14th Southern California Nonlinear Control Workshop



Workshop program:

8:30 - 9:00
Breakfast



Session I: Hybrid Systems
9:00 - 9:30
Optimal Control for Simple Hybrid Mechanical Systems
David Pekarek, Caltech
Advisor: Jerrold E. Marsden
9:30 - 10:00
Hybrid control strategies for robust stabilization
Ricardo G. Sanfelice, UCSB
Advisor: Andy Teel
10:00 - 10:30
Real-time scheduling for homogeneous control systems
Adolfo Anta, UCLA
Advisor: Paulo Tabuada


10:30 - 11:00
Break



Session II: Switched Systems
11:00 - 11:30
Adjoint-based Model Predictive Control and Identification of Switched Nonlinear Systems
Sean Summers, UCSD
Advisor: Tom Bewley
11:30 - 12:00
Switching Supervisory Control Using Calibrated Forecasts
Ibrahim Al-Shyoukh, UCLA
Advisor: Jeff S. Shamma
12:00 - 12:30
Optimal mechano-electric stabilization of cardiac alternans
Stevan Dubljevic, UCLA


12:30 - 13:30
Lunch



Session III: Optimal Control
13:30 - 14:00
Optimal trade-off between exploration and exploitation in human movement
Alex Simpkins, UCSD
Advisor: Emo Todorov and Raymond de Callafon
14:00 - 14:30
Dimensionality & Complexity: Revoking the Two Curses
Ameet Deshpande, UCSD
Advisor: Bill McEneaney
14:30 - 15:00
Optimotaxis: A random multi-agent on site optimization procedure
Alexandre Mesquita, UCSB
Advisor: João P. Hespanha


15:00 - 15:30
Break



Session IV: Multi-agent systems
15:30 - 16:00
Decentralized Control of Vehicular Platoons: Improving Closed-loop Stability by Mistuning
Prabir Barooah, UCSB
Advisor: João P. Hespanha
16:00 - 16:30
Cooperative Control of Multiple Robots
Wenjie Dong, UCR
Advisor: Jay Farrell, Peilin Fu and Jie Chen
16:30 - 17:00
A Geometric Assignment Problem for Robotic Networks
Stephen L. Smith, UCSB
Advisor: Francesco Bullo



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