GRADUATE CATALOG - The Petroleum Institute

Graduate Catalog |Graduate Courses in Electrical EngineeringELEG 501 MODERN CONTROL ENGINEERINGAdvanced principles of modern control engineering including digital control and to give an overview of thefundamentals of model predictive control. The course includes modeling of physical systems; dynamic behavior andstability of closed loop control systems; advanced control strategies and design; PID controller design; digital computercontrol; design of digital controllers, introduction to predictive control techniques, supervisory and regulatory controlsystems, multivariable systems, optimal control and industrially relevant case studies.Pre-requisite ELEG 360 or equivalentCo-requisite NoneRestrictions None(3-0-3)ELEG 510 ADVANCED LINEAR SYSTEMSRepresentation of linear dynamic systems in state-space form and how to utilize such model in a control engineeringcontext. The course will include the analysis of states space system responses and their stability, the definition ofcontrollability and observability, and the design of state space controllers as well as observers. The course will alsocover industrial model predictive control.Prerequisite ELEG 360 or equivalentCo-requisite NoneRestrictions None(3-0-3)ELEG 511 MODELING AND SYSTEM IDENTIFICATIONFundamentals of dynamic systems, models, and identification processes, models of linear and nonlinear time-invariantand time-variant systems, parametric estimation methods, convergence and consistency of solutions, asymptoticdistribution, recursive and non-recursive identification methods, projection based methods, model selection andvalidation, application and case studies.Prerequisite ELEG 360 or equivalentCo-requisite NoneRestrictions None(3-0-3)ELEG 512 ADVANCED DIGITAL CONTROL SYSTEMSClassical and modern digital control system analysis and design techniques. Various discrete-time controllers aredesigned including series compensation methods, PID-controllers, pole placement, linear quadratic optimal control,optimal state estimation and Kalman filters, Use of computer-aided analysis and design tools.Prerequisite ELEG 480 or equivalentCo-requisite NoneRestrictions None(3-0-3)ELEG 513 OPTIMAL CONTROLPerformance measures for control problems, variational approach, Pontryagin’s maximum principle, dynamicprogramming and Hamilton-Jacobi equation, singular control, optimal feedback control systems: minimum time,linear quadratic regulator, optimal output feedback, linear quadratic Gaussian Design.Prerequisite ELEG 510 or equivalentCo-requisite NoneRestrictions None(3-0-3)ELEG 514 ADAPTIVE CONTROLIntroduction to the various approaches of adaptive controller design, real-time parameter estimation, model referenceadaptive control systems, parametric optimization, Liapunov function method, self-tuning controllers, minimumvariance self-tuner, variable structure systems, sliding motion, Gain Scheduling. Robustness issues, practical aspectsand implementation, typical industrial applications.Prerequisite ELEG 510 or equivalentCo-requisite NoneRestrictions None(3-0-3)Page 76