Mathematical Control Theory and Robotics

Workshop on
"Mathematical Control Theory and Robotics"

SISSA, Trieste, Italy, 25--27 June 2000

Program

	Sunday, June 25	Monday, June 26	Tuesday, June 27

8.30-9.00	Registration
9.00-10.00	R. Brockett	A. Isidori	H. Sussmann
10.00-11.00	A. Bicchi	J.M. Coron	G. Buttazzo
11.00-11.30	Coffee Break	Coffee Break	Coffee Break
11.30-12.30	A. Sangiovanni- Vincentelli	A. Agrachev	J.P. Gauthier
12.30-13.30	Lunch time	A. S. Morse	Lunch time
13.30-14.00		Lunch time
14.00-15.00	J.P. Laumond		M. Zelikin
15.00-16.00	Short Talks	Poster Session	A. Sarychev
16.00-16.30	Coffee Break	and	Coffee Break
16.30-18.50	Short Talks	Open Discussion	Short Talks
20.30		Social Dinner

Registration will be open on Sunday, June 25, before lunch.

Sunday, June 25. Plenary talks (Main Hall).

9.00-10.00	Roger Brockett On the Stochastic Control of Quantum Ensembles
10.00-11.00	Antonio Bicchi TBA
11.30-12.30	Alberto Sangiovanni-Vincentelli Hybrid systems and models of computation: A paradigm for control and its applications to power-train control
14.00-15.00	Jean-Paul Laumond Robot path planning via random sampling: some remarks about controllability and combinatorial topology

Monday, June 26. Plenary talks (Main Hall).

9.00-10.00	Alberto Isidori A differential geometric approach to nonlinear fault isolation
10.00-11.00	Jean-Michel Coron Local controllability of a 1-D tank containing a fluid modeled by the shallow water equation
11.30-12.30	Andrei Agrachev On the Curvature of Control Systems
12.30-14.00	A. S. Morse Controller Coverings and Switched Control Systems

Tuesday, June 27. Plenary talks (Main Hall).

9.00-10.00	Hector Sussmann Control Variations in the setting of Generalized Differentials
10.00-11.00	Giuseppe Buttazzo Optimization Problems with Manifolds as Controls
11.30-12.30	Jean-Paul Gauthier Output stabilization using observers: Theory and applications
14.00-15.00	Mikhail Zelikin Topological structure of chattering optimal syntheses
15.00-16.00	Andrey Sarychev Lie-algebraic methods for stability analysis of time-variant systems

Sunday, June 25. Short talks: Session 1 (Main Hall).

15.00-15.20	Marilena Venditelli Planning and control of general nonholonomic systems systems via nilpotent approximations
15.20-15.40	Ugo Boscain Stability of planar switched systems
15.40-16.00	Claudio Altafini On the bilinearity of linear switching systems
16.30-16.50	Fabio Ancona Patchy feedback
16.50-17.10	Martino Bardi Viscosity solutions methods for singular perturbations in deterministic and stochastic control
17.10-17.30	Riccardo Mannella Fluctuations and the energy-optimal control of chaos

Sunday, June 25. Short talks: Session 2 (Room E).

15.00-15.20	Tullio Zolezzi Simplex methods under uncertainty and applications to mechanical systems controlled by monodirectional actuators
15.20-15.40	Francesco Bullo Trajectory optimization via series expansions and perturbation methods for mechanical control systems
15.40-16.00	Mark Spong Impact controllability of an air hockey puck
16.30-16.50	Domenico Pratichizzo On geometric algorithms solving cheap, singular and regular discrete-time LQR problems
16.50-17.10	Milos Zefran Controllability analysis of locomotion systems employing switching
17.10-17.30	Gregory Chirikjan Workspaces, polymer statistics and phase noise: three problems, one solution

Tuesday, June 27. Short talks: Session 1 (Main Hall).

16.30-16.50	Matthias Kawski Comparison of the log of the Chen series and exponential product expansions
16.50-17.10	Jean-Baptist Pomet Topological linearization of control systems
17.10-17.30	Roland Hilderbrand Classification of controlled syntheses of controlled systems near a focus
17.30-17.50	Andrew Lewis Optimal control for affine connection control systems
17.50-18.10	Frederic Jean Paths in sub-Riemannian geometry
18.10-18.30	Piotr Mormul The car with n trailers locally possesses a nilpotent basis
18.30-18.50	Yuri Sachkov On nilpotent sub-Riemannian (2,3,5) problem

Tuesday, June 27. Short talks: Session 2 (Room A).

16.30-16.50	Franco Blanchini Robust and gain-scheduling control for systems with time-varying parameters
16.50-17.10	Yuri Orlov Unified distribution formalism for nonlinear H_inf-control via continuous-time and sampled-data measurement feedback design with application to tracking control of robot manipulators
17.10-17.30	Luciano Pandolfi Input identification to linear finite dimensional systems
17.30-17.50	Manuel Guerra Singular L-Q problems: two different approaches
17.50-18.10	Cristina Pignotti Regularity properties for the value function of an optimal control problem
18.10-18.30	Pierpaolo Solavia Hamilton-Jacobi equations of optimal control with discontinuous running cost
18.30-18.50	Ludovic Riffort Semiconcave control-Lyapunov functions and stabilizing feedbacks

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