EE 5307 - LINEAR SYSTEMS ENGINEERING

EE 5307 COURSE SYLLABUS AND POLICY

Updated: Thursday, January 12, 2012 by K.G. Vamvoudakis

This is a UTA Web-Based Course. The internet URL is http://arri.uta.edu/acs

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Catalog Information: Topics include state-space description of dynamic systems, analysis and design of linear systems, similarity transformation, state feedback, state observers, and matrix characterization of multivariable systems.

Prerequisite: Graduate standing or consent of instructor

Course Objectives: To provide students with basic knowledge of design and analysis of linear dynamical systems. To lay the foundations of state space design, including stability, controllability, observability, minimality, and duality. To provide design and computer simulation techniques for design of control systems, observers, and regulators. To study system structure in terms of block diagram realizations and Jordan normal form.

Topics Covered: see separate schedule.

Class hours: MW 4-520pm, NH 112 Nedderman Hall

Instructor: K.G. Vamvoudakis, tel: 272-5938, office: TBA, kyriakos@arri.uta.edu

Office hours: after class

Teaching Assistants: Muhammad Aurangzeb aurangze@uta.edu
Office hours: Tuesday and Thursday 11am-2pm at the IEEE Mentoring Office

Texts:

1) Antsaklis and Michel, Linear Systems primer, 2007

2) Student Edition of MATLAB

Grading:

Homework--                                                 25%
Exam 1-- (1 sheet of notes both sides)        25%                 Wed 12 Oct
Exam 2-- (2 sheets of notes both sides)       25%                 Wed 23 Nov
Final                                                             25%                 Week of 12 Dec

The instructor reserves the right to make appropriate changes to the grading policy.

Student Learning Outcomes:

1. Acquire the mathematical tools needed to analyze feedback control systems by state space methods

Assessment- homework design projects and examinations.

2. Learn the relation of state space systems to classical forms including transfer functions.

Assessment- design and simulation projects in homeworks, exams.

3. Acquire the mathematical tools needed to study system stability, performance, controllability, observability.

Assessment- homework design projects and examinations.

4. Ability to perform feedback control system design using state variable methods including pole placement and LQR.

Assessment- design and simulation projects in homeworks, exams.

5. Ability to perform designs with various control tools using MATLAB computer simulation toolboxes.

Assessment- computer design and simulation projects assigned in homeworks.

6. Ability to design dynamic feedback systems using state variable form including observers, output feedback and regulators.

Assessment- design and simulation projects in homeworks, exams.

Relation to Program Objectives. This course is meant to provide basic training and familiarity with state space feedback control systems. Feedback systems are ubiquitous in daily life and appear in many other disciplines including communications, industrial process control, aerospace, vehicle engine systems, environmental efficiency, and elsewhere. State Variable methods for feedback have been introduced since the 1960s and are responsible for the high performance and stability of modern engineered systems including aerospace, robotic, and industry processes. This course shows the students the foundations of state space methods and prepares them for further courses in optimal control, nonlinear systems, and advanced topics such as adaptive control and collaborative control of networked systems.

Attendance is not mandatory. If you skip classes, you will find the homework and exams more difficult. Due to the pace of the lectures, copying someone else's notes may be an unreliable way of making up an absence. You are responsible for all material covered in class regardless of absences.

You will need to use MATLAB including Simulink and the Control Systems Toolbox. MATLAB is available in some of the OIT computer labs and you can also purchase the student edition of MATLAB for your personal computer.

Check the grading of the exams thoroughly. You will have one week after the exam to see me for regrading. After this period, the grade is final.

Questions during class are strongly encouraged. The worst thing I can do is move too slowly and bore you. The next worst thing I can do is move too quickly and confuse you. If either of these occurs, it is your responsibility to speak up. You are paying for an education, and if the material is not presented clearly with confusion being eliminated shortly after it sets in you are not getting what you contracted for. On the other hand, if I never confuse you I am being unduly conservative and hence not conscientious. There is a very fine balance here, with you as student and me as instructor each having very definite responsibilities for keeping open all channels of communication. It is extremely difficult to teach a course without some sort of real-time feedback.

Some philosophy. I have an attitude toward learning which is based very heavily on independence and self-reliance; it can be summed up in the statement

"Knowledge cannot be given, but comes only with great personal sacrifice and effort."

It is my job to make knowledge available to you and show you one attitude toward it based on my experience in the area. It is your job to make it a part of yourself and so your own personal possession.

Drop Policy: Students may drop or swap (adding and dropping a class concurrently) classes through self-service in MyMav from the beginning of the registration period through the late registration period. After the late registration period, students must see their academic advisor to drop a class or withdraw. Undeclared students must see an advisor in the University Advising Center. Drops can continue through a point two-thirds of the way through the term or session. It is the student's responsibility to officially withdraw if they do not plan to attend after registering. Students will not be automatically dropped for non-attendance. Repayment of certain types of financial aid administered through the University may be required as the result of dropping classes or withdrawing. For more information, contact the Office of Financial Aid and Scholarships (http://wweb.uta.edu/ses/fao).

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Academic Integrity: At UT Arlington, academic dishonesty is completely unacceptable and will not be tolerated in any form, including (but not limited to) “cheating, plagiarism, collusion, the submission for credit of any work or materials that are attributable in whole or in part to another person, taking an examination for another person, any act designed to give unfair advantage to a student or the attempt to commit such acts” (UT System Regents’ Rule 50101, §2.2). Suspected violations of academic integrity standards will be referred to the Office of Student Conduct. Violators will be disciplined in accordance with University policy, which may result in the student’s suspension or expulsion from the University.

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Lab Safety Training is not required for this course.

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Student Feedback Survey: At the end of each term, students enrolled in classes categorized as lecture, seminar, or laboratory will be asked to complete an online Student Feedback Survey (SFS) about the course and how it was taught. Instructions on how to access the SFS system will be sent directly to students through MavMail approximately 10 days before the end of the term. UT Arlington’s effort to solicit, gather, tabulate, and publish student feedback data is required by state law; student participation in the SFS program is voluntary.

Final Review Week: A period of five class days prior to the first day of final examinations in the long sessions shall be designated as Final Review Week. The purpose of this week is to allow students sufficient time to prepare for final examinations. During this week, there shall be no scheduled activities such as required field trips or performances; and no instructor shall assign any themes, research problems or exercises of similar scope that have a completion date during or following this week unless specified in the class syllabus. During Final Review Week, an instructor shall not give any examinations constituting 10% or more of the final grade, except makeup tests and laboratory examinations. In addition, no instructor shall give any portion of the final examination during Final Review Week. During this week, classes are held as scheduled. In addition, instructors are not required to limit content to topics that have been previously covered; they may introduce new concepts as appropriate.