Nonlinear Systems Control

Design and realization techniques of compensators for nonlinear systems. The course includes the realization of practical and MATLAB projects.

The course is structured in lectures and laboratory activities. If the course will be delivered in mixed or remote mode, specific variations to the course structure will be actuated in order to maintain the program as reported in the syllabus.

The course is addressed to give the main guidelines to design nonlinear control systems. The low cost of advanced digital microcontrollers today available allows to really implement the presented techniques. In the course, applications regarding the control of nuclear fusion machines, nonlinear electromechanical systems, and aerospace phenomena will be approached. A laboratory activity based on MATLAB/SimuLink tools, DSpace boards, PicoScope boards, and microcontrollers (Arduino/STM32) will allow for practical applications during the course.

1) Slotine, J. J. E., & Li, W. (1991). Applied nonlinear control (Vol. 199, No. 1). Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall.

2) A. Buscarino, L. Fortuna, M. Frasca, Optimal Control and Robust Control- Advanced Topics with Matlab, CRC Press, 2nd Edition, 2021.