Course Syllabus MCE 6656 Robust Control Systems Spring 2012 Catalog Description: MCE 6656 Robust Control

Systems 3 credits. Analyze and design basic robust controllers using methods for robustness investigation such as -analysis and H control algorithms. PREREQ: MCE 6642 OR PERMISSION OF INSTRUCTOR. Class Meeting Information: MW 10:00-11:45 AM, LEL 234 Instructor: Ken Bosworth, Professor, School of Engineering, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, and Dept. of Mathematics. Contact Information: boswkenn@isu.edu (Please put MCE 6656 in the subject line). Office Hours: by arrangement, by email. Tentative Topics: Review of Linear Algebra (DP 1) Review of Linear Time Invariant Systems - State Space Theory (DP 2, Z 3) Linear Analysis - Function Spaces, Norms, Linear Operators (DP 3, Z 4) Model Realizations and Reductions (DP 4, Z 7) Stabilizing Controllers (DP 5, Z 11) H2 Optimal Control (DP 6, Z 13) H Synthesis (DP 7, Z 14) Modeling Uncertain Systems - the Structured Singular Value (DP 8, Z 10) Robust Feedback Control of Uncertain Systems (DP 9) Robust Stability and Performance under Mixed Perturbations (BCK 9) State Space Parameter Perturbations (BCK 12) There is no single, excellent text to be found covering Robust Controls at the level we desire for this course. Hence, I will make use of several references (whose initials are indicated above, along with the corresponding chapter): DP: A Course in Robust Control Theory, a Convex Approach, by Dullerud and Paganini, Springer, ISBN: 0-387-98945-5 Z: Essentials of Robust Control, by Zhou, Prentice Hall, ISBN: 0-13-525833-2 BCK: Robust Control, the Parametric Approach, by Bhattacharyya, Chapellat, & Keel, Prentice Hall, ISBN: 0-13-781576, and now available for use as a pdf document online (posted on the mosfet server: http://mosfet.isu.edu/classes/mce656/resources/ ) Grading: This being an advanced graduate level course, grading will be based on class participation, including the willingness to present your project solutions in class (40%), performance on assigned projects (40%), and a final paper devoted to a review and presentation of the results from a published research paper (20%).