EE 5307 -
LINEAR SYSTEMS ENGINEERING
Updated: Thursday, August 01, 2013 by F.L. Lewis
This
is a UTA Web-Based Course. The internet
URL is http://arri.uta.edu/acs
Related
webpages:
Systems and Controls Thrust Are
Catalog Information: Topics
include state-space description of dynamic systems, analysis and design of
linear systems, similarity transformation, state feedback, state observers, and
matrix characterization of multivariable systems.
Prerequisite: Graduate standing or consent of instructor
Course Objectives:
To provide
Topics Covered: see separate schedule.
Class hours: MW 4-520pm, NH TBA Nedderman Hall
Instructor: F.L. Lewis, tel: 272-5972, office: UTARI room 214, lewis@uta.edu
Faculty Profile located at https://www.uta.edu/mentis/public/#profile/profile/view/id/27/category/1
Office hours: before or after class
Teaching Assistants: Reza
Modares reza_modares@yahoo.com
Office hours: TBA at the IEEE Mentoring Office
Texts:
1) Antsaklis and Michel, Linear
Systems primer, 2007
2) Student Edition of MATLAB
Grading:
Homework-- 25%
Exam 1-- (1 sheet of notes both sides) 25%
Wed 12 Oct
Exam 2-- (2 sheets of notes both sides) 25% Wed 23 Nov
Final 25% Week of 12 Dec
The instructor reserves the right to make appropriate changes to the grading policy.
Student Learning Outcomes:
1. Acquire the mathematical tools needed to analyze feedback control systems by state space methods
Assessment- homework design projects and examinations.
2. Learn the relation of state space systems to classical forms including transfer functions.
Assessment- design and simulation projects in homeworks, exams.
3. Acquire the mathematical tools needed to study system stability, performance, controllability, observability.
Assessment- homework design projects and examinations.
4. Ability to perform feedback control system design using state variable methods including pole placement and LQR.
Assessment- design and simulation projects in homeworks, exams.
5. Ability to perform designs with various control tools using MATLAB computer simulation toolboxes.
Assessment- computer design and simulation projects assigned in homeworks.
6. Ability to design dynamic feedback systems using state variable form including observers, output feedback and regulators.
Assessment- design and simulation projects in homeworks, exams.
Relation to Program Objectives. This
course is meant to provide basic training and familiarity with state space
feedback control systems. Feedback
systems are ubiquitous in daily life and appear in many other disciplines
including communications, industrial process control, aerospace, vehicle engine
systems, environmental efficiency, and elsewhere. State Variable methods for feedback have been
introduced since the 1960s and are responsible for the high performance and
stability of modern engineered systems including aerospace, robotic, and
industry processes. This course shows
the students the foundations of state space methods and prepares them for
further courses in optimal control, nonlinear systems, and advanced topics such
as adaptive control and collaborative control of networked systems.
Attendance is not mandatory. If you skip classes, you will find the homework and exams more difficult. Due to the pace of the lectures, copying someone else's notes may be an unreliable way of making up an absence. You are responsible for all material covered in class regardless of absences.
You will need to use MATLAB including Simulink and the Control Systems Toolbox. MATLAB is available in some of the OIT computer labs and you can also purchase the student edition of MATLAB for your personal computer.
Check the grading of the exams thoroughly. You will have one week after the exam to see me for regrading. After this period, the grade is final.
Questions during class are strongly encouraged. The worst thing I can do is move too slowly and bore you. The next worst thing I can do is move too quickly and confuse you. If either of these occurs, it is your responsibility to speak up. You are paying for an education, and if the material is not presented clearly with confusion being eliminated shortly after it sets in you are not getting what you contracted for. On the other hand, if I never confuse you I am being unduly conservative and hence not conscientious. There is a very fine balance here, with you as student and me as instructor each having very definite responsibilities for keeping open all channels of communication. It is extremely difficult to teach a course without some sort of real-time feedback.
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