Technical Program

Plenary Sessions

Semi-plenary Sessions                                                                    Top of page

 Tutorial Sessions                                                            Top of page

Energy Management and Drivability Control of Hybrid-Electric Vehicles

Organizer: Rizzoni, Giorgio The Ohio State Univ.
Monday, December 12, 16:00 – 18:00   Ecija

Molecular Systems Biology and Control
Organizer: Sontag, Eduardo D. Rutgers Univ.
Tuesday, December 13, 10:00 – 12:00   Estepa

Airspace De-Confliction
Organizer: Parthasarathy, Sanjay Honeywell Tech. Center
Organizer: Samad, Tariq Honeywell Lab.
Tuesday, December 13th, 16:00 – 18:00 Giralda V

Sensor Networks and Cooperative Control
Organizer: Cassandras, Christos G. Boston Univ.
Wednesday, December 14, 10:00 – 12:00  Giralda II

Hybrid Control of Networked Embedded Systems
Organizer: Lamnabhi-Lagarrigue, Francoise CNRS
Wednesday, December 14, 16:00 – 17:40  Giralda I

Panel discussions                                                        Top of page

An industrial view on the areas for future controls research

Organizers: Mike Grimble, and Reza Katebi

Panel (provisional): Alkis Konstantellos, EU Programme Officer, Chris Elston, RWEnpower, Matt MacDonald, SELEX-SAS, Andy Scarisbrick, Ford, UK, Chris Fryer, Alstom, Ron Patton, Hull.

Monday, December 12, 18:15 – 19:15  Santa Cruz

Control Aspects of the Cassini / Huygens – Mission to Explore the Saturnian System

Organizer: Klaus Schilling

Panel: Bob Mitchell (NASA / JPL, Pasadena), Claudio Sollazzo (ESA / ESTEC, Darmstadt) and Klaus Schilling (Univ. of Werzburg).

Tuesday, December 13, 18:15 – 19:15   Santa Cruz

Workshops                                                                     Top of page

Full-day workshops:

Half-day workshops:

HD-1 Dynamics and Control of Smart Structures (CANCELLED *)

HD-2 Advanced Control in Siderurgy (CANCELLED *)

HD-3 Identification of Hybrid Systems

 *  If you are registered in a cancelled workshop you can either register in another Workshop of the same duration (just e-mail registration co-chair Carlos Bordons) or  you can have  the money refunded. You can also register in another Workshop if you wish (go to  PaperPlaza). If we do not hear from you  by Nov 14th we will refund the money.

Special Lunchtime Sessions                                         Top of page

How do control system design engineers use models and simulation ?

Pieter J. Mosterman
Corporate Communications, The MathWorks

Monday, December 12
12:15 – 13:15
Giralda I

In control system design, we typically model the plant in detail and then make the model amenable to control law synthesis. With this law at its core, the controller model is gradually refined with implementation detail. Physical models are combined with computational models to ensure we can realize the design. At present, computational modeling increasingly replaces physical modeling. This requires sophisticated modeling formalisms and tools. For example, in plant modeling, domain specific languages for, e.g., multi-body systems and image processing systems as well as extensive tool infrastructure, are needed.

The challenges we face to further this trend are (i) providing domain-specific modeling formalisms, (ii) providing tool support, (iii) combining different formalisms, and (iv) automatic model translation.

We discuss the role of models in control system design and address questions such as: Is there a set of sufficient semantic notions for our modeling languages or a general ‘computing API’ to combine different formalisms? Is simulation a sufficiently powerful technology? What is the best approach to generating modeling formalisms (libraries, meta-modeling, API, other)? Is there an optimal formalism to translate between formalisms? Can we derive denotational or operational models from axiomatic specifications (i.e., generate models from ‘scenarios’)? How about producing target specific code? How can style guidelines be enforced and is there a need to configure tools for controller design? How about support for enterprise-wide modeling? Can model reduction techniques handle industrial models for control synthesis? How can you guarantee model composability? How can we obtain explicit models (e.g., hybrid automata) from models in a more practicable representation?

Social Program                                                                    Top of page