Nov 12, 2024  
2017-2018 Undergraduate and Graduate Catalog 
    
2017-2018 Undergraduate and Graduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

MAE 573 - Modern Control of Dynamic Systems


(3 units)

Prerequisite: MAE 476  with a grade of “C” or better.
Advanced topics in analysis and design of modern control systems in mechanical engineering. Topics include state space, Riccati and Liapunov equations, Linear Quadratic Regulator (LQR), Kalman filter, etc. Optimization via calculus of variations, Pontryagin’s minimum principle. Control of distributed-parameter systems with applications to structural dynamics.

Letter grade only (A-F). (Lecture-problems 3 hours)