Cleveland State University

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

 

EEC 644/744, ESC 794: Optimal Control Systems

Fall 2009, 4 credit hours

 

Catalog Description: Optimal Control Systems (4-0-4)

Prerequisite: EEC 510. Introduction to the principles and methods of the optimal control approach: performance measures; dynamic programming; calculus of variations; Pontryagin’s principle; optimal linear regulators; minimum-time and minimum-fuel problems; steepest descent; and quasi-linearization methods for determining optimal trajectories.

 

Course Content: This course will explore mathematical strategies for controlling dynamic state-space systems (both linear and nonlinear) in both noise-free and noisy environments. The methods taught in this course are applicable to many disciplines, including engineering, science, and economics. MATLAB assignments will be used to reinforce the techniques taught in this course.

 

Text: D. Kirk, Optimal Control Theory, Dover, 2004

 

References:   

R. Stengel, Optimal Control and Estimation, Dover, 1994

K. Astrom, Introduction to Stochastic Control Theory, Dover, 2006

B. Anderson and J. Moore, Optimal Control, Dover, 2007

A. Bryson and Y. Ho, Applied Optimal Control, Taylor & Francis, 1975

A. Bryson, Applied Linear Optimal Control, Cambridge University Press, 2002

M. Athans and P. Falb, Optimal Control, Dover, 2006

D. Naidu, Optimal Control Systems, CRC Press, 2002

F. Lewis and V. Syrmos, Optimal Control, Wiley-Interscience, 1995

P. Dorato, C. Abdallah, and V. Cerone, Linear Quadratic Control, Krieger Publishing, 2000

 

Day/Time:     MW, 4:00-5:50

 

Instructor:

Dan Simon

 

Phone:  216-687-5407

 

Email:  d.j.simon@csuohio.edu

 

Course Web Site:  http://academic.csuohio.edu/simond/courses/eec644

 

Office: SH 343, SH 310

 

Office Hours: MW, 2:00-4:00

 

Grading:

 

EEC 644

EEC 744, ESC 794

 

Homework

25%

22%

 

Midterm

25%

22%

 

Project

25%

22%

 

Final Exam

25%

22%

 

Paper/Lecture

-

12%

 

A

93–100

A minus

90–92

B plus

87–89

B

83–86

B minus

80–82

C

70–79

 

Doctoral Students are required to write a review of a journal paper and present their results to the class.

 

Homework: In addition to written exercises, MATLAB problems will be assigned to illustrate the theory. Students can work with others on homework, but identical homework assignments will be given a grade of zero. Late homework will not be accepted. Homework assignments should be in order, neat, and stapled once in the upper left corner. Homework assignments are at http://academic.csuohio.edu/simond/courses/eec644/homework.html.

 

Tests:  Exams are open-book and open-notes. No electronic devices are allowed during tests. No makeup exams are allowed without the prior permission of the instructor.