Flatness based control is a modern approach for controlling nonlinear systems. Not only do the flatness based methods increasingly find their way into the academic curricula but they also bear a special significance for the industrial application with many implementations to date.

During the week of October 7-11, 2013 a course on "Flatness based control of nonlinear systems" will be held at the University of Sarajevo in cooperation with Prof. Dr. A. Tahirovic (University of Sarajevo) and Prof. Dr. I. Petrovic (University of Zagreb). It will be organized and taught by Prof. Dr.-Ing. J. Rudolph from Saarland University who has been working in the field of flatness based control for over 20 years. He will be assisted by Dr.-Ing. F. Woittennek (TU Dresden) and N. Gehring (Saarland University).

The course addresses students in Master and PhD programs, and researchers from the western Balkan States. As it is financed by the DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service), limited financial support (travel expenses and accommodation costs for non-locals) may be granted to participants. Interested students and researchers are invited to contact the organizers for both registration and application for financial support.

Main course topics:

-definition of flatness

-state concept

-trajectory planning and tracking control

-classification of state feedbacks

-design of stabilizing state feedbacks

-tracking observer

The topics are illustrated by means of several technological examples in both the lectures and simulation exercises.

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