Petar Kokotovic, faculty
petar@ece.ucsb.edu
http://engineering.ucsb.edu/faculty/profile/99
Office: Harold Frank Hall
Phone: (805) 8937011
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Academic Department:

Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE)

Research Affiliations:
Center for Control, Dynamical-systems, and Computation (CCDC)

Recent awards:
1980 Fellow of the IEEE

Recently taught courses:

Course Number Course Name Quarter
ECE237/ME237 Nonlinear Control Design 2007b Spring
ECE236/ME236 Nonlinear Control Systems 2007a Winter
ECE249 Adaptive Control Systems 2006b Spring
ECE247 System Identification 2006a Winter
ECE147B Digital Control Systems - Theory and Design 2005a Winter

Recent Publications:

Aamo OM, Arcak M, Fossen TI, Kokotovic PV. Global Output Tracking Control of A Class of Euler-lagrange Systems With Monotonic Non-linearities In the Velocities. International Journal of Control. 2001;74:649–658.
Arcak M, Teel AR, Kokotovic P. Robust Nonlinear Control of Feedforward Systems With Unmodeled Dynamics. Automatica. 2001;37:265–272.
Arcak M, Kokotovic P. Redesign of Backstepping For Robustness Against Unmodelled Dynamics. International Journal of Robust and Nonlinear Control. 2001;11:633–643.
Ezal K, Kokotovic PV, Teel AR, Basar T. Disturbance Attenuating Output-feedback Control of Nonlinear Systems With Local Optimality. Automatica. 2001;37:805–817.
Kokotovic P. Three Tsypkin Stories. International Journal of Adaptive Control and Signal Processing. 2001;15:110–112.
Larsen M, Kokotovic PV. on Passivation With Dynamic Output Feedback. IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control. 2001;46:962–967.
Larsen M, Kokotovic PV. A Brief Look At the Tsypkin Criterion: From Analysis To Design. International Journal of Adaptive Control and Signal Processing. 2001;15:121–128.
Arcak M, Kokotovic P. Observer-based Control of Systems With Slope-restricted Nonlinearities. IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control. 2001;46:1146–1150.
Arcak M, Teel AR, Kokotovic P. Robust Nested Saturation Redesign For Systems With Input Unmodeled Dynamics. In: Proceedings of the 2000 American Control Conference. Acc (ieee Cat. No.00ch36334). 2000.
Arcak M, Kokotovic P. Robust Output-feedback Design Using A New Class of Nonlinear Observers. In: Proceedings of the 39th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (cat. No.00ch37187). 2000.