| 9.00 - | Welcome address |
| P. Tosi, Rector, Università di Siena | |
| 9.15 - | Introduction |
| A. Vicino, Università di Siena | |
Session TM1
Chairman: A. Vicino (Università
di Siena)
| 9.30 - | Keynote address |
| R. E. Kalman (ETH - Zürich) | |
| Randomness, uncertainty and probability from the systems point of view | |
| 10.30 - | Coffee Break |
Session TM2
Chairman:
P. Voulgaris (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
| 11.00 - | P. Voulgaris (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) |
| Control under structural and operational constraints: an input-output approach | |
| 11.20 - | M. Khammash (Iowa State University) |
| Robust controller synthesis in the l1 setting | |
| 11.40 - | F. Blanchini (Università di Udine) and S. Miani (Università di Padova) |
| Dynamic programming methods in robust analysis and synthesis: old ideas and new recent developments | |
| 12.00 - | M. Salapaka (Iowa State University) |
| Multiple objective controller synthesis | |
| 12.20 - | O. Grasselli (Università di Roma "Tor Vergata") |
| Robust ripple-free output regulation and tracking under structured (or unstructured) parameter uncertainties | |
Session TA1
Chairman:
J. Norton (University of Birmingham)
| 14.30 - | J. Norton (University of Birmingham) |
| Modal robust state estimator with deterministic specification of uncertainty | |
| 14.50 - | P. Bolzern, P. Colaneri (Politecnico di Milano) and G. De Nicolao (Università di Pavia) |
| Robustness and performance in adaptive filtering | |
| 15.10 - | L. El Ghaoui (ENSTA - Paris) and G. Calafiore (Politecnico di Torino) |
| Robust state estimation for discrete-time systems with structured uncertainty | |
| 15.30 - | A. Garulli, A. Vicino (Università di Siena) and G. Zappa (Università di Firenze) |
| Optimal induced-norm and set membership state estimation with bounded disturbances | |
| 15.50 - | Coffee break |
Session TA2
Chairman:
A. Tits (University of Maryland)
| 16.20 - | A. Tits (University of Maryland) and V. Balakrishnan (Purdue University) |
| Small-m theorems with frequency-dependent uncertainty bounds | |
| 16.40 - | P. Mäkilä (Tampere University of Technology) |
| Puzzles in H¥ control and systems theory | |
| 17.00 - | P. Dorato and C. Abdallah (University of New Mexico) |
| Quantified inequalities and robust control | |
| 17.20 - | B. T. Polyak and P. S. Scherbakov (Institute for Control Science - Moscow) |
| Numerical search of stable or unstable member in matrix or polynomial families: unified approach to robustness analysis and stabilization | |
| 17.40 - | G. Chesi (Università di Siena), A. Tesi (Università di Firenze), A. Vicino (Università di Siena) and R. Genesio (Università di Firenze) |
| On convexification of some minimum distance problems | |
July 31, 1998
Session FM1
Chairman:
G. Leitmann (University of California at Berkeley)
| 9.00 - | G. Leitmann (University of California at Berkeley), C. S. Lee (Nanyang Technological University) and M. Corless (Purdue University) |
| One approach to robust control and its application to screening strategies for some communicable diseases | |
| 9.20 - | L. Qiu (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology) |
| First order pole placement controllers for mechanical systems | |
| 9.40 - | A. Bicchi (Università di Pisa) |
| On the performance and robustness of decentralized ATMS | |
| 10.00 - | F. Paganini (University of California at Los Angeles) |
| Distributed control of spatially invariant systems | |
| 10.20 - | Coffee Break |
Session FM2
Chairman:
P. Kokotovic (University of California at Santa Barbara)
| 10.50 - | P. Kokotovic (University of California at Santa Barbara) |
| Inverse optimal nonlinear feedback design | |
| 11.10 - | A. Stoorvogel (Eindhoven University of Technology) |
| Rate limits and saturation: the effects on stabilization and regulation | |
| 11.30 - | R. Scattolini and L. Magni (Università di Pavia) |
| H¥ receding horizon control of nonlinear discrete-time systems | |
| 11.50 - | S. Monaco (Università di Roma "La Sapienza") and D. Normand-Cyrot (CNRS - ESE) |
| Nonlinear representations and passivity conditions in discrete-time: a new approach | |
| 12.10 - | M. Morari and A. Bemporad (ETH - Zürich) |
| Robust model predictive control | |
Session FA1
Chairman:
L. Ljung (Linköping University)
| 14.30 - | L. Ljung (Linköping University) |
| A robust projection method for identifying closed loop systems | |
| 14.50 - | M. Gevers (Université Catholique de Louvain) |
| On the role of experimental conditions in identification for control | |
| 15.10 - | M. Milanese (Politecnico di Torino) |
| Identification of uncertainty models for robust control design | |
| 15.30 - | H. Hjalmarsson (Royal Institute of Technology - Stockholm) |
| Iterative feedback tuning: an overview | |
| 15.50 - | I. Petersen (Australian Defence Force Academy), M. James (Australian National University) and P. Dupuis (Brown University) |
| Minimax optimal control of stochastic uncertain systems with relative entropy constraints | |
| 16.10 - | Coffee break |
Session FA2
Chairman:
K. Poolla (University of California at Berkeley)
| 16.40 - | K. Poolla (University of California at Berkeley), M. Kruger (Delft University), E. Wemhoff and A. Packard (University of California at Berkeley) |
| Semi-parametric methods for control-oriented modeling | |
| 17.00 - | R. Smith (University of California at Santa Barbara) and G. Dullerud (University of Waterloo) |
| Linear perturbation models of nonlinear systems | |
| 17.20 - | A. Sayed (University of California at Los Angeles) |
| New design criteria with bounded uncertainties applied to parameter estimation and to a control regulation problem | |
| 17.40 - | E. Walter (CNRS - ESE) |
| Interval analysis for guaranteed estimation and control | |
| 18.00 - | A. Garulli, D. Prattichizzo and A. Vicino (Università di Siena) |
| Set membership estimation of time to contact in dynamic vision | |
August 1, 1998
Session SM1
Chairman:
V. Kucera (Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic)
| 9.00 - | V. Kucera (Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic) |
| Robust regional pole placement: an affine approximation | |
| 9.20 - | V. Kharitonov (St. Petersburg State University) |
| Robust stability of time delay systems | |
| 9.40 - | A. Zhabko and A. A. Laktionov (St. Petersburg State University) |
| Method of difference transformations for differential systems with linear time delay | |
| 10.00 - | S. Dasgupta (University of Iowa), M. Fu (University of Newcastle) and C. Schwarz (University of Iowa) |
| Robust relative stability of time-invariant and time-varying lattice filters | |
| 10.20 - | J. Chen (University of California at Riverside) |
| Intrinsic performance limits of linear feedback control | |
| 10.40 - | Coffee break |
Session SM2
Chairman:
D. Siljak (Santa Clara University)
| 11.10 - | D. Siljak (Santa Clara University) |
| Connective stability and control of hybrid systems | |
| 11.30 - | A. Rantzer (Lund Institute of Technology) |
| Robustness analysis of large differential algebraic systems | |
| 11.50 - | A. Megretski (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) |
| Robustness of limit cycles | |
| 12.10 - | B. Bamieh (University of California at Santa Barbara) |
| Robustness in turbulence and hydrodynamic stability | |
Session SA1
Chairman:
M. A. Dahleh (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
| 14.30 - | M. A. Dahleh (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) |
| Identification of complex systems | |
| 14.50 - | J. Partington (University of Leeds) and P. Mäkilä (Tampere University of Technology) |
| Worst-case identification in the presence of unbounded disturbances | |
| 15.10 - | L. Y. Wang and G. Yin (Wayne State University) |
| Persistent identification of systems with unmodelled dynamics and exogenous disturbances | |
| 15.30 - | B. Z. Kacewicz (University of Warsaw), A. Garulli, A. Vicino (Università di Siena) and G. Zappa (Università di Firenze) |
| Properties of conditional algorithms in restricted complexity set membership identification | |
| 15.50 - | Coffee break |
Session SA2
Chairman:
J. Doyle (California Institute of Technology)
| 16.20 - | J. Doyle (California Institute of Technology) |
| Uncertainty and robustness out of control | |
| 16.40 - | J. Ackermann (DLR - FF - DF) |
| Robust decoupling of vehicles | |
| 17.00 - | M. Dahleh (University of California at Santa Barbara) |
| Robust control of arrays of microcantilevers in atomic force microscopy | |
| 17.20 - | DISCUSSION |