Jorge Cortés

Professor

Cymer Corporation Endowed Chair

MAE 281b: Nonlinear Control


General Class Information

Lecture times:
Tuesdays and Thursdays, 11:00am-12:20pm, Engineering Building II, room 584

Instructor: Jorge Cortes (cortes at ucsd.edu)
Office Hours: Tuesdays, 3:00-4:00pm @ EBUI 1603

TA: Ahmed Atallah (aatallah at ucsd.edu)
Office Hours: Thursdays, 3:00-4:00pm @ EBUI 1603

Canvas

Canvas will be our online platform for class announcements, access information, turning in homework, checking your grades, etc.


Handouts

Course Syllabus: [pdf]

Homework Assignments

  • Homework #1 (due 4/12/24): [pdf]
  • Homework #2 (due 4/19/24): [pdf]
  • Homework #3 (due 4/26/24): [pdf]
  • Homework #4 (due 5/10/24): [pdf]
  • Homework #5 (due 5/17/24): [pdf]
  • Homework #6 (due 5/24/24): [pdf]
  • Homework #7 (due 6/2/24): [pdf]
  • Homework #8 (due 6/7/24): [pdf]

Course Notes

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


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