CDS 110b: Course Overview

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Course Home

L7-2: Sensitivity

L8-1: Robust Stability

L9-1: Robust Perf

Schedule

This short (30 min) lecture provides a brief overview of the course.

Lecture Outline

1. Course goals and approach
   • Introduce modern tools for control system design: optimal control, LQR, Kalman filtering, robust loop shaping
   • Give insight into control implementation through optional lab experiment (Alice)
2. Course overview
   • Part I: optimal control - trajectory generation to LQR
   • Part II: state estimation - random processes, Kalman filtering
   • Part III: robust control theory
3. Course Administration - review of course syllabus
4. Additional CDS course opportunities
   • CDS Minor: CDS 110ab, CDS 104 (spring) or CDS 140a (fall)
   • CDS 270: Networked control systems (spring 2006)
   • CDS 237: Frontiers in Control and Dynamical Systems

Lecture Materials

• Lecture Presentation - copy of charts used in lecture
• Course Syllabus
• Course scheduling sheet - please fill out and return by 6 Jan (Fri), 6 pm