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Nonlinear Control

Organization


Lecturer Prof. Dr.-Ing. Frank Allgöwer
Dipl.-Ing. Mathias Bürger
Teaching assistant Dipl.-Ing. Christoph Maier


Attention: Rooms have changed!

Time and place (3V/1Ü, 6 ECTS):
Wednesday 09.45 - 11.15
V 9.41V47.04
Thursday
09.45 - 11.15
V 9.41V57.05

The course is given in English.


All the lecture material is available in the Ilias learning management system. You find the material under:
    repository > engineering > engineering cybernetics > lehrveranstaltungen SS 13 > nonlinear control

The password will be announced in the lecture.


Prerequisites

The course is intended for students having already visited ERT and KRT or have equivalent knowledge.

This course can be chosen within the area "Systemtheorie" for the study program Engineering Cybernetics.


Content:

This lecture will cover modern analysis and controller design methods for nonlinear systems including
  • Mathematical basics for nonlinear control
  • Lyapunov stability
  • Lyapunov-based controller design
  • Input-output stability
  • Passivity
  • Dissipativity
  • Passivity-based control

Literature

  • H. K. Khalil, Nonlinear Systems, Prentice Hall, 2002. Publisher Link
    Errata
  • R. Sepulchre, Constructive Nonlinear Control, Springer-Verlag, 1997. Download

Course schedule:

Color code for exercises: easy, medium, difficult

Topic Reference
Introduction:
Examples of nonlinear phenomena
Slides
Mathematical foundations of nonlinear control Khalil Appendix A and B
Exercises 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.7
Fundamental properties of nonlinear systems Khalil chapter 3.1
Exercises 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 3.5, 3.19, 3.20
Lyapunov stability Khalil chapter 4.1–4.3
Exercises 4.2, 4.3, 4.4, 4.8, 4.9, 4.10, 4.11, 4.12, 4.14, 4.15, 4.16, 4.17, 4.26, 4.29
Sliding mode control Khalil chapter 14.1
Exercises 14.1a, 14.2, 14.6, 14.12
Comparison functions, stability of non-autonomous systems, converse theorems Khalil chapter 4.4, 4.5, 4.7
Exercises 4.34, 4.35, 4.37, 4.42, 4.43, 4.44, 4.47, 4.48
Input-to-state stability Khalil chapter 4.9
Exercises 4.54, 4.55, 4.56, 4.58
Input-output stability Khalil chapter 5
Exercises 5.1 5.5 5.12 5.13 5.16 5.18
Control Lyapunov functions R. Sepulchre, Constructive Nonlinear Control, Chapter 3.5
Examples 3.42, 3.45, 3.46
Backstepping: Robust & adaptive control Khalil chapter 14.3
Exercises 14.30, 14.31, 14.32, 14.33, 14.34, 14.38(a)
Passivity Khalil Chapter 6
Exercises 6.6 , 6.10, 6.18, 6.9
Passivity-based control Khalil Chapter 14.4
Exercises 14.42, 14.43, 14.57 Sepulchre Examples 2.48 and 14.17,
Dissipativity & observer design Khalil Chapter 14.5