Valid from: Spring 2016
Decided by: Professor Thomas Johansson
Date of establishment: 2016-10-28
Division: Automatic Control
Course type: Third-cycle course
Teaching language: English
The aim of the course is to learn basic and advanced methods for control system synthesis. The PhD student should gain hands-on experience of several of the most important control design methods that have been developed within the history of control theory.
Knowledge and Understanding
For a passing grade the doctoral student must
Competences and Skills
For a passing grade the doctoral student must
Control system design - a perspective. Requirements and fundamental limitations. Loopshaping. QFT design. Pole placement. PID design. Bottom-up design. Interaction. LQG design. Robust control, H-infinity synthesis, Glover-McFarlane. Model predictive control. Iterative learning control. Gain scheduling and adaptive control.
Lecture slides and hand-out material.
Types of instruction: Lectures, exercises, miscellaneous. Some of the lectures consist of short presentations given by the participants.
Examination formats: Written assignments, seminars given by participants, miscellaneous.
Individual exercises and handins, some in form of control design challenges.
Grading scale: Failed, pass
Examiner:
Assumed prior knowledge: Knowledge corresponding to a basic course in control theory.
Course coordinators:
Web page: http://www.control.lth.se/Education/DoctorateProgram/control-system-synthesis.html