Southern California
Nonlinear Control Workshop

11-12 November 2005
California Institute of Technology

Organizers: Panagiotis Christofides (UCLA), Petros Ioannou (USC), Joao Hespanha (UCSB), Miroslav Krstic (UCSD), Richard Murray (Caltech), Andrew Teel (UCSB)

Workshop information

This workshop is intended as a forum for students, postdocs, and faculty in Southern California to present their research in an informal setting.  Due to limited resources, participation is by invitation only.  Please contact one of the organizers for more information.

Location:

Avery Library (building 99 on campus map). Directions to Caltech.

Registration:     Free, courtesy of the IEEE Control Systems Society
Parking:

Park in Holliston lot (building 66). Pick up ticket from kiosk on 3rd floor. If lot is full, use Wilson (building 65) lots.
Wireless: AP= field, WEP = flamingo10cit

Agenda

Friday      Avery Library
8:30
 Continental Breakfast

9:00

 Serkan Kalender (USC), An Approach to Control of Periodically Varying Mechanical Systems
9:30 Vijay Gupta (Caltech), Information Processing to Counter Channel Effects in Control Loops
10:00 Chung Hsieh (UCLA), An Economical Micro-Car Testbed for Validation of Cooperative
Control Strategies
10:30 Break
11:00 Andrey Smyshlyaev (UCSD), Adaptive Control of PDEs
11:30 John Enright (UCLA), Stochastic traveling salesperson problems for car-like and
differential-drive robots
12:00 Lunch
1:30 Lars Cremean (Caltech), Road detection and tracking in off-highway environments for autonomous robotic navigation
2:00 Mike Messiana (UCSB), Obstacle avoidance with robustness to measurement error
2:30 Payam Naghshtabrizi (UCSB), Network control systems modeling and design
3:00 Break
3:30 Marios Lestas (USC), Adaptive congestion control protocol
4:00 Yasi Mostofi (Caltech), Communication Design Principles for Estimation over Wireless Channels
4:30 Zhipu Jin (Caltech), Scheduling and Sequence Reshuffle for Autonomous Aerial
Refueling of Multiple UAVs
5:00
   Adjourn
 
Saturday      Avery Library
8:30
 Continental Breakfast

9:00

Anurag Ganguli (UCSB), Distributed deployment of asynchronous guards in art
galleries

9:30

Maria-Rita D'Orsogna (UCLA), Pattern formation, stability and collapse in 2D driven particle
systems

10:00

Break

10:30

Andrew Clark (CSULA), Modeling for Control of a Generic Airbreathing Hypersonic Vehicle

11:00

Jennie Cochran (UCSD), Boundary Control of Channel Flow - Stabilizing and Decoupling Orr-Sommerfield-Squire Equations in 3D

11:30

Lunch

Additional information