ME/SE/EC 501 — Fall 2024

Course Text: Roger W. Brockett, Finite Dimensional Linear Systems SIAM, 2015 / xvi + 244 pages / Softcover / ISBN 978-1-611973-87-7. For student discount prices, order according to the instructions given here.

Previous course text: Bernard Friedland, Control System Design: An Introduction to State-Space Methods, McGraw-Hill, 1986. Reissued by Dover Books on Engineering, 528 pages, Dover Publications (March 24, 2005), ISBN-10: 0486442780, ISBN-13:978-0486442785.

Other readings available for download:

Roger W. Brockett, An Wang Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Emeritus, Harvard University, Finite Dimensional Linear Systems, John Wiley and Sons, ISBN 471 10585 6, 256 pages (re-issue by SIAM available for purchase per above).

A.S. Morse, Dudley Professor of Electrical Engineering, Yale University, LECTURE NOTES on Linear Algebra, Linear Differential Equations, and Linear Systems.

H. Kwakernaak and R. Sivan, Linear Optimal Control Systems
  Content List and Front Matter Download
  Chapter 1. Elements of Linear System Theory Download
  Chapter 2. Analysis of Linear Control Systems Download
  Chapter 3. Optimal Linear State Feedback Control Systems Download
  Chapter 4. Optimal Linear Reconstruction of the State Download
  Chapter 5. Optimal Linear Output Feedback Control Systems Download
  Chapter 6. Linear Optimal Control Theory for Discrete-Time Systems Download
  References, Author Index and Subject Index Download

• References on linear algebra:
• Lecture on the Resolvent
• Lecture on stabilization by state feedback in MIMO linear systems
• Lecture on non-minimum phase, zeros, and zero dynamics
• Nyquist plot supplemental notes.

Obituary of Roger W. Brockett (1938 - 2023) and a memorial lecture given at the Banff International Research Station, June 14, 2023.