Learning Content:

1. Qualitative theory of ODEs
2. Lyapunov stability
3. Alternative stability concepts
4. Feedback linearization
5. Modifications of feedback linearization
6. Flatness-based controller design
7. Lyapunov-based controller design (nonlinear damping, modifications)
8. Passivity-based controller design
9. Sliding mode control
10. Alternative linearization concepts
11. Predictive control and observation of time delay systems
12. Complex example

Recommendations:

Basics in Measurement and Control Systems

Modern Control Concepts I and II

Alternatively, comparable courses of the faculty of electrical engineering

Attendance of the following lectures is recommended:

• Basics in Measurement and Control Systems
• Modern Control Concepts I and II

Alternative: Comparable courses of "Fakultät für Elektrotechnik und Informationstechnik"

• Khalil, H.: Nonlinear Systems, 1991.
• Krstic, M.; Kanellakopoulos, I.; Kokotovic, P.: Nonlinear and Adaptive Control Design, 1995.

Regular attendance: 24 hours

Self-study: 96 hours