Embedded Sensing and Control Systems
Professor Panos Antsaklis
Department of Electrical
Engineering
University of Notre Dame
Abstract: Networked embedded sensing and
control systems are increasingly becoming ubiquitous in applications from
manufacturing, chemical processes and autonomous robotic space, air and ground
vehicles, to medicine and biology. They offer significant advantages, but
present serious challenges to information processing, communication and
decision-making. Several research issues will be discussed including the
renewed interest in the distributed control of complex systems, in the strong
interaction of embedded computer and physical systems (Cyber-Physical Systems
(CPS)) that requires a completely new way of thinking, and in fundamental
feedback control issues such as feedback stabilization under communication
constraints. Recent research in passivity as a property that allows us to build
stable networked control systems will also be discussed. Highlighting feedback
control fundamentals, the second part of the talk will focus on recent research
results in model-based intermittent feedback control, an architecture that
bridges the gap between sampled data systems and continuous feedback control
and has, at the same time, excellent potential for networked control
applications.
Bio: Panos Antsaklis is the H.
Clifford and Evelyn A. Brosey Professor of Electrical Engineering and
Concurrent Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of
Notre Dame. He served as the Director of the Center for Applied Mathematics of
the University of Notre Dame from 1999 to 2005. He is a graduate of the
National Technical University of Athens (NTUA), Greece, and holds MS and PhD
degrees from Brown University.
His recent research focuses on networked
embedded systems and addresses problems in the interdisciplinary research area
of control, computing and communication networks, and on hybrid and discrete
event dynamical systems.
He has edited six books on Intelligent
Autonomous Control, Hybrid Systems and on Networked Embedded Control Systems,
he has co-authored two research monographs on the Supervisory Control of
Discrete Event Systems Using Petri Nets, and two graduate textbooks
"Linear Systems" and in 2007 "A Linear Systems Primer."
He is an IEEE Fellow, a Distinguished
Lecturer of the IEEE Control Systems Society, a recipient of the IEEE
Distinguished Member Award of the Control Systems Society, and an IEEE Third
Millennium Medal recipient. He was the 2006 recipient of the Brown Engineering
Alumni Medal of Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island.
Friday, February 13, 2009
3:30 – 4:30p.m
Rm. 1500 EECS