MULTIVARIABLE AND NONLINEAR CONTROL

(A.A. 2015-2016)

Professor: Antonio Vicino (vicino@ing.unisi.it)
Aggr. Professor: Gianni Bianchini (giannibi@dii.unisi.it)

General information

Class schedule

• Tuesday, h. 16-18   (Classroom 101, S. Niccolò)

• Thursday, h. 10-13   (Classroom 101, S. Niccolò)

Office hours

• Antonio Vicino: Friday, h. 12-13, Room 245

• Gianni Bianchini: Tuesday, h. 12-13, Room 230

Any other time is OK, provided you contact lecturers via email.

Reference Textbooks

            1)  J. Maciejowski, Multivariable Feedback Design, Addison Wesley, 1989. 

            2)  J.J. E. Slotine, Applied Nonlinear Control, Prentice Hall, 1991. 

            3)  H. Khalil, Nonlinear Systems, Prentice Hall, 2001.  

Exercises and Matlab scripts

• Stability of MIMO systems: cloci.m, gersh.m, gershgorin.m

• MIMO Tools (requires Symbolic and Control toolboxes): Mimotools.zip

• Lur'e system analysis via the Circle and Popov's criteria: Examples, popp.m (Matlab script to draw Popov's plot)