Special Studies on Issues in Control Theory

University of Notre Dame

SPRING 2012 - Enroll for 1 credit of Special Studies (EE 67598 section 02)
DBRT 349 - F - 11:45A - 12:35 pm
Instructor: M.D. Lemmon, Dept. of Electrical Engineering, Fitz 264

Description: This year's topics will focus on a collection of fundamental issues in control theory that were recently highlighted in an issue of the European Journal of Control. The topics to be studied this semester include systems identification, architectures for robustness and optimization, probabilistic methods in cancer biology, languages for contour following, biosensors and social learning, smart grid, approximate bisimulation, distributed control, distributed fault detection and isolation, event-triggered control, output regulation of non-equilibrium processes with applications to sustainability of eco-systems.


Jan. 20, 2012, L. Ljung, H. Hjalmarsson, and H. Ohlsson, Four Encounters with System Identification, European Journal of Control, Volume 17, number 5-6, pages 449-471, 2011.


Jan 27, 2012,F. Chandra, D.F. Gayme, Lijun Chen, and J.C. Doyle, Robustness, Optimization, and Architectures , European Journal of Control, Volume 17, number 5-6, pages 472-482, 2011.


Feb 3, 2012, M. Vidyasagar, Probabilistic Methods in Cancer Biology, Eurpean Journal of Control, Volume 17, number 5-6, pages 483-511, 2011.


Feb. 10, 2012, D. Baranov and J. Baillieul, A Motion Description Language for Robotic Reconnaissance of Unknown Fields, European Journal of Control, Volume 17, number 5-6, pages 512-525, 2011.
(additional reading:) R.C. Arkin, Motor Schema-Based Mobile Robot Navigation, The International Journal of Robotics Research, volume 8, number 4, pages 92-112, 1989.

Feb. 17, 2012, V. Krishnamurthy, Networks of Biosensors: decentralized activation and social learning, Eurpean Journal of Control, Volume 17, number 5-6, pages 526-546, 2011.

Feb 24, 2012, S.M. Amin, Smart Grid: overview, issues, and opportunities. advances and challenges in sensing, modeling, siulation, optimization and control, European Journal of Control, Volume 17, number 5-6, pages 547-567, 2011.

March 2, 2012, A. Girard and G.J. Pappas, Approximate Bisimulation: a bridge between computer science and control theory, European Journal of Control, Volume 17, number 5-6, pages 568-578, 2011.

March 9, 2012, J.H. van Schuppen, O. Boutin, P.L. Kempker, J. Komenda, T.Masopust, N. Pambakian, A.C.M. Ran, Control of Distributed Systems: tutorial and overview, European Journal of Control, Volume 17, pages 579-602, 2011.

March 23, 2012, F. Boem, R.M.G. Ferrari, and T. Parisini, Distributed Fault Detection and Isolation of Continuous-time Non-linear systems, European Journal of Control, Volume 17, number 5-6, pages 603-620. 2011.

March 30, 2012, Ouyang, Y. and Li, X, The bullwhip effect in supply chain networks, European Journal of Operational Research, volume 201, number 3, pages 799-810, 2010.

April 13, 2012, C.S. Holling, Engineering Resilience versus Ecological Resilience, in Engineering within ecological constraints, editor: P.C. Schulze, pages 31-44, National Academy Press, Washington D.C., 1996.

April 27, 2012, H. El-Samad, S. Prajna, A. Papchristodoulou, J. Doyle, and M. Khammash, Advanced methods and algorithms for biological networks analysis, Proceedings of the IEEE, volume 94, number 4, pages 832-853, 2006.

Spring 2012 Reading List

Grading: 100% classroom participation