About the workshop

This workshop aims to discuss recent control methods and algorithms for analyzing the stability or guaranteeing the performance of complex dynamical systems. The presented works will cover a wide class of systems (such as non-linear, hybrid or infinite-dimensional systems). Several classes of control strategies will also be addressed, such as reset control, with or without saturation, or those based on events or learning and artificial intelligence tools. Analysis and design objectives include, among others, optimal sensor or actuator placement, robustness of looped systems, anti-windup loops, multi-objective control synthesis, and convex optimization for stability. Applications will include aeronautics and space, control of physical systems with isolated nonlinearities, and epidemiological models. Speakers will be a balanced group of European and non-European researchers, most of them collaborators (and friends) of Sophie Tarbouriech, researcher at LAAS-CNRS in Toulouse (France). This conference is organized in her honor, and will therefore present a comprehensive overview of recent trends on control of complex systems.

Program and book of abstracts

August 27th, 2024

• (Lunches are served at 12:15pm in the red building, 1st floor)

• 2:00 PM: L. Zaccarian, Using sign-indefinite extended quadratic forms for the Lyapunov- based analysis and synthesis of linear saturated feedbacks;

• 2:45 PM:  G. Valmorbida, Local stability analysis of PWA systems exploiting set-constrained co-positive matrices;

• 3:30 PM: Coffee break;

• 4:00 PM: M. Turner, Two-stage anti-windup compensation for systems with saturated and quantised actuators;

• 4:45 PM: Poster session;

• 5:15 PM: V. Leite, A Direct Transmissions Minimization Event Generator Design to Saturating LPV Systems.

August 28th, 2024

• 8:30 AM: F. Blanchini, The Control Language to Understand Mechanisms;

• 9:15 AM: G. Giordano, Robustness and resilience of natural systems: a control perspective;

• 10:00 AM: Coffee break;

• 10:30 AM: A. Medvedev, Controlling the complex dynamics of the impulsive Goodwin’s oscillator;

• 11:15 AM: M. Di Benedetto, Observability and Diagnosability of Hybrid Dynamical Systems;

• 2:00 PM: T. Alamo, Kriging methods for data-driven systems;

• 2:45 PM: M. Szanier, Why do we need ``control'' in control oriented learning?;

• 3:30 PM: Coffee break;

• 4:00 PM: E. Valcher, A data-driven approach to the design of unknown input observers;

• 4:45 PM: Poster session;

• 5:15 PM: K. Morris, Control and estimation of partial differential-algebraic equations.

August 29th, 2024

• 8:30 AM: P. Peres, Robust Control of Uncertain Linear Systems: What else can be done?;

• 9:15 AM: M. Prandini, Optimal constrained control of stochastic linear systems operating in stationary conditions;

• 10:00 AM: Coffee break;

• 10:30 AM: E. Castelan, On Robustly Invariant Polyhedral Sets and Bilinear Programming for Designing Constrained Output Feedback Controllers;

• 11:15 AM: C. Scherer, On Absolute Stability and Dissipativity.

Book of abstracts and useful informations

Registration (CLOSED)

• The registration is free of charge. The banquet and the coffee breaks are free of charge as well. Except for speakers, attenders will have to cover the other meals and the nights. The cost for each lunch is around 20 euros, one single room is 66 euros, double 70 euros, triple 82 euros per night. 

• The number of rooms is limited, thus the registrations will be closed when the pre-reserved rooms are all booked. Please register as soon as possible.

• Link to register (removed)

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