ECE 595: Advanced Linear Systems

 

Course Description

  ECE 595 is an introduction to the state-space representation of linear systems. As such, the classical Laplace transform techniques that you are already familiar will be assumed but not emphasized. Instead, we will perform time-domain analysis of differential equations on linear systems. Thus, this course forms the basis upon which modern electrical engineering is founded. The material in this course serves as the basis for other graduate courses. This is especially true if your program emphasizes controls. Therefore, it is strongly recommended that electrical engineering majors take this course at the beginning of their academic program. Students from other mathematically oriented programs are encouraged to take this course.

 

Course Topics

  Time domain techniques
State variable representation of systems
Obtaining the state equations
Interconnection of systems
Matrices, linear spaces and linear systems
Matrix algebra and calculus
Spanning sets and basis vectors
Vector transformations
Overdetermined and underdetermined systems
Spectral Decomposition of Vector Spaces
Eigenvalues and eigenvectors
Generalized eigenvectors
Jordan normal form
Bilinear and quadratic forms
Functions of Square Matrices
Continuous systems
Fundamental transition matrix
Modal decomposition
Sampling
Discrete systems
Fundamental transition matrix
Modal decomposition
Canonical forms
Simulation of linear systems
Applications using Matlab software
Controllability and observability
Stability

 

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