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Behavioural Theory of Systems with a View Toward Data Driven Control

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This course helps you learn how to design control systems directly from data, without building complex mathematical models. It gives a clear and practical understanding of modern, data-driven control methods used in real-world systems. The concepts are simple, powerful, and highly useful for both industry and research.

Is this course for you?

You should take this if

  • You work in Automotive
  • You're a Electrical professional
  • You have 3+ years of hands-on experience in this field
  • You want to build skills in Engineering & Design, Project Management

You should skip if

  • You're new to this field with no prior experience
  • You need a different specialisation outside Electrical
  • You need live interaction with an instructor

Course details

This course introduces a modern way of designing control systems using data instead of mathematical models. Traditionally, control design requires building an accurate model of the system using equations derived from physics or experiments. In many real-world systems, this is difficult, time-consuming, or even impossible. Data-driven control overcomes this challenge by directly using measured input–output data.The course begins with the behavioural approach to systems theory, where the focus is on how a system behaves rather than on its internal equations. Students will learn how a system can be described through the set of all possible trajectories it can generate, and why this viewpoint is powerful for data-based methods.Next, the course explains how behavioural theory naturally leads to data-driven control techniques. Students will see how controllers can be designed and system properties can be analyzed using only data collected from experiments, without identifying an explicit model.A key concept covered in detail is persistency of excitation, which explains what kind of data is needed to reliably represent system behavior. The course builds intuition on why rich and informative data is essential for successful control design.By the end of the course, students will understand the fundamental ideas, tools, and limitations of data-driven control, and will be able to appreciate how these methods are applied to modern engineering systems where modeling is difficult or uncertain.

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Key topics covered

  • Course Introduction

    • Behavioural Theory of Systems with a View Toward Data Driven Control

  • Introduction

  • Dynamical systems in the behavioural setting

  • Ordinary differential and difference equations : Kernel

  • Equivalent kernel representations

  • Unimodular transformations, equivalent behaviours – sufficient condition

  • Polynomial matrices: Aryabhatta–Bezout identity, upper triangular form

  • Example – solution of system of differential equations using back substitution

  • Solving scalar ordinary differential equations, equivalent behaviours

  • Solving multivariable system of differential equations

  • Equivalent behaviours: necessary condition for autonomous systems proof

  • Equivalent Behaviours: non-autonomous systems proof, input-output partitioning

  • Annihilator submodule and associated behaviour

  • Elimination Theory introduction, Fundamental principle of algebraic analysis

  • Proof of Fundamental principle of algebraic analysis

  • Proof revisited: Fundamental principle of Algebraic analysis

  • Elimination Theory proof with example

  • Elimination examples

  • Controllability definition in the behavioural framework

  • Equivalent conditions for controllability proof

  • More equivalent conditions for controllability

  • Moving from controllability to observability

  • Observability Continued

  • Behavioural Pole Placement

  • Identification Basics

Course content

The course is readily available, allowing learners to start and complete it at their own pace.

25 lectures13 hr 4 min

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