CONTROL SEMINAR SERIES (FALL 2008)
THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN

COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING
with generous support from
Eaton,  Ford,  General Motors, Toyota and Whirlpool

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

September 12:       Professor Vijay Kumar, University of Pennsylvania, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, ÒArchitectures, Abstractions, and Algorithms for Large Teams of RobotsÓ.

                   

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September 19:       Dr. Nital S. Patel, Intel Corporation,  ÒSome Open Problems in Semiconductor Manufacturing ControlÓ.

                   

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September 26:       Professor George Zhu, Michigan State University, Department of Mechanical Engineering, ÒClosed Loop Combustion Control of IC EnginesÓ.

 

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October 3:            Professor Silvio Savarese,  University of Michigan, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science,  Ò3D Reconstruction, Perception and Recognition of Reflective ObjectsÓ.

                   

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October 10:          Professor Jongeun Choi, Michigan State University, Department of Mechanical Engineering, ÒDistributed Learning and Cooperative Control of Multi-Agent SystemsÓ.

                   

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October 17:          Professor  Mihailo Jovanovic, University of Minnesota, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, ÒNonmodal Amplification of Disturbances in Channel Flows of Newtonian and Viscoelastic Fluids:  Implications for Transition and ControlÓ.

 

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October 24:          Dr. Stefano Di Cairano, Ford Motor  Company, ÒRecent Advances in Model Predictive Control:  From Theory to PracticeÓ.

                   

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October 31:          Professor Spyros  Reveliotis, Georgia Institute of Technology, School of Industrial and Systems Engineering, ÒLiveness-enforcing Supervision of Sequential Resource Allocation SystemsÓ.

                   

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November 7:         Professor Rick Middleton, The Hamilton Institute, National University of Ireland Maynooth, Co. Kildare, Ireland, ÒRoboCop Soccer:  Systems and Control  Research and Applications in the Standard Platform LeagueÓ. 

                   

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November 14:       Professor Ed Olson, University of Michigan, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science,  ÒAlgorithms for an Autonomous CarÓ. 

                   

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November 21:       Professor Ann Rundell, Purdue University, Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering, ÒRobust System Identification and Control of Cellular ProcessesÓ.

                   

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December 5:         Dr. Hosam Fathy, University of Michigan, Department of Mechanical Engineering, ÒProgress Towards Battery Health-Conscious Plug-in Hybrid  Electric Vehicle Power Management AlgorithmsÓ.

                   

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For more information please contact:

Professor Kenn Oldham

email:  oldham@umich.edu

and

Professor Jing Sun

email:  jingsun@umich.edu

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