ME 530.676 Locomotion in Mechanical and Biological Systems
Course Description
Meeting time and Office Hours
- Meeting time: MWF 1:45-2:35
- Office almost-an-hour: Wed 2:45-3:30 (or by appointment)
MIDTERM
Monday 3/24 from 7:30-9:30 PM. Review session in class on 3/24.
Books
Required:
- Chapters 1 and 2 from H. K. Khalil. Nonlinear Systems. Prentice Hall, third edition, 2002.
- Murray, Li and Sastry (Chapters 4-7):
http://www.cds.caltech.edu/~murray/books/MLS/pdf/mls94-complete.pdf
Highly recommended:
- Chapter 1 from John Guckenheimer and Philip Holmes. Nonlinear Oscillations, Dynamical Systems, and Bifurcations of Vector Fields. Springer, 1991.
Problem Sets
- Problem Set 1
- Problem Set 2
- Problem Set 3 (Second Correction on 03/14/14)
- Problem Set 4 (to be uploaded)
- Problem Set 5
- Problem Set 6
Final Project
See here: 530-676-LIMBS-Project