Sample Seminars

• Boundary Control of PDEs: A Short Course on Backstepping Designs (a 894 page PDF file, meant to be presented in 5-6 hours). Also available:

o a printer-friendly version (238 slides)

o beam stabilization movie (2.2 MB); string tracking movie (4.2 MB); flexible inverted pendulum movie (1.4 MB).

• Control of PDEs and Turbulent Fluid Flows (an older one-hour seminar, but contains more applications with CFD and experiments)
• Adaptive Control of PDEs and Nonlinear Systems (PDF) (a 2.5-hour short course)

• Extremum Seeking (PDF).

• Autonomous vehicle tracking—animation—movie (4.5 MB, Quicktime).
• Underwater vehicle acoustic source seeking—experiment—movie (7.8 MB, Windows Media Player).

• Control of Fusion (a movie)