Open questions
Where the course sources disagree or say nothing, the knowledge base lists the question instead of resolving it. Staff names are removed.
Overview kb/README.md
- Rule (owner, 2026-11-12): when English and Dutch course pages differ, the English version is binding. Project groups have at most 4 students.
- The final-grade formula is printed as
G = 2·M + 3·C + 5·D + 5·Pwithout an explicit division by 15. Seeassessment.md.
Schedule kb/schedule.md
- The exact week in which each of the five practicals is scheduled is not stated in the text; only the practical block (weeks 47–51) and the assessed cells (weeks 48–51, 3) are given.
- The grid lists "test protocol 2" in week 2 and "test protocol delivery" in week 3, while
_src/deadlines.mdgives one Testplan deadline on 2027-01-22 (Friday of week 3). The session and the deadline are treated as separate items. - Week 6 "deliveries resit" is not tied to a named deliverable in the text; the only dated resit that week is the final-delivery resit.
Deliverables kb/deliverables.md
- Resolved 2026-11-12: where English and Dutch pages differ, the English version is binding (owner rule). Proof of concept weights: Test protocol 10% / Final delivery 50% / Reflection 40%.
- The PoA page names [staff] as assessor in English and [staff] in Dutch.
- The 2026 PoA workshop slides say the PoA "will be assessed by your lecturer of PS" and give the deadline "4th December (end of the day)" (Dutch: 23.59 uur), consistent with Brightspace 23:59; the assessor named on the assignment page is still [staff] (English) / [staff] (Dutch). The page that holds the PoA assignment text is titled "Literature literatuur" but contains no literature requirements beyond the template outline.
- Since the 2026-11-12 afternoon crawl the "Plan of Approach Plan van aanpak" page only links the 2026 workshop slides; earlier KB text citing it for submission rules now cites the "Literature literatuur" page.
- The Python page names [staff] for support in English and [staff] in Dutch.
- The simulation page's first-opportunity time is 09:00, while
_src/deadlines.mdsays 12:00. - The English final-delivery page says the resit is "Monday, February 7" (which is a Sunday in 2027); the Dutch copy and
_src/deadlines.mdsay 2027-02-08 Mon 09:00, which is used here. - Python assessment dates are not in
_src/deadlines.md; only the weeks are given in the Python timetable.
Assessment kb/assessment.md
- The final-grade formula is printed without a division by 15. Treated as a weighted average in this KB, but the page as written is ambiguous.
- Resolved 2026-11-12: English version is binding when EN and NL pages differ (owner rule). Proof of concept: Test protocol 10%, Final delivery 50%, Reflection 40%.
- The modelling-test support person is [staff] in English and [staff] in Dutch; the control-test support person is [staff] in English and [staff] in Dutch. The responsible lecturer may differ per class.
- The kickoff slide says "Enroll 2 week before the test on Osiris"; the test pages themselves do not repeat the enrolment deadline.
Project kb/project.md
- How groups are formed or assigned: not stated in any page.
- Partly resolved (owner, 2026-11-12): the project motor supply is 12-15 V maximum. Still open: single 12-15 V supply or +/-12 to 15 V rails for the amplifier (the PID PCB and TL081 example use +12 V / -12 V; the fan amplifier uses 12 V and ground). A bidirectional Segway drive with a push-pull stage needs both rails.
- Final-delivery resit date: English page says "Monday, February 7, 9:00", Dutch page says "Maandag 8 Februari 9:00", Brightspace says 2027-02-08 Mon 09:00. 7 February 2027 is a Sunday, so the English text is treated as a typo.
- Intermediate delivery: page says first opportunity "week 2" and Brightspace deadline is 2027-01-15 Fri 23:59 (end of week 2). Unclear if documentation is expected by that deadline or only the session; the page describes only the session.
- Test protocol resit: page says "TBD", Brightspace lists 2027-02-05 Fri 23:59. English class split names the class ELV2-2A..D; the Dutch copy says ELV1-1A..D.
- Segway has no matching mechanical practical text (Practical 4 covers only ball beam and fan arm); build guidance for the Segway is not in the exported material.
- Lab access, opening hours and safety rules are not in the exported material; "Control labs.pdf" only holds hardware do's and don'ts.
- Delivery time slots (intermediate and final) are all "volgt / will follow"; re-check after the next nightly refresh.
Practicals kb/practicals.md
- Practical 2 (DC motor): the nominal motor voltage is not stated. Page 01 limits the supply to 9 V while the infographic labels the motor 12 V; Assignment 1 uses "less than 30 % of the nominal motor voltage" and Assignments 2, 4 and 10 use "the supply voltage specified for the practical", which is not given in the text, so ask the teacher or read the rig label. This concerns only the lab motor of the practical: the project motor (12-15 V max) and its gear ratio are the group's choice (owner, 2026-11-12; see
project.md§3). The practical's gearbox ratio is measured by counting teeth (no number printed). Image_src/img_new/n006.pngsits on the Assignment 5 page but shows the Assignment 6 current-slope sketch. The assembly documents17/18(analogue PID PCB) are stored in the DC motor folder, not with Practical 1 or 3. The Dutch "Beoordeling" block is unfilled. - The exact calendar week of each practical is not given; only the block (weeks 47–51) and the assessed cells (weeks 48–51, 3) are known.
- The LT Spice page's "Grading: You will be evaluated on this component by ...." and the other practical pages' grading sections are unfilled templates; the general practical rules above are the authoritative grading description.
04 Int.html.md,06 Diff - Copy.html.mdin the analogue-PID folder are empty.- Bleeder resistor in Practical 1: the page text says 1 MΩ, the schematic image (
_src/img_desc/img018.md) shows R1 = 100k; take the value from the ZIP's LTspice file. - The Control labs deck's tuning formulas (Ki = 0.6·Kc/Tp, Kd = 0.125·Kc·Tp) are given as printed; the chapter 11 table in
topics.mdgives Ki = 1.2·K0/T0 (T_I = 0.5·T0), twice the deck's value. - Several image values are read by eye from small screenshots; the descriptions flag them as approximate.
Topics kb/topics.md
- The control-systems page's provisional lecture dates (e.g. lecture 1 on 24-Nov) do not line up one-to-one with the planning-grid weeks; the grid gives contact hours, the page gives provisional dates. Both are reproduced above where relevant.
- Book chapter numbers differ between the Dorf & Bishop and Bertil Thomas editions; the table keeps both columns rather than mapping them.
- No separate "Simulation" lecture sequence exists; simulation is taught inside modelling (workshops 8–9) and the assignment.
- The control-systems chapter decks (ch 1–4, 6–12) are Dutch-only in the snapshot; there is no English version, so the Dutch decks are cited. Ch 5 is absent from the sources. Chapter 8 is a single slide.
- The DC motor lecture decks (modelling lecture 4 and the control-systems "DC motor V5" deck) contain handwritten derivations with garbled formulas; only the clean CTMS-style equations are copied.
- Laplace supplement 2 ("Laplace transform of an integral") and parts of ch 9/ch 10 formulas are not decoded in the extraction; the answers to practice exam Q3 and Q4 are likewise not decoded.
- The control formula sheet is labelled 2023–2024; confirm the version the test will provide.
Group plan kb/group-plan.md
- The order form asks for the project leader's name (
project.md§5). Leader A does not want the name in documents: ask the coach whether a group number or contact person is enough. - The Segway time slots for the intermediate delivery, simulation and final delivery depend on group 13's slot, still "will follow" at snapshot time.
- The grid puts "PoA submit" in week 50 and "INTERMEDIATE delivery" in week 2; Brightspace dates are used above (2026-12-04 and 2027-01-15), which are in weeks 49 and 2 respectively.
- The dependency chain is qualitative; the course does not give durations or effort estimates, so all start dates in (b) are suggestions.
- The final delivery demonstration timeslot within week 5 is not published in the snapshot.