ESE 406/505-MEAM 513 : Control Systems

	ESE 406/505-MEAM 513 : Control Systems Department of Electrical and Systems Engineering University of Pennsylvania
	Spring 2004

Announcements :
- First class is on Tuesday January 13th 2004 in Towne 313 from 12:00-1:30pm.
Course Description: This course is an introduction to analysis and design of feedback control systems, including classical control theory in the time and frequency domain. Modeling of physical, biological and information systems using linear and nonlinear differential equations. Stability and performance of interconnected systems, including use of block diagrams, Bode plots, Nyquist criterion, and Lyapunov functions. Robustness and uncertainty management in feedback systems through stochastic and deterministic methods.
Suggested pre-requisites: Basic course on ordinary differential equations and linear algebra.
Instructor:
- Ali Jadbabaie , jadbabai@seas.upenn.edu ,
  Office hours : Wednesdays 2:00-4:00pm, 365 GRW Moore bldg.
Lectures: T- TR 12:00-1:30pm, Towne 313.

Feedback Control of Dynamic Systems, by Franklin, Powell and Emami Naieni, 4th Edition, Prentice Hall, 2002.

Course Notes and Links Reading material for the class will be posted here, along with links to supplemental information.

R. M. Murray (ed), Control in an Information Rich World: Report of the Panel on Future Directions in Control, Dynamics, and Systems, SIAM, 2002 (to appear).
Available online at http://www.cds.caltech.edu/~murray/cdspanel/
K. J. Åström and Richard M. Murray, Analysis and Design of Feedback Systems, Preprint, 2002. Online access
J. Doyle, B. Francis, and A. Tannenbaum, Feedback Control Theory, McMillan, 1992. Online access.

Grading :
- Homeworks : 20%
- Midterm : 35%
- Final : 45%
Articles:
- Welcome to Feedback Universe. Forbes magazine article. October 2002.
- For Spy in the Sky, New Eyes, New York Times, June 2001.
- Shifting Gears, With the Help of Software, New York Times, December 2002.
Web sites:
- Control tutorials for MATLAB (U. Michigan)
Teaching assistants:
- Nima Moshtagh
- Ali Ahmadzadeh