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Convex Optimization for Control, 8 credits

Course type

Advanced course

Periodicity

Irregular

Intended audience

Students who want to get an introduction to convex optimization with emphasis on applications in control.

Contents

The course is based on material developed by Stephen Boyd at Stanford University and Lieven Vandenberghe at UCLA. A more detailed description of the contents is given in the schedule.

Organization

There will be 12 lectures. The students are expected to participate in 4 exercise sessions, solve 2 home work problems and carry out a joint project. There is a final exam. It is compulsory to attend the lectures and the exercise sessions.

Schedule

Tuesdays 15-17 in Glashuset, ISY (B Building, entrance 25) starting March 23. There are a few exceptions, see detailed schedule.

Literature

We will mainly use the book Boyd, S. and L. Vandenberghe: "Convex Optimization", Cambridge University Press, 2004. Additional references are
  • A. Ben-Tal and A. Nemerovski, Lectures on Modern Convex Optimization - Analysis, Algorithms, and Engineering Applications, MPS-SIAM Series on Optimization, MPS-SIAM.
  • D. Bertsekas, Nonlinear Programming, Athena Scientific.
  • D. Luenberger, Linear and Nonlinear Programming, Addison-Wesley.
  • J. Nocedal and S. Wright, Numerical Optimization, Springer.
  • H. Wolkowicz, R. Saigal, and L. Vandenberghe, Handbook of Semidefinite Programming: Theory, Algorithms, and Applications, Kluwer Academic Publishers.
  • S. Boyd, L. El Ghaoui, E. Feron, and V. Balakrishnan, Linear Matrix Inequalities in System and Control Theory, SIAM.
  • L. El Ghaoui, and S.-I. Niculescu, Advances in Linear Matrix Inequality Methods in Control, SIAM.

Software

Some tools are:

Examiner

Anders Hansson, Department of Electrical Engineering (hansson@isy.liu.se, phone: +46 13 281681)

Exam

From 2004-06-16 until 2004-08-31 you may down-load the exam. After 36 hours you put the exam in an envelop, seal it, and hand it in. Exams should be handed in no later than 2004-08-31. Go get it

  Last modified January 9, 2002 by Anders Hansson