Message from the Coordinator
First let me congratulate the ULg team for a superb Benelux Meeting in a beautiful environment and with excellent logistics. The very large number of participants (about 225) is testimony to the vitality of systems, control, networks and optimization in Belgium and Holland. I take this opportunity to congratulate Frédéric Crèvecoeur (member of the UCL team of DYSCO) for having received the Best Junior Presentation Award. I personally found the overall quality of the presentations to be of very high quality; the award received by Frédéric is therefore all the more remarkable.
The next major item on our agenda will be the next study day of the DYSCO network. It is organized by the team of Alain Vande Wouwer and will take place on 28 May at the Faculté Polytechnique de Mons.
Michel Gevers
DYSCO coordinator
Staff Movements and Visitors
UCL
Leonid Gurvits (Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA) visited us from 19 to 21 March to work with V. Blondel and his team. He gave a seminar entitled Van der Waerden/Schrijver-Valiant like Conjectures and Stable Homogeneous Polynomials: One Theorem for all.
Yutaka Yamamoto (Kyoto University, Japan) visited CESAME on 19 and 20 March.
Bob Bitmead (University of California, San Diego) will visit us from 20 to 24 April ; he will work with M. Gevers.
Iven Mareels (Melbourne University) will visit CESAME on 27 and 28 April.
Djillali Bouagada (University of Mostaganem, Algeria) will stay at CESAME from 17 April to 11 May. He will work with P. Van Dooren.
KUL 1
Michael Peeters joined the team as a PhD student (starting date: 01/04/2009). His advisors are B. De Moor and J. De Brabanter, and his thesis topic is modeling and regulating of HVAC systems.
ULg-SYST
Luis MACHADO, University of Coimbra, will visit the SYSTMOD research unit from April 15 to June 15.
ULB
Dr. Jaroslav Albert has joined the team of Marianne Rooman for a one year post-doctoral stay.
Theses Defences
VUB-ELEC
Anna Marconato, Resource-Aware Design of Smart Measurement Systems: A Learning-from-examples Approach, Doctoral Dissertation, Vrije Universiteit Brussel - Università degli Studi di Trento, March 2009.
Promoters: Prof. Dario Petri (University of Trento), Prof. Johan Schoukens
Co-promoter: Dr. Bruno Caprile (FBK Trento)
Seminars
UCL
- April 21, 2009 - 14.00 - Bât. Euler
Michel JOURNEE (Ulg), Optimization methods for sparse principal component analysis. - April 24, 2009 - 11:00 - Bât. Euler
Ian JERMYN (INRIA), Shape modelling via higher-order active contours and phase fields. - April 28, 2009 - 14.00 - Bât. Euler
Iven MAREELS (Dept. of Electrical and Electrotechnic Eng., University of Melbourne), Water Information Networks: Successes and Challenges. - May 5, 2009 - 14.00 - Bât. Euler
Cristina STOICA (SUPELEC, France), Robustification hors ligne de lois de commande prédictives multivariables. - May 12, 2009 - 14.00 - Bât. Euler
Semiha TURKAY (Institute of Automatic Control, Technical University of Munich ), Influence of tire damping on the ride performance potential of quarter-car active suspensions.
KUL 1
- 8 April 2009 : 11h00, Room ESAT 00.62
SISTA Seminar : Maria Isabel Osorio, MRS lineshape determination applying AQSES. - 15 April 2009, 11h00, Room ESAT 00.62
SISTA Seminar : Wouter Deburchgraeve, Advances in neonatal EEG analysis. - 16 April 2009, 16h00, Room ESAT, Aud. A
K.U.Leuven seminars on optimization in engineering : Pierre Martinon (CMAP, Ecole Polytechnique, INRIA-Futurs), A less problem-dependent indirect approach for optimal trajectories with singular ARCS : Application to space launchers. - 20 through 30 April 2009, Computer Science, Big Aud. Ground Floor
Franqui chair lectures : Philippe Toint (FUNDP, Namur), Course on advanced algorithms in nonlinear optimization.
(http://eng/kuleuven.be/nieuws/Toint_francquileerstoel.html) - 20 April 2009, 16h00-18h00, Thermotechnisch Instituut (Kasteelpark 41, 3001 Leuven)
Francqui Chair Inaugural Lecture : Philippe Toint. - 22 April 2009, 11h00, Room ESAT 00.57
SISTA Seminar : Katrien Vanderperren, Advances in simultaneous EEG-fMRI acquisition and analysis. - 22 April 2009, 17h00, Aud. Arenberg Castle
Simon Stevin Lecture on Optimization in Engineering : Georg Beck (IWR, Heidelberg). - 27 April 2009, 11h00, Room ESAT Aud. B
K.U.Leuven Seminars on Optimization in Engineering : Saartje Arnout, Multi-scale design optimization of complex structures. - 08/05/2008 - 14:00-16:00 - PW 01.06 (BioTeC, Willem de Croylaan 46, Heverlee)
- Laurence Mertens: Quantifying the effect of food structure on microbial spoilage characteristics by means of a semisolid food model system.
- Pieter-Jan D'Huys: Batch culture characterization and metabolic flux analysis of the wild type and a heterologous protein producing strain of Streptomyces lividans TK24.
Papers produced by the IAP Network
UCL
Tzvetan Ivanov, Michel Gevers, Parametrization Invariant Covariance Quantification in Identification of Transfer Functions for Linear Systems, submitted to the 48th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Shanghai, China, December 2009.
Vincent D. Blondel, Julien M. Hendrickx and John N. Tsitsiklis, On Krause's multi-agent consensus model with state-dependent connectivity, to appear in IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 2009.
Audrey Favache, Valérie Sylvie Dos Santos Martins, Denis Dochain, Bernhard Maschke, Stability Properties of Contact Structure Dynamical Systems, accepted for presentation at The European Control Conference 2009, Budapest, Hungary, August 23-26, 2009.
Nadia Beniich, Denis Dochain, Design and Analysis of a Nonlinear Stabilizing Controller for a Mass Structured Cell Population Balance Model With Input Constraints, accepted for presentation at the European Control Conference 2009, Budapest, Hungary, August 23-26, 2009
Victor Onclinx et al., Nonlinear data projection on non-Euclidean manifolds with controlled trade-off between trustworthiness and continuity, Neurocomputing, Volume 72, Issues 7-9, March 2009, pp. 1444-1454, Advances in Machine Learning and Computational Intelligence - 16th European Symposium on Artificial Neural Networks 2008, 16th European Symposium on Artificial Neural Networks 2008.
Nadia Beniich, Abdelmoula El Bouhtouri, Denis Dochain, Input constrained adaptive tracking for a nonlinear distributed parameter tubular reactor, International Journal of Adaptive Control and Signal Processing, to appear, 2009.
B. Bouzouita, F. Bouani, V. Wertz, M. Ksouri, MIMO Robust Predictive Control Applied to a Three Tanks System, In: 16th Mediterranean Conference on Control and Automation, Ajaccio, France, June 25-27, 2008.
B. Bouzouita, F. Bouani, V. Wertz, M. Ksouri, Implementation of SISO Robust Predictive Control to a Three Tanks System, In: 2008 IEEE Multi-conference on Systems and Control, San Antonio, Texas, USA, 3-5 September 2008.
Emile Simon, Vincent Wertz, Optimal Control of coal fired Power Plants using a LMI formulation, In: Conference on Control applications (CCA 09), 3rd IEEE Multi-conference on Systems and Control (MSC 2009), Saint Petersburg, Russia, 8-10 July 09, 2009, submitted.
Raymond Gorez, Klan Petr, Simple models for process control, In: MATHMOD 2009, Vienna International Conference on Mathematical Modelling, Vienna, Austria, February 2009, Troch, I. & Breitenecker, F. (Eds), pp. 1628-1634.
KUL 1
G. Gins, J. Vanlaer, J.F.M. Van Impe, Balancing prediction quality and fault detection performance in batch process monitoring, Proceedings of the 6th Vienna Conference on Mathematical Modelling (MATHMOD09), 220, 2009.
F. Logist, M. Fabré, M. Verwerft, B. Pluymers, and J.F. Van Impe, Identification and control of a pilot scale binary distillation column, accepted for oral presentation at the European Control Conference, 23-26, August, Budapest (Hungary), 2009.
J. Vanlaer, G. Gins and J.F.M. Van Impe, Fault detection in a biochemical fed-batch process', In: M. Swevers and R. Sepulchre (Eds). Book of Abstract 28th Benelux Meeting on Systems and Control : p 59. [28th Benelux Meeting on Systems and Control, Spa (Belgium), March 16-18, 2009].
G. Gins, J. Vanlaer and J.F.M. Van Impe, Lazy online batch-end quality estimation: is less more?', In: M. Swevers and R. Sepulchre (Eds). Book of Abstract 28th Benelux Meeting on Systems and Control : p 58. [28th Benelux Meeting on Systems and Control, Spa (Belgium), March 16-18, 2009].
A.J. Verhulst, K. Bernaerts and J.F.M. Van Impe, Model analysis for individual-based modeling, In: M. Swevers and R. Sepulchre (Eds). Book of Abstract 28th Benelux Meeting on Systems and Control : p 44. [28th Benelux Meeting on Systems and Control, Spa (Belgium), March 16-18, 2009].
P. Busschaert, A.H. Geeraerd, M. Uyttendaele and J.F.M. Van Impe, Estimating distributions from censored microbiological contamination data for use in quantitative risk assessment, In: M. Swevers and R. Sepulchre (Eds). Book of Abstract 28th Benelux Meeting on Systems and Control : p 71. [28th Benelux Meeting on Systems and Control, Spa (Belgium), March 16-18, 2009].
A.M. Cappuyns, K. Bernaerts, S.C. De Keersmaecker, J. Vanderleyden and J. F. Van Impe, Macroscopic modeling as a tool for gaining insight in AI-2 dynamics of Salmonella Typhimurium, In: M. Swevers and R. Sepulchre (Eds). Book of Abstract 28th Benelux Meeting on Systems and Control: p 87. [28th Benelux Meeting on Systems and Control, Spa (Belgium), March 16-18, 2009].
P.-J. D’Huys, K. Bernaerts, J. Anné, J.F. Van Impe, Quantitative characterization of Streptomyces lividans batch fermentations, In: M. Swevers and R. Sepulchre (Eds). Book of Abstract 28th Benelux Meeting on Systems and Control : p 89. [28th Benelux Meeting on Systems and Control, Spa (Belgium), March 16-18, 2009].
E. Van Derlinden, K. Bernaerts, J.F. Van Impe, On the comparison of OED/PE strategies for the identification of microbial kinetics, In: M. Swevers and R. Sepulchre (Eds). Book of Abstract 28th Benelux Meeting on Systems and Control : p 42. [28th Benelux Meeting on Systems and Control, Spa (Belgium), March 16-18, 2009].
B. Huyck, J. De Brabanter, F. Logist, J. Van Impe and B. De Moor, Identification of a distillation column for PLC control purposes, In: M. Swevers and R. Sepulchre (Eds). Book of Abstract 28th Benelux Meeting on Systems and Control : p 21. [28th Benelux Meeting on Systems and Control, Spa (Belgium), March 16-18, 2009].
P. Van Erdeghem, F. Logist and J. F. Van Impe, Model based optimisation of tubular reactors for the production of low-density polyethylene, In: M. Swevers and R. Sepulchre (Eds). Book of Abstract 28th Benelux Meeting on Systems and Control : p 96. [28th Benelux Meeting on Systems and Control, Spa (Belgium), March 16-18, 2009].
J. Bonilla, M. Diehl, B. De Moor and J. Van Impe, An initialization procedure for parameter estimation problems using simultaneous Gauss-Newton method, In: M. Swevers and R. Sepulchre (Eds). Book of Abstract 28th Benelux Meeting on Systems and Control : p 145. [28th Benelux Meeting on Systems and Control, Spa (Belgium), March 16-18, 2009].
F. Logist, P.M.M. Van Erdeghem and J.F. Van Impe, Efficient multiple objective optimal control: biochemical engineering applications, In: M. Swevers and R. Sepulchre (Eds). Book of Abstract 28th Benelux Meeting on Systems and Control : p 158. [28th Benelux Meeting on Systems and Control, Spa (Belgium), March 16-18, 2009].
UGent-SYSTeMS
J. Flochova and René Boel, On fault diagnosis of random free-choice Petri nets, accepted for the 7th IFAC Symposium on Fault Detection, Supervision and Safety of Technical Processes (SafeProcess 2009), Barcelona, Spain from June 30 - July 3, 2009.
G. Jiroveanu and René Boel, The diagnosability of Petri Nets models using minimal explanations, submitted.
Filip De Smet and Dirk Aeyels, A first-order phase transition in a multi-dimensional clustering model, 28th Benelux Meeting on Systems and Control, Spa, Belgium, March 16-18, 2009.
VUB-ELEC
L. Vanbeylen, R. Pintelon, P. de Groen, Blind Maximum Likelihood identification of Wiener systems with measurement noise, 28th Benelux Meeting on Systems and Control, Spa, Belgium, March 16-18, 2009.
A. Van Mulders, M. Volckaert, J. Swevers, M. Diehl and J. Schoukens, Comparison of two nonlinear optimization methods for black box identification, 28th Benelux Meeting on Systems and Control, Spa, Belgium, March 16-18, 2009.
W. D. Widanage, J. L. Douce and K. R. Godfrey, Effects of Overlapping and Windowing on the Estimation of the Frequency Response of a System using White Noise, 28th Benelux Meeting on Systems and Control, Spa, Belgium, March 16-18, 2009
Koen Vandermot, Yves Rolain, Gerd Vandersteen, Rik Pintelon, Estimating a Power-Scalable Linearized Model for Amplifiers, 28th Benelux Meeting on Systems and Control, Spa, Belgium, March 16-18, 2009.
Lieve Lauwers, Kurt Barbé, Wendy Van Moer and Rik Pintelon, Estimating the parameters of a Rice distribution using a Bayesian approach, 28th Benelux Meeting on Systems and Control, Spa, Belgium, March 16-18, 2009.
John Lataire and Rik Pintelon, Extracting Information on Time-Varying Systems using Multisines, 28th Benelux Meeting on Systems and Control, Spa, Belgium, March 16-18, 2009.
Kurt Barbé, Rik Pintelon and Gerd Vandersteen, Finite record effects of the errors-in-variables estimator for linear dynamic systems, 28th Benelux Meeting on Systems and Control, Spa, Belgium, March 16-18, 2009.
Wim Foubert, Carine Neus, Leo Van Biesen, Yves Rolain, Modeling and validation of the parameters of a quad cable for DSL applications, 28th Benelux Meeting on Systems and Control, Spa, Belgium, March 16-18, 2009.
Liesbeth Gommé, Yves Rolain, Johan Schoukens and Rik Pintelon, Modeling the baseband output envelope of a Microwave detector, 28th Benelux Meeting on Systems and Control, Spa, Belgium, March 16-18, 2009.
Mattijs Van de Walle, Johan Schoukens, Steve Vanlanduit, Nonlinear analysis of flutter, 28th Benelux Meeting on Systems and Control, Spa, Belgium, March 16-18, 2009.
Maite Bauwens, Henrik Ohlsson, Veerle Beelaerts, Kurt Barbé, Johan Schoukens and Frank Dehairs, Three ways to do temperature reconstruction based on Bivalveproxy information, 28th Benelux Meeting on Systems and Control, Spa, Belgium, March 16-18, 2009.
J.R.M. Aerts, J.J.J. Dirckx, R. Pintelon, Measurement of non-linear distortions in the vibration of acoustic transducers and acoustically driven membranes, Optics and Lasers in Engineering 47(2009).
Yves Van Ingelgem, Els Tourwé, Orlin Blajiev, Rik Pintelon, Annick Hubin, Advantages of Odd Random Phase Multisine Electrochemical Impedance Measurements, Electroanalysis 2009, 21, No. 6, pp. 730-739.
KUL 2
Levrie P., Daems W., Evaluating the Probability Integral Using Wallis's Product Formula for π, American Mathematical Monthly, 116(6), 538-541, 2009.
Deano A., Huybrechs D., Complex Gaussian quadrature of oscillatory integrals, Numerische Mathematik, 112(2), 197-219, 2009.
Ho Q., Verboven P., Mebatsion H., Verlinden B., Vandewalle S., Nicolaï B., Microscale mechanisms of gas exchange in fruit tissue, The new phytologist, 182, 163-174, 2009.
Vandebril R., Van Barel M., Mastronardi N., A new iteration for computing the eigenvalues of semiseparable (plus diagonal) matrices, Electronic transactions on numerical analysis, 2009.
Frederix K., Gemignani L., Van Barel M., On the fast reduction of symmetric rationally generated Toeplitz matrices to tridiagonal form, Electronic transactions on numerical analysis, 2009.
Vandebril R., Van Barel M., Mastronardi N., A multiple shift QR-step for structured rank matrices, Journal of computational and applied mathematics, 2009.
Mastronardi N., Van Barel M., Vandebril R., On the computation of the nullspace of Toeplitz-like matrices, Electronic transactions on numerical analysis, 2009.
Nuyens D., Hickernell F., Kritzer P., Kuo F., On higher order of convergence using lattice sequences, 3rd Workshop on High-Dimensional Approximation (HDA09), University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia, 16-20 February 2009.
Samaey G., Vanroose W., An analysis of equivalent operator preconditioning for equation-free Newton-Krylov methods, TW Reports, TW537, 29 pp., Leuven, Belgium: Department of Computer Science, K.U.Leuven, 2009.
Asheim A., Huybrechs D., Asymptotic analysis of numerical steepest descent with path approximations, TW Reports, TW536, 21 pp., Leuven, Belgium: Department of Computer Science, K.U.Leuven, 2009.
Bultheel A., Lasarow A., On the existence of para-orthogonal rational functions on the unit circle, TW Reports, TW535, 16 pp., Leuven, Belgium: Department of Computer Science, K.U.Leuven, 2009.
ULB
Y. Dehouck, A. Grosfils, B. Folch, D. Gilis, Ph. Bogaerts and M. Rooman, Fast and accurate predictions of protein stability changes upon mutations using statistical potentials and neural networks, PoPMuSiC-2.0, submitted to Bioinformatics.
Q. Zhao and M. Kinnaert, Statistical characterization of fault detection schemes in the framework of fault tolerant control, submitted to the IEEE CDC09.
ULg-SYST
Denis Efimov, Pierre Sacré, Rodolphe J. Sepulchre, Controlling the phase of an oscillator: a phase response curve approach, submitted to the 48th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Shanghai, China, December 2009.
Christian Lageman, Alain Sarlette, Rodolphe J. Sepulchre, Synchronization with partial state feedback on SO(n), submitted to the 48th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Shanghai, China, December 2009.
Alain Sarlette, Rodolphe J. Sepulchre, A PDE viewpoint on basic properties of coordination algorithms with symmetries, submitted to the 48th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Shanghai, China, December 2009.
Graduate School in Systems, Optimization, Control and Network.
- Some topics in combinatorial optimization, by Santanu Dey and Marco Di Summa (CORE, UCL)
Dates : the course will be held on alternate Wednesdays starting from February 4th, 2009 (Feb 4, Feb 18, March 4, March 18, April 1, April 15). Schedule : 2 PM - 5 PM.
This course will take place at the CORE, room D.360, Voie du Roman Pays 34, 1348 Louvain-la-Neuve Belgium
- Linear and nonlinear observers with applications to fault detection and isolation, by Michel Kinnaert (ULB, Belgium) and Gildas Besançon (INP Grenoble, France)
Dates : April 20, 22, 24, 27, 29, 30 Schedule : 9:15 - 12:15
This course will take place at ULB, Campus du Solbosch CP 165/55, Avenue F.D. Roosevelt 50, 1050 Brussels
For more details, see : Graduate School
You can register electronically by filling in this form.
Study Days, Workshops and Summer Schools
DISC Summer School on Distributed Control and Estimation
June 2-5, 2009
NH Conference Centre Leeuwenhorst (Noordwijkerhout) - The Netherlands
PROGRAM :
The school's program is aimed at research students and staff members of the Dutch Institute of Systems and Control (DISC), and any other PhD student, researcher or engineer engaged in the systems and control area. This year the DISC Summer School will give an introduction to the area of Distributed Control and Estimation, both from a fundamental point of view (distributed decision-making and optimization) and an engineering perspective (applications). Distinguished speakers will each present a series of tutorial lectures, and several well-known researchers will provide talks on advanced topics, which complement these lectures.
Main lecturers of the 2009 DISC Summer School will include :
- Bassam Bamieh (UC Santa Barbara, USA)
- Ali Jadbabaie (University of Pennsylvania, USA)
- Karl H. Johansson (Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden)
- Cedric Langbort (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA)
- Reza Olfati-Saber (Dartmouth College, USA)
- Michael Rotkowitz (University of Melbourne, Australia)
National lecturers:
- Andrej Jokic (Eindhoven University of Technology, the Netherlands)
- Tamas Keviczky (Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands)
- Joris Sijs (TNO Science and Industry, the Netherlands)
REGISTRATION :
The registration fee (including full-board and lodging) is 825 Euro for non-DISC members and 575 Euro for DISC-members and DISC-students. The school is limited to 60 participants based on a first-come first-serve policy.
The registration deadline is May 1, 2009.
To register for the Summer School please complete the registration form at the following website: http://www.disc.tudelft.nl/registration-2009.html
More information about the 2009 DISC Summer School can be found at: http://www.disc.tudelft.nl/activities/distributed-control-and-estimation.html
For communications regarding the conference location or registrations, please contact the DISC secretariat: Saskia van der Meer (s.m.vandermeer@tudelft.nl)
The Summer School is an activity of the Dutch Institute of Systems and Control (DISC) and is financially supported by NWO (The Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research).
Miscellaneous
Frédéric Crèvecoeur (UCL) won the Best Junior Presentation Award at the Benelux Meeting for his presentation entitled Motor commands are optimized in the gravity field by Crevecoeur F., Thonnard J.L., Lefèvre Ph.
IAP Contact Persons
| UCL-INMA | Isabelle Hisette |
| KUL 1 | Ida Tassens, Kristel Bernaerts |
| UGent-SYSTeMS | Margot Roels |
| VUB-ELEC | Ann Pintelon |
| KUL 2 | Wim Michiels, Jan Swevers |
| ULg-SYST | Rodolphe Sepulchre |
| ULB | Michel Kinnaert |
| FPMs | Alain Vande Wouwer |