This course will present the recent advances made in automation and robust control for engineering applications. Topics will include: H-infinity and H-2 control design; structured-singular value analysis and synthesis; model reduction; convex optimization; semi-definite programming; and interior-point methods. State space models of linear systems, state feedback control, controllability and observability, sampling of linear systems, optimal control of linear system, analysis of nonlinear controlsystems, stability concepts, system linearization and phase plane analysis.Prediction of the amplitude and frequency of stable periodic solutionsusing Lyapunov functions, Lyapunov’s linearization method, introduction to the theory of input-output stability, the circle criterion.