Lecture: “Nonlinear control: a charming and adventurous voyage”
by Prof. Alberto Isidori
Pre-Lecture: Introduction to Wook Hyun Kwon Lecture Series, Inaugural Congratulatory Address, and Introduction to the speaker
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Prof. Alberto Isidori (University of Rome)
Date: September 1, 2017
Date & Time: September 1, 2017, 3:45PM ~ 5:30PM
Place: Building 125-2, Rose Room, Seoul National University (map: http://dmaps.kr/4gpjs)
Registration: http://onoffmix.com/event/98551
Satellite Tutorial Workshop on Feedback design for MIMO nonlinear systems: challenges, roadblocks, recent advance
Instructor: Prof. Alberto Isidori
Date & Time: August 31, 2017, 1:00PM~6:00PM
Place: Building 133, Room 204, Seoul National University (more info: http://erc-aci.snu.ac.kr/location)
Registration: http://onoffmix.com/event/98413
In this tutorial, some challenging research problems dealing with the design of feedback laws to the purpose of controlling multi-input multi-output nonlinear (MIMO) systems are discussed. The seminar begins with a review of a classical algorithm for computing the inverse of an input-affine nonlinear system. This algorithm provides a framework for the introduction of the concept of uniform right-invertibility and for the development, for a right-invertible MIMO system, of a normal form of the state-space equations. The seminar then proceeds with a classification of MIMO systems based on certain properties of a such normal form. Special cases are those systems that can be input-output linearized via state feedback and systems that have a vector relative degree. Then, the issue of achieving stability via state feedback and/or via output feedback is discussed. Instrumental, in this analysis, is the discussion of an interesting relation between observability and invertibility. Various open problems are then highlighted. The seminar concludes with a discussion of the so-called problem of output regulation which, via the design of internal models, is reduced to the problem of stabilizing a compact invariant set.
About the speaker
Alberto Isidori, obtained his degree in EE from the University of Rome in 1965. From 1975 to 2012, he has been Professor of Automatic Control at this University, where is currently Professor Emeritus. He has held visiting positions at various academic/research institutions, which include the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, the University of California at Berkeley, the ETH in Zürich and the NASA-Langley research center. Between 1989 and 2006 he has also been affiliated with Washington University in St. Louis.
His research interests are primarily in analysis and design of nonlinear control systems. He is author of several books, among which the highly-cited Nonlinear Control Systems (1985, 1989 and 1995) and the more recent Lectures on Feedback Design of Multivariable Systems (2017). He published more than 110 articles on archival journals and more than 200 conference papers. He is the recipient of various prestigious awards, which include the Quazza Medal from IFAC (in 1996), the Ktesibios Award (in 2000), the Bode Lecture Award from the Control Systems Society of IEEE (in 2001), the Honorary Doctoratefrom KTH of Sweden (in 2009), the Galileo Galilei Award from the Rotary Clubs of Italy (in 2009), the Control Systems Award of IEEE in 2012. In 2012 he was also elected corresponding member of the italian Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei. He is the recipient of awards for best papers published in the IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, twice in 1983 and 1990, and in Automatica, twice in 1991 and 2004. In 1986 he was elected Fellow of IEEE and in 2005 he was elected Fellow of IFAC. He has been President of the European Community Control Association in 1995-1997 and President of IFAC in the triennium 2008-2011. He is currently Chair of the Board of Trustees of the IFAC Foundation.
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