Lectures:

• Lectures are held on Thursdays, 09:15-12:00 in KJL5.

Flipped classroom: The semester starts in Week 34. The first four lectures are “flipped”, as explained below.

• Week 34: No classroom lecture. Instead, you watch the videos for Lectures 1 and 2 posted on Blackboard.
• Week 35: The first classroom lecture is Thursday 28. August, 09:15 in KJL5. This will be a Q&A session where we go through the material you have studied in the videos, and we work through several examples together.
• Week 36: No classroom lecture. Watch the videos for Lectures 3 and 4 posted on Blackboard.
• Week 37: On Thursday 11. September, we will again have a Q&A session, where we work through the material of Lectures 3 and 4 together.

From Week 38, lectures are weekly and regular, except Week 45 (Lecture 11), which is also flipped. You then watch the videos presenting Adaptive Control before the lecture on Thursday 9. November.

• Lecture plan: Click here or in the menu to the left for detailed information

Assignments:

• Six assignments are given, of which four are compulsory.
• The course guidance session is held on Mondays, 10:15-12:00 in S8.
• First guidance: Week 35
• Last guidance: Week 47
• Click here or in the menu to the left for detailed information
• Questions about the assignments or the curriculum in general can also be asked in the Ed Discussion forum. See Blackboard for the link to the forum.

Exam:

• At least four of the six assignments must be approved in order to attend the exam.
• The exam will be held on December 3, 2025 at 15:00-19:00. The exam accounts for 100/100.
• During the exam you are allowed to use a NTNU type approved calculator with an empty memory (Code D).

Instructor:

• Aurora Haraldsen
• E-mail: Aurora Haraldsen

Teaching assistant:

• Torje Nysæther
• E-mail: Torje Nysæther

For attending students: In this course we use Blackboard. Files and more information are given there.

Course content:

Have a look at the course content

Literature:

Hassan K. Khalil, Nonlinear Systems

Alternative 1: CU Nordics Edition, ISBN 9781784490133. The book can be bought at Akademika Gløshaugen or online.
Alternative 2: 3rd Edition, Prentice Hall, 2002, 1995. ISBN 9780130673893. Click here to purchase the book at Amazon.com.

Both these editions contain the same material. The CU Nordics Edition is often less expensive than the 3rd edition.
(N.B.: Check the ISBN numbers to make sure that you get the correct edition. Several different editions exist, and for instance, the 2nd edition and the International edition do not contain all the material needed in this course. Also note that the book Nonlinear Control is a different book, and does not contain all the material needed in this course.)

A compendium on Adaptive control.
Selected conference and journal papers.

Prerequisites:

The courses TTK4105 Control Engineering, and TTK4115 Linear System Theory. It is an advantage, but not a prerequisite, to also follow the course TMA4145 Linear Methods.