Free 46-episode YouTube course on classical control: every robot model still drives a motor
lukas_m_ziegler · x · 2026-08-29
Recommends Brian Douglas's free Classical Control Theory course on YouTube — 46 videos, no paywall, covering closed-loop control, transfer functions, PID, time/frequency domains, Fourier and Laplace transforms, stability, root locus, Bode plots, system identification, and physical system modeling, tied together with practical robotic-car examples.
The author pushes back on the "classical control is outdated in the foundation-model era" take: every model ultimately sends a number to a motor, and something still has to hold the joint where it was told to go. Robotics learners can't skip these fundamentals.
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