Fall'07 Course Announcement EE8235 Adaptive Control Instructor: Mihailo Jovanovic (mihailo@umn.edu) Course web-page: www.umn.edu/~mihailo//courses/f07/ee8235.html Topics: Examples and motivation. Plant parametric models. Background material on stability and optimization. On-line parameter estimation: SPR Lyapunov design approach, gradient and least-squares methods, adaptive laws with projection. Persistency of excitation. Parameter identifier and adaptive observers. Model reference adaptive control. Adaptive pole placement. Nonlinear adaptive control. Adaptive backstepping. Class schedule: MWF 1:25pm - 2:15pm, Akerman Hall 211, September 5 - December 12