Linear Feedback Control
An undergraduate course covering state models, stability analysis, controllability, observability, and optimal control
👨🏫 Instructor Information
Instructor: Kai Cai
Email: [email protected]
Office Hours: Wednesdays after lectures (or by appointments)
Office Location: Sugimoto Campus, Engineering Building F610
🎯 Learning Objectives
- • Study how to model linear systems using state-space models;
- • Learn fundamental system properties: stability, controllability, observability;
- • Design feedback controllers for linear systems.
📅 Duration
October 2025 - January 2026
Wednesdays, 10:45-12:15
🎯 Assessment
Test + Project
📚 Lectures
1. Introduction & State Models
October 1, 2025
2. Linearization
October 8, 2025
3. Introduction to Stability
October 15, 2025
4. Initial Value Problem
October 22, 2025
5. Stability Criteria
October 29, 2025
6. Reachability and Controllability
November 5, 2025
7. State-feedback Control
November 12, 2025
8. Eigenvalue Assignment
November 19, 2025
9. Stabilizability, Observability, Detectability
November 26, 2025
10. Observer and Output-feedback Control
December 3, 2025
Tutorial 1: Codes
December 10, 2025
Tutorial 2: Codes
December 17, 2025
11. Reference Tracking with State Feedback
January 7, 2026
12. Reference Tracking with Output Feedback
January 14, 2026
13. Optimal Control
January 21, 2026
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Final Project
January 28, 2026