Dear all,
Welcome to the November edition of the DISC newsletter! At DISC the Fall trimester has already ended and we will start again in January. We hope you enjoyed the courses and will see you again when the Winter Trimester starts.
The organization of the Benelux Meeting is going very well, the website is up and running and some interesting speakers have agreed to give a talk at the meeting. Soon you will receive an official invitation but you can already read some more about the meeting in this newsletter.
As always a warm welcome to the new people and the best of luck to those who are defending their thesis this month!
With best regards,
Henk Nijmeijer,
scientific director
Martha Otte,
DISC secretariat
In January 2018 the following DISC courses will start:
Mathematical Models of Systems
J.W. Polderman and H. Trentelman
Nonlinear Control Systems
B. Jayawardhana
B. Besselink
This academic year the following courses are scheduled:
Model reduction for Control, from Linear to Nonlinear Systems
Adaptive Control
Linear Matrix Inequalities in Control
Mathematical Models of Systems
Nonlinear Control Systems
Multi-agent Network Dynamics and Games
Design Methods for Control Systems
System Identification
The courses are taught at cursus en vergadercentrum Domstad in Utrecht, location Koningsbergerstraat 9. For more information see their website.
The DISC information brochure is now available here. The secretariat of the DISC groups will also receive printed copies so if you are interested you can also pick up one there.
The website for the 37th Benelux Meeting on Systems and Control is now live: http://www.beneluxmeeting.nl/2018/
The meeting will take place from March 27-29, 2018 in “Kontakt der Kontinenten”, Soesterberg, The Netherlands.
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
Speakers
Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences
Berkeley University California, USA
Professor Arcak will give a minisymposium.
The topic will be announced soon.
Associate Professor, Human-Centered Assistive Robotics, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Technical University of Munich, Germany
Professor Lee will give a plenary lecture.
The topic will be announced soon.
Associate Professor, Delft Center for Systems and Control
Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands
Professor Keviczky will give a plenary lecture.
The topic will be announced soon.
The Hungarian Academy of Sciences has awarded an honorary membership to Prof. Paul van den Hof (Electrical Engineering – Control Systems), for his research on system identification (data-driven modelling) of dynamical systems. For this prestigious award, one candidate every three years can be nominated in the field of engineering sciences. On October 2nd, after his inauguration speech in Budapest, the diploma related to this honorary membership was handed over to him by Prof. László Kollár, President of the section Engineering Sciences of the Academy.
Prof. Sarthak Misra has been promoted to Full Professor in the Department of Biomechanical Engineering (Faculty of Engineering Technology) at the University of Twente.
Prof. Misra is also affiliated with the Department of Biomedical Engineering at the University of Groningen/University Medical Center Groningen. He completed his doctoral studies at the Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore) in 2009, and is the recipient of the VENI, VIDI, and ERC Starting Grants. He directs the Surgical Robotics Laboratory (http://www.surgicalroboticslab.nl). His broad research interests are primarily in the area of applied mechanics at both macro and micro scales, with applications to medical robotics.
The latest edition of the IFAC newsletter is now available online: https://www.ifac-control.org/newsletter_archive/IFAC_Newsletter_2017_5_October.pdf
Delft University of technology
Name: Shrinivas Chimmalgi
Starting date: 01-09-2017
Function: PhD
Email: s.chimmalgi@tudelft.nl
Group: DCSC
Supervisor: Sander Wahls
Hello, my name is Shrinivas Chimmalgi. I received my Bachelor’s in Mechanical Engineering from National Institute of Technology, Karnataka, India and I recently graduated from the master Systems and Control, here at TU Delft. I am joining Sander Wahl’s group to work on fast Nonlinear Fourier Transforms for Fiber-Optic Communication. My master thesis was under Sander’s supervision on fast inverse nonlinear Fourier transforms for the nonlinear Schrodinger equation with vanishing boundary condition. I enjoy swimming and like to go on cycling trips during weekends.
Groningen University
Name: Michele Cucuzzella
Starting date: 01-11-2017
Function: Postdoc
Email: m.cucuzzella@rug.nl
Group: ENTEG-DPTA
Supervisor: Prof. J. Scherpen
Michele Cucuzzella received the Bachelor Degree (with highest honor) in Industrial Engineering and the Master Degree (with highest honor) in Electrical Engineering from the University of Pavia, Italy in 2012 and 2014, respectively. From November 2014 to October 2017 he attended the PhD course in Electronics, Computer Since and Electrical Engineering at the Identification and Control of Dynamic Systems Laboratory of the University of Pavia, under the supervision of Professor Antonella Ferrara. From April 2016 to June 2016, and from February 2017 to March 2017 he was with the Johann Bernoulli Institute for Mathematics and Computer Science at the University of Groningen, The Netherlands, under the supervision of Professor Arjan van der Schaft. His research activities are mainly in the area of nonlinear control, sliding mode control and event-triggered control with application to power systems and microgrids.
Name: Jing Guo
Starting date: September 2017
Function: guest researcher
Email: guojing_cc@163.com
Group: DTPA
Supervisor: prof. M. Cao
Project: Control of Network systems
Jing Guo is currently a Guest Researcher with the Engineering and Technology institute of Groningen, University of Groningen. She received the Ph.D degree in Control Theory and Control Engineering from Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China, in 2011. From 2011 to 2012, she was an Assistant Researcher in Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Science, Shenzhen, China. From 2012 to 2017, She was an Assistant Professor with the Department of Automation, Foshan University, China. Her research interests include control of multi-agent and network systems and distributed decision-making and coordination.
Name: Lin Yanjun
Starting date: October 2017
Function: guest researcher
Email:11510061@zju.edu.cn
Group: DTPA
Supervisor: prof. M. Cao
Lin Yanjun is a joint-training PhD candidate at University of Groningen. She is a PhD student at Zhejiang University since 2015. Her research focuses on formation control of multi-agent systems.
Name: Luis Pablo Borja
Starting date: 01-11-2017
Function: Postdoc
Email: l.p.borja.rosales@rug.nl
Group: ENTEG-DPTA
Supervisor: Prof. J. Scherpen
Luis Pablo Borja was born in Mexico in 1987. He obtained his B.S. in Electrical and Electronic Engineering and his MEng. with speciality in Control Systems from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), Mexico, and the degree of Docteur en Automatique from the University Paris Sud XI/Paris Saclay, France, in 2011, 2014 and 2017, respectively. His research interests are in the field of nonlinear control, including port-Hamiltonian and Lagrangian systems, Passivity-based control and model reduction.
Name: Stephan Trenn
Starting date: 01-11-2017
Function: Associate Professor
Email: s.trenn@rug.nl
Group: JBI (Systems, Control and Applied Analysis), RUG
After successfully applying for an NWO Vidi grant for the project “Analysis and Control of Switched Differential Algebraic Equations”, Stephan Trenn has been offered an Associate Professor position to carry out his research project in Groningen. He is moving to the Netherlands from Germany, where he has been an Assistant Professor (Juniorprofessor) since 2011 at the University of Kaiserslautern. Before that he was a Postdoc at the University of Würzburg, Germany, in the group of Uwe Helmke and Fabian Wirth as well as at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA, in the group of Daniel Liberzon. He completed his PhD in 2009 under the supervision of Achim Ilchmann at the University of Ilmenau, Germany.
Eindhoven University of Technology
Name: Bob Hendrickx
Starting date: 1 November 2017
Function: PhD
Email: R.W.M.Hendrickx@tue.nl
Group: Control Systems Technology
Supervisor: Dr.ir. René van de Molengraft
Name: Gustavo Sales Mazzoccante
Starting date: 1 november 2017
Function: PhD student
Email: g.sales.mazzocante@tue.nl
Group: Control Systems group
Supervisor: R. Toth
Project: System Oriented LPV Control Design
Delft University of Technology
Candidate: Carl Westin
Group: Aerospace Engineering (Control and Simulation)
Thesis: Strategic Conformance: Exploring Acceptance of Individual-Sensitive Automation for Air Traffic Control
Promotor: Prof.dr.ir. M. Mulder
Date: 24 November 2017
Location: Aula, TU Delft
Time: 15h00
Eindhoven University of Technology
Candidate: Victor Dolk
Group: Control Systems Technology
Thesis: Resource-aware and Resilient Control
Promotor: Prof.dr.ir. Maurice Heemels
Date: 6 November 2017
Location: Auditorium
Time: 16h00
Candidate: Micha Steur
Group: Control Systems Technology
Thesis: Design of an Active Wafer Clamp for Wafer Machines
Promotor: Prof.dr.ir. Maarten Steinbuch
Date: 8 November 2017
Location: Auditorium zaal 4
Time: 16h00
Candidate: Xi Luo
Group: Control Systems Technology
Thesis: Robust Diesel Engine Performance: An Approach Based on Multi-pulse Fuel Injection Control
Promotor: Prof.dr.ir. Frank Willems / Maarten Steinbuch
Date: 29 November 2017
Location: Auditorium
Time: 16h00
University of Twente
Candidate: J.A.M. (Juliet) Haarman
Group: ET – BW
Thesis: TIBAR: Therapist Inspired Balance Assisting Robot
Promotors: Prof.dr. J.S. Rietman / Prof.dr.ir. Herman van der Kooij
Date: 23 November 2017
Location: Waaier
Time: 14:45
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