Decision and Control Laboratory

Nonlinear Control Seminar Schedule
Summer 1999
Contact:  Jim Melody (jmelody@control.csl.uiuc.edu) for updates and changes.

The seminar is scheduled  on Wednesday at 10:30 am in C&SRL room 141.
The schedule is fixed, and any seminars that run over will be completed in a make-up
session before the next seminar.  The make-up session time will be arranged as needed.
Speakers are expected to distribute copies of the paper to be presented two weeks before the
seminar.  Speakers should unlock and prepare the rooms.  See Francie or Becky for keys.
Watch your e-mail for changes.

I have compiled a mailing list as a mail alias on control named nonlinear-seminar@control.csl.uiuc.edu.
Please email me if you would like to be included in the mailing list.  The list presently includes:
 
Name Email
Gurdal Arslan arslan@control.csl.uiuc.edu
Prof. Tamer Basar tbasar@control.csl.uiuc.edu
Ross Blaukamp ross@control.csl.uiuc.edu
Prof. Francesco Bullo bullo@motion.csl.uiuc.edu
Prof. Peter Corke pic@control.csl.uiuc.edu
Ross Gadient gadient@uiuc.edu
Timur Karatas timur@ews.uiuc.edu
Luis Lupian lupianl@control.csl.uiuc.edu
Jim Melody jmelody@control.csl.uiuc.edu
Cheng Tang cheng@control.csl.uiuc.edu
Greg Toussaint toussant@control.csl.uiuc.edu

Last Updated:  11 Aug 99
 
Day  Date Speaker Topic
Wednesday 26 May Cheng Optimal Control of Partially Observed Systems
Wednesday 2 Jun   ACC 
Wednesday 9 Jun Jim Controllability of Nonlinear Systems; Sussmann and Jurdjevic, 1972
Wednesday 16 Jun Jim Controllability of Nonlinear Systems: A Survey; Report [PDF, Postscript, On-line], Presentation [PDF, Postscript, On-line]
Wednesday 23 Jun Cheng On Lie Algebras and Finite Dimensional Filtering; M. Hazewinkel and S. I. Marcus
Wednesday 30 Jun Greg Dissipative Dynamical Systems; J. Willems. Presentation [PDF, Postscript, On-line].
Wednesday 7 Jul Gurdal Backstepping Controller Design For Nonlinear Stochastic Systems Under A Risk-Sensitive Cost Criterion; Pan and Basar
Wednesday 14 Jul Ross Cost-to-Come Methods
Wednesday 21 Jul Luis Numerical Solutions to the HJI Equation
Wednesday 28 Jul Gurdal  Canonical Forms for Stochastic Nonlinear Systems; Pan  AND Output Feedback Disturbance Attenuation and Adaptive Control for Stochastic Nonlinear Systems; Deng and Krstic
Friday 6 Aug  Jim  A Unified Framework for Hybrid Control: Model and Optimal Control Theory; Branicky, Borkar, and Mitter. Paper available [PDF], Presentation [PDF, Postscript, On-line]
Wednesday 11 Aug  Greg  Doing Quantium Mechanics with Control Theory; H. H.Rosenbrock. Presentation [PDF, Postscript, On-line 1, On-line 2].

 

Previous Seminar Schedules

Spring 1999
Fall 1998
Summer 1998