MEM 636/637/638 Nonlinear Control Theory
Text Book: Harry G. Kwatny & Gilmer L. Blankenship, Nonlinear Control and Analytical Mechanics: a computational approach, Birkhauser 2000.
Software: Book comes with a set of Mathematica notebooks and packages (ProPac V 2.0). Students can purchase full function Mathematica for personal use at reduced price. Download ProPac V4.2 - it is required for Mathematica 6.0 and above)
The following documents are available for download (most in pdf or mathematica notebooks):
Lecture 1b Slides Problem Set 1
Lecture 3 Slides Problem Set 2
Lecture 5 Slides (updated November 11, 2009) Fall Quarter Final Project
Wheelset Notebook and Simulation
Lecture 7 Slides Intro to Part 2 Updated April 8, 2009
Challenge Problem Resources References
Lecture 9b Slides Intro to Discontinuous Systems Updated April 9, 2009
Lecture 10 Slides Intro to Variable Structure Control Updated April 29, 2009
Lecture 11 Slides Inverted Pendulum
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