Topic outline

    • Introduction to the course.  Some examples.  Norm theory.  The Small Gain Theorem.

      The lecture is pre-recorded, and no lecture in the classroom is given.  From the second study week both exercise hours and lectures are in classroom.  No recordings are then available.

    • LINEAR multivariable systems:

      •Impulse response and weighting function
      •Transfer function matrices
      •Transfer operator
      •Input-output-models
      •State-space representation
      •Frequency functions (might go to the next lecture)

    • Chapter 2 continues

       - Structural properties

      - Poles and zeros of MIMO systems

      - Frequency functions and norms


    • - Something more on singular values and singular value decomposition (SVD), Chapter 2

      Chapter 3

      - Closed loop MIMO systems

      - Sensitivity functions

      - The Push-Through Rule

      - The "Most Important Formula of Control Engineering"

      - Internal stability and robustness

    • Chapter 3 continues:

       - Internal stability

      - Robustness

      - Objectives in control design

      - Example of Loop Shaping Control

      Chapter 4:

      - Scaling of Variables

    • Chapter 4 continues:

      - Fundamental limitations in control

    • Lecture exceptionally on Wednesday 26.10, 14:15-16, AS6

      Chapter 5: Linear Quadratic (LQ) control

      -General ideas

      - Principle of Optimality

      - Discrete-time LQ regulator

      -Continuous-time regulator, the Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman equation

      - Maximum principle

    • Chapter 5:

      - some repetition on optimal control

      - servo problem: practical approach (adding an integrator)

      Chapter 6;

      - Relative Gain Array (RGA)

      - Internal Model Control (IMC)

    • Chapter 6:

      - Relative Gain Array, RGA,  (cont.)

      -Internal Model Control (IMC)

      Chapter 7:

      -General control configuration 

      - Formal loop shaping

    • Chapter 7 (available in lecture 9):

      - Generalized control configuration

      - Formal loop shaping

    • - Chapter 8:

      - LQG control

      -Robustness of LQG control

      - Loop transfer recovery (LTR)

      - Introduction to Model Predictive Control (MPC)

    • - Chap 8_plus (additions to Chap8 published earlier)

      - Introduction to MPC cont.

      - Final steps

      - A look back

      -Course ends