CONTROL SEMINAR SERIES
THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN

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

Fridays 4 - 5 p.m. 1200 EECS Building

• January 16
  Professor Andrew Alleyne

  University of Illinois
  "Force Control of Electrohydraulic Servosystems" (abstract)

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  January 23
  Professor A. Stephen Morse

  Yale University

  "Certainty Equivalence, Detectability, and the Control of Uncertain Systems" (abstract)

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  January 30
  Professor Bruce Krogh

  Carnegie Mellon University

  "Controller Scheduling Based on Neural Network Estimates of Stability Regions and Performance" (abstract)

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  February 6
  Dr. Mrdjan Jankovic

  Ford Research Laboratory

  "Robust Nonlinear Controller Design: Application to Diesel Engines" (abstract)

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  February 13
  Professor Yavuz Bozer

  University of Michigan, IOE Dept.

  "Throughput Performance of Automated Storage/Retrieval Systems under Stochastic Demand" (abstract)

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  February 20
  Bill Schwind

  University of Michigan, EECS Dept.

  "Spring-Loaded Inverted Pendulum Running: A Survey of Its Implications in Robotics and Biomechanics" (abstract)

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  February 27
  NO SEMINAR

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  March 6
  NO SEMINAR - SPRING BREAK

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  March 13
  Larry Mianzo and Dr. Dave Fricke

  Ford Motor Company, Advanced Vehicle Technology

  "Road Profile Control Methods for Laboratory Vehicle Road Simulators" (abstract)

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  March 20
  Professor Degang Chen

  Iowa State University

  "Stability and Sensitivity Analysis of Periodic Orbits in Atomic Force Microscope Imaging" (abstract)

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  March 27
  Professor Anna Stefanopoulou

  University of California/Santa Barbara

  "Multivariable Controller Architecture for Advanced Technology Engines" (abstract)

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  April 3
  Professor W. Murray Wonham

  University of Toronto

  "Control Architecture for Discrete-Event Systems" (abstract)

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  April 10
  Professor Art Kuo

  University of Michigan, MEAM Dept.

  "How Do You Know Where You Are and What You are Doing? On the Use of Control Theory to Understand Biological Systems" (abstract)

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  April 17
  Professor Darren Dawson

  Clemson University

  "Boundary Controllers for Flexible Systems" (abstract)

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