Patricio Vela: Course Wiki

Resources for the class:

1. Sample Syllabus (Not Official and certainly Not Valid)
2. Timeline
3. Course References
4. Lecture Notes Table of Contents and Additional Notes.
5. Project Options
   1. Planar Bi-Rotor Helicopter
   2. Planar Ducted Fan
   3. Inverted Cart-Pendulum
   4. Quadcopter (Higher Level of Difficulty)
   5. Ball and Beam System (Under construction. Ask if interested.)
      1. Using traditional approach, this is absurdly difficult. I have idea to make it way easier. If you want to explore this as an option, we can try. Involves following PWMN as baseline controller and source of adaptive update law. See the performance reference adaptive control paper (Azimi and Vela).
      2. Alternatively, this problem was tackled in Spring 2022 using SOS tools in conjunction with some adaptive scheme. There is a published paper describing the approach that could be followed.

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