46085 - Control for Ordinary Differential Equations

Academic Year 2008/2009

  • Docente: Angelo Favini
  • Credits: 6
  • SSD: MAT/05
  • Language: Italian
  • Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
  • Campus: Bologna
  • Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in Mathematics (cod. 0436)

Learning outcomes

To present  the main notions of control theory for differential equations in finite and infinite dimensions.

Course contents

Controllability of a dynamic linear system. Observability. Stability and stabilizability. Examples of applications to chemical, physical and economic problems. Quadratic optimal control for linear systems. Riccati equation. Global solution of Riccati equation. Optimal control: infinite time horizon. Singular dynamical systems and quadratic optimal control.

Readings/Bibliography

A.Favini, Notes;

A.Bensoussan,G.Da Prato, M.Delfour, S.Mitter, Representation and control of infinite dimensional systems II, ed.Birkauser, 1992;

J.Zabczyck, Mathematical control theory, ed.Birkhauser, 1992;

E.Sontag, Mathematical control theory, Springer-Verlag, 1998.

Teaching methods

Lectures.

Assessment methods

Oral examination.

Office hours

See the website of Angelo Favini