The final exam for clearing ADAPTIVE CONTROL consists of an ORAL exam focused on the topics discussed in the classroom. Two (up to three) general topics are assigned to the student as a written task, each within a fixed time window (20  minutes approx.) and then discussed with the teacher at the end of the scheduled time. Examples of assigned written tasks are:

• Uniform Stability and Uniform Asymptotic stability: definitions and main theorems. 

• Exponential Stability: definitions and main theorems. 

• Linear Time-varying Systems (LTV) and related stability results

• Invariance Theorems and Barbalat Lemma

• Passivity and Robustness Theorems 

• Uniform Complete Observability (UCO)

• MRAC Diretto

• MRAC Indiretto

• Robustification with Leakage Term

• Robustification with Leakage and Dead-Zone Term

• Robustification with Projection Term

• Adaptive observers for systems in Adaptive Observer form

• Adaptive observers for systems not in Adaptive Observer form

The lessons are entirely contained in the Notes available in this page and collected in chapters, with Summary,  Notation and Appendix sections. The Sections and Paragraphs with the footnote ``This section is not required for the final exam''  are supplementary and can be omitted by the student.