Teaching

Courses

Undergraduate and postgraduate courses taught at the Department of Electrical Engineering, IIT Madras.

Recent Courses

EE6415

Nonlinear Systems Analysis

Mathematical preliminaries (sets, continuity, Lipschitz, vector spaces); Well‑posedness of ODEs; Mechanical systems & Euler–Lagrange models; Second‑order nonlinear systems, phase‑plane & equilibrium analysis; Limit cycles & Poincaré–Bendixson; Stability notions & Lyapunov/La Salle methods; Control design via Lyapunov functions & sliding mode.

EE6412

Optimal Control

Calculus of variations, Pontryagin's minimum principle, dynamic programming, Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman equation, and numerical methods for optimal control.

EE5412

Mathematical Methods in System Engineering

Point-Set Topology, Sequences; Sup, Inf, Limit Inf, Limit Sup, and Cauchy Sequences, Series; Limits, Continuity and Differentiability, Metric Spaces and Functions

EE6431

Nonsmooth analysis in control and optimization

Motivating examples; Convex functions & semicontinuity; Normal/tangent cones & projection; Subdifferentials & subgradient calculus; Directional derivatives & steepest descent; Discontinuous system solutions (Carathéodory/Filippov); Lyapunov stability & nonsmooth optimality conditions.

EE6419

Geometric Nonlinear Control Theory

Geometric Control Basics; Manifolds & Coordinate Transformations; Function Theorems & Diffeomorphisms; Submanifolds & Embeddings; Tangent/Cotangent Structures; Push-forward & Pull-back; Vector Fields & Flows; Lie Derivatives & Brackets; Distributions & Involutivity; Feedback Linearization & Nonlinear Controllability.

EE3100

Control Engineering

Classical feedback control, Laplace transforms, transfer functions, root locus, frequency-domain methods, Bode plots, Nyquist criterion, and PID design.

EE1101

Signals & Systems

Continuous-Time signals, Continuous-Time systems, Discrete-time signals and systems, Continuous-time Fourier series, Continuous-time Fourier transform, Laplace transform, Sampling.