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Courses: ME8281 – Advanced Control Systems

Pre-requisite:

Thorough understanding of materials in ME 5281 or equivalent; instructor's consent

 

Instructor

    Prof. Perry Y. Li
    MechE 309 or at CCEFP @ 1701 Univ Ave, Rm 115
    Phone: 612- 626-7815 / 624-4992
    Email: pli@me.umn.edu
    Office Hours: Friday 9-10 (MechE)

Teaching Assistant – None assigned

Class Times: Monday and Wednesday 12:20-2:10

Room: Amundson 124

Office Hour: Friday 9:00-10:00 (CCEFP), after class or by appointment.

Overview

This is a first graduate level course on control systems with an emphasis on controller design. Pre-requisite materials assumed are generally covered in an undergraduate level control systems e.g. ME5281 at UMN, which covers classical SISO control, and an introduction to states space control concept.

About 2/3 of the course will deal mainly with linear systems (or linearized systems), and the rest of the class will be concerned with some nonlinear systems.

In class and homework examples will be taken from various application domains and research projects. We will rely heavily on MATLAB for analysis, design and simulations of these systems.

Grading

  • Homeworks: 60%
  • Final: 40%

Textbooks

  • Goodwin, Graebe, Salgado, "Control System Design", Prentice Hall, 2001.

    We will not follow the book strictly, but will pick topics from the book for at home reading, examples, homeworks and discussion etc. Notes, course materials, and papers will be handed out from time to time. Other recommended texts for reference are:

  1. Glad and Ljung, ``Control Theory - Multivariable and nonlinear methods" Taylor and Francis, 2000.
    • Fairly comprehensive, useful reference, but may approach the theory in a different way as in class.
  2. Doyle, Francis, Tannenbaum, "Feedback control theory", McMillan, 1992.
    • Good introduction to robust control ideas and loop shaping. (Out of print but available for download)
  3. Franklin, Powell, Emami-Naeini, "Feedback control of dynamic systems", Addison-Wesley, 3rd edition+, 1994.
    • Excellent undergraduate text.
  4. Ogata, "Modern Control Engeineering", Prentice Hall, 1994.
    • Undergraduate control text with lots of worked examples.
  5. Khalil, "Nonlinear Systems", Prentice-Hall, 2nd+ Ed. 1996.
    • Fairly comprehensive on nonlinear systems analysis, and some control design ideas.
  6. Slotine, Li, "Applied Nonlinear Control", Prentice Hall. 1991.
    • Introductory book (i.e. readable) on nonlinear control.
  7. Anderson, Moore, "Optimal Control - Linear Quadratic Method", Prentice-Hall, 1989. [May be out-of-print].
    • Excellent text on Linear Quadratic Control.
  8. Desoer and Callier, "Linear Systems Theory", Springer-Verlag, 1991.
    • Linear systems text using geometric ideas.

Topics to be Covered (tentative)

  1. Review of states space modeling, linearization of nonlinear sytsems
  2. Response of linear systems
  3. Controllability and observability - concepts and tests
  4. Balanced realization / model reduction
  5. State feedback and observer output feedback
  6. Robustness and performance tradeoff (Loop shaping design)
  7. Linear Quadratic Regulator (LQR)
  8. Deterministic Kalman filter and LQG
  9. Trajectory tracking control
  10. Input Shaping
  11. Internal model control and repetitive control
  12. Introduction to Lyapunov stability theory
  13. Feedback linearization
  14. Sliding mode control
  15. Parameter estimation - introduction to system identification
  16. Lyapunov based adaptive control

 

 

 

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