5th Northeast Control Workshop April 24-26, 2009 Carnegie Mellon University · Pittsburgh, PA |
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April 24 | April 24 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
1:00 - 2:30 | Mini-course 1, pt 1: Game Theory for Control, Prof. Jeff Shamma, Georgia Tech | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2:30 - 2:45 | Coffee break | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2.45 - 4:00 | Mini-course 1, pt 2: Game Theory for Control, Prof. Jeff Shamma, Georgia Tech | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
4:00 - 4:30 | Coffee break | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
4:30 - 6:00 | Mini-course 2, pt 1: Systems Biology, Prof. Pablo Iglesias, Johns Hopkins Univ. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
6:00 - 6:15 | Coffee break | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
6:15 - 7:30 | Mini-course 2: pt 2: Systems Biology, Prof. Pablo Iglesias, Johns Hopkins Univ. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
7:30 - 9:00 | Reception | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
April 25 | April 25 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
8:00 - 8:20 | Continental breakfast | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
8:20 - 10:00 |
Student Talks (20 minutes each) - Chair: Danielle Tarraf 1. Alexander Olshevsky (MIT), Distributed Anonymous Function Computation in Information Fusion and Multiagent Systems 2. Usman Khan (CMU), Higher Dimensional Consensus: Design and Analysis 3. Gabriel Lipsa (UMD), Optimal Distributed State Estimation with Communication Cost: A MajorizationTheory Approach 4. Elisa Franco (Caltech), Programming synthetic biomolecular systems 5. Victor M. Preciado (University of Pennsylvania), Spectral Estimation from Local Information in Complex Networks |
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10:00-10:20 | Coffee break | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
10:20-11:20 |
Keynote 1: Professor Tamer Basar, UIUC: Non-Neutral Decision Making in Control and Dynamic Games [abstract] |
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11:20-11:30 | Coffee break | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
11:30-12:30 | Panel on Careers in Industry - Bruce Krogh, moderator | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bill Aldrich, The MathWorks, Inc. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Scott Bortoff, United Technologies Research Center | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Stephen Bachorski, Acutronic USA, Inc. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Delano Carter, Acutronic USA, Inc. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Xu Cheng, Emerson Process Management | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Michael Taylor, Caterpillar Research | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Mark Giler, Northrop Grumman | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
12:30 -1:45 | Lunch | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
1:50 - 3:30 |
Student Talks - Chair: Bruno Sinopoli 1. Roberto Ambrosino (CMU), Sensor Scheduling for Energy Efficient Estimation in Wireless Sensor Networks 2. Ruomin Wu (Boston University), Maximum Lifetime Routing and Energy Allocation in Wireless Sensor Networks 3. Xu Ning (Boston University), Maximum Lifetime Routing in Wireless Sensor Networks with Kinetic Battery Model 4. Utku Ozan Candogan (MIT), Competitive scheduling in wireless collision channels with correlated channel state 5. Leo Singer (UMD), Multi-pinger Localization for Underwater Autonomous Navigation: Algorithms and Implementation |
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3:30 - 3:45 | Coffee break | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
3:45 - 4:45 | Panel on Funding Opportunities - Tamer Basar, moderator | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Radhakisan Baheti, Program Director, PCAN EECS at NSF | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Michael Branicky, CISE, NSF | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
4:45 - 5:00 | Coffee break | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
4:45 - 5:25 | Keynote 2: Professor Erik Ydstie, Carnegie Mellon: Process Control: Irreversible Thermodynamics and Passivity |
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5:30 - 6:30 |
Student Talks - Chair: Eugenio Schuster 1. Quanyan Zhu (UIUC), Hierarchical Network Formation Games in the Uplink of Multi-Hop Wireless Networks 2. Chao Xu (Lehigh University), Optimal Control of Nonlinear Distributed Parameter Systems via Proper Orthogonal Decomposition and Picard Iteration 3. Yongqiang Wang (UMD), Dynamic Pricing with Continuous Stochastic Demand |
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7:00-10:00 | Dinner | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
April 26 | April 26 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
8:00 - 8:20 | Continental breakfast | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
8:20- 10:00 |
Student Talks - Chair: Pablo Parrilo 1. Sachit Butail (UMD), Vision-based tracking of 3D position and pose of multiple underwater vehicles 2. Darren Pais (Princeton), Formation shape and orientation control using projected collinear tensegrity structures 3. Ross Hatton (CMU), Connection Vector Fields for Locomoting Systems 4. YenChen Liu (UMD), Task Space Synchronization of Networked Robotic Systems 5. Efstathios Bakolas (Georgia Tech), Variations of the Classical Markov-Dubins Synthesis Problem |
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10:00-10:20 | Coffee break | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
10:20-11:20 |
Keynote 3: Michael Taylor, Caterpillar: “Controls Considerations for Autonomous Urban Driving” |
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11:20-11:30 | Coffee break | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
11:30-12:30 |
Student Talks - Chair: Nikhil Chopra 1. Kostas Bimpikis (MIT), Social Networks: Communication and Learning 2. James Weimer (CMU), Multi-Source Detection and Estimation (MSDE) in Advection-Diffusion Processes Using Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) 3. Ali Vakili (Caltech), Kalman Filtering with Intermittent Observations over Stable Systems: A Steady-State Analysis |
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12:30- 1:30 | Lunch | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
1:40 - 4:00 |
Student Talks - Chair: Nuno Martins 1. Dan Iancu (MIT), Optimality of Affine Policies in Multi-Stage Robust Optimization 2. Rajeev Verma (University of Michigan), Continuous Control of Hybrid Automata with Imperfect Mode Information Assuming Separation between State Estimation and Control 3. Joseph Galante (UMD), Experimental Results for a Gyro Bias Adaptive Attitude Observer 4. Umashankar Nagarajan (CMU), Trajectory Planning and Control of an Underactuated Dynamically Stable Single Spherical Wheeled Mobile Robot 5. Sarah Hamilton (University of Toronto), Geometric Control of Circulant Systems 6. Ruirui Gu (UMD), Efficient implementation of Model Predictive Control 7. Yao Li (UMD), A Model-Predictive Control Model (MPC) for Human Posture Regulation |
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4:00 - 4:15 | Wrap up | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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