Awesome Control Theory

Control theory is a branch of applied mathematics that deals with the design of control policies for actuated dynamical systems. Control engineering is a cross-discipline field that applies control theory to a wide range of systems such as industrial plants, aerospace, robotics and more.

Map by Brian Douglas

Contents

• Resources
  • Books
  • Websites and YouTube channels
  • Free course material and YouTube playlists
  • Tutorials
• Tools
  • Software, toolboxes and libraries
• Similar Lists

Resources

Except for some of the books, all resources provided here should be free, available online and should not require logging in to any service. All credit goes to the awesome authors of these resources.

If you know some awesome free control resources that deserve to be on this list, feel free to post them in this issue or make a pull-request. See contribution guidelines.

Start with this: For a great historical background and introduction to control, you should definitely read Karl J. Åstrøm and P.R. Kumar, 2014, Control: A perspective (if you don't have access to the paper through this link, Google for the pdf). A presentation on the same topic can be found on YouTube here.

Books

Websites and YouTube channels

These authors cover multiple topics in control on their websites and/or YouTube channels.

• Brian Douglas | Engineering Media - Great lectures which can be found on his YouTube channel.
• Steve Brunton - Great lectures which can be found on his YouTube channel.
• APMonitor - Created by John Hedengren who also has a YouTube channel.
• MATLAB
  • MATLAB Tech Talks: Control Systems
  • MATLAB and Simulink Robotics Arena
  • Robotics and Autonomous Systems
  • YouTube channel
• Control Systems Academy - Includes several interactive simulators.
• Reflections of a Process Control Practitioner
• Studywolf blog: control, RL and neuroscience

Free course material and YouTube playlists

While this list is somewhat in chronological learning order, many of the courses/playlists advance beyond topics lower down the list as you work through them. So don't get too caught up in the ordering here.

Bonus: MIT OpenCourseWare offers free online courses. Here are their courses tagged with Control.

Tutorials

• MATLAB
  • Control Tutorials for MATLAB and Simulink | University of Michigan
  • Swing-up Control of a Pendulum Using Nonlinear Model Predictive Control
• Matthew Kelly's tutorials
  • Simple-pendulum
  • PD-control
  • Trajectory optimization
  • Cart-pole dynamics
  • Numerical simulation

Tools

Software, toolboxes and libraries

• Matlab - which also includes Simulink
  • Control Systems Toolbox
  • Robotics Systems Toolbox
  • Optimization, Nonlinear Control, and Estimation Toolbox
  • Model Predictive Control Toolbox
• Python
  • scipy
  • Python-Control
  • AtsushiSakai/PyAdvancedControl
  • AtsushiSakai/PythonRobotics
  • PyTrajectory
  • do-mpc
  • Shunichi09/linear_nonlinear_control

Similar Lists

• Brian Douglas recommended resources