RELATED GRADUATE COURSES AT UIC

Please note that these are just course guidelines. The actual syllabi are decided by the respective course instructors for each semester. You are encouraged to contact the instructor of your chosen course for further details. You are also encouraged to look into the undergraduate and graduate catalogs. Please consult the UIC Timetable to see whether the course you are interested in is offered in the upcoming semester.

ECE 451 Control Engineering
State-space representation of systems; realization theory; stability; performance; modern control design techniques, including: fuzzy, learning, adaptive and nonlinear control.
Last time offered in: Fall 2007
Instructor: Dr. L. Grajales Carias

ECE 452 Robotics: Algorithms and Control
Kinematic and dynamic modeling of robots; configuration space; motion planning algorithms; control of robots; sensors and perception; reasoning; mobile robots.
Last time offered in: Spring 2007
Instructor: Dr. Miloš Žefran

ECE 550 Linear Systems Theory and Design
State variable description, linear operators, impulse response matrix, controllability, observability, reducible and irreducible realizations, state feedback, state observers and stability.
Last time offered in: Spring 2007
Instructor: Dr. Daniel Graupe

ECE 551 Optimal Control
Optimal control of dynamic systems in continuous and discrete time, maximum principle, dynamic programming and constraints, learning systems.
Last time offered in: Fall 2007
Instructor: Dr. L. Abu Salah

ECE 552 Nonlinear Control
Nonlinear phenomena, linear and piecewise linear approximations, describing functions, servomechanisms, phase plane, limit cycles, Lyapunov's stability theory, bifurcation, bilinear control, vibrational control, learning systems.
Last time offered in: Fall 2003
Instructor: Dr. Miloš Žefran

ECE 553 System Identification
On-line and off-line identification of control systems in frequency and time domain, considering noise effects, nonlinearities, nonstationarities and distributed parameters.

CS 415 Computer Vision I
Computer vision system design. Segmentation and representation of regions and boundaries; image filtering; object recognition; advanced topics (examples: texture, stereo, color); applications. Programming assignments.
Last time offered in: Spring 2005
Instructor: Dr. Boaz Super

CS 515 Advanced Computer Vision
Analysis of 3-D scene images. Shape from shading, texture, line drawings, and surface orientation. Surface representation methods and reconstruction of 3-D scenes. Design of knowledge-based vision systems and 3-D applications.
Last time offered in: Fall 2004
Instructor: Dr. Boaz Super

CS 594 Special Topics: Probabilistic Robotics
Recursive state estimation, Markov localization, Monte Carlo localization, simultaneous localization and mapping, planning using partially observable Markov decision processes (POMDPs), approximate solutions to POMDPs.
Last time offered in: Fall 2006
Instructors: Dr. Piotr Gmytrasiewicz and Dr. Miloš Žefran