CONTROL SEMINAR SERIES (Winter 1999)
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 15

    
	Professor Perry Li

    
University of Miinnesota
    

     Passive control of mechanical systems and the application to
smart exercise machines
		(abstract)

    

    

  • January 22

    
 	Professor Gregory Walsh

    
University of Maryland
    

     Stability Analysis of Networked Control Systems
		(abstract)

    

    
		

  • January 29

    
	Profesor Eric Feron

     MIT

    

     Identification and control of congested airports 
		(abstract)

    

    


  • February 05

    
 	Professor Wei Lin

     Case Western Researve University
    

     Passivity, Small Feedback, and
Synthesis of Non-affine Systems in the Upper Triangular Form 
		(abstract)

    

    


  • February 12

    
	Professor Thomas Kurfess

    Georgia Institute of Technology
    

     Production of High Precision Complex Geometries using Next
Generation Processes and Materials
		(abstract)

    

    


  • February 19

    
	Professor Tsu-Chin Tsao

    University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign
    

     Digital Motion Control And Its Application to Camshaft Turning 
		(abstract)

    

    


  • February 26

    
	Dr. Swaminathan Gopalswamy 

    EMMESKAY Inc.
    

     Efficient Modular Modeling of Interconnected Dynamic Systems
		(abstract)

    

    


  • March 05

    
	NO SEMINAR - Spring Break
    

    

    

  • March 12

    
	Professor Nejat Olgac

    University of Coonecticut
    

     An Unconventional Direction for Vibration Suppression : 
	Delayed Feedback Vibration Absorbers
		(abstract)

    

    


  • March 19

    
         Dr. Shiva Sivashankar

     Ford Motor Company
    

     "Design Factory" for Vehicle Powertrain Control Systems
		(abstract)

    

    


  •  March 26

    
	Dr. Ilya Komanovsky

    Ford Motor Company
    

     Modelling, Estimation and Control Problems
in Direct Injection Automotive Engines
		(abstract)

    

    


  •  April 02

    
	Prof. Jessy Grizzle

     University of Michigan 
    

     Asymptotically Stable Walking for Biped Robots: Analysis via
Systems with Impulse Effects
		(abstract)

    

    


  •  April 09

    
	Prof. Andrew Packard

     University of California, Berkeley
    

     Is Controller Fragility a problem inherent to Robust Control?
		(abstract)

    

    


  • April 16

    
	Professor Joel Burdick

      California Institute of Technology
    

     The Mechanics and Control of Biomimetic Locomotion 
		(abstract)

    


    
For more information contact:
  

     Professor Huei Peng
      
                             2272 GG Brown
                  
                  email:hpeng@umich.edu 
            
                     (734) 936-0352






    

    

    
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