| State-space representation; Different canonical forms: Controller    canonical form, Observer canonical form, Diagonal canonical form, Jordan    canonical form, Controllable canonical form, Observable canonical form;    Decomposition of transfer functions into different canonical forms;    Controllability and Observability; Stabilizability and Detectability; State    feedback control; Full and reduced order observers: observer based state    feedback control, Separation principle; Optimal control: Linear Quadratic    control, Linear Quadratic Gaussian control, Loop transfer recovery control;    Internal stability, Well-posedness; Concept of uncertainties and robustness:    Structured uncertainties, Unstructured uncertainties, Sensitivity,    Complementary Sensitivity and their significance for robustness study, Robust    stability of                                                                                                                structure; H∞    control: Two block frame work, Four block frame work, mu-synthesis;    Approximate linearization; Feedback linearization: Input to state exact    linearization, input to output exact linearization; Sliding mode control. 
 Texts/References Books:
 
        R. C. Dorf and R. H. Bishop ‘Modern Control Systems’, Pearson    Education, Inc, 2008.R. T Stefani ‘Design of Feedback Control Systems’, Oxford University Press,    2002.S. Skogestad and I. Postlethwaite ‘Multivariable Feedback Control’, John    Wiley, 2005. |