CDS 111 -- Introduction to Control Technology

Outline of Lectures for Spring 1996

Richard M. Murray

This is an outline of my lectures for CDS 111 for Spring 1996. This is being written as I teach the class (for a second time), so if you are reading this before June 1996 then it will be imcomplete. I give two one-hour lectures per week and I also have a "group meeting" with the students to check on their progress in the labs.

Lecture #1 - Course administration, brief intro to ducted fan
Lecture #2 - Ducted fan dynamics
Lecture #3 - Hardware and software interface to the ducted fan
Lecture #4 - Sampled data systems and filters; converting continuous time controllers to discrete time
Lecture #5 - An introduction to robust performance
Lecture #6 - Robust performance of the ducted fan
Lecture #7 - The weighted sensitivity problem and H_infty control
Lecture #8 - Review of state space; pole placement via state feedback
Lecture #9 - Linear quadratic regulators
Lecture #10 - Observers
Lecture #11 - LQG controllers
Lecture #12 - Gain scheduling
Lecture #13 - Feedback linearization
Lecture #14 - Feedback linearization and dynamic inversion of the ducted fan
Lecture #15 - TBA1
Lecture #15 - TBA2

Richard Murray (murray@indra.caltech.edu)

Last modified: Sun May 12 16:01:08 1996