W-2: Interval Analysis and its Application to Parameter Identification, State Estimation and Control
W-3: Embedded Hybrid Systems : New Directions
W-4: Modeling and Control of AC Machines
W-5 (CANCELLED): Assistive Technologies for Elderly and Disable
ANNOUNCEMENT: The Workshops W1,W2 and W3 have been finally cancelled.
Only the full-day Workshop W4 will be held on Monday 2 July 2007.
Important Note:
Those wishing to attend W4 should send an e-mail to the ECC07 Secretariat ecc07@mail.ntua.gr by June 25 for planning the proper room.
Registration will take place on site as follows:
Sunday July 1st: 18:00-20:00 hours
Monday July 2nd: 8:00-13:00 hours
The normal Fee for attending a Workshop is 150 Euro and the student Fee is 100 Euro. Preregistration is now open. Instructions are given below.
The organizers, outlines and speakers of the Workshops are given at the end of this document.
WORKSHOP FEE PAYMENT To pay the fee for your attendance, select the workshop you wish to attend and use one of the two payment methods described in the "WORKSHOP REGISTRATION FORM", provided below.
For best planning of the workshops by the Organizing Committee, please indicate your Workshop selection as soon as possible, by also sending an email to the conference secretariat: ecc07@mail.ntua.gr even if you don't choose to pay the fee at this stage.
Please note the following :
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WORKSHOP 1
State of the Art Computational Methods and Software for Computer-Aided Control Systems Design and Analysis.
Organizer and Presenter :Biswa Datta, IEEE Fellow and Distinguished Research Professor, Northern Illinois
University, DeKalb, Illinois, USA.
E-mail : dattab@math.niu.edu
URL: www.math.niu.edu/dettab
Abstract
This one-day workshop is designed to give a comprehensive and condensed overview of of the state-of-the-art computational methods and the associated software for control systems design and analysis. A special emphasis will be given to implementations of algorithms using existing softwares. If facilities are available, demonstrations using MATLAB-based control toolboxes will be given during the workshop. Mathematical and computational jargon which are often distractive to engineers will be kept to a minimum, and numerical linear algebra background which are absolutely necessary to understand material of the workshop will be presented at the workshop itself in a conceptual way, but giving the details of software and implementational issues. The workshop will be of interests to a wide variety of audience ranging from post-graduate students and faculty, to practicing engineers and researchers working on control applications, including aerospace, automotive, biology, medicine, spacesciences, structural and manufacturing engineering, robotics, and many others. In particular, the workshop will provide motivation and practical guidance to faculty desirous of including some state-of-the-art computational techniques in their existing systems theory and control courses and /or designing an exclusive graduate level course on this topic. The detailed lecture notes will be provided to the participants at the workshop.
A Short of CV of Biswa Datta
Biswa Nath Datta, an IEEE Fellow and IEEE Distinguished Lecturer, is a Professor of Mathematical Sciences, an Adjunct Professor of Electrical and Mechanical Engineering and a Distinguished Research Professor at Northern Illinois University. His research interests are interdisciplinary, blending linear and numerical linear algebra with control and systems theory and vibration engineering. Professor Datta is the author of more than 100 interdisciplinary research papers and two books entitled Numerical Linear Algebra and Applications, published in 1995, and Numerical Methods for Linear Control Systems Design and Analysis, published in 2003 and served as an Editor or Editor-in-Chief of _ve interdisciplinary books blending linear and numerical linear algebra with control and systems theory, and signal processing. He has served in the past or is presently serving on the editorial board of several premier journals in applied mathematics, and linear and numerical linear algebra, and control. He is also the author of MATHEMATICA-based control software package "Advanced Numerical Methods in Control", Wolfram Research inc., 2003 and two MATLAB-based software packagesMATCONTROL and MATCOM, respectively, for control systems design and matrix computations. Professor Datta has delivered many short courses, workshops and tutorials on "Numerical Methods and Software for Computer-Aided Control Systems Design and Analysis" at major conferences sponsored by SIAM, IEEE, MTNS, and IFAC, and at many Universities around the world.
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WORKSHOP 2
Interval analysis and its application to parameter identification, state estimation and control
organized byMichel Kieffer and Eric Walter
Laboratoire des Signaux et Systemes, CNRS – Supelec – Univ Paris-Sud
F - 91192 Gif-sur-Yvette
Outline of the workshop
Interval analysis (IA) is based on the very simple idea of enclosing real numbers in intervals on which computations can be carried out. Outward rounding of real intervals to the smallest computer-representable intervals and the fundamental notions of inclusion functions and contractors make it possible to obtain guaranteed results via floating-point computations, a task still believed by many to be out of reach. IA may, for instance, be used to locate all optimizers of non-convex cost functions or to prove that a given problem has no solution. It has thus countless potential applications in parameter identification, state estimation and control.
The workshop will consist of six talks of about one hour each. It will aim at a balanced presentation of concepts, algorithms, implementations and applications. Live demos will be presented and open-source software will be made available to the participants. The ability of the approach to solve nontrivial estimation and control problems will be demonstrated, and new topics for research will be suggested.
Speakers
Dr. Eric Walter, Laboratoire des Signaux et Systemes
CNRS – Supelec – Univ Paris-Sud, France
Applicable interval analysis
Dr. Ned Nedialkov, Department of Computing and Software
McMaster University, Canada
Interval tools for ODEs and DAEs
Dr. Michel Kieffer, Laboratoire des Signaux et Systemes
CNRS – Supelec – Univ Paris-Sud, France
Guaranteed parameter and state estimation, with applications in biology and robotics
Dr. Josep Vehi, Institut d'Informatica i Aplicacions
University of Girona, Spain
Predictive and robust control using interval techniques
Prof. Dr. Eberhard P. Hofer, Institute of Measurement, Control, and Microtechnology
Ulm University, Germany
Industrial applications of guaranteed functionality of uncertain systems using interval analysis
Prof. Dr. Wolfram Luther, Abteilung Informatik der Fakultat Ingenieurwissenschaften
Duisburg-Essen University, Germany
Reliable mechanical system modelling
Short biographies of the speakers
Dr. Eric Walter was born in 1950. A physicist by training, he was awarded a Doctorat d'Etat in control theory in 1980 by the University Paris-Sud. He is Directeur de Recherche at CNRS (the French national center for scientific research). His research interests revolve around parameter estimation and its application to chemical engineering, chemistry, control, image processing, medicine, pharmacokinetics and robotics. He is the author or coauthor of more than 200 papers in refereed journals and conferences, and of three books. He is now director of the Laboratoire des Signaux et Systemes, a research facility hosting about 120 persons and common to CNRS, the school of electrical engineering Supelec and the University Paris-Sud.
Dr. Ned Nedialkov is an associate professor in the Department of Computing and Software at McMaster University, Canada. His interests include interval methods for initial-value problems (IVPs) in ordinary differential equations (ODEs), numerical methods for high-index differential-algebraic equations, automatic differentiation, mathematical software, and parallel graph coloring algorithms. He is the author of the C++ package VNODE for computing bounds on solutions in IVP ODEs and of its successor VNODE-LP. He holds a Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from the University of Toronto.
Dr. Michel Kieffer studied applied physics at the Ecole Normale Superieure de Cachan, France, where he received the Agregation in Physics in 1996. He received a Ph.D. in control theory in 1999 and the Habilitation a Diriger des Recherches in 2005, both from the University Paris-Sud. He is currently an Assistant Professor in signal processing at the University Paris-Sud. His main research interests are in joint source-channel coding techniques for the robust transmission of multimedia contents. He is also interested in robust state and parameter estimation using interval analysis, with applications in control, robotics, and chemistry. He is the co-author of more than 70 papers in refereed journals and conferences, and of one book.
Dr. Josep Vehi is associated professor of the Department of Electronics, Control and Computer Engineering at the University of Girona, Spain and associated researcher at the Institute for Biomedical Research of Girona. He is founder member and chair of IntervalNet (Spanish group on Interval Analysis and Applications) and he is the chair of the IEEE working group on Interval Methods for Control. His present research interests include interval methods for control, modelling, simulation and control of biological processes, robust and non-linear control and fault detection and diagnostics for complex dynamic systems. He is co-author of three books, 8 chapters of books and more than 100 papers in refereed international journals or conferences.
Prof. Dr. Eberhard P. Hofer received his Doctorate in Control Engineering and his Habilitation in Engineering Cybernetics from University of Stuttgart, Germany. From 1974 to 1978 he was with industry in Germany and USA. From 1979 to 1989 he held positions as Full Professor at University of Essen and Technical University of Hamburg-Harburg. Since 1989 he is the Director of the Institute of Measurement, Control, and Microtechnology at the University of Ulm. He was Visiting Professor in the USA with IBM Research and at UC Berkeley, and in Japan at Waseda University, Kobe University, and JAIST. His interests in interval methods emphasize control applications.
Dr. Wolfram Luther leads a research group of a dozen persons in scientific computing, computer graphics and image processing. The team is specialized in the development of software and algorithms with result verification and of interactive systems in several contexts. After his habilitation at the Technical University of Aachen he was a visiting professor at the universities of Ulm, Mulhouse and Santiago de Chile. Since 1993 he is a full professor in computer science at the University of Duisburg-Essen. He was an organizer of the 12th GAMM-IMACS SCAN meeting at Duisburg in September 2006 and of several workshops concerning Scientific Computing with Result Verification.
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WORKSHOP 3
Embedded Hybrid Systems : New Directions
Workshop Co-Organizers
George J. Pappas
Department of Electrical and Systems Engineering
University of Pennsylvania
200 South 33rd Street
Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
E-mail: pappasg@seas.upenn.edu
John Lygeros
ETH Zurich
Automatic Control Laboratory
ETL I 22, Physikstrasse 3
8092 Zurich, SWITZERLAND
E-mail: lygeros@control.ee.ethz.ch
Workshop Presenters
Shankar Sastry, U.C. at Berkeley (confirmed)
Janos Stipanovitzs, Vanderbilt University (confirmed)
John Baras, University of Maryland (confirmed)
Panos Antsaklis, University of Notre Dame (confirmed)
Joao Hespahna, U.C. at Santa Barbara (confirmed)
Claire Tomlin, Stanford University (confirmed)
John Lygeros, ETH Zurich (confirmed)
Christos Cassandras, Boston University, (confirmed)
Paulo Tabuada, U.C.L.A. (confirmed)
George Pappas, University of Pennsylvania (confirmed)
Workshop Outline
The goal of this full day workshop for ECC 2007 is to provide a forum for state-of-the-art research and new research directions on the modeling, analysis, control, and application of embedded hybrid systems. In particular, the workshop will cover state-of-the-art results in modeling, analysis, simulation, and control of embedded hybrid systems. In particular, the workshop focuses on hybrid systems as models of embedded systems, including sensor and actuator networks, networked control systems, and modern connections to multi-agent systems and bio-molecular networks. Distinguished researchers in the field will present modern fundamental problems as well as raise research directions for future research for the community.
Tentative Schedule
08:30-09:00 Introduction, (Workshop co-organizers)
09:00-09:30 Prof. Shankar Sastry, U.C. at Berkeley (confirmed)
09:30-10:00 Prof. Janos Stipanovitzs, Vanderbilt University (confirmed)
10:00-10:30 Prof. John Baras, University of Maryland (confirmed)
10:30-11:00 Break
11:00-11:30 Prof. Claire Tomlin, Stanford University (confirmed)
11:30-12:00 Prof. Joao Hespanha, U.C. at Santa Barbara (confirmed)
12:00-13:30 Lunch
13:30-14:00 Prof. Christos Cassandras, Boston University (confirmed)
14:00-14:30 Prof. John Lygeros, ETH Zurich (confirmed)
14:30-15:00 Prof. Panos Antsaklis, University of Notre Dame (confirmed)
15:00-15:15 Break
15:15-15:45 Prof. Paulo Tabuada, U.C.L.A. (confirmed)
15:45-16:15 Prof. George Pappas, University Of Pennsylvania (confirmed)
16:15-17:00 Open Discussion
Speaker Biographies
S. Shankar Sastry is currently the Director of CITRIS (Center for Information Technology in the Interests of Society) an interdisciplinary center spanning UC Berkeley, Davis, Merced and Santa Cruz. He served as Chairman, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, University of California, Berkeley from January, 2001 through June 2004. In 2000, he served as Director of the Information Technology Office at DARPA. >From 1996-1999, he was the Director of the Electronics Research Laboratory at Berkeley, an organized research unit on the Berkeley campus conducting research in computer sciences and all aspects of electrical engineering. He is the NEC Distinguished Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences and a Professor of Bioengineering.
Dr. Sztipanovits (Fellow, IEEE) is E. Bronson Ingram Distinguished Professor of Engineering and founding director of the Institute for Software Integrated Systems. Dr. Sztipanovits received the Cand. of Tech. Sci. degree from the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in 1980, the Distinguished Doctor degree with the Golden Ring award form the President of Hungary in 1982, and the National Prize in Hungary in 1985. His primary research interest is software and systems engineering issues of embedded information systems, structurally adaptive systems and model-integrated computing. His work has been applied and fielded in several major aerospace and manufacturing industry projects. He has published over 130 papers; he is the co-author of two books and seven international patents.
John S. Baras holds a permanent joint appointment as professor in the department of electrical and computer engineering and the Institute for Systems Research at the University of Maryland. He was the founding director of ISR, which is one of the first six National Science Foundation engineering research centers. Dr. Baras’ research interests include scaleable multicast security; John Baras is a fellow of the IEEE and has served the organization in various leadership positions. He is the recipient of two Invention of the Year awards from the University of Maryland, holds two patents, and has received many awards for his research and publications. Dr. Baras received his B.S. in electrical engineering from the National Technical University of Athens, Greece, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Applied Math from Harvard University.
Claire Tomlin received the Ph. D. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1998. Since September 1998 she has been an Assistant Professor in the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics at Stanford University, with a courtesy appointment in Electrical Engineering. Claire Tomlin is a recipient of the AIAA Outstanding Teacher Award, Stanford (2001), NSF Career Award, Stanford (1999), Terman Fellowship, Stanford (1998), the Bernard Friedman Memorial Prize in Applied Mathematics, Berkeley (1998), and the Zonta Amelia Earhart Award for Aeronautics Research (1996-98). Her research interests are in hybrid systems,air traffic control automation, fight management system analysis and design,and modeling and analysis of biological cell networks.
Joao P. Hespanha received the Licenciatura in electrical and computer engineering from the Instituto Superior Tecnico, Lisbon, Portugal in 1991 and the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering and applied science from Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut in 1998, respectively. He currently holds a Professor position with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, the University of California, Santa Barbara. His research interests include hybrid and switched systems; the modeling and control of communication networks; distributed control over communication networks (also known as networked control systems); the use of vision in feedback control; stochastic modeling in biology; and the control of haptic devices. Dr. Hespanha is the recipient of the Yale University’s Henry Prentiss Becton Graduate Prize for exceptional achievement in research in Engineering and Applied Science, a National Science Foundation CAREER Award, and the 2005 Automatica Theory/Methodology best paper prize.
Christos G. Cassandras is Professor of Manufacturing Engineering and Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Boston University. He received a B.S. from Yale University, M.S.E.E. from Stanford University, and S.M. and Ph.D. degrees from Harvard University. In 1982-84 he was with ITP Boston, Inc. where he worked on the design of automated manufacturing systems. In 1984-1996 he was a faculty member at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Massachusetts/Amherst. He specializes in the areas of discrete event and hybrid systems, stochastic optimization, and computer simulation, with applications to computer networks, manufacturing systems, transportation systems, and command-control systems. He has published over 200 refereed papers in these areas, and two textbooks. He has guest-edited several technical journal issues, serves on several editorial boards, and he is currently Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control. He has received several awards, including the 1999 Harold Chestnut Prize (IFAC Best Control Engineering Textbook) for Discrete Event Systems: Modeling and Performance Analysis and a 1991 Lilly Fellowship, and was elected Fellow of the IEEE in 1996.
John Lygeros has been an Associate Professor of Computation and Control at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zurich, Switzerland, since July 1, 2006. He obtained a Ph.D. degree from the Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences Department, University of California, Berkeley. Between March 2003 and July 2006 he was an Assistant Professor at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Patras, Greece. In July 2006 he joined the Automatic Control Laboratory at ETH Zurich an Associate Professor. His research interests include modeling, analysis, and control of hierarchical hybrid systems, with applications to biochemical networks, large-scale systems such as automated highways and air traffic management and control over wireless networks. John Lygeros is a senior member of the IEEE, and a member of the IEE and the Technical Chamber of Greece. He is currently serving as an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control.
Panos J. Antsaklis is the H.C. and E.A. Brosey Professor of Electrical Engineering and Director of the Center for Applied Mathematics at the University of Notre Dame. His recent research focuses on networked embedded systems and addresses problems in the interdisciplinary research area of control, computing and communication networks, and on hybrid and discrete event dynamical systems. He has authored a number of publications in journals, conference proceedings and books, and he has edited several books on Intelligent Autonomous Control and on Hybrid Systems. In addition, he has co-authored the research monograph "Supervisory Control of Discrete Event Systems Using Petri Nets" (Kluwer Academic 1998; with J. Moody) and the graduate textbook "Linear Systems" (McGraw-Hill 1997; with A.N. Michel). He serves in the editorial boards of several journals, and he currently serves as AEAL of the IEEE Trans. Automatic Control. He has been Guest Editor of special issues on Networked Control Systems and on Hybrid Systems in the IEEE Trans. Automatic Control, the Proceedings of the IEEE and in the Journal of Discrete Event Dynamic Systems. He has served as program chair and general chair of major systems and control conferences, as member and chair of committees in IEEE and IFAC and he was the 1997 President of the IEEE Control Systems Society (CSS). He is an IEEE Fellow for his contributions to the theory of feedback stabilization and control of linear multivariable systems, a Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE Control Systems Society, a recipient of the IEEE Distinguished Member Award of the Control Systems Society, and an IEEE Third Millennium Medal recipient. He currently serves as the President of the Mediterranean Control Association (MCA), and as the chair of the Awards committee of the IEEE Control Systems Society.
Paulo Tabuada was born in Lisbon, Portugal, one year after the Carnation Revolution. He received his "Licenciatura" degree in Aerospace Engineering from Instituto Superior Tecnico, Lisbon, Portugal in 1998 and his Ph.D. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering in 2002 from the Institute for Systems and Robotics, a private research institute associated with Instituto Superior Tecnico. Between January 2002 and July 2003 he was a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Pennsylvania. After spending 3 years at the University of Notre Dame as an Assistant Professor he joined the Electrical Engineering Department at the University of California at Los Angeles. He was a finalist for the Best Student Paper Award at both the 2001 American Control Conference and the 2001 IEEE Conference on Decision and Control and he was the recipient of a NSF CAREER award in 2005. He co-edited the volume Networked Embedded Sensing and Control published in Springer’s Lecture Notes in Control and Information Sciences series. His research interests include modeling, analysis and control of real-time, embedded, networked and distributed systems; geometric control theory and mathematical systems theory.
George J. Pappas is an Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical and Systems Engineering, and the Director of the GRASP Laboratory. He also holds secondary appointments in the Departments of Computer and Information Sciences, and Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics. He has published over one hundred articles in the areas of hybrid systems, hierarchical control systems, distributed control systems, nonlinear control systems, and geometric control theory, with applications to robotics, unmanned aerial vehicles, and biomolecular networks. He co-edited Hybrid Systems:Computation and Control (New York: Springer-Verlag, 2004, ser. Lecture Notes in Computer Science) and is currently serving as an Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control. Dr. Pappas is the recipient of a National Science Foundation (NSF) Career Award in 2002, as well as the 2002 NSF Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE). He received the 1999 Eliahu Jury Award for Excellence in Systems Research from the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, University of California at Berkeley. His and his students papers were finalists for the Best Student Paper Award at the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (1998,2001,2004,2006), and the American Control Conference (2001,2004).
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WORKSHOP 4
Modeling and Control of AC Machines
Organizer Presenter : John ChiassonEE Department MS 2075
Boise State University
Boise Idaho 83725
johnchiasson@boisestate.edu
Abstract
Although electric machines have been in existence for well over a hundred years, they continue to be of increasing importance to engineers. For example, the growth in hybrid electric vehicles (often using permanent magnet synchronous machines) and wind power generation (typically using induction machines) are just two emerging technologies. This workshop is intended to be an exposition of the modeling and control of alternating current (AC) electric machines. Specifically, the induction motor, the permanent magnet (PM) synchronous motor, and the trapezoidal back-emf (BLDC) motor are all presented.
Intended Audience: Engineers who want to understand the differential equation models of AC electric machines and how they are used to develop high-performance nonlinear control algorithms.
Goals: The particular goals of this workshop are to
- Derive the nonlinear differential equation models of the various AC motors.
- Use the differential equation models to develop the nonlinear feedback control methods that achieve high-performance, i.e., provide rapid and precise control of position/speed/torque.
- Give experimental results of the control techniques to show their capability for high-performance.
Outline:
- Background: Magnetic Force Law, Faraday's Law, and DC Machines
- Rotating Magnetic Fields
- The Physics of AC Machines
- Mathematical Models of AC Machines
- High-Performance Control of AC Machines
- Trapezoidal Back-EMF Machines (BLDC Machines)
Short Biography of John Chiasson
Dr. Chiasson is an associate professor of electrical and computer engineering at Boise State University in Boise Idaho USA. He has worked in the area of high-performance control of electric machines for over 15 years and has over 120 refereed publications including more than 35 journal publications in the area of electric machines. He has recently published the graduate level textbook Modeling and High-Performance Control of Electric Machines, John Wiley & Sons, 736 pages, March 2005.
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