ECE 515: Control System Theory & Design

Course Descriptions:

Feedback control systems emphasizing state space techniques. Basic principles, modeling, analysis, stability, structural properties, optimization, and design to meet specifications.

Announcements:

The current plan is that this course will be taught in person.The situation around Covid-related restrictions on campus can of course change at any moment, and I will keep the class updated of any developments.

Schedule: Mon Wed 11:00am~12:50pm, 2035 Campus Instructional Facility

Prerequisites: MATH 241 or MATH 380; one of MATH 385, MATH 386, MATH 441

Office hours: TBA

Homework TA: TBA

TA Office hours: TBA

Supplementary texts:

  • Michael Greenberg, Advanced Engineering Mathematics, Prentice-Hall

Assignments and grading policy:

Your grades will be based on homework and exams. Details will be explained in class.

Lectures:

  • Week 1: Examples of Linear systems. Lecture Note

  • Week 2: Linear algebra. Linear spaces and transformations. Lecture Note

  • Week 3: Linear algebra. Eigenvalues and eigenvectors. Lecture Note

  • Week 4: Variation-of-constants (VOC) solution formula. Lecture Note

  • Week 5: Properties of fundamental solution matrix and Jordan decomposition. Lecture Note

  • Week 6: Lyapunov stability. Definitions and Lyapunov’s direct method. Lecture Note

  • Week 7: Linear algebra. Inner products and norms. Lecture Note

  • Week 8: Lyapunov theory for linear time invariant systems. Lecture Note

  • Week 9: Linear algebra. Range and null space. Lecture Note

  • Week 10: Controllability and observability. Lecture Note

  • Week 11: Kalman’s controllability and observability decomposition. Lecture Note

  • Week 11: Realization theory. Lecture Note

  • Week 12: Control and observer design. Lecture Note

  • Week 13: Optimal control of linear systems. Lecture Note