Course detail

Theory of Dynamic Systems

FEKT-MPC-TDSAcad. year: 2025/2026

Systems theory, systemic approach, cybernetics. I/O and state space approach to the analysis and design of dynamic systems, mutual conversions. Continuous, discrete, linear, non-linear, time invariant and time variant systems. System stability. System decomposition. SISO and MIMO systems. Controllability, reachability, observability, reconstructability and realizability of systems. State observers and state feedback. Deterministic and stochastic systems. Bayesian approach to estimation. Kalman filter.

Language of instruction

Czech

Number of ECTS credits

7

Mode of study

Not applicable.

Guarantor

doc. Ing. Petr Blaha, Ph.D.

Department

Department of Control and Instrumentation (UAMT)

Entry knowledge

The subject knowledge on the Bachelor´s degree level is requested.

Rules for evaluation and completion of the course

Numerical Exercises - Max 15 points.
Individual project - Max. 15 points.
Final Exam - Max. 70 points.

The content and forms of instruction in the evaluated course are specified by a regulation issued by the lecturer responsible for the course and updated for every academic year.

Aims

The aim of the course is to introduce general system theory and its application to dynamic systems and systemic approach towards control tasks solution.
After passing the course, the student is able to:
- demonstrate and explain the difference between state space and input output description of the system
- explain the concept of causality, realizability, reachability, controlability, observability and reconstructability of the system
- identify and approximate basic types of dynamic systems and discretize the system
- apply the principles of block algebra and Mason’s gain rule for the evaluation of the system’s transfer function
- design the state observer and state feedback
- explain Bayesian approach to estimation and the principle of Kalman filter

Study aids

Not applicable.

Prerequisites and corequisites

Not applicable.

Basic literature

Blaha, P., Bortlík, P., Veselý, L.: Teorie dynamických systémů - sbírka úloh. Skriptum VUT, 2016. (CS)
Štecha, J., Havlena, V.:Teorie dynamických systémů. Vydavatelství ČVUT, Praha, 1999. (CS)

Recommended reading

Not applicable.

Classification of course in study plans

  • Programme MPC-KAM Master's 1 year of study, winter semester, compulsory

Type of course unit

 

Lecture

39 hod., optionally

Teacher / Lecturer

doc. Ing. Petr Blaha, Ph.D.

Syllabus

1. Dynamic systems - definition and subdivision.
2. Different types of system description: input-output, transfer function, frequency response, polynomials.
3. State space description, state equations, their solution. Modeling of dynamical systems in MATLAB Simulink.
4. Model realization: serial, parallel, direct programming. Canonical forms.
5. Controllability, reachability, observability, reconstruct-ability of systems.
6. Block algebra. Masons’s gain rule for transfer function computation.
7. State feedback. State observers.
8. Methods of continuous time system discretization.
9. Stability of linear and nonlinear systems, stability of interval polynomials.
10. Multi input multi output systems.
11. Bayesian approach to parameter estimation.
12. Kalman filter.
13. Reserve, review.

Fundamentals seminar

14 hod., compulsory

Teacher / Lecturer

doc. Ing. Petr Blaha, Ph.D.

Syllabus

1. Different descriptions of dynamic systems, state space descripaztion, input function generators.
2. Conversion of block diagram to signal flow graph. Utilization of Mason’s gain rule. Determination of observability index for the system with two inputs.
3. State feedback design. Design of identity observer with required dynamics.
4. Computation of discrete equivalents of continuous time systems – system with zero order hold, Euler and Tustin approximation, method of equivalent zeros and poles.
5. Determination of stability. Interval polynomial stability.
6. Description and control of MIMO systems. Decoupling of cross-couplings in MIMO systems.

7. Work on the project.

Exercise in computer lab

12 hod., compulsory

Teacher / Lecturer

doc. Ing. Petr Blaha, Ph.D.

Syllabus

1. Recapitulation of the possibilities of entering dynamic systems in MATLAB and Simulink. Using a Symbolic Toolbox to calculate Laplace transform and Z transform.
2. Canonical forms of state space description implementation in MATLAB Simulink. State space description as Level 2 MATLAB S-function (continuous / discrete).
3. Calculation of the controllability, reachability, observability and reconstructability of the system using MATLAB functions. Creation of input function generators in Simulink. Transformation of state space descriptions.
4. State feedback using acker, place and reg commands, implementation of state controller in Simulink environment, commands for connecting systems described by state space equations.
5. estim command, state observer testing in Simulink, state feedback from state observer output. Different types of discretization of continuous time systems.
6. Testing the stability of linear and nonlinear dynamic systems. Multi-dimensional systems in MATLAB Simulink.