Distinguished Guest Lecturer

MODEL BASED CONTROL OF NETWORKED EMBEDDED SYSTEMS

Panos J. Antsaklis
Dept. of Electrical Engineering; Center for Applied Mathematics
University of Notre Dame

Tues., Oct. 12th
2:30pm, 480 Dreese Labs
All interested parties are invited.
Refreshments will be served immediately preceding the talk.

Abstract:
Embedded digital devices that interact with the physical world via sensors and actuators that are widely distributed and linked via a communication network, and which coordinate their actions towards some common goal are expected to proliferate in commercial and military applications. The area of networked embedded systems has significant potential for growth and impact and holds truly great promise. Networked control systems offer significant advantages and present serious challenges. These challenges can be addressed perhaps only by bringing together areas such as communication, control and computing, and by conducting research at their intersection, while continuing to learn from existing networks, for example in biological systems. After an introduction to networked embedded systems research, this talk will focus on the problem of guaranteeing stability and certain level of performance in networked control systems, and a model-based approach to the problem will be presented.

Bio.
Panos J. Antsaklis is the H.C. and E.A. Brosey Professor of Electrical Engineering and Director of the Center for Applied Mathematics at the University of Notre Dame.

His work includes analysis of behavior and design of control strategies for complex autonomous, intelligent systems. His recent research focuses on networked embedded systems and addresses problems in the interdisciplinary research area of control, computing and communication networks, and on hybrid and discrete event dynamical systems.
He has authored a number of publications in journals, conference proceedings and books, and he has edited several books on Intelligent Autonomous Control and on Hybrid Systems. In addition, he has co-authored the research monograph "Supervisory Control of Discrete Event Systems Using Petri Nets" (Kluwer Academic 1998; with J. Moody) and the graduate textbook "Linear Systems" (McGraw-Hill 1997; with A.N. Michel).

He serves in the editorial boards of several journals, and he currently serves as AEAL of the IEEE Trans. Automatic Control. He has been Guest Editor of special issues on Networked Control Systems and on Hybrid Systems in the IEEE Trans. Automatic Control, the Proceedings of the IEEE and in the Journal of Discrete Event Dynamic Systems. He has served as program chair and general chair of major systems and control conferences, as member and chair of committees in IEEE and IFAC and he was the 1997 President of the IEEE Control Systems Society (CSS). He is an IEEE Fellow for his contributions to the theory of feedback stabilization and control of linear multivariable systems, a Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE Control Systems Society, a recipient of the IEEE Distinguished Member Award of the Control Systems Society, and an IEEE Third Millennium Medal recipient. He currently serves as the President of the Mediterranean Control Association (MCA), and as the chair of the Awards committee of the IEEE Control Systems Society.

Host: Anish Arora