Dr. Emanuele Garone,
Université Libre de Bruxelles, Charge' de Cours (Tenured Associate Professor),
14 y 16 de junio de 16:00 a 18:00 de forma virtual en la sala del curso:
https://eu.bbcollab.com/collab/ui/session/guest/f45bacb94a374ac78f05bf3df4b2e6fc
Resumen:
This short course is about the control of system subject to constraints. When speaking of control of systems subject to constraints most of the the control system community automatically think about Model Predictive Control (MPC). Indeed, MPC is indisputably the most famous and successful scheme when it comes to the control of system under constraints. This short course, however, is NOT about MPC, at least not in the classical sense. In fact, it deals with the problem of set-point tracking for systems subject to constraints. For this class of problems, starting from the 90s, several solutions have been proposed based on the idea of manipulating the reference of pre-stabilized systems. These solutions collectively form the Reference Governor framework. A very appealing feature of this framework is that it consists of a large variety of approaches with very different levels of performance and computational complexity, ranging from very simple closed-form solutions to highly performing optimization-based approaches which resemble MPC schemes. This variety allows the designer to select the most convenient trade-off between computational complexity and performances. The course aims at introducing the students to the Reference Governor phylosophy and to detail the most elements concerning the theory, the design, and the implementation of Reference Governor schemes, both for linear and nonlinear schemes.
Breve CV:
Emanuele Garone received his Ph.D. in Systems Engineering in 2009 form University of Calabria, Italy, where he also worked as a post-doc and appointed professor until 2010. Since 2010 Prof. Garone is a full-time Associate Professor within the Service d’Automatique et d’Analyse des Systemes (SAAS) of the Université Libre de Bruxelles, where he leads one of the two research group of the department. The main research focus of Prof. Garone is constrained control, with a particular emphasis on the development of low-computational cost schemes for nonlinear systems such as Reference Governors and Explicit Reference Governors. Notably, he co-authored the only survey paper on reference/command governor schemes and is actively involved in several dissemination activities (e.g., Tutorial, Seminars, Workshops) on the subject. The other theoretical interest of Prof. Garone concerns problems where optimal estimation problems are coupled with optimization and logistics aspects, including but not limited to optimal sensor selections, optimal planning to collect data, and control over unreliable channels. Prof. Garone is also very active in applying the system theoretic approach to a large spectrum of real-world applications, ranging to robotics and aeronautics control problems, to battery fast charge and to exotic applications in epidemiology and agronomy. He is author of more than 160 papers in peer-reviewed international journal and conferences.
Prof. Takeshi Hatanaka, Tokyo Institute of Technology
El 25 de mayo de 10h a 12h en la sala del curso de Enseñanza Virtual:
https://eu.bbcollab.com/collab/ui/session/guest/f45bacb94a374ac78f05bf3df4b2e6fc
Resumen:
In this talk, we first present basic results on passivity-based control in networked robotics with rich movies on our robotic experiments. We then reveal essential analogy between robot control and convex optimization algorithms from the viewpoint of passivity.
Breve CV:
Takeshi Hatanaka received the Ph.D. degree in applied mathematics and physics from Kyoto University in 2007. He then held faculty positions at Tokyo Institute of Technology and Osaka University. Since April 2020, he is an associate professor at Tokyo Institute of Technology. He is the coauthor of “Passivity-Based Control and Estimation in Networked Robotics” (Springer, 2015) and the co-editor of "Economically-enabled Energy Management: Interplay between Control Engineering and Economics" (Springer Nature, 2020). His research interests include cyber-physical & human systems and networked robotics. He received the Kimura Award (2017), Pioneer Award (2014), Outstanding Book Award (2016), Control Division Conference Award (2018), Takeda Prize (2020), and Outstanding Paper Awards (2009, 2015, 2020) all from The Society of Instrumental and Control Engineers (SICE). He also received 3rd IFAC CPHS Best Research Paper Award (2020). He is a senior member of IEEE.
Ponente: Andrés Marchante (DELL technologies)
Día 13 de mayo, de 18:00 a 20:00, de forma telemática:
https://eu.bbcollab.com/guest/f45bacb94a374ac78f05bf3df4b2e6fc
Resumen del seminario. (2h)
Este seminario tiene por objetivo ofrecer una introducción al funcionamiento de redes de datos dirigido a la automatización de servicios TIC y virtualización. En esta sesión se repasarán las tendencias arquitectónicas de las redes de datos desde las más tradicionales hasta Software Defined Networking que han dado lugar a conceptos como Software-Defined Data Center o modelos de Consumo de Servicios en la red. Finalmente se describe Intent Based Networking (IBN). IBN es la tendencia más moderna en cuanto a la automatización de la configuración y gestión de redes que permite la posibilidad de auto-configuración y auto-reparación de forma que los ingenieros de red pueden centrarse en las funciones que desean operar en lugar de la forma en la que pueden desplegar dichas funciones.
Brief Curriculum Vitae:
Andrés Marchante is an IT professional experienced during more than 20 years. Currently is Networking Presales Senior Engineer for EMEA Networking Team in Dell Technologies participating in concepts designing for new generation SDN solutions from Dell Engineering Team and has been managing Cloud Security training course for University of Sevilla Master Degree last 7 years. During last 10 years has been investigating and implementing SDN solutions like VMware NSX-V and NSX-T, OpenStack Neutron, Pluribus Adaptive Cloud Fabric and EVPN-BGP based solutions with several switching technology like Dell and Cisco.
Curso impartido por el Prof. Hanspeter Schaub, University of Colorado Boulder
Lunes 26 y martes 27 de 16 a 18 de manera telemática en:
https://eu.bbcollab.com/guest/f45bacb94a374ac78f05bf3df4b2e6fc
Resumen:
A modern spacecraft attitude control often uses nonlinear 3-axis attitude control strategies. The 4-part workshop will cover the fundamentals of 1) Dealing with Rotating Frames using the Transport Theorem 2) Basics of attitude description with a focus on the Modified Rodrigues Parameters (MRPs) 3) Nonlinear attitude control development using a frame-agnostic approach 4) Discussion of the Basilisk Astrodynamics Simulation Framework that implements these solutions.
The control of the spacecraft orientation requires using rotating body-fixed frames. Unlike the robotics community, with spacecraft all modeling and measurements are done in the body frame. The Transport theorem allows for a systematic approach to dealing with the complexities of such frames. The orientation of a spacecraft is often expressed using either 3 or 4 attitude coordinates. The fundamental challenges of rigid body attitude kinematics are discussed. A particular focus will be the MRPs which are a minimal 3-parameter description of the attitude. By switching to their shadow set through a simple analytical mapping, any orientation can be described without any kinematic singularity at the expense of a discontinuous description. This is equivalent to how the quaternions can be used with 4-parameters to describe orientation, but must switch between both quaternion sets to avoid unwinding issues. Next these concepts are combined to illustrate how attitude feedback control strategies can be developed. A brief review of the Lyapunov control theory concepts is following by a spacecraft centric control development using MRPs. Finally, the open-source Basilisk Astrodynamics Simulation Framework is discussed. The modular architecture contains the earlier developed tools and has been used to model a range of spacecraft missions, including a recent Mars mission.
Breve CV:
Currently a full professor at the University of Colorado holding the Glenn L. Murphy chair. Dr. Schaub is advising 14 Ph.D students and 11 Master level graduate students in the areas of spacecraft autonomy, attitude dynamics and control research, spacecraft proximity flying, charged spacecraft motion, space debris mitigation, redundant attitude control using momentum exchange devices, touchless despinning of space objects, and visual servo control of unmanned vehicles. Has graduated 69 master level and 21 doctoral students to date.
Impartida por la profesora Negin Shariati, de la University of Technology Sydney,
el día 15 de abril de 10:00 a 11:00 a través de enseñanza virtual:
https://eu.bbcollab.com/guest/343b461305c44cf7bb8f68f7ddc3751a
Resumen:
Whilst recent advances in modern sensors and IoT devices appear to be unlimited, the dependence of their operation on batteries remains a significant weakness which has imposed restrictions on range and duration of operation of these portable devices. My research aims to develop novel RF Energy Harvesting (EH) and Wireless Power Transfer systems (WPT) to directly convert electromagnetic energy to electricity, extending the operating time of sensors and reducing environmental pollution using green energy source.
Breve CV:
Negin Shariati is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Electrical and Data Engineering, Faculty of Engineering and IT, University of Technology Sydney (UTS), Australia. She established the state of the art RF and Communication Technologies (RFCT) research laboratory at UTS in 2018, where she is currently the Deputy Director and leads the research direction and strategy of the lab. She also holds an academic position at Hokkaido University since 2018, externally engaging with research and teaching activities in Japan. Negin Shariati is the Sensing Innovations Constellation Leader at Food Agility CRC (corporative research centre). She attracted nearly $500K worth of research funding over the past 2 years and across a number of CRC and industry projects, where she has taken the lead CI role and also contributed as a member of the CI team. She completed her PhD in Electrical-Electronic and Communication Technologies at Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT), Australia, in 2016. She worked in industry as an Electrical-Electronic Engineer from 2009-2012. Her research interests are in microwave circuits and systems, RF energy harvesting, low-power IoT, simultaneous wireless information and power transfer, and renewable energy systems.