ECE 517: Nonlinear and Adaptive Control (Fall 2025)

A first graduate-level course on nonlinear control design methods, incorporating basic material and examples on adaptive control and estimation and some advanced analysis techniques for nonlinear systems.

Announcements:

• The schedule of final presentations is here
• No class on Thu Oct 16 (DL out of town)
• No class on Thu Sep 11 (DL traveling) and Tue Sep 16 (Allerton tutorial sessions).

Assignments:

Homework 1 (posted Aug 29, due Sep 10) | Solution (posted Sep 13)
Homework 2 (posted Sep 12, due Sep 24) | Solution (posted Sep 30)
Homework 3 (posted Oct 1, due Oct 15) | Solution (posted Oct 20)
Homework 4 (posted Oct 23, due Nov 5) | Solution (posted Nov 7)
Homework 5 (posted Nov 11, due Dec 10)

Resources:

Recorded lectures from Fall 2021 (audio and video quality is highly variable)

Schedule: Tue Thu 2:00-3:20pm, room 3015, ECE Building, in-person only.

Prerequisites: ECE 515 (Linear Systems) or consent of instructor. Basic knowledge of real analysis (at the level of Math 444 or 447) is also expected.

Instructor: Daniel Liberzon
Office: 144 CSL
Email: liberzon at illinois.edu
Office hours: TBA

Homework TA: Pusong Li
Email: pli27 at illinois.edu
Office hours: as announced by TA

Supplementary texts:

• P. A. Ioannou, J. Sun, Robust Adaptive Control, Prentice Hall, 1996, reprinted by Dover in 2012, downloadable for free from this link. See also: P. A. Ioannou and B. Fidan, Adaptive Control Tutorial, SIAM, 2006 (this is a somewhat simplified version of the first book).
• H. K. Khalil, Nonlinear Systems, Prentice Hall, 2002 (third edition). On reserve at Grainger for ECE 528.
• M. Krstic, I. Kanellakopoulos, P. V. Kokotovic, Nonlinear and Adaptive Control Design, Wiley, New York, 1995. On reserve at Grainger for this course.

Assignments and grading policy: Your grades will be based on homework and final project. Details will be explained in class.