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    <Content>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Optimal Control&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Quadratic Lyapunov functions for linear systems&lt;br/&gt;LQR (optimal state feedback) control&lt;br/&gt;Robustness of LQR control&lt;br/&gt;Kalman filter (optimal observers)&lt;br/&gt;LQG control (combining LQR state feedback and optimal observer)&lt;br/&gt;Loop transfer recovery&lt;br/&gt;Adding integral action&lt;br/&gt;H2 norms and H2 optimal control&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Robust Control&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Underpinning concepts:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Singular value decomposition, the H-infinity norm and the H-infinity function space&lt;br/&gt;Well-posedness and internal stability of feedback interconnections&lt;br/&gt;Small-gain theorem&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Uncertainty representations and robust stability analysis:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Additive, multiplicative and inverse multiplicative uncertainty representations&lt;br/&gt;Linear Fractional Transformations (LFT) and LFT uncertainty representation&lt;br/&gt;Robust stability tests&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Robust controller synthesis and robust control design methodology:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Riccati based H-infinity control synthesis&lt;br/&gt;H-infinity loopshaping control design methodology&lt;/p&gt;</Content>
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    <Content>&lt;p&gt;Introduce students to the fundamentals of LQG control.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Introduce students to the fundamentals of robustness analysis, robust control law synthesis and robust control design.&lt;/p&gt;</Content>
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    <Content>&lt;p&gt;ILO1 Define optimal behaviour for control systems.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;ILO2 Design of control systems based on optimal performance criteria.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;ILO3 Apply optimal control methods to systems from a variety of technological areas.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;ILO4 Design optimal estimators and use Kalman filters in fields outside control engineering.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;ILO5 Define optimal estimation of a stochastic system.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;ILO6 Analyse the robustness of a feedback control system.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;ILO7 Design of control systems based on robustness criteria&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;ILO8 Define the robustness of a control system using h-infinite norm.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;ILO9 Design controllers for systems when accurate mathematical models are unavailable.&lt;/p&gt;</Content>
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    <Content>&lt;p&gt;Lectures, tutorials and practical laboratory.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;</Content>
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      <UnitTitle>State-Space and Multivariable Control</UnitTitle>
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