Project 4: Motorbike Control System Design and Simulation Analysis

This project report details the design and analysis of control systems for a motorbike, focusing on P, PI, PD, and PID controllers. The student derives the transfer function of the motorbike and simulates its dynamics in MATLAB. The project includes the design of each controller type, analyzing their performance characteristics like rise time, settling time, overshoot, and steady-state error. The results highlight the superior performance of the PID controller in terms of stability, response time, and steady-state error. Furthermore, the project explores system identification, modeling a mass-spring-damper system with nonlinear damping and simulating it in Simulink to analyze critically damped, over-damped, and under-damped responses. The discussion emphasizes the advantages of using Simulink's block-by-block linearization method for nonlinear system analysis. The report concludes by recommending the use of PID controllers for optimal motorbike control and mentions the potential of Model Predictive Control (MPC) as an alternative advanced control method.