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Section

Laboratory Activity No. 1

Introductory Use of MATLAB in Feedback Control Systems

Objectives:
To learn to use MATLAB to
(1) generate polynomials,
(2) manipulate polynomials,
(3) generate transfer functions,
(4) manipulate transfer functions, and
(5) perform partial-fraction expansions

Minimum Required Software Packages: MATLAB and the Control System Toolbox

[Copy the rest on a bond paper (HANDWRITTEN) with the following revisions:]

Prelab:

1. Calculate the roots with the use of a calculator/software tool

2. Calculate by hand and check with a calculator/software tool
3. Calculate by hand and check with a calculator
4. Calculate by hand and verify or check with calculator

Lab

Do as indicated in the instructions

Postlab

Do as indicated in the instructions

Note: Show the solution immediately after each item. When using a software tool or calculator,
take the screenshot and include them as appendix in the handwritten document. Scan the
handwritten document and upload it together with the appendix as a single file file with a
filename like this: LabAct1_AmboyJefril (customize the red part)