Plenary Speakers
1.Stephen Morse (Yale University)
A. Stephen Morse was born in Mt. Vernon, New York. He received a BSEE degree from Cornell University, MS degree from the University of Arizona, and a Ph.D. degree from Purdue University.From 1967 to 1970, Prof. Morse was associated with the Office of Control Theory and Application {OCTA} at the NASA Electronics Research Center in Cambridge, Mass. Since 1970 he has been with Yale University where he is presently the Dudley Professor of Engineering and a Professor of Computer Science. His main interest is in system theory and he has done research in network synthesis, optimal control, multivariable control, adaptive control, urban transportation, vision-based control, hybrid and nonlinear systems, sensor networks, and coordination and control of large grouping of mobile autonomous agents. He is a Fellow of the IEEE, a Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE Control System Society, and a co-recipient of the Society's 1993 and 2005 George S. Axelby Outstanding Paper Awards. He has twice received the American Automatic Control Council's Best Paper Award and is a co-recipient of the Automatica Theory/Methodology Prize . He is the 1999 recipient of the IEEE Technical Field Award for Control Systems. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and the Connecticut Academy of Science and Engineering.
2.Ian R.Petersen (Australia)
Ian R. Petersen was born in Victoria, Australia. He received a Ph.D in Electrical Engineering in 1984 from the University of Rochester. From 1983 to 1985 he was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Australian National University. In 1985 he joined the University of New South Wales at the Australian Defence Force Academy where he is currently Scientia Professor and an Australian Research Council Federation Fellow in the School of Engineering and Information Technology. He has served as an Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, Systems and Control Letters, Automatica, and SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization. Currently he is an Editor for Automatica. He is a fellow of the IEEE. His main research interests are in robust control theory, quantum control theory and stochastic control theory.
Title: Negative Imaginary Systems Theory in the Robust Control of Highly Resonant Flexible Structures
Abstract: This presentation will cover recent developments in the theory of negative imaginary systems and their application to the control of highly resonant flexible structures. The theory of negative imaginary systems arose out of a desire to unify a number of classical methods for the control of lightly damped structures with collocated force actuators and position sensors including positive position feedback and integral force feedback. The key result is a stability result which shows why these methods are guaranteed to yield robust closed loop stability in the face of unmodelled spillover dynamics. Related results to be presented connect the theory of negative imaginary systems to positive real systems theory and a negative imaginary lemma has been established which is analogous to the positive real lemma. The presentation will also recent controller synthesis results based on the theory of negative imaginary systems along with applications in the aerospace area such as the control of large space flexible structures.
3.Naira Hovakimyan (UIUC)
Naira Hovakimyan received her Ph.D. in Physics and Mathematics in 1992,in Moscow,from the Institute of Applied Mathematics of Russian Academy of Sciences. Upon her Ph.D. she joined the Institute of Mechanics, Armenian Academy of Sciences, as a research scientist, where she worked till 1997. In 1997 she has been awarded a governmental postdoctoral scholarship to work in INRIA, France. She is the recipient of the SICE International scholarship for the best paper of a young investigator in the VII ISDG Symposium (Japan,1996). The subject areas in which she has published include differential pursuit-evasion games, optimal control of robotic manipulators, robust control, adaptive estimation and control. In 1998 she was invited to the School of Aerospace Engineering of Georgia Tech, where she worked as a research faculty member until 2003. In 2003 she joined the Department of Aerospace and Ocean Engineering of Virginia Tech, and in 2008 she moved to University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where she is a professor and Schaller faculty scholar. She is the author of over 180 refereed publications. She is senior member of the IEEE (CSS,NNS), Associate fellow of AIAA,member of AMS, ISDG, and is serving as Associate Editor for the IEEE Control Systems Society,IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks, IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology, Computational Management Science of Springer, International Journal of Control, Systems and Automation. She is the 2004, 2005 and 2007 recipient of Pride@Boeing award, the plenary speaker of 2007 SIAM Conference on Control and Its Applications and 2009 IASTED Conference on Identification and Control Applications, and the 2008 recipient of Dean's Award for Research Excellence at Virginia Tech. In 2008, she was named outstanding reviewer for AIAA Journal of Guidance, Control and Dynamics. Her current interests are in the theory of adaptive control and estimation with an emphasis on aerospace applications, and are supported by AFOSR, ARO, AFRL, ONR, NASA and The Boeing Co.
Title: The Theory of Fast and Robust Adaptation
Abstract: The history of adaptive control systems dates back to early 50-s, when the aeronautical community was struggling to advance aircraft speeds to higher Mach numbers. In November of 1967, X-15 launched on what was planned to be a routine research flight to evaluate a boost guidance system, but it went into a spin and eventually broke up at 65,000 feet, killing the pilot Michael Adams. It was later found that the onboard adaptive control system was to be blamed for this incident. Exactly thirty years later, fueled by advances in the theory of nonlinear control, Air Force successfully flight tested the unmanned unstable tailless X-36 aircraft with an onboard adaptive flight control system. This was a landmark achievement that dispelled some of the misgivings that had arisen from the X-15 crash in 1967. Since then, numerous flight tests of Joint Direct Attack Munitions (JDAM) weapon retrofitted with adaptive element have met with great success and have proven the benefits of the adaptation in the presence of component failures and aerodynamic uncertainties. However, the major challenge related to stability/robustness assessment of adaptive systems is still being resolved based on testing the closed-loop system for all possible variations of uncertainties in Monte Carlo simulations, the cost of which increases with the growing complexity of the systems. This seminar will give an overview of the limitations inherent to the conventional adaptive controllers and will introduce a new paradigm for design of adaptive control systems that leads to fast and robust adaptation with provable control specifications and guaranteed stability/robustness margins. Various applications will be discussed during the presentation to demonstrate the tools and the concepts.
4.Frank Lewis
F. L. Lewis,Ph.D., Fellow IEEE, Fellow IFAC, Fellow U.K. Inst. MC,
Professional Engineer Texas, Chartered Engineer U.K.
Moncrief-O'Donnell Endowed Chair
University Distinguished Scholar Professor
Senior Fellow, Automation & Robotics Research Institute
Head, Advanced Controls & Sensors Group
Frank Lewis was born in Würzburg , Germany , su bsequently studying in Chile and Gordonstoun School in Scotland. He obtained the BS in Physics/Electrical Engineering and the Master's of Electrical Engineering Degree at Rice University in 1971. He spent six years in the U.S. Navy , serving as Navigator aboard the frigate USS Trippe (FF-1075) , and Executive Officer and Acting Commanding Officer aboard USS Salinan (ATF-161). In 1977 he received the MS in Aeronautical Engineering from the University of West Florida. In 1981 he obtained the Ph.D. degree at The Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, where he was employed as a professor from 1981 to 1990. He is a Professor of Electrical Engineering at The University of Texas at Arlington , where he was awarded the Moncrief-O'Donnell Endowed Chair in 1990 at the Automation & Robotics Research Institute. Fellow of the IEEE , Fellow of IFAC , Fellow of the U.K. Institute of Mea su rement & Control , Member of the New York Academy of Sciences. Registered Professional Engineer in the State of Texas and Chartered Engineer , U.K. Engineering Council. Charter Member (2004) of the UTA Academy of Distinguished Scholars and Senior Research Fellow of the Automation & Robotics Research Institute. Founding Member of the Board of Governors of the Mediterranean Control Association. Elected Guest Con su lting Professor at Shanghai Jiao Tong University and South China University of Technology. Current interests include intelligent control , distributed control on graphs , neural and fuzzy systems , wireless sensor networks , nonlinear systems , robotics. Author of 6 U.S. patents , numerous papers, and 14 books including Optimal Control , Optimal Estimation , Applied Optimal Control and Estimation , Aircraft Control and Simulation , Control of Robot Manipulators , Neural Network Control. Received Fulbright Research Award 1988, American Society of Engineering Education F.E. Terman Award 1989 , Int. Neural Network Soc. Gabor Award 2009 , U.K. Inst Measurement & Control Honeywell Field Engineering Medal 2009, Received Outstanding Service Award from the Dallas IEEE Section and selected as Engineer of the year by Ft. Worth IEEE Section. Appointed to NAE Committee on Space Station in 1995 and IEEE Control Systems Society Board of Governors in 1996. Selected in 1998 as an IEEE Control Systems Society Distinguished Lecturer .
