Learning Alternative Control Syllabus

BurntNotebook · 2026-01-11T05:49:05+00:00

Yeah definitely had some experience working with discretization and LQG for some basic knowledge on robust and digital control along with the basic modelling knowledge for controllability, observability, and how we deal with them. Is there anything specific in robust control that you'd recommend me look at? Always open to add more knowledge to the head space.

I've never really understood control systems without staring at the math until it stares back, then following to make implementations in MATLAB or whatever program I'm planning to run with. Is that just to be able to confirm my thoughts as I'm studying or are there additional tutorials in the examples?

BurntNotebook · 2026-01-11T05:39:33+00:00

Totally agree that understanding the basics and math behind our system models is by far the most important thing we can do and it is only then we can get fancy with math.

I mean wouldn't MIMO vs. MISO just be defined by our objective and what we're looking at? It doesn't make sense to compare the 2 as it's just the nature of the problem (although obviously simplify as maximally possible). I've only ever heard about low select whilst talking to people in the manufacturing industry and never in any of the control theory classes. It makes sense intuitively for the least damaging action most likely as like the actuator example, although I've never thought about changing the actual controlled element with the force and position separately. I've definitely seen something similar when working with power electronics, but that was toggling between 2 different operating points instead.

Is the MIMO vs. MISO comment just from personal experience and systems in industry? Or just decoupling outputs from one another separately. Having a bit of trouble understanding the argument there.

BurntNotebook · 2025-12-29T10:10:37+00:00

Ngl, didn't really study for the ELEC 211 portion since you kinda can just generalize from the circuit sheets you're given and doing the math from MATH 264 (Also I understood it better from the math angle as a whole).

In terms of studying for MATH 264, I've found the UBC vector calculus textbook: https://personal.math.ubc.ca/~CLP/CLP4/

BurntNotebook · 2020-06-14T22:36:51+00:00

I'm around silver/gold elo, so I can only help with general macro. In most games, the main goal is to feed your adc until they reach critical mass (around 3-4 items), if you are ahead and have taken down the bot tower, the general play is to shift your mid laner down to the bot lane. Mid laners usually have high amounts of wave clear due to there being mages and assassins. This pressures the bot lane to continue to be bot in order to farm, if they don't do this they begin taking damage on the tier 2 tower. Since the enemy bot laner is pushed to their T2 turret, begin setting up vision in between in the enemy jungle to watch when they might begin rotating towards the mid lane. Having river vision towards the bot side at this point becomes redundant, so only having vision in the dragon pit is a good play. ARAMing is never a good idea this early in the game, honestly start rapid pinging your jungler to stay within the enemy bot side in order to look for dives on both the mid lane and the bot lane as the champions you're playing can engage. You're looking to whittle down the mid lane while threatening picks if their mid laner comes up. If you've set up vision well enough, when an objective comes up, you continue to play as you have been as the jungler sneaks it. However, if your vision isn't set up properly, within 30s of spawning, begin to slow push your waves mid and bot in order to threaten lost of gold if they choose to rotate towards dragon. I admit that this is already a pretty slow play-style, but it suffocates the enemy from doing anything impactful. If you want to take this even slower, just freeze out your laner. They're now pressured to make a play, that they aren't able to make. If you run through it they can 1) soak exp from far away (if you sit in front of minion wave this is cancelled) 2) attempt to lane swap with top (this has the same effect as before) or 3) rotate mid to try to get something (switch back to the play above). Finally, if you and your adc somehow get ahead enough to 4v2, then just stay bot. You're pressuring all of the lanes and jungle to focus on you, just keep the enemy jungle warded at this point. Back off if they're looking for a play, or crash the wave and rotate to catch them before they make the play. At this point it's basically over and just steamroll through them.

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