Past Seminars

DateSpeakerTitleVideo
2024-01-29Michael MargaliotCompound matrices in systems and control theory
2024-02-26Ian ManchesterRobust Learning for Dynamics, Control, and Optimizationvideo
2024-03-11André TeixeiraRisk Management and Game Theory for Securing Control Systems: The Subtle Interplays between Adversary Models, Security Risk Metrics, and Uncertaintyvideo

DateSpeakerTitleVideo
2023-01-02Guy RotemHybrid planning with bounded disturbancesvideo
2023-01-09Izchak LewkowiczHyper Positive (Real) Rational Functionsvideo
2023-01-16Niklas KarlssonAdaptive Control in Online Advertisingvideo
2023-03-13 at 14:30Yaakov Bar-ShalomPursuer Aim Identification for an Aircraft Formation Using a Passive Sensor With- out State Estimation
2023-04-24Emma TeglingScalability of distributed control: fragilities and performance limitations
2023-05-22Anders RantzerTowards Optimal and Adaptive Control for Large-scale Systemsvideo
2023-06-05Michelle ChongViewing secure state estimation for dynamical systems under attacks from both sidesvideo
2023-06-12Allen TannenbaumOptimal Mass Transport Methods and the Analysis of Medical Datavideo
2023-06-19Arthur FleigModels, Simulation, and Optimization of Dynamical Systems in Human-Computer Interactionvideo

DateSpeakerTitleVideo
28-02-2022Yizhar OrNonlinear dynamics and control of articulated robot locomotionvideo
25-04-2022Michel VerhaegenIntegrating Subspace Identification and Prediction Error Methodsvideo
13-06-2022Martin KarlssonStability Analysis of Small Collaborative Robots and Huge Construction Robots
2022-10-24Björn Rüffer Lyapunov functions for the Douglas-Rachford methodupon request
2022-10-31Matthias BitzerConstrained Online Trajectory Planning and Feedforward Control for Flat Systems
2022-11-07Richard PatesModular control system design for platooning problems
2022-11-21Christoph BelakApplications of Stochastic Impulse Controlvideo
2022-12-12Timo ReisThe Funnel Controller
2022-12-19Bart BesselinkModular analysis of linear systems using assume-guarantee contractsvideo

DateSpeakerTitleVideo
4-01-2021Paolo FrascaThe closed loop between opinion formation and personalised recommendationsvideo
18-01-2021Claudio de PersisLearning control from noisy data: linear and nonlinear systemsvideo
01-02-2021Matthias MüllerData-driven model predictive control with stability and robustness guaranteesvideo
15-03-2021Yossi Ben-Asher Time Optimal Trajectories for a Car-Like Mobile Robotvideo
12-04-2021Bahman GharesifardStructural Averaged Controllability
video
26-04-2021Miel SharfAssume/Guarantee Contracts as Specifications for Dynamical Systems
10-05-2021Giuseppe NotarstefanoDistributed constrained optimization with application to cooperative roboticsvideo
24-05-2021Roy SmithStochasticity in feedback loops; Great expectations and guaranteed ruinvideo
(some technical trouble)
07-06-2021Christian EbenbauerThe Lie bracket based extremum seeking framework: an introduction and state of the artvideo
21-07-2021Giulia GiordanoContaining the COVID-19 pandemic: physical distancing and testing, vaccines and SARS-CoV-2 variantsvideo
(first minutes cut off)
19-07-2021Anna ClarkeAn Automatic Control System for Training Complex Kinesthetic Skillsvideo
27-12-2021Leonid MirkinOn the Use of Reduced-Order Observers in Dead-Time Compensation?

DateSpeakerTitleVideo
20-01-2020Daniel ZelazoSigned Nonlinear Networks: A Passivity and Electrical Circuit Theory Approach
27-01-2020Dario BausoWhen Controls meet Economics and Social Sciences
30-03-2020Yaakov Bar-ShalomCRLB for Likelihood Functions with Mutidimensional Parameter-Dependent Support and a New Bound
20-04-2020Izchak LewkowiczPassive Linear Time-Invariant Systems—Characterization Through Structure
27-04-2020Kanat CamlibelA New Perspective on Data-Driven Analysis and Control
18-05-2020Lars GrüneComputing Lyapunov Functions Using Deep Neural Networks
25-05-2020Florian DörflerRegularized and Distributionally Robust Data-Enabled Predictive Control
Video
08-06-2020Mario SznaierControl in the era of Big Data: Hard, Easy or Convex?
29-06-2020Anatoly KhinaVignettes on Control over Communication Links
06-07-2020Giacomo ComoNetwork Epidemics Models and Control: A Brief Review
26-10-2020Leonid MirkinOn Dead-Time Compensation in Repetitive ControlVideo
09-11-2020Claudio AltafiniDecision-making in interconnected multiagent networks: roles of frustration and social commitmentVideo
23-11-2020Dimos DimoraganasCooperative Control of Leader-follower Multi-agent Systems under Transient ConstraintsVideo
07-12-2020Anne KochSystem properties from input-output trajectories: New data-driven perspectivesVideo
21-12-2020Michael MargaliotCompound Matrices in Systems and Control Theory: Theory and ApplicationsVideo

DateSpeakerTitle
21/01/2019Ed EitelbergImplicit Quasi-Steady-State Approximation
25/03/2019Martin WeissLinear Quadratic Missile Guidance Design Through the Minimize Effort Specify Performance Approach
08/04/2019George HexnerAn Improved Extended Kalman Filter with Computed Mean Square Error Bounds
15/04/2019Iven MareelsTowards a Renewable and Smart Grid
27/05/2019Noam LeiterBeresheet's GNC Journey to The Moon
17/06/2019Elad MichaelSolving Assignment with Inexact Costs
15/07/2019Michael MargaliotA Generalization of Linear Positive Systems with Applications to Nonlinear Systems:
Invariant Sets and the Poincare–Bendixon Property
25/11/2019La MiHinf Event-Triggered Control with Performance Guarantee Vis-à-Vis Optimal Periodic Control
23/12/2019BemporadLearning and Optimization Methods for Model Predictive Control

DateSpeakerTitle
15/01/2018Anoop JainSynchronized and Balanced Collective Formations in Multi-Agent Systems
14/02/2018Lars GrueneStrict dissipativity revisited: its relation to the turnpike property and a spectral characterization
19/03/2018Toru NamerikawaPassivity-based Plug and Play Operation of Dynamic Electricity Pricing with Power Flow
16/04/2018Pedro MercaderRobust Design of PID Controllers
22/04/2018Iman ShamesClosing the Loop Over Encrypted Signals
30/04/2018Nikolas GeroliminisClustering and perimeter control in large-scale urban networks in the era of multi-sensor big data
07/05/2018Michael MargaliotRevisiting Totally Positive Differential Systems: A Tutorial and New Results
14/05/2018Izchak LewkowiczDissipative Systems - Convex Invertible Cones point of view
04/06/2018Gil ArielNetwork models of collective motion
25/06/2018Alfonso BañosReset control systems: Fundamentals and Applications
06/08/2018David BensoussanFast time response decentralized control
10/12/2018Zheng ChenOptimal Control of Dubins Vehicles

DateSpeakerTitle
09/01/2017Emilia FridmanA Time-Delay Approach to Sampled-Data and Network-Based Control
23/01/2017Anton SelivanovEvent-Triggered Approach to Networked Control
15/05/2017Shashi R. KumarCooperative Nonlinear Guidance Strategies for Aircraft Defense
22/05/2017Kimon P. ValavanisUnmanned Aircraft Systems: Challenges in Controller Design
05/06/2017Daniel ZelazoFeket Points, Formation Control, and the Balancing Problem
19/06/2017Leonid MirkinA Kyrgyz Take on Lebesgue Sampling
03/07/2017Juri BelikovModeling and analysis of power networks based on dq0 quantitiestrol systems
07/08/2017Daniel SegalMax-Range Glides in Engine Cutoff Emergencies Under Severe Wind
23/10/2017Vikas MishraControllability and Feedback Control Properties for Linear Differential-Algebraic Systems
13/11/2017Semyon M. MeerkovQuasilinear Control Theory for Systems with Asymmetric Actuators and Sensors
20/11/2017Marcus Thelander AndrénOn Event-Based Sampling for LQG-Optimal Control
27/11/2017Miel Sharf A Network Optimization Approach to Cooperative Control Synthesis
04/12/2017Alberto Bemporad Recent Advances in Embedded Model Predictive Control

2016

DateSpeakerTitle
18/01/2016Ron MeirControl Theoretic Challenges in Theoretical Neuroscience: Combining Estimation and Control
14/03/2016Jan Maximillian MontenbruckInput-Output Methods for Submanifold Stabilization: Beyond Lp ... and back
28/03/2016Melkior OrnikTopological and Affine Obstructions in Reach Control
18/04/2016Izhak BucherControlled acoustic levitation and propulsion - physical background and implementation
13/06/2016Anna ClarkeAutomatic Control System for Kinesthetic Training of Skydivers Mastering Body Flight
31/10/2016Jozsef BokorFault Detection and Isolation in Dynamic Systems
26/12/2016Noam LeiterGraph-Based Model Reduction Methods for Multi-Agent Systems

2015

DateSpeakerTitle
05/01/2015Liron AllerhandRobust Switching-based Fault Tolerant Control
30/03/2015Robert FonodRobust Fault Diagnosis and Fault-Tolerant Control of an Autonomous Spacecraft:​ ​Application to the ​​Rendezvous ​Phase of the MSR ​Mission
20/04/2015Vivek Natarajan Almost global asymptotic stability of a synchronous generator connected
to an infinite bus
15/06/2015Dwaipayan MukherjeeCyclic Pursuit: Variants and Applications
06/07/2015David LevanonyLinear stochastic systems: A white noise space approach
13/07/2015Yuri B. ShtesselOutput Tracking in Nonminimum Phase Systems in Sliding Modes
31/08/2015Bernard FriedlandIn Praise of High-Pass Filters
26/10/2015Juri BelikovPolynomial methods for nonlinear control systems
16/11/2015Leonid MirkinControl in a world where computation is cheap and communication is expensive
28/12/2015Ilan RusnakOptimal Adaptive Control of Uncertain Stochastic Linear Systems

2014

DateSpeakerTitle
03/02/2014 Jack HaddadOptimal Perimeter Control for Two Urban Regions with Macroscopic Funda- mental Diagrams
10/03/2014Mathias BürgerPassivity-based Cooperative Control: Design Principles and Inverse Optimality Results
23/06/2014Yuri B. ShtesselAir Breathing Hypersonic Missile Continuous Higher Order Sliding Mode Control for Maximum Target Penetration
27/10/2014Shiyu ZhaoBearing-Based Distributed Control and Estimation over Networked Dynamics Systems
24/11/2014George WeissMinimal Order Controllers for Nonlinear Output Regulation

2013

2013
DateSpeakerTitle
31/01/2013Mario SznaierTaming the Upcoming Data Deluge: A Systems and Control Perspective
06/05/2013Yuri B. ShtesselPresentation of a textbook sliding mode control and observation
28/10/2013Martin WeissLinear Quadratic Control Techniques with Applications to Cooperative Guidance and Control
11/11/2013Michael MargaliotThe Ribosome Flow Model: Theory and Applications
25/11/2013Hoai-Nam NguyenImproved model predictive control for linear systems with state and control constraints
27/11/2013Yuri S. PopkovEntropy conception in systems analysis

2012

DateSpeakerTitle
12/03/2012David BensoussanSimultaneous improvement of time and frequency performance
26/03/2012Edward J. DavisonControl and Automation in Society – We Have Just Begun the Journey
16/04/2012Bayu JayawardhanaOn the dissipativity property of Duhem hysteresis model
14/05/2012Yuri B. Shtessel Adaptive Classical and Second Order Sliding Mode Control with\newline Non-Overestimated Gains: Lyapunov Design
03/09/2012Jan Tuszynski A New Technological Concept For a Rail-Based Mass Transportation System

2011

DateSpeakerTitle
03/01/2011Michael MargaliotA Maximum Principle for Optimal Control of Boolean Networks
21/02/2011Izchak LewkowiczConvex Invertible Cones in Control and System Theory
10/03/2011Semyon M. MeerkovQuasilinear Control: Performance Analysis and Design of Feedback Systems with Nonlinear Actuators and Sensors
02/05/2011Per-Olof GutmanDynamic Pricing for Toll Lanes
23/05/2011Mordechai SheferOptimal Non-Linear Quadratic Gaussian Control
11/07/2011Jason Speyer State-Space Approximations for Large Non-Normal State-Space Systems with Boundary Inputs and Outputs
01/11/2011Luigi Glielmo Operation Optimization for Microgrids
01/11/2011Magnus Egerstedt From Control Specifications to Executions using Hybrid Optimal Control

2010

DateSpeakerTitle
04/01/2010Leonid M. FridmanSome open problems of sliding mode control theory
26/04/2010Klaus TrangbaekFactorisation approaches for controller reconfiguration
17/05/2010Yuri B. ShtesselReconfiguration of a Mobile Communication Network using Higher Order Sliding Mode Control
31/05/2010Leonid MirkinHow to Render Cardinal Splines Causal
15/06/2010Anders LindquistWhat are moment problems and why are they useful in systems and control?
21/06/2010Zalman J. PalmorNovel Smith Predictors for MIMO Systems with Multiple I/O Delays
06/09/2010Yurii AverboukhOn a Structure of the Set of Differential Games Values
13/10/2010Fred E. DaumExact Particle Flow for Nonlinear Filters
01/11/2010Per-Olof GutmanImproved Vertex Control for Time-Varying Linear Discrete-Time Systems with State And Control Constraints
22/11/2010Hector RotsteinAn Alternative Erection Procedure for On-Ground Transfer Alignment
13/12/2010Ilan RusnakOptimal Adaptive Control of Uncertain Stochastic Linear Time-Variant Systems
27/12/2010Leonid Mirkin Multiple Delay Dead-Time Compensation: Deciphering the Crystal Ball

2009

DateSpeakerTitle
30/03/2009Anders RantzerDistributed Control using Decompositions and Games
13/07/2009Meyer NahonDynamics and Control of the Receiver of a Large Radio
07/12/2009Moshe IdanMinimum Variance Estimation for Scalar Linear Systems with Additive Cauchy Noises
28/12/2009Jason L. SpeyerRelative Navigation Between Two Spacecraft Using X-ray Pulsars

2008

DateSpeakerTitle
11/02/2008David GreenblattPhysical Concepts Underlying the Development and Application of Active Flow Control
17/03/2008Yuri B. ShtesselHigher Order Sliding Mode Control with Applications
24/03/2008Daniel ZelazoNetworked Dynamic Systems
14/04/2008Daniel ChoukrounConditionally-Linear Optimal Filtering with Application to Jump-Linear Systems
26/05/2008Itzhak BarkanaA Modified Invariance Principle and Gain Convergence in Adaptive Control
14/07/2008Per-Olof GutmanIterative Feedback Tuning for Nonlinear Systems based on Identification of Linearized Time-Varying Models
11/08/2008Johan KarlssonDegree-Constrained Rational Analytic Interpolation and Weight Selection for Control Synthesis
10/11/2008Mirko R. BothienActive Control of Combustion Instabilities
29/12/2008Yaakov Bar-ShalomMulti-Step Look-Ahead Policy for Autonomous Cooperative Surveillance by UAVs in Hostile Environments

2007

DateSpeakerTitle
26/04/2007Klaus TrangbaekGain Scheduling Control Based on the Youla Parameterisation
03/05/2007Per-Olof GutmanThe Modified Botanic Model of Plant Growth with an Application to Greenhouse Control
17/05/2007Pini GurfilGauge Theory for Finite-Dimensional Dynamical Systems
31/05/2007Arie LevantHomogeneous Discontinuous Control
07/06/2007Allen R. TannenbaumSome Minor Remarks on Tracking and Related Issues
14/06/2007Gilead TadmorFeedback Fow Control: Low Order Models and Simulation and Experimental Verification
21/06/2007Nahum ShimkinNo regrets: optimal control in an arbitrarily changing environment
28/06/2007Gjerrit MeinsmaRantzer’s Density Function – A Partial Interpretation
05/07/2007Hector RotsteinDo it like the chameleon: Biologically motivated modeling and imitation of the chameleon’s vision system
12/07/2007Ilan RusnakControl Organization – Review, Terminology and Applications
15/07/2007Yoshito OhtaAbstract Linear Programming Approach to Control Problems
22/07/2007Carsten W. SchererTime-Varying Uncertainties Reconsidered
05/11/2007Naira HovakimyanThe Theory of Fast and Robust Adaptation
19/11/2007Michael MargaliotA Simplification of the Agrachev-Gamkrelidze Maximum Principle
26/11/2007Michael MargaliotDoes the brain use intermittence or continuous control?
03/12/2007Joseph Z. Ben-AsherAllocation of Radar Tracking Resources by Direct Optimization
31/12/2007 Leonid MirkinThe Sampling Theorem: A Century After Schmidt