ME 320 Geometry of Nonlinear Systems

Basic differential geometry, oriented toward applications in control and dynamical systems. Topics include smooth manifolds and mappings, tangent and normal bundles. Vector fields and flows. Distributions and Frobenius' theorem. Matrix Control and Dynamical Systems. Lie groups and Lie algebras. Exterior differential forms and Stokes' theorem.

Credits

3

Prerequisite

AMCS 202