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Course Outline
Lecture (AJC 2121):	M W 5:00-6:15 pm P. S. Krishnaprasad
Office Hours:	Tu 5:30 pm - 6:30 pm (AVW 2233) & 6:30 pm - 7:30 pm (AJC 2132);

Lecture Notes by P. S. Krishnaprasad (LaTeX version)

Lecture Notes ENEE661 - Spring 2017 (please do not print, as it is being edited)

Survey Lecture (on some aspects of geometric control theory)

Addendum 1 to Lecture 4 on density evolution

Correction to pages 30-31 of Lecture 4 on flow expression

Roger Brockett's 1973 survey article Lie Algebras and Lie Groups in Control Theory

Roger Brockett's 1976 Proc. IEEE survey article Nonlinear systems and differential geometry

Notes on Lie algebras by Hans Samelson, a classic;

Roger Howe's 1983 paper Very basic Lie theory; and corrections to Howe's paper (1984)

Wei and Norman's 1964 paper On Global Representations of the Solutions of Linear Differential Equations as a Product of Exponentials

Roger Brockett's 2014 Automatica survey The early days of geometric nonlinear ontrol

Tensor Analysis - book by Edward Nelson see pages 33-36 on kinematic car

Topics in Dynamics I: Flows - book by Edward Nelson

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Homework Assignments Spring 2017

Problem Set 1

Problem Set 2

Problem Set 3

Problem Set 4

Problem Set 5

Problem Set 6

Problem Set 7

Problem Set 8

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Older Hand-written Weekly Lecture Notes by P. S. Krishnaprasad

Lecture 1(a) (Introducing nonlinear control systems) Lecture 1(b) (Frenet-Serret framing of curves and control on SE(3)) Lecture 1(c) (natural framing of curves and control on SE(3))

Lecture 2(a) (matrix Lie groups and Lie algebras - very basic introduction) Lecture 2(b) (Lie brackets in control - examples)

Lecture 3(a) (contraction mappings, fixed points, existence and uniqueness of solutions to ODE's) Lecture 3(b) (mean value theorem)

Lecture 4 (planar systems, Hartman-Grobman theorem, Poincare-Bendixson theorem)

Lecture 5 (on Index) Lecture 5 continued (more on Index)

Lecture 6 Lyapunov and Lasalle Theorems; Chetaev Theorem; Region of attraction

Lecture 7 Lyapunov theorems for time-varying systems; Linearization Theorems (stability) and Linearization Theorems (instability)

Lecture 8 Feedback stabilization; feedback linearization

Lecture 9 Stability theory: input-output aspects

Lecture 10 Passivity and Absolute Stability

Older Homework Assignments

Problem Set 1

Problem Set 2

Problem Set 3 (part 1) part 2

Problem Set 4

Problem Sets 5, 6 and 7

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Homework solutions are sent by email

For Matlab problems remember to include your code.

Examinations

Mid Term I

Mid Term II

Final

Other Resources (OR)

My lecture notes on Optimal Control (ENEE 664)

My lecture notes on (Linear) System Theory (ENEE 660)

Website for Feedback Systems: An Introduction for Scientists and Engineers by K. J. Astrom and R. M. Murray On-line readable book

Motion, Control and Geometry Four expository articles illustrating nonlinear control in action

Real Analysis Book by Cinlar and Vanderbei - material useful in Systems courses published by Springer in Undergraduate Texts in Mathematics Series as Real and Convex Analysis (recommended)

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