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MECA-Y502

Theory and Practice of Advanced Control

academic year
2024-2025

Course teacher(s)

Emanuele GARONE (Coordinator) and Michel KINNAERT

ECTS credits

4

Language(s) of instruction

english

Course content

The subject of the course content includes: design by linearization through LQR/LQG, Feedforward, Feedback Linearization, Kalman Filtering, Extended Kalman Filtering, Kalman Filtering with Intermittent observation, Iterative Learning Control.

All the subject object of the course will be applied on a technological case study that will follow the student all along the duration of the course.
 

Objectives (and/or specific learning outcomes)

The objectives of the course are:
1 - To provide the student with  the ability to solve a real applied project using different advanced methodological tools
2 - To make the student acquainted with the operation of looking for information in the scientific literature
3 - To make the student capable of presenting and defending his design choices

 

Prerequisites and Corequisites

Required and Corequired knowledge and skills

Control System Design

Teaching methods and learning activities

The teaching is a supervised learning-by-doing, carried out in presence. In every lesson/exercise the students are presented with one or more short (20-30 minutes) theoretical contect, and are then requested to apply it immediately to on their case study. During this implementation the professor is always present and discusses with each student the choices made, the difficulties encountered, and opens and promote critical discussions.

Other information

Contacts

Prof. Emanuele Garone: egarone@ulb.ac.be

Campus

Solbosch

Evaluation

Method(s) of evaluation

  • Oral examination

Oral examination

The evaluation will be carried out through an oral exam, where an evaluation of both the project carried out all along the course and the theory will be assessed.

Language(s) of evaluation

  • english

Programmes