Dear all,
We hope you enjoyed the Summer break and that you are ready for the new academic year. The DISC course program starts today at our familiar location in Utrecht. This year DISC will organize the annual Benelux Meeting and as our venue we have opted for Kontakt der Kontinenten in Soesterberg, the same location as in 2016. We also plan to organize a Winter course and will keep you posted on that. Of course we are already looking ahead to the Summer School 2018 so if you would like to be involved in that please let us know!
With best regards,
Henk Nijmeijer,
scientific director
Martha Otte,
DISC secretariat
In September the following DISC courses will start:
Model reduction for Control, from Linear to Nonlinear Systems
(J. Scherpen and K. Fujimoto)
Adaptive Control
(S. Baldi and P. Teso)
Register via the DISC course platform or email m.w.otte@tudelft.nl
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.
We would like to invite you to suggest topics/lecturers for the Summer School 2018. The Summer School is a four day event for which several national and international lecturers are invited. If you have suggestions or would like to be involved in organizing the Summer School please contact the DISC secretariat.
In 2017 the topic of the Summer school was “A Systems and Control Perspective on Privacy, Safety, and Security in Large-Scale Cyber-Physical Systems” and it was organized by Bayu Jayawardhana, Ming Cao and Tamas Keviczky. Read more about it in on the DISC website or in the July newsletter
Javier Alonso-Mora has been awarded a Veni grant. Javier was awarded the grant for his project “Robots among humans: safe and socially intuitive navigation”. In the near future millions of robots, autonomous cars and boats, will coexist with humans. This research will provide algorithms that allow a mobile robot to safely navigate and coordinate with other robots and humans.For more information see Javier Alonso’s website.
Dr. Tom Oomen has been awarded a VIDI-grant. Tom Oomen works on self-learning control systems for use in complex equipment such as scanners and printers. With his Vidi grant, Oomen, who was nominated only last year by the Dutch edition of New Scientist for the title of Science Talent 2016, is keen to make it possible for such high-tech machines to themselves calculate the optimum control of their moving parts from the abundance of data that modern equipment collects with inbuilt sensors. This would enable them, for example, to automatically compensate for deviations due to wear. This strategy should lead to even faster and more accurate machines. For more information visit Tom Oomen’s website.
Manuel Mazo Jr., has been awarded an ERC Starting Grant from the European Research Council. Manuel’s main area of research is control systems. The focus of his research is on the interactions between physical systems and the communication and computation platforms and algorithms employed to control them.
Manuel Mazo Jr: “Advanced mathematical methods are necessary to truly realize the revolution promised by technological advances in areas like the Internet-of-things or Industry 4.0”.
More information can be found here.
The Benelux Meeting 2018 will be held from March 27-29, 2018 in Soesterberg, in conference hotel Kontakt der Kontinenten. The national organizing committee consists of Mircea Lazar (TUe); Raffaella Carloni (UT) and Bayu Jayawardhana (RUG). In the coming months more information will become available.
The 6th IFAC Conference on Analysis and Design of Hybrid Systems will be held Oxford University, UK, July 11-13, 2018.Website: http://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/conferences/ADHS18/
Important dates
Papers and Invited Session Proposals due: December 2017
Author notification: February 2018
Final papers due: TBA
Early registration: TBA
Conference: Jul. 11-13, 2018
The preliminary 2017-2018 schedule of our SOCN Graduate School is now on-line, you can access it from the following link: https://sites.uclouvain.be/socn/
Delft University of Technology
Dr. Javier Alonso Mora at the Delft Center for Systems and Control has a PhD position on Navigation for mobile robots in urban environments.
More information available here: http://www.dcsc.tudelft.nl/~jalonsomora/openings/17-phd-AMR.pdf
Eindhoven University of Technology
Name: Khartik Ramaswamy
Starting date: 21 aug 2017
Function: PhD student
Email: K.R.Ramaswamy@tue.nl
Group: Control Systems group – TU/e
Supervisor: Paul Van den Hof
Project: SYSDYNET
Name: Carlos Mendez Blanco
Starting date: 1 sept 2017
Function: PhD student
Email: C.S.mendez.blanco@tue.nl
Group: Control Systems group – TU/e
Supervisor: Leyla Ozkan
Project: INSPEC
My name is Carlos Samuel Méndez and I am 26 years old. I have recently received the MSc. degree in Systems and Control from Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands. The topic of my graduation project was model-based control of reactive batch distillation columns via extent transformations, and it was carried out in the Control Systems Group at Eindhoven University of Technology (TUe), Eindhoven, The Netherlands. Currently, I am working on my PhD in the Control Systems Group at TUe in a joint project with four Dutch chemical companies. In the project, I am exploring how to optimize process monitoring and control with the integration process analytical technology, process data and dynamic model validation. My interest and hobbies are tennis, soccer and swimming. I also enjoy hanging out with friends, reading novels and learning languages.
Delft University of Technology
Candidate: Laura Ferranti
Group: DCSC
Thesis: Online Optimization-Based Predictive Flight Control Using First-Order Methods
Promotor: Prof.dr.ir. M. Verhaegen and Dr.ir. T. Keviczky
Date: 06-09-2017
Location:Aula Senaatszaal, Mekelweg 5
Time: 10:00 – 12:00
University of Groningen
Candidate: Noorma Megawati
Group: SC&AA
Thesis: “A geometric approach to differential-algebraic systems: from bisimulation to control by interconnection”
Promotor: A.J. van der Schaft
Date: 15-09–2017
Location: Academiegebouw
Time: 11.00
The next issue of this Newsletter will appear in October 2017.
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