12^th Southern California Nonlinear Control Workshop

University of California, Santa Barbara

Friday, June 2nd, 2006

Organizers

Joao Hespanha & Andy Teel (UCSB), Miroslav Krstic (UCSD), Richard Murray (Caltech), Panagiotis Christofides (UCLA)

Workshop information

This workshop is intended as a forum for students, postdocs, and faculty in Southern California to present their research in an informal setting. Due to limited resources, paper presentation is by invitation only. Please contact one of the organizers for more information.

Registration: Free

Location

Main auditorium of the Donald Bren School of Environmental Sciences and Management

You can get the campus map from here (the East Gate is at D6, the Mesa Parking structure is at C3, and the Donald Bren School is at E5).

Directions to UCSB

From Los Angeles take the 101N and take the UCSB/Highway 217 exit a few miles after Santa Barbara. You will enter the campus through the East Gate. A map of the Goleta area (showing the 101 and the 217 freeways) from here.

Please park in the Mesa Parking Structure located on Ocean Road. You will need to pay for parking at the Pay Station located in the building. The daily rate is $8.00, payable with MC, Visa or cash. The Pay Station accepts $1 and $5, but it does not give change.

Agenda (*)

Friday, June 2^th
9:00	Coffee and registration
9:20	Welcome & Logistics
	Chair: Joao Hespanha
9:30	Traveling Salesperson Problems for Dubins' vehicle Ketan Savla (UCSB)
10:00	Nonholonomic Target Seeking Without Position Measurement Dan Arnold (UCSD)
10:30	UAV Performance Optimization in Autonomous Soaring Applications Nazli Kahveci (USC)
11:00	Control of flight initiation in the fruit fly Gwyneth Card (Caltech)
11:30	Networks with Heterogeneous Congestion Control Protocols Kevin Tang (Caltech)
12:00	Lunch
	Chair: Richard Murray
1:00	Boundary Estimation Sara Susca (UCSB)
1:30	Behavior verification and fault tolerance in a goal-based control system Julia Braman (Caltech)
2:00	Unfalsified Control for Slowly Varying Plants using Fading Memory and Windowing Shin-Young Cheong (USC)
2:30	Case studies on the control of input-constrained linear plants via output feedback Diane Dai (UCSB)
3:00	Coffee break
	Chair: Miroslav Krstic
3:30	Estimation and Control from Relative Measurements: error scaling laws Prabir Barooah (UCSB)
4:00	Feedback Min-Max Model Predictive Control Based on a Quadratic Cost Function David Muñoz (UCLA)
4:30	Observers for Magnetohydrodynamic Flows Rafael Vazquez (UCSD)
5:00	A model reduction approach to solving the Chemical Master Equation arising in biological networks Brian Munsky (UCSB)

(*) This schedule is still tentative.