Advanced Control Systems

This subject provides an introduction to modern control theory with a particular focus on design of advanced control laws via state-space methods and optimal control. The role of feedback in control design will be reinforced within this context, alongside the role of optimisation techniques in control system synthesis.

• 1Apply fundamental state-space-techniques in the analysis and design of linear feedback control systems, as they arise in a variety of contexts
• 2Formulate and solve constrained optimisation problems for control system synthesis
• 3Use software tools to simulate and design the linear behaviour of automatic control systems.