Jorge Cortés

Professor

Cymer Corporation Endowed Chair

MAE 281b: Nonlinear Control


General Class Information

Lecture times:
Tuesdays and Thursdays, 3:00-4:20pm, EBUII, room 105

Instructor:
Name: Jorge Cortes (cortes at ucsd.edu)
Phone: 858 822 7930
Office: EBUI 1608

Instructor Office Hours:
Mondays, 3:30-4:30 @ EBUI 1603

TA:
Name: Pio Ong (piong at eng.ucsd.edu)
Office: EBUI 2207

TA Office Hours:
Wednesdays, 2:30-3:30 @ EBUI 1603

Handouts

Course Syllabus: [pdf] [epub]

Homework Assignments


Course Notes

  • Lecture #1: feedback control [pdf]
  • Lecture #2: feedback linearization - SISO [pdf]
  • Lecture #3: feedback linearization - MIMO [pdf]
  • Lecture #4: nonlinear controllability and observability [pdf]
  • Lecture #5: feedback stabilization [pdf]
  • Lecture #6: input-output stability and passivity [pdf]

Useful software

  • Pplane.m version for Matlab 2017b
    copyright by John C Polking, Rice University, updated by Hugh Harvey and George Williams, University of Bristol, and Dan Schult


Old exams


Grades: check them online via TrintonEd


Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of California, San Diego
9500 Gilman Dr, La Jolla, California, 92093-0411

Ph: 1-858-822-7930
Fax: 1-858-822-3107

cortes at ucsd.edu
Skype id: jorgilliyo