This is an archived course. A more recent version may be available at ocw.mit.edu.

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Lecture Notes

All of the lecture notes are courtesy of the course professor (Munther Dahleh), Mohammed Dahleh, and George Verghese, and are used with permission.

SES # TOPICS NOTES
L1 Introduction to Dynamic Systems and Control
Matrix Algebra
Ch. 1 (PDF)
L2 Least Square Error Solution of Overdetermined Systems Ch. 2 (PDF)
L3 Least Norm Solution of Underdetermined Systems Ch. 2 (PDF)
Ch. 3 (PDF)
L4 Matrix Norms
Singular Value Decomposition
Ch. 4 (PDF)
L5 Matrix Perturbation Problems Ch. 5 (PDF)
L6 Dynamic Systems Ch. 6 (PDF)
L7 State-space Models
Linearity and Time Invariance
Ch. 7 (PDF)
Ch. 8 (PDF)
L8 Solutions of State-space Models Ch. 10 (PDF)
Ch. 11 (PDF)
L9 Similarity Transformations
Modes of LTI Systems
Laplace Transform
Transfer Functions
Ch. 12 (PDF)
L10 Stability
Lyapunov Functions
Ch. 13 (PDF)
L11 Lyapunov’s Equation for LTI Systems Ch. 14 (PDF)
L12 External I/O Stability Ch. 15 (PDF)
L13 Interconnected Systems
Feedback
I/O Stability
Ch. 15 (PDF)
Ch. 17 (PDF)
L14 System Norms Ch. 16 (PDF)
L15 Perfomance Measures in Feedback Control Ch. 18 (PDF)
L16 Small Gain Theorem
Stability Robustness
Ch. 19 (PDF)
L17 Stability Robustness (MIMO) Ch. 20 (PDF)
Ch. 21 (PDF)
L18 Reachability — Basic Ideas Ch. 22 (PDF)
L19 Reachability — Standard and Canonical Forms, Modal Tests, etc. Ch. 23 (PDF)
L20 Observability Ch. 24 (PDF)
L21 Minimality
Realization
Kalman Decomposition
Ch. 25 (PDF)
L22 State Feedback
Observers
Output Feedback
Multivariable Poles
Zeros
Ch. 26 (PDF)
Ch. 27 (PDF)
Ch. 28 (PDF)
Ch. 29 (PDF)
L23 Minimality of Interconnections and Pole/Zero Cancellation Ch. 30 (PDF)
L24 Conclusions