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School of Engineering · ANU College of Systems and Society
System dynamics is the study of the response of engineering systems with changing time. The concepts learned in this unit can be used in a number of science and engineering disciplines including mechatronics, and in particular robotics, mechanical, electrical, aerospace, chemical, and marine engineering, manufacturing and biomedical engineering. The emphasis of this course will be on the analytical and numerical tools to describe the bahviour of the systems of interest. The presentation stresses analytical methods, concrete examples, and geometric intuition. The theory is developed systematically and is applied to various examples using differential equations, and numerical approximation of linear or nonlinear dynamical equations.
Tutorial Assignments
Learning outcomes 1, 2, 3
Labs (Computer and/or Hardware)
Learning outcomes 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Final exam
Learning outcomes 1, 2, 3
A standard workload of approximately 10 hours/week including the following formal contact hours: 30-36 one hour lectures, 6 x 2 hour tutorials, 1 x 3 hour hardware lab, 1 x 3 hour computer lab Other Information Professional Skills Mapping: Mapping of Learning Outcomes to Assessment and Professional Competencies
Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos with Applications to Physics, Biology, Chemistry, and Engineering, Steven Strogatz Fundamentals of Applied Dynamics, James H. Williams, Jr.