CONTROL SEMINAR SERIES (FALL 2004)
THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN

COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING
with generous support from
Ford Motor Company, General Motors, and Whirlpool Corporation

Fridays 3:30 - 4:30 p.m. 1500 EECS Building


September 17:             Dr. Patrick Sain, Raytheon, ÒN-Squared Diagrams, Discrete Event Plant Models and Controller Design Ð The View from AerospaceÓ.

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September 24:             Professor Demosthenis Teneketzis, University of Michigan, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, ÒOn the Structure of  Optimal Real-Time Encoders and Decodes in Noisy CommunicationÓ.

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October 1:                   Professor Magnus Egerstedt, Georgia Institute of Technology, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, ÒSwitched Linear Systems:  Observers and ObservabilityÓ.

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October 8 :                  Professor Pierre Kabamba, University of Michigan, Department of Aerospace Engineering, ÒReference Tracking in Feedback Control with Saturating ActuatorsÓ.

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October 15:                 Professor Daniel Liberzon, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, ÒStability of Switched SystemsÓ.

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October 22:                 Professor Hassan Khalil, Michigan State University, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, ÒRegulation of Nonlinear Systems Using Conditional IntegratorsÓ.

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October 29:                 Professor  David  G. Taylor, Georgia Tech, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, ÒNonlinear Gain Scheduled control of Gantry Robots for  Electronic AssemblyÓ

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November 5:               Professor John Chiasson, The University of Tennessee, ÒAlgebraic Methods for Solving Nonlinear Systems ProblemsÓ.

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November 12:             Professor Xiaobo Tan, Michigan State University, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, ÒModeling and control of Hysteresis in Smart MaterialsÓ.

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November 19:             Professor Jessy Grizzle, University of Michigan, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, ÒWalking and  Running in Bipedal robots:  Control Theory and ExperimentsÓ.

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November 26:                         NO SEMINAR


December 3:                Professor Roy Smith, University of California Ð Santa Barbara, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, ÒVehicle Formation Control:  Estimation,

 Communication and ControlÓ.

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December 10:              Professor Steven Shaw, Michigan State University, Department of Mechanical Engineering, ÒOrder-Tuned Vibration Absorbers for rotating Machinery Ð From Symmetric Bifurcations to Automotive  EnginesÓ.

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For more information please contact:

Professor James Freudenberg

email:  jfr@eecs.umich.edu


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