ECE1647F Introduction to Nonlinear Systems (Last updated November 12, 2008)

GB434A

broucke (at) control.utoronto.ca

Lecture	Wednesday 11am-1pm	Bahen 4164	Begins Sept 10
	Thursday 2pm-4pm	Bahen 2195

Self-contained course notes will be available in the Course Documents area of the course webpage, accessed through the UofT WEB PORTAL.

Mathematical preliminaries
Introduction to dynamical systems
- Existence and uniqueness of solutions
- Limit sets and invariant sets
- Poincare-Bendixson theorem
- Stability of periodic orbits
- Stable manifold theorem
Stability theory
- Stability definitions
- Lyapunov theory
- LaSalle invariance principle
- Control design via Lyapunov functions
Centre manifold theory
- Application: formation control of multiple robots
Nonlinear regulator theory
- Regulator equations
- Nonlinear internal model principle

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