Programma di Analisi E Sintesi Dei Sistemi Non Lineari:
• Introduction: existence of solutions for differential equations.
• Equilibria and Stability
• Lyapunov theorem.
• Example of Lyapunov theorems.
• Chetaev Theorem(Th 4.3, HK third edition).
• LaSalle's theorem and for linear systems (continuous and discrete time).
• Converse Lyapunov theorems. Time varying systems. Class K e KL functions.
• Stability for time varying systems.
• Linear time varying systems. Uniform asymptotic stability.
• Ultimate boundedness. Input to State Stability.
• Geometric control (distributions, normal form, feedback linearization)
• High gain observers.
• Certainty equivalent controllers with high gain osbervers.
• Forwarding control.
• Forwarding control without PDE.
• Backstepping control.
• Optimization based Observers.
• Introduction to passivity: storage function, strictly) positive real (PR,KYP) systems.
• Interconnection of passive systems.
• Circle and Popov criteria.
• Sliding mode control .
• Introduction to Immersion and Invariance (I&I) techniques.
• Introduction to switching controllers.
• Passivity based controller design
• Stabilization in case of partial information (I&I, pag. 137-157).
• Flight controller based on I&I.