Dear DISC member,
Welcome to the March edition of the DISC newsletter! In a week or three the Benelux Meeting will take place and many of you will be joining us at “Kontakt der Kontinenten”. Registration for the DISC Summer School on Machine Learning for Control will open next week. The topic of this summer school is very current and we hope many DISC PhD’s will find it interesting.
Your suggestions for courses for 2018-2019 are still welcome. So let us know if you are interested in teaching a DISC course next year.
With best regards,
Henk Nijmeijer,
Scientific director
Martha Otte,
DISC secretariat
In April 2018 the following DISC courses will start:
Design Methods for Control Systems
M. Steinbuch
G. Meinsma
System Identification
P. Van den Hof
J. Schoukens
G. Bottegal
X. Bombois
This academic year the following courses are scheduled:
Design Methods for Control Systems(starts April)
System Identification(starts April)
Multi-agent Network Dynamics and Games(now running)
Mathematical Models of Systems (now running)
Nonlinear Control Systems(finished)
Linear Matrix Inequalities in Control (finished)
Adaptive Control (finished)
Model reduction for Control, from Linear to Nonlinear Systems (finished)
The courses are taught at cursus en vergadercentrum Domstad in Utrecht, location Koningsbergerstraat 9. For more information see their website.
The Organizing Committee has the pleasure of inviting you to participate in the
37th Benelux Meeting on Systems and Control
to be held in “Kontakt der Kontinenten”, Soesterberg, The Netherlands, on March 27 – 29, 2018.
The aim of this meeting is to promote research activities and cooperation between researchers in Systems and Control. It is the thirty-seventh in a series of annual conferences that are held alternately in Belgium and The Netherlands. The Benelux Meeting on Systems and Control is an important yearly event where academics and PhD students from The Netherlands and Belgium meet each other both scientifically and socially. Additionally, the Benelux Meetings serve as a training platform for PhD students to present and discuss their work in an -informal- international setting. The meeting takes place under the auspices of the Dutch Institute of Systems and Control (DISC).
Website
http://www.beneluxmeeting.nl/2018/
Invited speakers
Professor Dongheui Lee, Technical University of Munich, Germany will lecture on “Robot learning through physical interaction and human guidance”.
Dr. Tamas Keviczky, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands will lecture on the topic of “Distributed optimization in model predictive control and smart grid energy systems”.
In addition, there will be a Minicourse by Professor Murat Arcak, Berkeley University California, USA on “Networks of Dissipative Systems: Compositional Certification of Stability, Performance, and Safety”.
Important dates
Abstract submission opens December 1, 2017
Registration opens January 8, 2018
Deadline abstract submission January 22, 2018
Notification of acceptance February 5, 2018
Deadline final abstract submission February 19, 2018
Deadline early registration February 7, 2018
Conference program and BOA ready March 15, 2018
We hope to welcome you at the 37th Benelux Meeting of Systems and Control!
The organisers of the Summer School 2018 are Robert Babuska (TUD), Jens Kober (TUD) and Roland Toth (TUe). The subject will be “Machine learning for Control” and the Summer School will take place from June 18-21, 2018.
The summer school covers the basic as well as more advanced concepts of machine learning techniques commonly used in modelling, control and estimation problems. Topics include Gaussian processes, deep learning, state representation learning, self-supervised learning, and reinforcement learning.
Confirmed speakers:
Prof. dr. Wolfram Burgard (University of Freiburg)
http://www2.informatik.uni-freiburg.de/~burgard/
Prof. Gerhard Neumann (University of Lincoln)
http://computational-learning.net/
Prof. dr. Melanie Zeilinger (ETH Zurich)
http://www.idsc.ethz.ch/the-institute/people/person-detail.html?persid=142737
Dr. Guido de Croon (TU Delft)
http://www.bene-guido.eu/wordpress/
Dr. Jens Kober (TU Delft)
http://www.jenskober.de/
Dr. Roland Toth (TU Eindhoven)
http://www.rolandtoth.us/Roland_Toths_webpage/Home.html
Keep an eye on the website. Registration will open in week 11!
Professor David Abbink has been named full professor of Haptic Human-Robot Interaction at the Department of Cognitive Robotics (CoR) starting 13 February 2018. The focus of Abbink’s research is on how humans and robots interact and co-operate. Within CoR, Abbink works on robotics that are useful to society and individual users, specifically in environments in which people could come into contact with robots, such as the operation of intelligent vehicles or (remotely controlled) robot arms. David Abbink is head of the Delft Haptics Lab, where researchers are designing and evaluating intuitive user interfaces based on shared control and haptics (force feedback). These interfaces enable humans to have a better understanding of what an intelligent vehicle or robot arm capabilities and intentions, and vice versa, which makes it possible for humans and robots to support and learn from each other.
The Evaluation Committee of the MDPI journal Machines, headed by the Editor-in-Chief Prof. Hamid Reza Karimi, has announced the winner of the 2018 Travel Award sponsored by Machines. This year’s winner is Mr. Shuai Yuan, a Ph.D. candidate of the Department of Delft Center for Systems and Control, Delft University of Technology. The award, which consists of 800 Swiss Francs to be used for participation in any academic conferences in 2018, has been given in recognition of Shuai’s work in the field of adaptive control of uncertain switched systems.
The 5th IFAC Conference on Analysis and Control of Chaotic Systems (http://chaos2018.wtb.tue.nl/) will take place on October 30 – November 1 2018 in Eindhoven, The Netherlands.
We invite you to submit papers and invited session proposals. The submission deadline is April, 15, 2018.
This conference is related to analysis and control of chaotic systems.It provides a forum for the presentation of new developments in the important interdisciplinary field of chaos control, synchronization and complex networks. The research activity in this field is driven by the needs of different application domains such as: biology (brain dynamics, heart beating, etc.), physics (optics, magnetics, fluid dynamics, etc.), mechanics, smart industry, engineering (non-linear dynamics of electronic and power electronic systems, chaos encrypted signals, walking robots, etc.), economics (critical decision, etc.), chemical engineering, and so on. The aim of the conference is to provide the communities of control engineering, physics, economics, biology, fluid dynamics, power electronics, electronic circuits, etc. with an opportunity to exchange information and new ideas and to discuss new developments in the field of chaos control and synchronization. Both theory and applications will be discussed.
Confirmed plenary speakers: M. Cao, T. Iwasaki, R. Sepulchre.
Cyber-Physical Systems control : Algebraic and optimization techniques
Date: March 12-13 and March 15|
Speaker: Prof. Raphaël Jungers
Location: UCL
All information at the link : https://sites.uclouvain.be/socn/
Workshop on Symmetry, Integer Linear Programming, Enumeration Algorithms and Design of Experiments
Date: Thursday March 22, starting at 13.00
Location: KU Leuven
Speakers: Jeffrey T. Linderoth, Peter Goos, Eric Schoen, José Núnez Ares
More info and free registration at http://www.experimental-design.eu/symmetryworkshop/
Wageningen University and Reseach
Name: M. Hakan Kandemir
Starting Date: 01-09-2016
Function: PhD student
Email: hakan.kandemir@wur.nl
Group: Agrotechnology and Food Sciences Group
Supervisors/Promotors: dr.ir. R. Martijn Wagterveld, dr.ir. Doekle Yntema, prof.dr.ir. Karel J. Keesman
Project: Selective particle separation in suspensions using acoustics
Hello, I am M. Hakan Kandemir. I obtained my MS and BS degrees in Mechanical Engineering from Middle East Technical University in Turkey. Title of my MS dissertation was “Design and implementation of an annular acoustic levitation system”, which is possible by combination of mechanical vibrations and acoustics. I also started a PhD there, but after 2 years I joined Wetsus and Wageningen University and Research (WUR).
My PhD project title at Biobased Chemistry and Technology, WUR, is “Selective particle separation in suspensions using acoustics”. By applying a sound field to a given mixture, I aim to keep the type of particles we want to keep and remove others. I will set the excitation parameters in such a way that it is possible to affect only targeted particles. Besides, I also work on some computational methods which will bring new insights into particle separation applications.
Delft University of Technology
Name: Niloofar Jahanshahi
Starting date: 08-01-2018
Function: PhD
Email: n.jahanshahi@tudelft.nl
Group: DCSC
Supervisor: Riccardo Ferrari
Greetings, my name is Niloofar Jahanshahi. I have studied Electrical Engineering, and I recently graduated with Master’s in Systems and Control from Amir Kabir University of Technology, in Iran. My project was about “attacks in large scale systems” and currently I am working on my PhD under the supervision of Dr. Riccardo Ferrari. I enjoy playing sport and music. I also love animals.
University of Groningen
Candidate: Oleksandr Ivanov
Group: RUG-JBI
Thesis: Mathematical Modeling of Senescence in Metabolic Networks
Promotor: F.J. Weissing, A.J. van der Schaft
Date: 05-03-2018
Location: Academiegebouw Groningen
Time: 14.30
The next issue of this Newsletter will appear in April 2018.
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