ECE 515

ECE 515 - Control System Theory & Design

Spring 2020

TitleRubricSectionCRNTypeHoursTimesDaysLocationInstructor
Control System Theory & DesignECE515N33983DIS41100 - 1220 M W  4070 Electrical & Computer Eng Bldg  Prashant Mehta
Jin Won Kim
Control System Theory & DesignME540N52780DIS41100 - 1220 M W  4070 Electrical & Computer Eng Bldg  Prashant Mehta
Jin Won Kim

Official Description

Feedback control systems emphasizing state space techniques. Basic principles, modeling, analysis, stability, structural properties, optimization, and design to meet specifications. Course Information: Same as ME 540. Prerequisite: ECE 486.

Subject Area

  • Control Systems

Course Director

Description

Fundamental course on feedback control systems. Basic principles, modeling, optimization and design to meet specifications.

Topics

  • System modeling and analysis: system design as a control problem - constraints, goals and performance specifications, input-output and state space models; linearization; review of linear algebra; fundamentals of state-space analysis of linear systems
  • System structural properties: stability; introduction to Lyapunov methods; controllability, observability; canonical forms and minimal realizations. Modeling uncertainties; system sensitivity and robustness measures.
  • Feedback system design: basic properties of feedback; stabilization and eigenvalue placement by state and output feedback; disturbance rejection; observers for estimating states, and observer feedback systems
  • Optimum feedback control: dynamic programming and the Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman equation; synthesis of optimum state regulator systems; numerical methods
  • Introduction to the minimum principle: calculus of variations and necessary conditions for optimal trajectories; minimum principle for bounded controls; time-optimal control of linear systems; numerical methods

Detailed Description and Outline

Topics:

  • System modeling and analysis: system design as a control problem - constraints, goals and performance specifications, input-output and state space models; linearization; review of linear algebra; fundamentals of state-space analysis of linear systems
  • System structural properties: stability; introduction to Lyapunov methods; controllability, observability; canonical forms and minimal realizations. Modeling uncertainties; system sensitivity and robustness measures.
  • Feedback system design: basic properties of feedback; stabilization and eigenvalue placement by state and output feedback; disturbance rejection; observers for estimating states, and observer feedback systems
  • Optimum feedback control: dynamic programming and the Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman equation; synthesis of optimum state regulator systems; numerical methods
  • Introduction to the minimum principle: calculus of variations and necessary conditions for optimal trajectories; minimum principle for bounded controls; time-optimal control of linear systems; numerical methods

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2/13/2013