CONTROL SEMINAR SERIES (FALL 2010)
THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN

COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING
Sponsored by
Eaton,  Ford,  General Motors, Toyota, Whirlpool and the MathWorks

 

Fridays 3:30 - 4:30 p.m.

Rm. 1500 EECS Building

 


September 17        Professor Jessy Grizzle, Hae-Won Park and Koushil Sreenath, University of Michigan, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, ÒModeling, Feedback Control and Experimental Results for MABEL, a Plana  Bipedal RobotÓ.

                   

 (Abstract)

                   


September 24        Dr. Amor Menezes, Research Fellow, University of Michigan, Department of Aerospace Engineering, ÒEfficient and Responsive Behavior Design by Selective Evolutionary GenerationÓ.

                   

 (Abstract)

 


 

October 1             Professor Vijay Gupta, University of Notre Dame, Department of Electrical Engineering, ÒControl with Time-varying Processor AvailabilityÓ. TBA

                   

 (Abstract)

 


 

October 8             Professor Hyungbo Shim, Seoul National University, School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, ÒAnalysis and Synthesis of Disturbance Observer as a Tool for Nonlinear Robust ControlÓ.

                   

 (Abstract)

 


 

October 15           Professor Murti Salapaka, University of Minnesota, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Systems Approaches for Study of Motor ProteinsÓ.

                   

 (Abstract)

 


 

October 22           Professor Andrea Serrani, The Ohio State University, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, ÒAdaptive-Feedforward Compensation of Harmonic Disturbances in Nonlinear SystemsÓ.

                   

 (Abstract)

 


 

October 29           Professor David Forysth, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Department of Computer Science, ÒLooking at PeopleÓ.

                   

 (Abstract)

 


 

November 5          Professor N. Harris McClamroch, University of Michigan, Department of Aerospace Engineering,  ÒBlack Swans and Attitude ControlÓ.

                   

 (Abstract)

 


 

November 12        Professor Zongxuan Sun, University of Minnesota, Department of Mechanical Engineering,  ÒDesign, Modeling and Control of Clean and Efficient Automotive Propulsion System:  A Mechatronic ApproachÓ.

                   

 (Abstract)

 


 

November 19        Professor Manoj Srinivisan, The Ohio State University, Department of Mechanical Engineering, ÒObservations on the Structure of Optimal Gaits on Various Simple Bipedal ModelsÓ.

                   

 (Abstract)

 


 

December 3          Professor Maria Elena  Valcher, Dipartimento di Ingegneria dellÕInformazione, Universita di Padova, ÒStability Problems for Switched Systems with Positively ConstraintsÓ.

                   

 (Abstract)

 


 

For more information please contact:

 

Professor James Freudenberg

email:  jfr@umich.edu

 

and

 

Professor Ilya Kolmanovsky

email:  ilya@umich.edu


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