MAE 281a - Nonlinear Systems (Winter 2008)

Department of MAE, UCSD

Course web address: http://flyingv.ucsd.edu/krstic/teaching/281a/281a.html

Instructor: Prof. Miroslav Krstic, 1808 EBUI, 822-1374, krstic@ucsd.edu

Texts:

Khalil, Nonlinear Systems, Prentice Hall, 2002.
(supplemental) Krstic, Kanellakopoulos, and Kokotovic, Nonlinear and Adaptive Control Design, Wiley, 1995.

Prerequisites: Linear Systems (MAE 280A) or consent of instructor

Time and Place: MW, 7:00-8:20 pm, EBU2 105

Office Hours: M, 11-12, or by appointment (e-mail, phone)

Grading: (click on highlighted items for problem sets)

Homework 35%
Final 65%

Course Objective: The course will give the students an in-depth introduction to stability and other analysis techniques for nonlinear systems and prepare them for courses on nonlinear control design (MAE 281B, alternate years) and adaptive control (MAE 282, alternate years). Students from all departments are welcome.

Topics: Existence and uniqueness of solutions of ODEs, sensitivity equations. Stability, direct and converse Lyapunov theorems, LaSalle's theorem, linearization, invariance theorems. Center manifold theorem. Stability of perturbed systems with vanishing and non-vanishing perturbations, input-to-state ability, comparison method. Input-output stability. Perturbation theory and averaging. Singular perturbations. Circle and Popov criteria.