Week-by-week schedule#

Note: Italicized text indicates planned topics, but subject to change.

Date

Week

Topic

Milestones

Links

March 31
April 2

1

Introduction, state-space dynamics, linearization, continuous and discrete time dynamics, intro to optimization

hw 1 out

lec01 pdf

April 7
April 9

2

Control Lyapunov Functions, control invariant sets, Control barrier functions, CLF-CBF-QP

April 14
April 16

3

Guest lecture(?), introduction to sequential decision-making

April 21
April 23

4

Value iteration, HJB equation, HJ reachability

hw 1 due;
hw 2 out

April 28
April 30

5

Linear quadratic regulator, tracking LQR, iLQR

Project proposal due

May 5
May 7

6

Trajectory optimization

May 12
May 14

7

Model predictive control

hw 2 due
hw3 out

May 19
May 21

8

Guest lecture(?), Kalman filter

May 26
May 28

9

(No lecture; Memorial Day)
Technical communication

hw 3 due

June 2
June 4

10

Project spotlight presentation
Project poster presentation

Due project pitch
Due project poster

Finals

Due final report or website