Joint IFAC/IEEE CSS webinar series

The next webinar in this series will be given by Prof. Alessandro Astolfi, Imperial College London and University of Rome Tor Vergata, UK and Italy.

Date: 5PM Central Europe Time / 8AM Pacific Time on Wednesday, June 28th.

Zoom:  https://uniroma1.zoom.us/j/85794813444?pwd=WXZYQitGRWxKbTU4ZDd2YnR1d3Zwdz09 

Live streaming on youtube: https://youtube.com/live/KVjVfWJUWOY?feature=share 

The recorded session will be made available in the IFAC youtube channel: to be updated

Title: Pontryagin meets Bellman

Abstract: The objective is this talk is to demonstrate that a judicious combination of Pontryagin minimum principle and Bellman Principle of Optimality yields novel insight on the solution of optimal control problems.

The webinar is organized by Claudia Califano (vice-chair education of IFAC TC 2.3), Bayu Jayawardhana (vice-chair publication of IFAC TC 2.3), Christophe Prieur (chair of IFAC TC 2.3 Non-linear Control Systems) and Andrea Serrani (chair of IEEE TC Nonlinear Systems and Control).

Past webinars:

• Prof. Murat Arcak, Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at University of California Berkeley.
  • Title: Dissipativity Tools for Convergence to Nash Equilibria in Population Games
  • Date: Thursday, February 17, 2022. 
  • Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S7mH-MBZYzY
• Prof. Jacquelien Scherpen, Professor of Faculty of Science and Engineering at University of Groningen.
  • Title: Krasovskii Passivity, Control Methods and Applications to Switching Circuits
  • Date: Thursday, March 17, 2022. 
  • Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v;=fclsOlDNVMY
• Prof. Dragan Nesic, Professor at Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, The University of Melbourne, Australia.
  • Title: Stability and near-optimality for dynamical systems controlled via Value Iteration
  • Date: Thursday, April 14, 2022. 
  • Video1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=St9HmGq1syQ
  • Video2 with the slides: https://tc.ifac-control.org/2/3/slides_nesic.mp4/view
• Prof. Anders Rantzer, Professor at Automatic Control, Lund University, Sweden.
  • Title: Nonlinear Optimal Control for Large-scale and Adaptive Systems
  • Date: Wednesday, June 15, 2022. 
  • Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qX4OGsmzqX4&list;=PLLhem8_dLoaplspC5EjpThZHrpXH80gys
• Prof. Miroslav Krstic, Distinguished Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, UC San Diego, USA.
  • Title: Inverse Optimal Safe Control
  • Date: Thursday, October 13, 2022. 
  • Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s4f2nOrKlIA&list;=PLLhem8_dLoaplspC5EjpThZHrpXH80gys&index;=1
• Prof. Dr.-Ing. Frank Allgöwer, University of Stuttgart, Germany.
  • Title: Data-driven MPC: From linear to nonlinear systems with guarantees
  • Date: Thursday, November 3, 2022. 
  • Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9GP1dmj58cw
• Prof. Toshiyuki Ohtsuka, Kyoto University, Japan.
  • Title: Real-Time Optimization Algorithms for Nonlinear Model Predictive Control of Nonsmooth Dynamical Systems
  • Date: Tuesday, November 22, 2022. 
  • Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7jCnOgu0tVA
• Prof. Rodolphe Sepulchre, Rodolphe Sepulchre, BE/UK.
  • Title: Nonlinear feedback analysis: back to the future
  • Date: Thursday, January 26, 2023. 
  • Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KEAMy8yA-_0
• Prof. Arjan van der Schaft, University of Groningen, The Netherlands.
  • Title: Port-Hamiltonian systems theory and monotonicity
  • Date: Wednesday, March 15, 2023. 
  • Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sBKMFx6y41c
• Prof. Alessandro Astolfi, Imperial College London and University of Rome Tor Vergata, UK and Italy.
  • Title: Pontryagin meets Bellman
  • Date: Wednesday, June 28, 2023. 
  • Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ue-BkPE2dY0