CDS 273, Spring 2006

Frontiers in Control and Dynamical Systems

Course Information

• Organizers: Hideo Mabuchi (hmabuchi@caltech.edu) and Richard Murray (murray@caltech.edu)
• Class meetings: Wednesdays, 3:30 pm, after the CDS tea, in 104 Watson

The purpose of this course is to explore applications of tools from Control and Dynamical Systems to new problem domains. The course is organized around small teams consisting of CDS and non-CDS students who will work on projects of mutual interest in some faculty member's research area. Our main goals are for the participating CDS and science/engineering faculty to become more familiar with each other's work and expertise, and to get our graduate students interacting with one another.

The output of the course will be a short paper of the sort that could be sent to a conference. The paper should consist of a short description of the problem under study and the relevant CDS tools, followed by a preliminary set of results and a description of next steps to be pursued.

Students with limited background in CDS methods may be interested in taking CDS 104, which is offered concurrently with CDS 273. This course is taught on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 2-3 pm in 102 Steele.

Course Schedule

Week	Date	Event
1	29 Mar 06	Organizational meeting, 104 Watson @ 3:30 pm
2	5 Apr 06	Team assignments, 104 Watson @ 3:30 pm
3-4		Work in teams; define problem to be studied + approaches
5	26 Apr 06	Midterm presentations, 104 Watson @ 3:30 pm
6-9		Work in teams
10	2 Jun 06	Final reports due (by 5 pm)

Group Assignments

Project	Sponsor	Team
Dynamic Image Registration for Elevation Map Fusion	Arlene Cole-Rhodes