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AME Department Seminar

Speaker: DuÅ¡an M. Stipanović , Associate Professor, Department of Industrial and Enterprise Systems Engineering and Control and Decision Group at the Coordinated Science Laboratory, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Talk Title: An Approach to Control of Dynamic Systems with Multiple Objectives

Abstract: The challenges of controlling dynamic systems with multiple objectives are related to and furthermore include problems in multi-player dynamic games, multiobjective optimization, and decentralized control and estimation which all are known to be independently difficult and unsolved in general terms. The additional complexity is introduced through nonlinear dynamic models with delays and perturbations as well as various state, input and communication constraints. In this talk we will present a number of recent results in control of dynamic systems with multiple objectives based on a Liapunov-like approach as well as differentiable approximations of minimum and maximum and differential inequalities. We will show simulations of multi- vehicle systems achieving multiple objectives such as collision avoidance, trajectory tracking, control of formations of vehicles, and surveillance of compact domains. In addition a number of experimental results including autonomous and semi-autonomous (that is, teleoperated) ground vehicles (conducted in the Robotics Laboratory at the University of Illinois) and aerial vehicles (conducted at the Boeing Company in Seattle) will be presented.

Host: Prof. F. Udwadia

More Info: http://ame-www.usc.edu/seminars/3-9-11-stipanovic.shtml

Location: Seaver Science Library (SSL) - 150

Audiences: Everyone Is Invited

Contact: April Mundy

Event Link: http://ame-www.usc.edu/seminars/3-9-11-stipanovic.shtml