and the summer of 2nd year I was lucky to take ece electives. Had the most amazing professor ever who really changed me and inspired me, I switched to electrical engineering after that and have had 5 classes with him. Anyways school has been a better experience for me with classes I enjoy more! My gpa is still not great, but better than what I started out with.

I know that I want to go into research and academia. And it has been my dream to figure out an intersection between pure math and engineering. My favourite classes in electrical engineering so far have been signal s and systems, communication systems and especially control systems!!! I’ve been doing a r&d internship with robotics and it’s made me fall in love with controls even more. In my 2nd year when I took vector calculus, the prof that taught us was a PhD in geometry and topology and the part where we got introduced to differential geometry was my favourite thing I’ve ever seen math, I thought it was beautifu. I have since tried reading and watched videos on differential geometry.

recently at my internship I discovered the intersection between geometry and control theory?!?

anyways the point of this post is that I just got permission to take geometry at my my school!

I have a really hard circuits class that alot of people fail which I really scared to take, I also have computer architecture, digital signal processing, capstone and I was taking machine learning but I’m now thinking of switching it with geometry.

the thing I’m really scared about is my gpa. I have really hard classes and know that geometry is also a really hard class.

should I take geometry and risk a hard semester or machine learning and easier semester?

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u/DismalYam8011 — 8 days ago
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Personalização do BSP-Y02

Vou colocar paço a paço como personalizei meu controle BSP-Y02 para jogar no Switch.

Bom começando a configuração, para essa alteração eu configurei os botões macro como LZ e RZ (L2 e R2 do nintedo switch).

Achei os furos dos parafusos, (não quis remover a borracha e recolocar achei melhor só perfurar e deixar a vista).

Bom, a placa vem descrito quais o nome da conexão e do botão, não é muito apertado é só puxar (achei mais seguro que puxar os conectores dos botões).

A posição foi pensado para jogar marvel vs Capcom, e a posição imitando o controle tradicional.

Sobre a arte, pedi em uma grafica adesivo vinil laminado fosco, foi feita em Corel Draw, usei o pantone do dpad do 64 com os botões C para os diagonais, para os botões ABYX foi usado o pantone do controle japonês de Super Nintendo, os botões superiores (gatilhos) usando as cores da versão americana.

Essa foi a primeira alteração a ideia é trocar botões e manche para Qanba silencioso.

Vou atualizando aqui conforme atualizo os comandos.

u/Specific-Gate-3606 — 12 days ago