CONTROL SEMINAR SERIES (WINTER 2009)
THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN

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

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

January 9:             Professor Kon-well Wang, Chairman, University of Michigan, Department of Mechanical Engineering, ÒAdaptive Structural System Synthesis with Multi-Field TrainingÓ.   

                   

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January 16:           Professor Sean Brennan, The Pennsylvania State University, ÒExperiments and Theoretical Analysis of Terrain-based Vehicle Localization to obtain GPS-Equivalent Vehicle Location AccuracyÓ.

                   

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January 23:           Professor Kristi Morgensen, University of Washington, Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, ÒNonlinear Control and Bioinspired Underwater Vehicle SystemsÓ.

                   

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January 30:           Professor Ben Kuipers, University of Michigan, Computer Science and Engineering Department, ÒRobot Navigation within the Hybrid Spatial Semantic HierarchyÓ.     

                   

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February 6:           Professor Ian Hiskens, University of Michigan, Department of EECS, ÒA Systems View of the ÔSmart GridÕ,   

                   

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February 13:         Professor Panos Antsaklis, University of Notre Dame,  Department of Electrical Engineering.  ÒEmbedded Sensing and Control SystemsÓ.  

                   

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February 20:         NO SEMINAR Ð SPRING BREAK.        

                   

February 27:         NO SEMINAR Ð SPRING BREAK.        

                   

March 6:              Professor Dr. Ravi Venugopal, Intelligent Systems for Sheet Metal Stamping, ÒFeedback from the Field:  The Challenges of Transitioning Control Theory to PracticeÓ.

                   

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March 13:             Professor Tara Javidi, University of California Ð San Diego, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, ÒOpportunistic Routing in Wireless Networks:  A Stochastic/Adaptive Control ApproachÓ.   

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March 20:             Professor Robert Dick, University of Michigan, Department of EECS, ÒOn-Line Management of Embedded Systems and Integrated CircuitsÓ.    

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March 27:             Professor StŽphane Lafortune, University of Michigan, Department of EECS, ÒDynamic Deadlock Avoidance for Multithreaded Programs via Discrete ControlÓ.    

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April 3:                Professor Ron Weiss, Princeton University, ÒSynthetic biology:  from programming bacteria to programming stem cellsÓ.        

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April 10:              Professor Lino Guzzella, ETH Zurich, ÒThe Automobile of the Future Ð Options for Efficient Individual MobilityÓ. 

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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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