Past Seminars

Date	Speaker	Title	Video
2024-01-29	Michael Margaliot	Compound matrices in systems and control theory
2024-02-26	Ian Manchester	Robust Learning for Dynamics, Control, and Optimization	video
2024-03-11	André Teixeira	Risk Management and Game Theory for Securing Control Systems: The Subtle Interplays between Adversary Models, Security Risk Metrics, and Uncertainty	video
2024-03-25	Moshe Idan	Cauchy Estimator: where Filtering Meets Hyperplane Arrangements
2024-04-01	Daniel Zelazo	Forced Symmetric Formation Control
2024-05-27	Alexander Megretski	Approximating optimal online peak-to-average power ratio reduction: an exercise in robustness analysis of non-causal non-linear dynamical systems	video
2024-06-10	Mark Psiaki	Generalized-Spline Data Smoothing and Fusion using an Adaptive Kalman Filter/Smoother
2024-07-01	Izchak Lewkowicz	Passive and Dissipative Systems - Structural Point of View

Date	Speaker	Title	Video
2023-01-02	Guy Rotem	Hybrid planning with bounded disturbances	video
2023-01-09	Izchak Lewkowicz	Hyper Positive (Real) Rational Functions	video
2023-01-16	Niklas Karlsson	Adaptive Control in Online Advertising	video
2023-03-13 at 14:30	Yaakov Bar-Shalom	Pursuer Aim Identification for an Aircraft Formation Using a Passive Sensor With- out State Estimation
2023-04-24	Emma Tegling	Scalability of distributed control: fragilities and performance limitations
2023-05-22	Anders Rantzer	Towards Optimal and Adaptive Control for Large-scale Systems	video
2023-06-05	Michelle Chong	Viewing secure state estimation for dynamical systems under attacks from both sides	video
2023-06-12	Allen Tannenbaum	Optimal Mass Transport Methods and the Analysis of Medical Data	video
2023-06-19	Arthur Fleig	Models, Simulation, and Optimization of Dynamical Systems in Human-Computer Interaction	video

Date	Speaker	Title	Video
28-02-2022	Yizhar Or	Nonlinear dynamics and control of articulated robot locomotion	video
25-04-2022	Michel Verhaegen	Integrating Subspace Identification and Prediction Error Methods	video
13-06-2022	Martin Karlsson	Stability Analysis of Small Collaborative Robots and Huge Construction Robots
2022-10-24	Björn Rüffer	Lyapunov functions for the Douglas-Rachford method	upon request
2022-10-31	Matthias Bitzer	Constrained Online Trajectory Planning and Feedforward Control for Flat Systems
2022-11-07	Richard Pates	Modular control system design for platooning problems
2022-11-21	Christoph Belak	Applications of Stochastic Impulse Control	video
2022-12-12	Timo Reis	The Funnel Controller
2022-12-19	Bart Besselink	Modular analysis of linear systems using assume-guarantee contracts	video

Date	Speaker	Title	Video
4-01-2021	Paolo Frasca	The closed loop between opinion formation and personalised recommendations	video
18-01-2021	Claudio de Persis	Learning control from noisy data: linear and nonlinear systems	video
01-02-2021	Matthias Müller	Data-driven model predictive control with stability and robustness guarantees	video
15-03-2021	Yossi Ben-Asher	Time Optimal Trajectories for a Car-Like Mobile Robot	video
12-04-2021	Bahman Gharesifard	Structural Averaged Controllability	video
26-04-2021	Miel Sharf	Assume/Guarantee Contracts as Specifications for Dynamical Systems
10-05-2021	Giuseppe Notarstefano	Distributed constrained optimization with application to cooperative robotics	video
24-05-2021	Roy Smith	Stochasticity in feedback loops; Great expectations and guaranteed ruin	video (some technical trouble)
07-06-2021	Christian Ebenbauer	The Lie bracket based extremum seeking framework: an introduction and state of the art	video
21-07-2021	Giulia Giordano	Containing the COVID-19 pandemic: physical distancing and testing, vaccines and SARS-CoV-2 variants	video (first minutes cut off)
19-07-2021	Anna Clarke	An Automatic Control System for Training Complex Kinesthetic Skills	video
27-12-2021	Leonid Mirkin	On the Use of Reduced-Order Observers in Dead-Time Compensation?

Date	Speaker	Title	Video
20-01-2020	Daniel Zelazo	Signed Nonlinear Networks: A Passivity and Electrical Circuit Theory Approach
27-01-2020	Dario Bauso	When Controls meet Economics and Social Sciences
30-03-2020	Yaakov Bar-Shalom	CRLB for Likelihood Functions with Mutidimensional Parameter-Dependent Support and a New Bound
20-04-2020	Izchak Lewkowicz	Passive Linear Time-Invariant Systems—Characterization Through Structure
27-04-2020	Kanat Camlibel	A New Perspective on Data-Driven Analysis and Control
18-05-2020	Lars Grüne	Computing Lyapunov Functions Using Deep Neural Networks
25-05-2020	Florian Dörfler	Regularized and Distributionally Robust Data-Enabled Predictive Control	Video
08-06-2020	Mario Sznaier	Control in the era of Big Data: Hard, Easy or Convex?
29-06-2020	Anatoly Khina	Vignettes on Control over Communication Links
06-07-2020	Giacomo Como	Network Epidemics Models and Control: A Brief Review
26-10-2020	Leonid Mirkin	On Dead-Time Compensation in Repetitive Control	Video
09-11-2020	Claudio Altafini	Decision-making in interconnected multiagent networks: roles of frustration and social commitment	Video
23-11-2020	Dimos Dimoraganas	Cooperative Control of Leader-follower Multi-agent Systems under Transient Constraints	Video
07-12-2020	Anne Koch	System properties from input-output trajectories: New data-driven perspectives	Video
21-12-2020	Michael Margaliot	Compound Matrices in Systems and Control Theory: Theory and Applications	Video

Date	Speaker	Title
21/01/2019	Ed Eitelberg	Implicit Quasi-Steady-State Approximation
25/03/2019	Martin Weiss	Linear Quadratic Missile Guidance Design Through the Minimize Effort Specify Performance Approach
08/04/2019	George Hexner	An Improved Extended Kalman Filter with Computed Mean Square Error Bounds
15/04/2019	Iven Mareels	Towards a Renewable and Smart Grid
27/05/2019	Noam Leiter	Beresheet's GNC Journey to The Moon
17/06/2019	Elad Michael	Solving Assignment with Inexact Costs
15/07/2019	Michael Margaliot	A Generalization of Linear Positive Systems with Applications to Nonlinear Systems: Invariant Sets and the Poincare–Bendixon Property
25/11/2019	La Mi	Hinf Event-Triggered Control with Performance Guarantee Vis-à-Vis Optimal Periodic Control
23/12/2019	Bemporad	Learning and Optimization Methods for Model Predictive Control

Date	Speaker	Title
15/01/2018	Anoop Jain	Synchronized and Balanced Collective Formations in Multi-Agent Systems
14/02/2018	Lars Gruene	Strict dissipativity revisited: its relation to the turnpike property and a spectral characterization
19/03/2018	Toru Namerikawa	Passivity-based Plug and Play Operation of Dynamic Electricity Pricing with Power Flow
16/04/2018	Pedro Mercader	Robust Design of PID Controllers
22/04/2018	Iman Shames	Closing the Loop Over Encrypted Signals
30/04/2018	Nikolas Geroliminis	Clustering and perimeter control in large-scale urban networks in the era of multi-sensor big data
07/05/2018	Michael Margaliot	Revisiting Totally Positive Differential Systems: A Tutorial and New Results
14/05/2018	Izchak Lewkowicz	Dissipative Systems - Convex Invertible Cones point of view
04/06/2018	Gil Ariel	Network models of collective motion
25/06/2018	Alfonso Baños	Reset control systems: Fundamentals and Applications
06/08/2018	David Bensoussan	Fast time response decentralized control
10/12/2018	Zheng Chen	Optimal Control of Dubins Vehicles

Date	Speaker	Title
09/01/2017	Emilia Fridman	A Time-Delay Approach to Sampled-Data and Network-Based Control
23/01/2017	Anton Selivanov	Event-Triggered Approach to Networked Control
15/05/2017	Shashi R. Kumar	Cooperative Nonlinear Guidance Strategies for Aircraft Defense
22/05/2017	Kimon P. Valavanis	Unmanned Aircraft Systems: Challenges in Controller Design
05/06/2017	Daniel Zelazo	Feket Points, Formation Control, and the Balancing Problem
19/06/2017	Leonid Mirkin	A Kyrgyz Take on Lebesgue Sampling
03/07/2017	Juri Belikov	Modeling and analysis of power networks based on dq0 quantitiestrol systems
07/08/2017	Daniel Segal	Max-Range Glides in Engine Cutoff Emergencies Under Severe Wind
23/10/2017	Vikas Mishra	Controllability and Feedback Control Properties for Linear Differential-Algebraic Systems
13/11/2017	Semyon M. Meerkov	Quasilinear Control Theory for Systems with Asymmetric Actuators and Sensors
20/11/2017	Marcus Thelander Andrén	On Event-Based Sampling for LQG-Optimal Control
27/11/2017	Miel Sharf	A Network Optimization Approach to Cooperative Control Synthesis
04/12/2017	Alberto Bemporad	Recent Advances in Embedded Model Predictive Control

2016

Date	Speaker	Title
18/01/2016	Ron Meir	Control Theoretic Challenges in Theoretical Neuroscience: Combining Estimation and Control
14/03/2016	Jan Maximillian Montenbruck	Input-Output Methods for Submanifold Stabilization: Beyond Lp ... and back
28/03/2016	Melkior Ornik	Topological and Affine Obstructions in Reach Control
18/04/2016	Izhak Bucher	Controlled acoustic levitation and propulsion - physical background and implementation
13/06/2016	Anna Clarke	Automatic Control System for Kinesthetic Training of Skydivers Mastering Body Flight
31/10/2016	Jozsef Bokor	Fault Detection and Isolation in Dynamic Systems
26/12/2016	Noam Leiter	Graph-Based Model Reduction Methods for Multi-Agent Systems

2015

Date	Speaker	Title
05/01/2015	Liron Allerhand	Robust Switching-based Fault Tolerant Control
30/03/2015	Robert Fonod	Robust Fault Diagnosis and Fault-Tolerant Control of an Autonomous Spacecraft:​ ​Application to the ​​Rendezvous ​Phase of the MSR ​Mission
20/04/2015	Vivek Natarajan	Almost global asymptotic stability of a synchronous generator connected to an infinite bus
15/06/2015	Dwaipayan Mukherjee	Cyclic Pursuit: Variants and Applications
06/07/2015	David Levanony	Linear stochastic systems: A white noise space approach
13/07/2015	Yuri B. Shtessel	Output Tracking in Nonminimum Phase Systems in Sliding Modes
31/08/2015	Bernard Friedland	In Praise of High-Pass Filters
26/10/2015	Juri Belikov	Polynomial methods for nonlinear control systems
16/11/2015	Leonid Mirkin	Control in a world where computation is cheap and communication is expensive
28/12/2015	Ilan Rusnak	Optimal Adaptive Control of Uncertain Stochastic Linear Systems

2014

Date	Speaker	Title
03/02/2014	Jack Haddad	Optimal Perimeter Control for Two Urban Regions with Macroscopic Funda- mental Diagrams
10/03/2014	Mathias Bürger	Passivity-based Cooperative Control: Design Principles and Inverse Optimality Results
23/06/2014	Yuri B. Shtessel	Air Breathing Hypersonic Missile Continuous Higher Order Sliding Mode Control for Maximum Target Penetration
27/10/2014	Shiyu Zhao	Bearing-Based Distributed Control and Estimation over Networked Dynamics Systems
24/11/2014	George Weiss	Minimal Order Controllers for Nonlinear Output Regulation

2013

2013

Date	Speaker	Title
31/01/2013	Mario Sznaier	Taming the Upcoming Data Deluge: A Systems and Control Perspective
06/05/2013	Yuri B. Shtessel	Presentation of a textbook sliding mode control and observation
28/10/2013	Martin Weiss	Linear Quadratic Control Techniques with Applications to Cooperative Guidance and Control
11/11/2013	Michael Margaliot	The Ribosome Flow Model: Theory and Applications
25/11/2013	Hoai-Nam Nguyen	Improved model predictive control for linear systems with state and control constraints
27/11/2013	Yuri S. Popkov	Entropy conception in systems analysis

2012

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

2011

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

2010

Date	Speaker	Title
04/01/2010	Leonid M. Fridman	Some open problems of sliding mode control theory
26/04/2010	Klaus Trangbaek	Factorisation approaches for controller reconfiguration
17/05/2010	Yuri B. Shtessel	Reconfiguration of a Mobile Communication Network using Higher Order Sliding Mode Control
31/05/2010	Leonid Mirkin	How to Render Cardinal Splines Causal
15/06/2010	Anders Lindquist	What are moment problems and why are they useful in systems and control?
21/06/2010	Zalman J. Palmor	Novel Smith Predictors for MIMO Systems with Multiple I/O Delays
06/09/2010	Yurii Averboukh	On a Structure of the Set of Differential Games Values
13/10/2010	Fred E. Daum	Exact Particle Flow for Nonlinear Filters
01/11/2010	Per-Olof Gutman	Improved Vertex Control for Time-Varying Linear Discrete-Time Systems with State And Control Constraints
22/11/2010	Hector Rotstein	An Alternative Erection Procedure for On-Ground Transfer Alignment
13/12/2010	Ilan Rusnak	Optimal Adaptive Control of Uncertain Stochastic Linear Time-Variant Systems
27/12/2010	Leonid Mirkin	Multiple Delay Dead-Time Compensation: Deciphering the Crystal Ball

2009

Date	Speaker	Title
30/03/2009	Anders Rantzer	Distributed Control using Decompositions and Games
13/07/2009	Meyer Nahon	Dynamics and Control of the Receiver of a Large Radio
07/12/2009	Moshe Idan	Minimum Variance Estimation for Scalar Linear Systems with Additive Cauchy Noises
28/12/2009	Jason L. Speyer	Relative Navigation Between Two Spacecraft Using X-ray Pulsars

2008

Date	Speaker	Title
11/02/2008	David Greenblatt	Physical Concepts Underlying the Development and Application of Active Flow Control
17/03/2008	Yuri B. Shtessel	Higher Order Sliding Mode Control with Applications
24/03/2008	Daniel Zelazo	Networked Dynamic Systems
14/04/2008	Daniel Choukroun	Conditionally-Linear Optimal Filtering with Application to Jump-Linear Systems
26/05/2008	Itzhak Barkana	A Modified Invariance Principle and Gain Convergence in Adaptive Control
14/07/2008	Per-Olof Gutman	Iterative Feedback Tuning for Nonlinear Systems based on Identification of Linearized Time-Varying Models
11/08/2008	Johan Karlsson	Degree-Constrained Rational Analytic Interpolation and Weight Selection for Control Synthesis
10/11/2008	Mirko R. Bothien	Active Control of Combustion Instabilities
29/12/2008	Yaakov Bar-Shalom	Multi-Step Look-Ahead Policy for Autonomous Cooperative Surveillance by UAVs in Hostile Environments

2007

Date	Speaker	Title
26/04/2007	Klaus Trangbaek	Gain Scheduling Control Based on the Youla Parameterisation
03/05/2007	Per-Olof Gutman	The Modified Botanic Model of Plant Growth with an Application to Greenhouse Control
17/05/2007	Pini Gurfil	Gauge Theory for Finite-Dimensional Dynamical Systems
31/05/2007	Arie Levant	Homogeneous Discontinuous Control
07/06/2007	Allen R. Tannenbaum	Some Minor Remarks on Tracking and Related Issues
14/06/2007	Gilead Tadmor	Feedback Fow Control: Low Order Models and Simulation and Experimental Verification
21/06/2007	Nahum Shimkin	No regrets: optimal control in an arbitrarily changing environment
28/06/2007	Gjerrit Meinsma	Rantzer’s Density Function – A Partial Interpretation
05/07/2007	Hector Rotstein	Do it like the chameleon: Biologically motivated modeling and imitation of the chameleon’s vision system
12/07/2007	Ilan Rusnak	Control Organization – Review, Terminology and Applications
15/07/2007	Yoshito Ohta	Abstract Linear Programming Approach to Control Problems
22/07/2007	Carsten W. Scherer	Time-Varying Uncertainties Reconsidered
05/11/2007	Naira Hovakimyan	The Theory of Fast and Robust Adaptation
19/11/2007	Michael Margaliot	A Simplification of the Agrachev-Gamkrelidze Maximum Principle
26/11/2007	Michael Margaliot	Does the brain use intermittence or continuous control?
03/12/2007	Joseph Z. Ben-Asher	Allocation of Radar Tracking Resources by Direct Optimization
31/12/2007	Leonid Mirkin	The Sampling Theorem: A Century After Schmidt