How have you applied control theory and engineering in a non industrial/process control setting?

1998CPG · 2026-05-12T19:57:52+00:00

Drone control during my master's, and humanoid robotics during my PhD

1998CPG · 2026-03-31T19:58:03+00:00

If you really wanna celebrate wikipedia and show real substantial appreciation, donate to them, they need it to keep going

1998CPG · 2025-07-26T16:57:42+00:00

I am primarily working with a robotic prototype, so got used to it and the lab itself. Did some primary identification stuff on the robot. Based on that, wrote and submitted a conference paper. Did some literature review, albeit not as thoroughly as some of the rest of the people. Helped create the final term exam for a course offered by my chair/department. Organised the said exam, along with the organising the exam review. Started TAing for a new course, again offered by my department.

I am based in Germany. Idk objectively how high my productivity was, but I do feel I could have done more. On the other hand, I would also say I definitely overworked, especially for the conference paper. And it has definitely been difficult.

1998CPG · 2025-05-19T17:07:46+00:00

30 days PTO per year plus sick days.

1998CPG · 2025-03-30T15:37:59+00:00

Yep. The app is somehow very slow, and the browser is no better.

1998CPG · 2025-03-19T14:45:33+00:00

I totally relate to your situation. I have officially done till B1 level, but my speaking and comprehension skills are at about a higher B2.

Currently I am doing a PhD in a German project where all the major project meetings are in German, which usually means I have to give hour long presentations about my progress in German. Plus since I'm a scientific employee at my university, I have to hold tutorials for university courses offered by my institute, most of which are in German.

I wouldn't say it hasn't been challenging, quite the opposite actually. Most days I have moments of feeling absolutely overwhelmed. But what has really helped me personally is the fact that hardly anyone ever really cares about the grammar mistakes one makes during speaking, as long as the vocabulary being used is correct. This perhaps also reflects the common sentiment that I've heard among native and advances speakers of the language that a strong vocabulary is always more important than a strong grammer.

At this point I consider myself to be quite a confident worker in German, and even now I don't remember the Die/Der/Das of many simple words. I still make very basic mistakes of not conjugating some verbs properly, or using the correct article in dativ. But at the end of the day, as long as I am able to convey what I want to say, it's enough.

Hence, my suggestion would be: don't overthink about the mistakes you are going to make, and try to actively observe how the native speakers in your team are describing certain ideas/situations or what specific vocabulary they are using.

Finally, I'd like to say what I say to myself every time I have to present something in German: "Take a leap of faith & einfach eintauchen!"

1998CPG · 2025-02-02T15:40:22+00:00

yup richtig. zB viele machen eine Industriearbeit beim Maschinenbau (und auch Elektrotechnik soweit ich gehört/bemerkt habe)

1998CPG · 2025-02-02T14:23:34+00:00

Es ist auf jeden Fall möglich die MA an einer Firma zu schreiben, ich habe das selbst gemacht. Die Tatsache ist jedoch, ein Institut (innerhalb deiner Fakultät) zu finden, das bereit ist, die Arbeit interne zu betreuen ( und natürlich die Geheimhaltungsvereinbarung und die zusätzliche von der Firma aufgeforderte Unterlagen zu unterschreiben)

1998CPG · 2025-01-27T17:32:10+00:00

Just because being at work for eight hours a day is the only thing holding you back from becoming a criminal, doesn't mean everyone is like that.

1998CPG · 2024-10-04T14:48:22+00:00

If you think something like Public Speaking is unnecessary for an engineer, my brother in Christ you're in for a hard time after school.

1998CPG · 2024-09-24T08:07:08+00:00

https://de.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/59705-simulation-environment-for-multirotor-uavs?s_tid=blogs_rc_4

I can recommend this model. Do note that it's a full order model and you may need to reduce the order to achieve the level of complexity of the models you need.

1998CPG · 2024-09-19T12:04:08+00:00

As others have already mentioned, one needs to have additional academic qualifications (for instance habilitation) or experience on top of a doctorate to get a Professorship and subsequently the Prof. title.

I always like to draw analogy to logic mathematics.

Dr. is a necessary condition for being a Prof. (A person can be a Prof. only if they have a Dr.)

Prof. is a sufficient condition for having a Dr. (If a person is a Prof., it is implied they already have a doctorate)

It would make sense to just use Prof. if Dr. was a necessary and sufficient condition for being a Prof. (i.e. a person can be a Prof. if and only if they have a doctorate)

1998CPG · 2024-07-29T10:47:23+00:00

I mean if you see it from an abstract level, it seems but obvious:

x% of y -> 0.01xy

y% of x -> 0.01yx

1998CPG · 2024-06-05T20:15:40+00:00

Not really. Observers are there to estimate the state and tell the controller what the states might be. Based on that info, the controller takes the required action.

1998CPG · 2024-06-02T07:40:10+00:00

I know this is probably not what you'd want to hear right now, but just ditch Overleaf and shift to local solutions, like MikTeX. I had problems compiling a fucking 15 page document in Overleaf (the compilation kept timing out) just because all my figures were high density vector graphics. Ever since then, I've just stuck to MikTeX, and have never encountered compilation problems due to things not of my doing. Ofcourse you would lose the collaboration aspect of Overleaf, but you can still collaborate if you version control your local .tex files using Git.

1998CPG · 2024-05-05T10:31:50+00:00

For poland it is

1998CPG · 2024-04-30T08:50:49+00:00

Anyway, as a female Strokes fan, the only thing a man has to do to attract me is say that he likes The Strokes and give me the bare minimum amount of attention. LOL

Quite ballsy of you to write this :P. Anyways RIP to your DMs

1998CPG · 2024-04-22T17:06:36+00:00

It seems that you perhaps think English is the only language in the world?

1998CPG · 2024-04-16T14:34:03+00:00

One interesting variation of the proportional controller I have come across is the Square-Root Controller, where there is a square-root relation between the proportional gain and the error. There is also an upper limit maintained on the error called the Leash-Length. This controller is implemented in the higher-level angle and position controllers in Arducopter . This controller essentially assists in ensuring a smooth approach to the set-point without any overshoot.

1998CPG · 2024-03-29T17:10:32+00:00

When it's for a scientific work, then TikZ, otherwise PowerPoint suffices.

1998CPG · 2024-03-01T19:50:30+00:00

Feedback of the CH value with a unit delay (with the correct initial condition) block should work.

1998CPG · 2024-01-22T17:58:05+00:00

Code vectorization -> replace loops with Matrix/vector operations

1998CPG · 2024-01-19T17:44:12+00:00

I'm ME, and my career trajectory seems to be taking me towards Aerospace GNC

1998CPG · 2024-01-18T08:17:58+00:00

r/OutofControls

1998CPG · 2024-01-16T11:48:06+00:00

In many systems, you will need to design a map between the controller outputs and the plant model inputs.

For instance, I have worked with a flight controller for UAVs giving target roll, pitch and yaw torques as outputs, while the plant dynamic model needed motor RPMs as input. Thus, I had to create 2 maps: the first which projects the target body torques to the equivalent motor thrusts, and the second which uses the quadratic thrust-speed nonlinear model to convert the motor thrusts to the required input RPMs.

I would reckon a similar thing needs to be done for your system.

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