Seminar Archive
Fall
2006
- December 8: Double
Seminar
Prof Eduardo F. Camacho
"Stability and Robustness Issues in Nonlinear MPC"
Prof
Elena De Santis, University of L'Aquila
"Theory and Computation of Discrete State Space Decompositions for
Hybrid Systems"
Friday, 3:00pm, Boelter Penthouse
- December 11: Double
Seminar
Prof Petros Voulgaris, UIUC
"Perfect
Signal Reconstruction: A Robust Control Perspective"
Dr Sridevi Sarma, MIT
"Finite-Rate Control: Stability
and Performance"
Monday,
2:00pm, Boelter Penthouse
Spring
2006
Winter
2006
- January 17: Tuesday, 4:00pm, 57-124 Eng IV (**NOTE: Different day/place/time**)
Speaker: Dr. Constantine Caramanis, MIT
"Adaptable Optimization"
- January 26: Thursday, 4:00pm, 57-124 Eng IV (**NOTE:
Different day/place/time**)
Speaker: Prof. Paulo Tabuada,
University of Notre Dame
"On the synthesis of correct by design embedded control software"
- February 16: Thursday, 2:00pm, 7629 Math Sciences (**NOTE:
Different day/place/time**)
Speaker: Zhipu Jin, Caltech
"State estimation over packet dropping networks"
- February 24: Friday, 3:30pm, Boelter Penthouse
Speaker: Dr. Alessandro Arsie, UCLA
"Coverage
and hole detection in sensor networks via homology"
- March 3: Week of IPAM Workshop on
Swarming
Fall
2005
- October 7: Friday, 3:30pm, Boelter Penthouse
Speaker: Ronald Cubalchini, Raytheon Co.
" Control of Precision Pointing Systems"
- October 21: Friday, 1:30pm, Boelter Penthouse (**note different
time**)
Speaker: Prof. Yannis Kevrekidis, Department
of Chemical Engineering, Princeton University.
"Equation free computation for complex/multiscale systems"
- November 11: No seminar (SoCal Nonlinear Control Workshop)
Spring 2005
- April 15: Friday, 3:30pm, Boelter Penthouse
Speaker: Prashant Mhaskar,
ChemE, UCLA.
- “Constrained model predictive control:
Stability and optimality”
Mayne et al, Automatica,
Vol. 36, pp. 789-814, 2000.
- “Uniting bounded control
and MPC for stabilization of constrained linear systems”
El-Farra, Mhaskar,
and Christofides, Automatica,
Vol. 40, pp. 101-110, 2004.
- April 29: Friday, 3:30pm, Boelter Penthouse
Speaker: Dr. Daniel Choukroun, MAE, UCLA.
”On quadratic control and sequential optimal filtering of jump-linear
systems”
- May 6: Friday, 3:30pm, Boelter Penthouse
Speaker: Georgios Chasparis,
MAE, UCLA.
- "A dynamic
model of social network formation"
Skyrms and Pemantle, Proceedings of
the National Academy of Sciences, Vol 97, pp. 9340-9346, 2004.
- June 10: No seminar (American Control
Conference)
Winter 2005
Fall 2004
- November 26: Thanksgiving
Spring 2004
Theme: Adaptive Control
- April 9
Speaker: Prashant Mhaskar,
Department of Chemical Engineering, UCLA
Reference: B. Martensson, "The order of any
stabilizing regulator is sufficient a priori information for adaptive
stabilization"
Systems & Control Letters, Vol. 6.
3:00pm - 4:00pm, Engineering IV, 38-138
- April 16
Speaker: Prashant Mhaskar,
Department of Chemical Engineering, UCLA
References: J.P. Hespanha, D. Liberzon, A.S. Morse, "Overcoming the limitations
of adaptive control by means of logic based switching".
Systems & Control Letters, Vol. 49, 2003.
J.P. Hespanha and A.S. Morse, "Certainty
equivalence implies detectability".
Systems & Control Letters, Vol. 36, 1999.
Winter 2004
Theme: Adaptive Control
- January 23
Speaker: Prashant Mhaskar,
Department of Chemical Engineering, UCLA
Reference: "Systematic Design of Adaptive Controllers for Feedback Linearizable Systems"
IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, Vol. 36 by I. Kanellakopoulos,
P. V. Kokotovic and A. S. Morse
3:00pm - 4:00pm, Engineering IV, 38-138
Fall 2003
Theme: Adaptive Control
- October 3:
Ibrahim Al-Shyoukh
Reference: P. Ioannou, "Model Reference Adaptive Control",
CRC Control
Handbook, pp.847-857.
Spring 2003
Theme: Cooperative Control
- April 11:
Speaker: Gurdal Arslan
(MAE)
Reference: "Stability Analysis of Swarms" by V. Gazi & K. Passino, 2001.
- April 25:
Speaker: Prashant Mhaskar
(ChE)
References: Kothare, SLD and M. Morari. Contractive model predictive control for
constrained linear systems, IEEE Trans. Automat. Contr. 45(6): 1053-1071,
2000 June.Camponogara E, Jia
D, Krogh BH, Talukdar
S. Distributed model predictive control, IEEE Control Systems Magazine. 22
(1): 44-52 2002 Feb.
Winter 2003
Theme: Model Predictive Control
- January 17:
Speaker: Prashant Mhaskar
(ChE)
References: Rawlings JB. Tutorial overview of model predictive control.
IEEE Control Systems Magazine. 20(3):38-52, 2000 June Mayne
DQ. Rawlings JB. Rao CV. Scokaert
POM. Constrained model predictive control: Stability and optimality, Automatica. 36(6):789-814, 2000 June.
- February 14:
Speaker: Ahmad Fattahi (EE)
References: A. Jadbabaie, J. Yu, and J. Hauser.
Unconstrained receding horizon control of nonlinear systems, IEEE
Transactions on Automatic Control, May 2001, pp. 776-783.
Fall 2002
Theme: Control of/over Networks
- October 18:
Speaker: Zhikui Wang (EE)
Reference: F.P. Kelly, A. Maulloo, and D. Tan,
"Rate control for communication networks: Shadow prices, proportional
fairness and stability", Jour. Op. Res. Soc., 1998.
- October 18:
Speaker: Zhikui Wang (EE)
References: (1) F. Paganini, J. Doyle and S.
Low, "Scalable Laws for Stable Network Congestion Control",
CDC'01. (2) F. Paganini, Z. Wang, S. Low and J.
Doyle, "A new TCP/AQM for Stable Operation in Fast Networks", to
appear in 2003 IEEE Infocom.
- December 6:
Speaker: Jiwei Chen (EE)
Reference:
H. Ishii and B. Francis, "Stabilizing a linear system with switching
control and dwell times" to appear in IEEE Transactions on Automatic
Control.
Spring 2002
Theme: Limitations Revisited
- April 12: Right Half Plane
Speaker: Dr. Jonathan Wolfe (MAE)
Reference: J. Freudenberg and D. Looze, "Right half plane poles and zeros and
design tradeoffs in feedback systems", IEEE Transactions on Automatic
Control, June 1985.
- April 26: Cheap Control & Large
Transients
Speaker: Prof. Debasish Ghose
(MAE)
Reference: B. Francis and K. Glover, "Bounded peaking in the optimal
linear regulator with cheap control", IEEE Transactions on Automatic
Control, 1978.
- May 24: UCLA Systems & Controls
Symposium
- June 7: Nonlinear Peaking
Speaker: Stevan Dubljevic
Reference: H. Sussman and P. Kokotovic,
"The peaking pheonomenon and the global
stabilization of nonlinear systems", IEEE Transactions on Automatic
Control, April 1991, pp. 424-440.
Winter 2002
Theme: Hybrid Systems
- January 18: Hybrid Systems &
Stability Theory
Speaker: Nael El-Farra
(ChE)
Reference: R.A. DeCarlo et al,
"Perspectives and results on the stability and stabilizability
of hybrid systems", Proceedings of the IEEE, July 2000.
- February 1: Hybrid System Modeling &
Optimal Control
Speaker: Federico Najson (MAE)
Reference: M. Branicky, V. Borkar,
S. Mitter, "A unified framework for hybrid
control: Modeling and optimal control theory", IEEE TAC, January
1998.
- February 15: Hybrid Systems & Game
Theory
Speaker: Dr. Gurdal Arslan
(MAE)
Reference: C. Tomlin, J. Lygeros, S. Sastry, "A game theoretic approach to controller
design for hybrid systems", Proceedings of the IEEE, July 2000.
- March 8:: Hybrid Systems &
Constructive Optimal Control
Speaker: Ahmad Fattahi (EE)
Reference: S. Hedlund and A. Rantzer,
"Optimal control of hybrid systems", 1999 CDC.
- March 15: Hybrid Systems &
Quantization
Speaker: Prashant Mhaskar
(ChE)
Reference: D. Liberzon, "Hybrid feedback
stabilization of systems with quantized signals", 2001 preprint.
Fall 2001
Theme: Stochastic Models and Methods
- October 5: "Optimal control of
production rate in a failure prone manufacturing system"
Speaker: Vincent Seah (MAE)
Reference: R. Akella and P.R. Kumar,
"Optimal control of production rate in a failure prone manufacturing
system", IEEE TAC, February 1986, pp 116-126.
- October 19: SoCal
Nonlinear Control Workshop
- November 2: "Sequential hypothesis
testing for detection and isolation"
Speaker: Jonathan Wolfe (MAE)
Reference: D.P. Malladi and J.L. Speyer, "A generalized Shiryayev
sequential probablity ratio test for change
detection and isolation", IEEE TAC, August 1999, pp. 1522-1534.
- November 16: "Modeling of thin film
growth using Monte-Carlo techniques"
Speaker: Yiming Lou (ChemE)
Reference: Vlachos, G.G., "Multiscale
integration hybrid algorithms for homogeneous-heterogeneous
reactors", AICHE Journal, November 1997, pp. 3031-3041.
- November 30: "Hierarchical modeling
of stochastic networks".
Speaker: Jiwei Chen (EE)
Reference: H. Chen and A. Mandelbaum,
"Hierarchical modeling of stochastic networks, Part I: Fluid
models", in Stochastic Modeling and Analysis of Manufacturing
Systems, D. Yao (ed), Springer-Verlag, 1994, pp. 47-100.
Spring 2001
Theme: Nonlinear Stability Analysis
- April 13: "Input-to-State
Stability and Related Concepts"
Speaker: Dr. Mikhail Krichman (MAE)
Reference: E.D. Sontag, "The ISS philosophy
as a unifying framework for stability-like behavior"
- April 27: "Classical I/O
Analysis"
Speaker: Li Li (EE)
References: G. Zames, "On the input-output
stability of time-varying non-linear feedback systems: Part I: Conditions
derived using concepts of loop gain, conicity,
and positivity", IEEE Trans. Automatic
Control, vol. AC-11, no. 2, pp. 228-238, 1966; "Part II: Conditions
involving circles in the frequency plane and sector nonlinearities",
IEEE Trans. Automatic Control, vol. AC-11, no. 2, pp. 465-476, 1966.
- May 11: "Nonlinear Small Gain Theorm"
Speaker: Jonathan Wolfe (MAE)
Reference: A.R. Teel, "On graphs, conic relations, and input-output
stability of nonlinear feedback systems", IEEE Transactions on
Automatic Control, May 1996, vol. AC-41, no. 5, pp. 702-709.
- May 25: "Converse Lyapunov Theorems"
Speaker: Nael El-Farra
(ChE)
Reference: Y. Lin, E. Sontag, and Y. Wang,
"A smooth converse Lyapunov theorem for
robust stability", SIAM J. Control and Optimization,
34(1996):124-160.
- June 8: "Two-Time Scale
Analysis"
Speaker: Antonio Armaou (ChE)
Reference: A. Teel, J. Peuteman, D. Aeyels, "Semi-global practical asymptotic
stability and averaging", Systems & Control Letters, 37(1999):
329-334.