Course Program and Information

Lectures and Administration

Course responsible and lecturer is Yiannis Karayiannidis. Ladok administrator is Mika Nishimura.

Teaching Assistants

Emil Vladu, Fethi Bencherki  and Lara Laban are responsible for the exercises.

• Lab sessions are booked separately in SAM. Links to the signups will appear in the Laboratories section.
• Student hours, aka office hours, for Yiannis: Tuesday 11:00-12:00 (please check the calendar before you visit.) Office number 2478, M-building.

Course registration

Do not forget to register that you are actually taking the course in Ladok. Also, please unregister from the course in Ladok and in Canvas if you decide to drop out before the first lab.

Prerequisites

FRTF05 Automatic Control, Basic Course (Links to an external site.) is assumed prior knowledge. You are supposed to have taken the basic courses in mathematics, including linear algebra and calculus in several variables, and preferably also a course in systems & transforms or similar. Several important concepts from the basic courses will be reviewed in the first lectures and in the first exercise session. 

Course material and literature

The course contents are defined by the lecture slides, exercise problems and laboratory manuals (see below), which are all posted here in Canvas. You may also have use for Automatic Control – Collection of Formulae (pdf).

Recommended textbook is

• Glad, T., and Ljung,L., "Reglerteori: Flervariabla och olinjära metoder" (2003, Studentlitteratur, Lund, ISBN 9-14-403003-7) or the English translation "Control Theory: Multivariable and Nonlinear Methods", 2000, Taylor & Francis Ltd, ISBN 0-74-840878-9. Chapter 11-16,18. The first part of this book (Ch. 1-10) covers linear control theory and is useful for the course FRTN55 Automatic Control, Advanced Course.

Alternative references are

• Khalil, H. K., Nonlinear Systems (3rd ed., 2002, Prentice Hall, ISBN 0-13-122740-8). This is a good textbook on nonlinear control systems, at a bit more advanced level than the course.
• Slotine and Li, Applied Nonlinear Control, Prentice Hall, 1991. The course covers chapters 1-3 and 5, and sections 4.7-4.8, 6.2, 7.1-7.3.

There will also be optional reading in the form of scientific articles.

Lectures

The lectures (14 in total) will be given in person. However all lectures from previous year 2022 are already available and include videos from previous course occasions.

Exercise sessions

The exercise sessions (14 in total) are voluntary and will be held in person.

Laboratory experiments

The three laboratory sessions are mandatory.  Booking is done via SAM at the latest one day before the first instance of the lab. Links to the signups lists will appear in the Laboratories section. Before each session, there are pre-lab assignments that must be completed and that require a substantial amount of work. At the lab session, you will be asked to present a full set of written solutions to these assignments, and you should be able to explain them when requested to do so. If you are not prepared enough, you will be asked to do the lab at another session and come better prepared. It is therefore especially important that you come prepared, and it is encouraged to make use of the exercise sessions to make these preparations. No reports are required afterwards.

Exam

The exam will take place on Tuesday, January 9 2024 at 08:00–13:00. Retake exams are offered in April and August. The exam will be open book. The allowed materials are

1. The lecture slides
2. The collection of formulae: formelsamlingeng.pdf
3. Either or both of the recommended course books:
- Glad, T., and Ljung,L., "Reglerteori: Flervariabla och olinjära metoder"
- Khalil, H. K., "Nonlinear Systems" and Slotine and Li, "Applied Nonlinear Control"

You cannot use the exercise compendium or previous exam papers or solutions.

More information will come later on during the course period.