EEE 586 Nonlinear
Control Systems
Fall2016, TTh 1:30-2:45,
WXLRA306
Instructor: Kostas Tsakalis, GWC
358, 965-1467, 
, current schedule
(This page: http://tsakalis.faculty.asu.edu/586.htm)
Textbook: Khalil, Nonlinear Systems, 3rd Ed. Prentice Hall
Course Outline:
- Introduction, Fundamentals (Ch. 1-2-3)
- Lyapunov Stability (Ch. 4)
- Passivity (Ch. 6)
- Input-Output Stability (Ch. 5,7)
- Advanced Stability Analysis (Ch. 8)
- Perturbed systems (Ch. 9,10, 11: selected topics)
- Additional topics: Selection from Feedback control (12),
Design Tools (14).
Grading: Final 40, 4 Midterms 40(best 30, worst 10), Homework 20
ALL TESTS ARE Closed BOOK, CLOSED-NOTES, one sheet (8-1/2 x 11) of formulae allowed.
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HW assignments, test material, handouts
Useful class notes:
Set_3 (237Kb) Linear
Algebra Notes
Set_4 (229Kb) Stability,
controllability, observability
Solutions of Selected Problems
9/13
HW#1: 1.5, 1.6, 1.10, 1,11, 2.1, 2.16,
2.17, 2.18{a,b,c},
2.20, 2.21, 2.24, 2.29, 3.1, 3.3, 3.4, 3.20, 3.23
9/27
HW#2: 4.2, 4.3, 4.8, 4.9, 4.10, 4.13, 4.15, 4.16, 4.17, 4.22, 4.23, 4.24, 4.25, 4.28, 4.29,
4.43, 4.54, 4.55, 4.59, 4.67
10/13 EEE586 Test I Material:
Preliminaries, equilibria, linearization, ODE solutions,
Lyapunov Theory (HW #1, #2)
11/3
HW#3: 5.5, 5.10, 5.11, 5.12,
5.15. 5.17, 5.18, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3,
6.4, 6.8, 6.10, 6.13, 6.14, 6.15, 6.16
11/15 HW#4: 7.1, 7.8,
7.9, 7.10{1,2,3}, 7.11{1,3,5}, 7.13 8.15, 8.16, 8.17, 8.18
11/22 EE586 Test II Material:
Input-Output Stability, Passivity, Frequency domain and describing
function methods (HW #3, #4)
HW#5
9.5,12.2.
Thu 12/8, 12:10-2:00, FINAL EXAM. Material:
Chapters 1-8, HW 1-4
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