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| Code | Due | Details | Last Change |
| EXAM | 24 Apr 2010 |
Final Examination
The final exam is scheduled for Saturday 24 April 2010, 12:00-14:30, in room BUCH B209. Please verify these details on the official UBC Exam Schedule. Like the midterm, the exam will have a restricted open-book format. That is, students may bring their lecture notes, homework solutions, and resources from the course web page. Outside books or resources are not allowed. Electronic devices of all kinds are forbidden. All material from the beginning of the course is officially examinable, but there will be more emphasis on material discussed after the midterm than on material presented before. Hints on the style and level of the test may be gleaned from the exams given in 2003 and 2006. |
18 Apr 2010 |
| RR |
Lecture Notes
Some notes on Stability by Liapunov's Methods |
09 Apr 2010 | |
| HW | 14 Apr 2010 |
Assignment 9
Here are six questions in which the Liapunov theory is useful. The last two involve feedback control. Added after the deadline: detailed solutions. |
07 Apr 2010 |
| HW | 31 Mar 2010 |
Assignment 8
Here are four questions: three involve the Pontryagin Maximum Principle, and one is a theoretical project that highlights an important general principle. Added after the deadline: detailed solutions. |
25 Mar 2010 |
| HW | 24 Mar 2010 |
Assignment 7
Here are five questions on the Pontryagin Maximum Principle. Added after the deadline: detailed solutions. |
17 Mar 2010
29 Mar 2010 |
| RR |
Lecture Notes
An overview of the Pontryagin Maximum Principle |
15 Mar 2010 | |
| HW | 12 Mar 2010 |
Assignment 6
Here is the question sheet, with edits to Question 4 to make it correct. (Oops!) Added after the deadline: detailed solutions. |
19 Mar 2010 |
| HW | 03 Mar 2010 |
Assignment 5
This assignment has just two questions, both asking you to find the attainable set for a particular single-input linear system. The questions are easy to state, but each takes many steps to solve. Good luck! Added long after the deadline: detailed solutions. |
17 Feb 2010 |
| EXAM |
Midterm 1
Here are the questions from this year's midterm. Added much later: detailed solutions. |
01 Mar 2010 08 Mar 2010 |
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| HW | 05 Feb 2010 |
Assignment 4
Here is the question sheet. Added after the deadline: detailed solutions. |
17 Feb 2010 |
| RR |
Past Midterms
Here are the midterm questions for the past decade: 2003, 2004, 2006. |
10 Feb 2010 | |
| RR |
Lecture Notes
Chapter II (bonus appendix): The Rocket Car |
10 Feb 2010 | |
| RR |
Lecture Notes
Chapter II (continued): Convexity, Boundary Trajectories, and Time-Optimal Control |
03 Feb 2010 | |
| HW | 27 Jan 2010 |
Assignment 3
This week's assignment has seven questions. Please don't be alarmed: some have pretty short solutions, and some of the longer solutions can be modelled on work done recently in class. Added after the deadline: detailed solutions. |
21 Jan 2010 |
| RR |
Lecture Notes
Chapter II: Control of Autonomous Linear Systems |
19 Jan 2010 | |
| HW | 20 Jan 2010 |
Assignment 2
Here are five questions on controlled linear differential systems. There will not be much classroom guidance on the time-varying case in Questions 2–3: the theory you need is developed in the online notes and is supposed to be similar enough to the story for the constant-coefficient case that you can learn it independently. Questions 4 and 5 rely on linearization, which is in the lecture schedule for Friday 15 January. Good luck! Added after the deadline: detailed solutions. |
14 Jan 2010 |
| HW | 13 Jan 2010 |
Assignment 1
Here are four questions on controlled linear differential systems. The methods on pages 5-10 of the posted lecture notes should be powerful enough to solve them. Added after the deadline: detailed solutions. |
06 Jan 2010 |
| RR |
Lecture Notes
Chapter I: Controlled Linear Systems |
29 Dec 2009 | |
| RR | Course Outline for Winter 2010 — Topic list still negotiable! | 29 Dec 2009 | |
| RR | Professor Loewen's Home Page | 29 Dec 2009 |
Codes: RR = reading/reference; PP = practice problems (not to hand in); HW = homework problems (to be submitted); EXAM = midterm or final exam materials.
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