Fall 2014
Instructor: Bonny Banerjee, Ph.D.
Contact Information:
Office: 208B Engineering Science Bldg
Phone: 901-678-4498
E-mail: BBnerjee@memphis.edu
Office Hours: Monday 1:30-2:30pm
When: MWF 9:10-10:05am
Where: Engineering Science Bldg. Room 222
Course Description:
Principles and applications of deterministic and statistical design; random processes in automatic control.
Required Text:
Readings from class notes, research papers and book chapters.
Topics and tentative schedule:
Week 1 (08/25/14). Preliminaries
Week 2-4 (09/01/14). Dynamic programming, Midterm #1 on 9/19/14
Week 5-7 (09/22/14). Linear dynamical systems and quadratic cost, LQR, Matlab programming assignment
Week 8-10 (10/15/14). Markov decision processes, POMDP, Midterm #2 on 10/31/14 (10/13/14 no class -- fall break)
Week 11-14 (11/03/14). Model predictive control, Matlab programming assignment (11/28/14 no class -- Thanksgiving)
Week 15 (12/01/14). Student project presentations
Final project reports are due by email by 12/03/14 before class.
Final exam is on Friday 12/05/14 during 10:30am-12:30pm
Evaluation and Final Grades:
Grading: Homeworks 20%, Midterms 15%+15%, Final 20%, Project 20%, Presentation 10%
The 7522 and 8522 sections will be graded separately. In each exam, the students enrolled for 8522 will have to answer one more question.
Related courses:
Stochastic Control, Stanford University (http://stanford.edu/class/ee365/)
Dynamic Programming and Stochastic Control, MIT (http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electrical-engineering-and-computer-science/6-231-dynamic-programming-and-stochastic-control-fall-2011/)
Learning for Robotics and Control, UC Berkeley (http://inst.eecs.berkeley.edu/~cs294-40/fa08/)