RECENT ADVANCES IN CONTROL
A Workshop in Honour of Professor Edward J. Davison
on the Occasion of His 60th Birthday
June 29 - 30, 1998
Prof. Edward J. Davison,
who is a faculty member in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
at the University of Toronto, is a world-renowned researcher in the field of
systems and control. He has made significant contributions to the area, especially
in robust control, large scale systems, adaptive control, and control applications.
A two day workshop will be held in his honour during the period June 29 -
30, 1998, and a number of his colleagues will be giving talks on a wide spectrum
of topics. We welcome members of the control community to attend the workshop.
Below we list the speakers, Prof. Davison's resume, the program, information
about travel, accommodations, and registration.
CO-ORGANIZERS:
Daniel Miller (
miller@hobbes.uwaterloo.ca)
Li Qiu (
eeqiu@ee.ust.hk)
INVITED SPEAKERS:
- J. Ackermann - DLR, German Aerospace Research Establishment
- B. Barmish - University of Wisconsin at Madison
- T. Basar - University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- S.A. Bortoff - University of Toronto
- T. Chang - New Jersey Institute of Technology
- J. Doyle - California Institute of Technology
- B. Francis - University of Toronto
- W. Gesing - Banco Santander
- A. Goldenberg - University of Toronto
- C. Hollot - University of Massachusetts
- R. Kwong - University of Toronto
- O. Ozguner - Ohio State University
- V. Quintana - University of Waterloo
- A. Solomon - Pratt and Whitney, Canada, Mississauga, Ontario
- B. Scherzinger - Applied Analytics Corp., Markham, Ontario
- R. Tempo - CENS-CNR, Politecnico di Torino
- S. Wang - University of California at Davis
- W.M. Wonham - University of Toronto
BRIEF BIOGRAPHY:
Edward J. Davison received the ARCT degree in Piano from the Royal Conservatory
of Music of Toronto in 1958, and the BASc degree in Engineering-Physics and
the MA degree in Applied Math from the University of Toronto in 1960 and 1961
respectively. In 1964 he received the PhD degree, and in 1977 the ScD degree
from Cambridge University, England.
From 1964 to 1966 he was with the University of Toronto; in 1966-1967 he
was with the University of California, Berkeley, in the Department of Electrical
Engineering and Computer Science, and since then, he has been with the Department
of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Toronto. His current
interests include the study of multivariable control system theory and design,
large scale systems, robust control, and adaptive control.
Dr. Davison was Associate Editor from 1974 to 1976, guest Associate Editor
in 1977-1978 and 1982-1983, and consulting Editor in 1985 of the IEEE Transactions
on Automatic Control. He has been an Associate Editor of Automatica
from 1974 to 1987 and of Large Scale Systems: Theory and Applications
from 1979 to 1990, and has been a member of the Editorial Board of Optimal
Control Applications and Methods since 1983. He was Vice-Chairman of the
International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC) Theory Committee in 1978-1987,
Chairman of the IFAC Theory Committee in 1988-1990, and Vice-Chairman of the
IFAC Technical Board in 1990-1993, and has been a member of the IFAC Council
since 1991.
He received an Athlone Fellowship in 1961-1963, the E.W.R. Steacie Memorial
Fellowship in 1974-1977, and the Killam Research Fellowship in 1979-1980 and
1981-1983. In 1984 he received the IEEE Centennial Medal and was elected a
Distinguished Member of the IEEE Control Systems Society. He was elected a
Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 1977, and a Fellow of the the IEEE
in 1978; in 1986 he was elected 'Honorary Professor' of Beijing Institute
of Aeronautics and Astronautics. He has been a designated consulting engineer
of the Association of Professional Engineers of Ontario since 1979, and is
a director of Electrical Engineering Consociates Ltd.
He has received a number of Best Paper Awards from the IEEE Transactions
on Automatic Control, and his paper "A Method for Simplifying Linear Dynamic
Systems, IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, AC-11, 93 -- 101 (1966)"
has been selected as a Citation Classic paper. In 1993 he was awarded the
Quazza Medal from IFAC and in 1997 he was awarded the IEEE Control Systems
Society's Hendrik W. Bode Lecture Prize.
WORKSHOP SCHEDULE:
| Evening, Sunday, June 29
| Informal Social Get-together
| |
We will meet at 8pm in Maggie's Lounge at the official hotel (International
Conference Centre, 240 Jarvis Street) for an informal get-together.
| Monday, June 29
| Chairman: B. A. Francis
| |
| 8:30-9:15
| Registration
| |
| 9:15-9:30
| Opening remarks
| |
| 9:30-10:00
| T. Basar
| Decentralized Control for Flow Regulation in High Speed Networks
|
| 10:00-10:30
| J. Ackermann
| Robust Control for Car Steering |
| 10:30-11:00
| Coffee break
| |
| 11:00-11:30
| W. M. Wonham
| Modularity in Discrete-Event Systems |
| 11:30-12:00
| R. Kwong
| A State-Based Approach to Fault Diagnosis for Discrete
Event Systems
|
| Afternoon
| Chairman: W. M. Wonham
| |
| 2:00-2:30
| R. Tempo
| Probabilistic Robustness Analysis and Design of Uncertain Systems
|
| 2:30-3:00
| B. R. Barmish
| Optimal Truncations: Their Importance to the Theory of Probabilistic
Robustness |
| 3:00-3:30
| C. V. Hollot
| Experimental Demonstration of Reset Control Design |
| 3:30-4:00
| Coffee break |
| 4:00-4:30
| A. A. Goldenberg
| A Modular and Reconfigurable Robot |
| 4:30-5:00
| S. T. Bortoff
| Web Tension and Velocity Control
|
| Evening |
| 5:30-7:00
| Reception
The Fields Institute
| |
| 7:30-10:00
| Banquet
University of Toronto Faculty Club
|
| Tuesday, June 30
| Chairman: R. Kwong
| |
| 9:00-9:30
| S.H. Wang
| Properties of Linear Time Varying System in terms of its Singular
Value Decomposition |
| 9:30-10:00
| T.N. Chang
| Decentralized Reliable Control for Large Scale Systems |
| 10:00 - 10:30
| U. Ozguner
| Decentralized Control Using Sensitivity Models |
| 10:30-11:00
| Coffee break |
| 11:00-11:30
| B.A. Francis
| Solution of a Wavelet Crime |
| 11:30-12:00
| B. Scherzinger
| A Tightly Coupled GPS-Aided Inertial Navigator
|
| Afternoon
| Chairman: S. A. Bortoff |
| 2:00-2:30
| A. Solomon
| Dynamic Modeling of Airborne Gas Turbine Engings |
| 2:30-3:00
| W. Gesing
| Financial Forecasting, Risk Management and Control |
| 3:00-3:30
| V. Quintana
| Interior and Non-Interior Point Algorithms for Nonlinear Programming
|
| 3:30
| Coffee Break |
