Course Announcements

• Your midterm exam will be held during class on Thursday November 1st - it is an 85 minute closed book exam.
• If you are taking the class (whether for credit or as a listener), please sign up for the class mailing list here.

• You will have a total of 4 homework assignments (see "Schedule" below). Homework extensions will be given only under special circumstances: You should contact me in advance to request an extension. No late homeworks will be otherwise accepted.
  
• There will be an in-class midterm exam on Thursday, November 1, covering the first 7 lectures.
  
• There will be a comprehensive take home final exam, to be picked up between 2:30 and 5 pm on Thursday, December 6, and to be returned 24 hours later.
  
• Your homeworks, midterm and final exams will contribute to 40%, 25% and 35% of your final grade, respectively.
  
• Discussing the homework among your colleagues is permitted; however, you should write up your own solution.
  
• No collaboration is allowed on the exams.
  

• (Required) J.C. Doyle, B. Francis and A. Tannenbaum, "Feedback Control Theory", Macmillan Publishing Co., 1990. This book is out of print but may be downloaded here.
  
• (Required) G.E. Dullerud and F.G. Paganini, "A Course in Robust Control Theory: A Convex Approach", Springer-Verlag NY Inc, 2000.
  
• (Recommended) K. Zhou and J.C. Doyle, "Essentials of Robust Control", Prentice Hall Inc, 1998.

• Syllabus

• Schedule

• Problem Set 1 (Posted on: October 9. Due in class: October 18.)
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• Problem Set 2 (Posted on: October 21. Due in class: October 30.)
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• Midterm Exam
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• Problem Set 3 (Posted on: November 12. Due in class: November 20.)
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• Problem Set 4 (Posted on: November 23. Due in class: December 4.)
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• Final Exam
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[*Certain problems are adapted from lecture notes by M. A. Dahleh and by A. Megretski, with their permission.]

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