Topic outline

    • The first lecture: Slides and video recording.  The first lecture is available as recording only.  (No lecture on Friday 9.9 in classroom).  Later, all lectures and exercise hours are in classroom, and no recordings are available.

      - Introduction to the course

      -the Z-transformation

    • Quiz 1 opens on Thursday, 8th of September at 14:15 and closes on Friday, 9th of September at 14:15.  It is related to the first lecture, which is available on-line.  Please remember that the later lectures are in classroom, and no lecture recordings will then be available.

    • - Discrete time systems 

      - Exact discretization, Zero -Order Hold

      - Pulse transfer function

      - Poles and zeros of discrete time systems

      -Sampling

    • The Quiz opens on Thursday 15.9 at 14:15 and closes on Friday 16.9 at 14:15.

    • Chapter 2 continues

      - Pulse transfer function

      - Poles and zeros, mapping of poles in discretization, sampling

      Chapter 3

      - Analysis of discrete-time systems

      -Stability, Jury's stability test


    • Opens 22.9 at 14:15, closes 23.9 at 14:15.

    •  Chapter 3 continues:

      - Analysis of discrete-time systems

      - Stability

      - Jury's stability test

      - Stability analysis in frequency domain

    • Opens on Thursday, September 29th at 14:15.  Closes on Friday, September 30th at 14:15.

    • Chap 3 continues:

      - Analysis of discrete time systems: Controllability and Observability

      Chapter 4:

      - Pole placement by state-space methods

    • Opens on Thursday, 6th of October at 14:15.  Closes on Friday, 7th of October at 14:15.

    • Chapter 4, published in previous lecture

      - Pole placement by state-space methods:

      - State feedback controller

      - Dead-beat control

      - State observer

      -Combination of state feedback and observer

      -Adding integrator in the control loop

      END OF PART ONE

    • Opens 13.10 at 14:15.  Closes on Friday, 14.10, at 14:15.

    • Discretization methods for continuous space systems

      • Approximation of derivative and integral by forward and backward differences
      • Tustin's method
      • Matching of impulse and step responses

      + course arrangements for the second half, recap of sampling

    • Opens 3.11. 8:00. Closes 4.11. 14:15.

    • Discrete time PID control


    • Based on lecture 8. Opens Thu Nov 10 at 8:00am.

    • Disturbances

    • Optimal control in state-space

    • Based on Lecture 10.
      Opens: 24.11 at 14:15.
      Closes: 25.11 at 14:15.

    • Introduction to Stochastic Optimal Control

    • Based on Lecture 11.
      Opens: 01.12 at 14:15.
      Closes: 02.12 at 14:15.