Message of the Coordinator
This is my last "message of the coordinator", since this is also the last month of the current IAP.
For this last message I have the pleasant opportunity to congratulate my colleague, Georges Bastin, for his honorary doctorate awarded by the Grenoble Institute of Technology on February 10th, 2012. This reflects, once again, the very strong international reputation of our network. I use this opportunity to thank every member of the IAP: the quality of a network indeed heavily depends on the quality of its individual members and makes the job of the coordinator very easy.
I hope of course that our IAP network will be renewed but, at the current time, we do not know if this will be case. Considering the strength of the proposal that was submitted by the new team, coordinated by Vincent Blondel, I dear to hope for the best.
Paul Van Dooren
DYSCO coordinator
Staff Movements and Visitors
UCL
- Lionel Tabourier (LIP6, Université de Paris 6) will be at UCL on March 8 and 9 to work with V. Blondel and his team.
KUL 1
- Le Hong TRANG : March 17, 2012. Promotor : Moritz Diehl.
VUB-ELEC
- Per LANDIN, University of Gävle, Sweden: from March 1-March 31, 2012
- Hin Kwan WONG, University of Warwick, UK: from March 12 until April 4, 2012
- Lennart LJUNG, Linköping University, Sweden, from March 7 until March 9, 2012
- Hakan Hjalmarsson, Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden, from March 7 until March 9, 2012
- Paul VAN DEN HOF, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands, from March 7 until March 9, 2012
- Marco CAMPI, University of Brescia, Italy, from March 7 until March 9, 2012
- Tadeusz DOBROWIECKI, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, from March 16 until March 20, 2012
UGent-SYSTeMS
- Jonathan ROGGE has left SYSTeMS on February 29th to work at Atlas Copco as Multi-Body Systems Dynamics Engineer.
KUL 2
- The KUL2 team welcomes Gowri SURYANARAYANA (PhD student, supervised by Dirk Nuyens and Ronald Cools).
ULB
- Mohamed ZERROUGUI, Post-Doc, Centre de Recherche en Automatique de Nancy, starting in March 2012.
Seminars
UCL
- March 6, 2012 - 14:00 - Euler seminar room
Manuel Lopez-Martinez (Universidad de Sevilla), Constructive Feedback Linearization Of Mechanical Systems With Friction and Underactuation Degree One. - March 9, 2012 - 11:00 - Euler seminar room
Lionel Tabourier (LIP6, Université de Paris 6), Generating constrained random graphs applied to interaction networks analysis. - March 13, 2012 - 14:00 - Euler seminar room
François Wielant (UCL), Production d'un couple étalon adapté à une balance gravitationnelle réalisée à l'Observatoire Royal de Belgique. - March 16, 2012 - 11:00 - Euler seminar room
Jari Saramaki (Aalto University, Finland) - March 22, 2012 - 11:00 - Euler seminar room
Andrea Lancichinetti (Institute for Scientific Interchange, Torino, Italy), Consensus clustering in complex networks
ULg-SYST
Systmod weekly seminars normally take place on each Friday, 11am. They are announced on this webpage.
- Friday 9/3/2012 - 10:30-12:30 - Room R7, Montefiore Institute (B28)
Yurii Nesterov, Francqui Chair lecture - Friday 16/3/2012 - 10:30-12:30 - Room R7, Montefiore Institute (B28)
Yurii Nesterov, Francqui Chair lecture - Friday 23/3/2012 - 10:30-12:30 - Room R7, Montefiore Institute (B28)
Yurii Nesterov, Francqui Chair lecture
Theses defenses
UCL
- Gautier Krings, Extraction of information from large networks. Promotor : Vincent Blondel. March 15, 2012, 15:00 in Auditorium Barb91, Place Sainte-Barbe, Louvain-la-Neuve.
Papers produced by the IAP Network
UCL
A. Browet, P-A Absil, P. Van Dooren, Performance of a Synchronized Community Detection Algorithm, submitted for presentation at MTNS 2012, Melbourne, Australia, 9-13 July 2012.
Pierre M. Daye, Gunnar Blohm, and Philippe Lefèvre, Target motion direction influence on tracking performance and head tracking strategies in head-unrestrained conditions, Journal of Vision (2012) 12(1):23, 1-12.
Nicolas Gillis, François Glineur, Accelerated Multiplicative Updates and Hierarchical ALS Algorithms for Nonnegative Matrix Factorization, acceped in Neural Computation, 2012.
P. Tsiaflakis, and F. Glineur, A novel class of iterative approximation methods for DSL spectrum optimization, to appear in Proc. of IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC 2012), Ottawa, Canada, June 2012.
V.A. Traag, P. Van Dooren and Y. Nesterov, Reputation Dynamics through Gossiping, Negative Ties and Social Networks workshop, Budapest, 19-20 April.
KUL 1
G. Gins, P. Van den Kerkhof, J.F.M Van Impe, Hybrid derivative dynamic time warping for online industrial batch-end quality estimation, Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research (accepted for publication), 2012.
Pieter Van den Kerkhof, Geert Gins, Jef Vanlaer, Jan F.M. Van Impe, Dynamic model-based fault diagnosis for (bio)chemical batch processes, Computers and Chemical Engineering (accepted for publication), 2012.
E. Van Derlinden and J. F. Van Impe, Modeling microbial kinetics as a function of temperature: evaluation of dynamic experiments to identify the growth/inactivation interface, Journal of Food Engineering 108 (1): 201-210, 2012.
F. Logist and J. Van Impe, Novel insights for multi-objective optimisation in engineering using Normal Boundary Intersection and (Enhanced) Normalised Normal Constraint, Structural and Multidisciplinary Optimization 45 (3): 417-431, 2012.
N.S. Abo-Ghander, F. Logist, J.R. Grace, J.F.M. Van Impe, S.S.E.H. Elnashaie and C.J. Lim, Comparison of diffusion models in the modelling of a catalytic membrane fixed bed reactor coupling dehydrogenation of ethylbenzene with hydrogenation of nitrobenzene, Computers and Chemical Engineering 38: 11-23, 2012.
De Lathauwer L., De Vos M., Gradient-based ICA-CPA, Internal Report 12-16, ESAT-SISTA, K.U.Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), 2012.
Despotovic I., Perumpillichira J.C., De Vos M., Hallez H., Deburchgraeve W., Govaert P., Lequin M., Visser G.H., Swarte R.M., Vansteenkiste E., Van Huffel S., Philips W., Relationship of EEG sources of neonatal seizures to acute perinatal brain lesions seen on MRI: a pilot study, Internal Report 12-17, ESAT-SISTA, K.U.Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), 2012.
Mijovic B., De Vos M., Vanderperren K., Van Huffel S., Improving Spatio-Temporal Characterisation of Cognitive Processes with Data-Driven EEG-fMRI Analysis, Internal Report 12-18, ESAT-SISTA, K.U.Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), 2012.
Mijovic B., Popovic M.B., Popvic D.B., ''Synergistic control of forearm based on accelerometer data and artificial neural network, Synergistic control of forearm, Brazilian Journal of Medical and Biological Research, vol. 41, no. 5, Apr. 2008, pp. 389-397.
Huyck B., Callebaut L., Logist F., Ferreau H. J., Diehl M., De Brabanter J., Van Impe J., De Moor B., Implementation and Experimental Validation of Classical MPC on Programmable Logic Controllers, Internal Report 12-20, ESAT-SISTA, K.U.Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), 2012.
Qazi O., Wouters J., Van Dijk B., Moonen M., Speech Understanding Performance of Cochlear Implant Subjects using Time-Frequency Masking based Noise Reduction, Internal Report 12-21, ESAT-SISTA, K.U.Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), 2012. Accepted for publication in IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering.
De Brabanter K., De Moor B., Deconvolution in Nonparametric Statistics, Internal Report 12-23, ESAT-SISTA, K.U.Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), 2012. Accepted for publication in European Symposium on Artificial Neural Networks, Computational Intelligence and Machine Learning.
Matijas M., Suykens J.A.K., Krajcar S., Load Forecasting in a Multivariate Meta-Learning System, Internal Report 12-25, ESAT-SISTA, K.U.Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), 2012.
Moraes R. B., Tsiaflakis P., Maes J. and Moonen M., DMT MIMO-IC Rate Maximization in DSL with Combined Signal and Spectrum Coordination, Internal Report 12-26, ESAT-SISTA, K.U.Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), 2012.
Li Y., Sima D., Van Cauter S., Croitor Sava A., Himmelreich U., Pi Y., Van Huffel S., Hierarchical NMF: An automatic tissue type differentiation method for glioblastoma multiforme diagnosis using MRSI, Internal Report 12-27, ESAT-SISTA, K.U.Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), 2012.
Batselier K., Dreesen P., De Moor B., A geometrical approach to finding multivariate approximate LCMs and GCDs, Internal Report 12-29, ESAT-SISTA, K.U.Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), 2012.
Tsiaflakis P., Yi Y., Chiang M., Moonen M., Throughput and Delay Performance of DSL Broadband Access with Cross-layer Dynamic Spectrum Management, Internal Report 12-30, ESAT-SISTA, K.U.Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), 2012.
Agudelo M., Viaene P., De Moor B., Improvement of the PM10 estimations of the air quality model AURORA by means of Kalman filtering techniques, Internal Report 12-32, ESAT-SISTA, K.U.Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), 2012.
Houska B., Diehl M., A quadratically convergent inexact SQP method for optimal control of differential algebraic equations, Internal Report 12-33, ESAT-SISTA, K.U.Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), 2012. Accepted for publication in Optimal Control Applications and Methods.
Vukov M., Van Loock W., Houska B., Ferreau H.J., Swevers J., Diehl M., Experimental Validation of Nonlinear MPC on an Overhead Crane using Automatic Code Generation, Internal Report 12-34, ESAT-SISTA, K.U.Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), 2012. Accepted for publication in Proceedings of the 2012 Americal Control Conference, Montreal, Canada.
Sternberg J., Houska B., Diehl M., A Structure Exploiting Algorithm for Approximate Robust Optimal Control with Application to Power Generating Kites, Internal Report 12-35, ESAT-SISTA, K.U.Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), 2012. Accepted for publication in Proceedings of the 2012 Americal Control Conference, Montreal, Canada.
Sorber L., Van Barel M., De Lathauwer L., Optimization-based algorithms for tensor decompositions : canonical polyadic decomposition, decomposition in rank-$(L_r,L_r,1)$ terms and a new generalization, Internal Report 12-37, ESAT-SISTA, K.U.Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), 2012.
Logist F., Vallerio M., Houska B., Diehl M., Van Impe J., Multi-objective optimal control of chemical processes using ACADO Toolkit, Computers and Chemical Engineering, vol. 21, no. 7, 2012, pp. 1203-1212.
Wolf M., Bucher H.U., Rudin M., Van Huffel S., Wolf U., Bruley D.F., Harrison D.K. (eds.), Oxygen Transport to Tissue XXXIII, vol. 373 of Adv. Exp. Med. Biol., Springer, 2012, 322 p.
UGent-SYSTeMS
Alain Sarlette, Consensus on nonlinear spaces and graph coloring, Proceedings of the 50th IEEE Conference on Decision & Control, Orlando, pp. 4885-4890 (2011).
Jing Dai, Yannick Phulpin, Alain Sarlette and Damien Ernst, Coordinated primary frequency control among non-synchronous systems connected by a multi-terminal high-voltage direct current grid, IET Generation, Transmission & Distribution vol.6(2), pp. 99-108 (2012).
N.Marinică, M.Capiluppi, J.Rogge, R. Segala and R. Boel, Distributed collision avoidance for autonomous vehicles: world automata representation, Proceedings of ADHS'12, Accepted.
Nicolae Marinică and Rene Boel, Platoon based model for urban traffic control, Proceedings of American Control Conference, 2012, Accepted.
VUB-ELEC
Veerle Beelaerts, Maite Bauwens, Rik Pintelon, Time Series Reconstruction from Unequally Spaced Natural Archive Data, Mathematical Geosciences, Vol. 44, 2012.
Hin Kwan Wong; Schoukens, J.; Godfrey, K.R., Analysis of Best Linear Approximation of a Wiener–Hammerstein System for Arbitrary Amplitude Distributions, IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement, Vol. 61, No. 3, March 2012, pp. 645–654.
Schoukens, M.; Rolain, Y., Cross-term Elimination in Parallel Wiener Systems Using a Linear Input Transformation, IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement, Vol. 61, No. 3, March 2012, pp. 845–847.
Jan Goos and Rik Pintelon, State Space Identification for Linear Parameter-Varying Systems, 31th Benelux Meeting on Systems and Control, March 27-29 2012, CenterParcs Heijderbos, Heijden, The Netherlands.
KUL 2
Boettcher, Albrecht; Grudsky, Sergei; Huybrechs, Daan; Iserles, Arieh, First-order trace formulae for the iterates of the Fox–Li operator, Ball, J. A.; Dym, H.; Kaashoek, M. A.; Langer, H.; Tretter, C (eds.), A Panorama of Modern Operator Theory and Related Topics. The Israel Gohberg Memorial Volume, pages 207-224, Springer, 2012.
Humet Cienfuegos Jovellanos, Matthias; Van Barel, Marc, When is the Uvarov transformation positive definite?, Numerical Algorithms, volume 59, issue 1, pages 51-62, 2012.
Humet Cienfuegos Jovellanos, Matthias; Van Barel, Marc, Algorithms for the Geronimus transformation for orthogonal polynomials on the unit circle, TW Reports, volume TW608, 29 pages, Department of Computer Science, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium, January 2012.
Kaatz, Forrest; Estrada, Ernesto; Bultheel, Adhemar; Sharrock, Noel, Statistical mechanics of two dimensional tilings, Physica A, Statistical and Theoretical Physics, volume 391, pages 2957-2963, 2012.
Speleers, Hendrik, Interpolation with quintic Powell-Sabin splines, Applied Numerical Mathematics, 2012 (Accepted).
Speleers, Hendrik; Manni, Carla; Pelosi, Francesca; Sampoli, M. Lucia, Isogeometric analysis with Powell-Sabin splines for advection-diffusion-reaction problems, Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, 2012 (Accepted).
Vandereycken, Bart; Absil, P.-A.; Vandewalle, Stefan, A Riemannian geometry with complete geodesics for the set of positive semidefinite matrices of fixed rank, IMA Journal of Numerical Analysis, 2012 (Accepted)
Vannieuwenhoven, Nick; Vandebril, Raf; Meerbergen, Karl, A new truncation strategy for the higher-order singular value decomposition, SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing, 2012 (Accepted)
Wu, Zhen; Michiels, Wim, Reliably computing all characteristic roots of delay differential equations in a given right half plane, Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics, volume 236, pages 2499-2514, 2012.
ULB
A. Haye, J. Albert, M. Rooman, Robust non-linear differential equation models of gene expression evolution across Drosophila development', BMC Res. Notes 5 (2012) 46.
A. Haye, J. Albert, Y. Dehouck, M. Rooman, Detection of Developmental and Perturbation Stages from DNA Microarray Time Series and Robust Modeling of Gene Expression Evolution, Proceedings of the Vienne Conference on Mathematical Modelling (MathMod 2012), Vienna, February 15-17, 2012.
M.M. Nicotra, A. Buttafuoco and M. Kinnaert, Hybrid model for haptic lung palpation, To appear in the proceedings of SYSID2012, Brussels, July 11-13, 2012.
Graduate School in Systems, Optimization, Control and Networks
The SOCN Graduate School 2011-2012 programme is available on-line : http://sites.uclouvain.be/socn/
The next course is entitled Observers for Control. It will be given by Jaime MORENO (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), Mexico) on April 16, 18, 20, 23, 25, 27, 2012 (9:15-12:15) at UCL, Bâtiment Euler, 4 av. Georges Lemaître, 1348 Louvain-la-Neuve (room A002, ground floor).
More information about this course : http://sites.uclouvain.be/socn/Courses/Courses2011-4
On-line registrations are welcome via this form.
Awards
Professor Georges Bastin was awarded the prestigious title of Doctor Honoris Causa by the Grenoble Institute of Technology on February 10th, 2012. The following citation is extracted from that ceremony :
Georges Bastin is a specialist in the control of complex dynamic systems. He takes a particular interest in the modelling and control of compartmental dynamic systems, networked dynamic systems governed by conservation laws (partial differential equations). In awarding him an honorary Doctorate, INP Grenoble acknowledges a prominent figure in the international control science community, one who has shown great scientific rigour and uncommon intellectual curiosity.
Vacancies
Le laboratoire AMPERE - UMR CNRS 5005 - recrute 2 Maîtres de Conférences 61ème section en 2012 (1 poste à l’INSA de Lyon et 1 poste à l’Ecole Centrale de Lyon) avec un profil Automatique, le second poste étant aussi ouvert à un profil Traitement du Signal. Le candidat devra avoir de solides compétences en Automatique (Automatique ou Traitement du Signal pour le second) afin de renforcer l’une des compétences existantes (analyse structurelle, commande non linéaire, commande robuste/LPV, estimation, modélisation multiphysique, optimisation, bond graph, dimensionnement, inversion de modèle) ou afin de les compléter, tout en étant ouvert à la transdisciplinarité.
- 1 poste de Maitre de Conférences INSA de Lyon Section 61 (Automatique / Mécatronique)
Conception et commande des systèmes mécatroniques
Ecole de rattachement : INSA de Lyon - département Génie Mécanique Conception (GMC)
Equipe d'accueil : un des groupes du département Méthode pour l'Ingénierie des Systèmes du Laboratoire Ampère
Mots-clefs : modélisation, inversion de systèmes dynamiques, dimensionnement, conception, commande, systèmes mécatroniques
- 1 poste de Maitre de Conférences Ecole Centrale de Lyon (ECL) Section 61 (Automatique / Traitement du signal)
Analyse, traitement et modélisation de signaux issus de données biologiques
Ecole de rattachement : Ecole Centrale de Lyon - département Electronique Electrotechnique Automatique (EEA)
Equipe d'accueil : un des groupes du département Bio-Ingénierie du Laboratoire Ampère
Mots-clefs : automatique, optimisation, robustesse, traitement du signal, ingénierie pour le vivant
Contact :
Gérard Scorletti (gerard.scorletti@ec-lyon.fr)
Professeur en Automatique et Traitement du Signal
Ecole Centrale de Lyon
http://www.ec-lyon.fr/
Département EEA - Equipe d'Automatique Traitement du Signal
Membre du Groupe Automatique, Commande et Mécatronique
Département Méthodes pour l'Ingéniérie des Systèmes
Laboratoire Ampère UMR CNRS 5005
http://www.ampere-lyon.fr/
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 |
| UMONS | Alain Vande Wouwer |