Spring'05: EE 4233

State space control system design

Course description

Instructor and TA

Texts and software

Grading policy

EE 4237: State space control laboratory

Acknowledgments

Course description [top]

This course is about analysis and design of feedback control systems. We will begin with a brief overview of topics covered in EE 4231: system representations, linearization around a set point, PID design, frequency domain methods, feedback fundamentals and limitations. We will then cover state-space models, their solutions and canonical forms/realizations, controllability, observability, and state-space methods in control design (full-state feedback design, pole placement, observer design, separation principle, Linear Quadratic Regulator (LQR) design). In the second part of the course we will focus on analysis tools for discrete time systems, digital control design, and analysis of sampled-data systems.

Class schedule: MWF 9:05am - 9:55am, EE/CSci 3-230, January 19 - May 6

Instructor and TA [top]

Instructor: Mihailo Jovanovic
Office: EE/CSci 5-183
Office hours: MW 10:00am - 11:00am

Phone: (612) 626 7204
E-mail: mihailo@ece.umn.edu
Web page: http://www.ece.umn.edu/users/mihailo/

Teaching assistant: Yen Chin Woo
Office: EE/CSci 2-115
Office hours: Th 1:00pm - 3:00pm

Phone: (612) 625 3027
E-mail: yenchin@ece.umn.edu

Texts and software [top]

Karl Johan Astrom, Introduction to control
PDF File
Tryphon Georgiou, EE 4231 lecture notes
PDF File
Gene F. Franklin, J. David Powell, Michael Workman
Digital control of dynamic systems
Addison Wesley, Third Edition, ISBN 0-201-82054-4
Matlab and Simulink will be extensively used

Grading policy [top]

Homework (20%), Midterm exams (2 x 25%), Final exam (30%)

Homework policy: Homework is intended as a tool for learning, not as a test. Moderate collaboration with your classmates is allowed. However, I urge you to invest enough time alone to understand each homework problem, and independently write the solutions that you turn in. Homework is generally handed out every Friday, and it is due at the beginning of the class a week later. Late homework will not be accepted. Start early!

Tentative exam schedule: Midterm 1: February 23; Midterm 2: March 30; Final: during exam week.

EE 4237: State space control laboratory [top]

Teaching assistant: Byung Hwa Kim
Office: 5-225G, EE/CSci Building
Office hours: MTu 11:00am - 12:00noon

Phone: (612) 626 7514
E-mail: bhkim@ece.umn.edu
Web page: http://www.ece.umn.edu/class/ee4237/

Lab schedule: all lab sessions will take place in EE/CSci 2-188. The TA will post a sign-up sheet for lab timings. You can choose the desired lab session from the following four options:

Session 1: M 1:00pm - 2:30pm
Session 2: M 2:30pm - 4:00pm
Session 3: Tu 1:00pm - 2:30pm
Session 4: Tu 2:30pm - 4:00pm

Note: the lab is separate from EE 4233 and optional. However, I strongly encourage you to take it.

Acknowledgments [top]

I would like to thank Professors Karl Johan Astrom, Tryphon Georgiou, Bassam Bamieh, and Murat Arcak for sharing their experiences, insights, and lecture notes with me.