Model a Car and Design a PID Controller in MATLAB/SIMULINK

Model and simulate an electric car (Tesla Model S) in MATLAB & SIMULINK and design your own PID speed controller.

Created by: Eliott Wertheimer
Aerospace Engineer and Founder @FuroSystems

What Will I Learn?

• Understand the manufacturing and physics behind a Model S battery.
• Derive the mathematical equations behind an electric DC motor.
• Understand and harness the Physics behind a moving car.
• Derive the mathematical equations that govern the movements of a car.
• Implement Transfer Functions into Simulink.
• Implement Mathematical equations in Simulink through Matlab functions.
• Use and understand common Simulink blocks such as sums, constants, integrators, etc.
• Create an Open loop engineering Model in Simulink and test its performance using sink blocks.
• Implement a Closed Loop PID Controller in Simulink and learn how to tune it with respect to a desired performance.

Requirements

• Basic understanding of physics (Force, Velocity, Acceleration, etc).
• High School Diploma mathematics level (Differentiation, etc).
• Udemy Course Control Systems: From Mathematical Modelling to PID Control (useful but not mandatory).

Target audience

• Anyone interested in being able to design control systems for any kind of machine or engineering system.
• Anyone interested in harnessing the power of MATLAB & Simulink for engineering design.
• Anyone interested in learning about robotics and PID control.