CONTROL SEMINAR SERIES Winter 2016
The University of Michigan

College of Engineering

 

 

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

 

Room 1500 EECS Building

 


Sponsored by

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January 15:

Professor Chinedum Okwudire, University of Michigan, "One Horror Story and Three Recent Triumphs of a Recovering Controlophobe".

Abstract

 

*January 21:

Professor Russ Tedrake, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, "The Bigger They Are, The Harder They Fall: Optimization Methods for Robust Planning and Control of Humanoids and UAVs". *Note: 4:00pm-5:00pm, Room 1005 EECS

Abstract



January 22:

Professor Russ Tedrake, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, "Mixed-integer Convex Formulations for Planning Nonlinear Dynamics in Complex Environments".
Abstract

 

January 29:

Professor Demosthenis Teneketzis, University of Michigan, "On the Role of Common Knowledge in Decision Making Over Networks".
Abstract

 

February 5:

Professor Gaurav Sukhatme, University of Southern California, "Robots at Sea: From Drones to Autonomy".
Abstract


February 12:

Professor Xiang Chen, University of Windsor, "Deployment Optimization for Field Sensor Network".

Abstract


February 19:

Professor Kostya Turitsyn, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, "Computational Toolbox for Power System Stability and Certification".
Abstract



February 26:

BREAK

 

March 4:

BREAK

 


March 11:

Professor Isaac Kaminer, Naval Postgraduate School, "Small UAV Autonomy: Time-Coordinated Missions".
Abstract


March 18:

Professor Peter Seiler, University of Minnesota, "Robust Analysis and Synthesis for Linear Parameter Varying Systems".
Abstract


March 25:

Professor Jeffrey Moehlis, University of California at Santa Barbara, "Better Living Through Control: With Applications to Neural and
Cardiac Systems".
Abstract

 

April 1:

Professor Kenn R. Oldham, University of Michigan, "Estimation and Control of Piezoelectric Microactuators with Uncertain, Nonlinear Dynamics".
Abstract

 

April 8:

Professor Alex Slocum, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, "Symbiotic Systems for the Future of Energy, Water and Food".
Abstract

 

April 15:

Professor Sagar Vidyasagar, University of Texas at Dallas, "Machine Learning Methods in Computational Cancer Biology".
Abstract

 

 

 

 

 

 


 

 

For more information please contact:

 

Professor James Freudenberg

email:  jfr@umich.edu

 

and

 

Professor Kira Barton

email: bartonkl@umich.edu

 

 


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