Fall'07: EE 8235

Adaptive Control

Course description Instructor and TA Texts/notes and software

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.

Prerequisite: Linear systems course or consent of instructor.

Class schedule: MWF 1:25pm - 2:15pm, Akerman Hall 211, September 5 - December 12

Grading policy: There will be no in class exams in this course. Your grade will be based on homework assignments and class project. The project presentations will be organized during the final examination week.

Instructor: Mihailo Jovanovic Office: EE/CSci 5-157 Office hours: W 2:30pm - 3:30pm Phone: (612) 625 7870 E-mail: mihailo@umn.edu Web page: www.umn.edu/~mihailo

Teaching assistant: TBA

Primary text	Petros A. Ioannou, Jing Sun Robust adaptive control Electronic version available here
Supplementary text	Miroslav Krstic,  Ioannis Kanellakopoulos, Petar V. Kokotovic Nonlinear and adaptive control design Wiley, New York, 1995.
Software	Homework sets and class project will make a use of Matlab and Simulink