Message from the Coordinator
Let me again thank all participants at the DYSCO study day, and in particular the local organizing team of Michel Kinnaert and Pascale Lathouwers. I have heard nothing but positive comments about the two plenary talks; many thanks to Francis Bach and Georges (Jojo) Bastin, and also to all other contributors.
Let me congratulate Julien Hendrickx (UCL) who has received the EECI PhD Award, which is given annually in recognition of the best PhD thesis in Europe in the field of Embedded and Networked Control. The award will be given to Julien next week at the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), in Cancun, Mexico.
And now let me turn to a momentous event that honours one of the leading members of our network, but that is also a recognition of the leadership role of DYSCO in the international scientific community. Rodolphe SEPULCHRE, promotor of our Liège team, will be awarded the Antonio Ruberti Young Researcher Award at the IEEE CDC next week. This prize, initiated in 2005, is administered by the IEEE Control Systems Society and funded by the Antonio Ruberti Foundation (Ruberti was European Commissioner for Science, Research and Education). It is awarded every year, since 2005, to the best young researcher (no more than 40 years) in systems and control. It is a tribute to Rodolphe's scientific accomplishments and leadership that he has been selected as the 4-th recipient of this award since its inception. But what is truly extraordinary is that out of the four prizes awarded so far, two have gone to members of DYSCO, the other one being Vincent BLONDEL, who received the award in 2006. The other two recipients were Richard Braatz (University of Illinois, USA) and Alessandro Astolfi (Imperial College, UK). These two awards out of four given to DYSCO members are clearly a quality stamp for our network. So let me conclude with warm congratulations to Rodolphe.
These awards (to Julien and to Rodolphe) sound like a nice Christmas gift. Let me thus wish you all a very happy Christmas.
See you in January.
Michel Gevers
DYSCO coordinator
Staff Movements and Visitors
UGent-SYSTeMS
Bogdan Nour (from University of Galati, Romania) and Ramona Hodrea (from Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania) will work within the IWT-TBM project MIMO modelling and control in ICU anesthesia in collaboration with UZ-Gent Department of Critical Care and Anesthesia (Prof. R. De Keyser).
Prof. Cesar De Prada from University of Valladolid, Spain, will be guest professor of the SYSTeMS group (Prof. R. De Keyser) between 1 and 5 December 2008. He will teach lectures on modelling and control of chemical processes.
KUL 2
Suat GUMUSSOY, previously the Mathworks, will start on December 8 as a postdoc in KUL2. He will work in collaboration with Wim Michiels on control and optimization of large-scale time-delay and networked systems.
Elias JARLEBRING, previously T.U. Braunschweig, will start on December 15 as a postdoc in KUL2. He will work in collaboration with Wim Michiels and Karl Meerbergen on nonlinear eigenvalue problems, with applications in systems and control.
Theses Defences
UGent-SYSTeMS
On Thursday, 4th December Mihaela Sbarciog will have the public defence of her PhD thesis The Stability of Biochemical Reaction Systems. The defence will take place in the room Jozef Plateau (Faculty of Engineering, Jozef Plateaustraat 22) and will start at 14:00. Everybody is welcome to attend the presentation.
ULg-SYST
On January 6, 2009, Alain SARLETTE (Ulg) will defend his PhD thesis entitled Geometry and Symmetries in Coordination Control.
The defence will take place in the Institut Montefiore (B28) at 2 pm.
Seminars
UCL
- December 9, 2008 (14:00): Trajectory planning of vertical pointing movements: using gravity to move the arm by Frédéric Crevecoeur (UCL)
- December 12, 2008 (11:00): A decision problem for ultimately periodic sets in non-standard numeration systems by Emilie Charlier, Université de Liège
- December 16, 2008 (14:00) : Performance Limitations arising in the Control of Power Plants by Vincent Wertz (UCL)
These seminars are held in the main lecture room, Building EULER, 4 av. Georges Lemaître, Louvain-la-Neuve (Parking 13).
KUL 1
- December 2, 2008 (16:00-17:00) Room : ESAT 00.62
K.U.Leuven seminars on optimization in Engineering : A globally convergent primal-dual interior-point filter method for nonlinear programming : new filter optimality measures and computational results by Luis Vicente - December 9, 2008 (14:00-15:00) Room : ESAT 00.92
K.U.Leuven seminars on optimization in Engineering : Stability optimization of a humanoid robot by Andrei Herdt - December 10, 2008 (16:00-17:00) Room : ESAT 00.62
K.U.Leuven seminars on optimization in Engineering : On central receiver solar power plants by Jan Gall (RWTH Aachen) - December 12, 2008 (15:00) - PW 01.06 (BioTeC, Willem de Croylaan 46, 3001 Heverlee)
Dynamic metabolic modeling of E. coli using lin-log kinetics by Kristel Bernaerts - December 17, 2008 (16:00-17:00) Room : ESAT Aud. A.
K.U.Leuven seminars on optimization in Engineering : Nonlinear balancing and model reduction by Erik Verriest - December 18, 2008 (17:00), Aula Machinezaal of the Thermotechnical Institute
Doctoral presentation : Bram Van Dun : Improving auditory steady-state response dectection using multichannel EEG signal processing
Papers produced by the IAP Network
UCL
A.S. Bazanella, X. Bombois and M. Gevers, Connecting informative experiments, the information matrix and the minima of a Prediction Error Identification criterion, submitted to IFAC Symposium on System Identification (SYSID) 2009
Nicolas Gillis, François Glineur, Nonnegative factorization and the maximum edge biclique problem, submitted, 2008
Michael W. Berry, Nicolas Gillis, François Glineur, Document Classification Using Nonnegative Matrix Factorization and Underapproximation, submitted to ISCAS 2009
G. Bastin, J-M. Coron, B. d'Andréa-Novel, On Lyapunov stability of linearised Saint-Venant equations for a sloping channel, submitted to Networks and Heterogeneous Media
G. Bastin, L. Moens, P. Dierickx, On line river flow forecasting with Hydromax : successes and challenges after twelve years of experience, submitted 15th IFAC Symposium on System Identification SYSID 09, Saint-Malo, France, July 2009
Fabian J. Theis, Thomas P. Cason, P.-A. Absil, Soft dimension reduction for ICA by joint diagonalization on the Stiefel manifold, Submitted, 2008
Favache A, Dochain D, Perrier M, et al., Extremum-seeking control of retention for a micro particulate system, Canadian Journal of Chemical Engineering, 86(5), pp 815-827, Oct. 2008
Paul Van Dooren, Catherine Fraikin, Similarity matrices for colored graphs, submitted to Bulletin of the Belgian Mathematical Society, 2008
B. Abouzaid, M. E. Achhab and V. Wertz, Local stabilization of linear distributed parameter systems under constraints on both control and its rate via compensator, Proceedings of 16th Mediterranean Conference on Control and Automation, Congress Centre, Ajaccio, France, pp 958-963, June 25-27, 2008
Langbort C., Delvenne J-Ch., Distributed design methods for linear quadratic control and their limitations, to appear in IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 2008
Blondel V., Bell P., Delvenne J-Ch., Jungers R., The continuous Skolem-Pisot problem: On the complexity of reachability for linear ordinary differential equations, to appear, 2008
Delvenne J-Ch., What is a universal computing machine?, to appear in Applied Mathematics and Computation, 2008
Cassaigne J., Jungers R., On the number of a-power-free words for 2 < a < 7/3", to appear in the Book of abstract of the Journées Numération, Prague, 2008
Jungers R., Protasov V., Counterexamples to the CPE conjecture, submitted, 2008
Jungers R., Blondel V., Observable graphs, submitted, 2008
Khan A.Z., Blohm G., McPeek R.M., Lefèvre Ph., Differential influence of attention on gaze and head movements, Journal of Neurophysiology, in press, 2008
KUL 1
Agudelo M., Espinosa J., DeMoor B., Acceleration of Nonlinear POD Models: A Neural Network Approach, Internal Report 08-188, ESAT-SISTA, K.U.Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), 2008.
Van Meerbergen G., Moonen M., De Man H., Reed-Solomon codes implementing a coded single-carrier with cyclic prefix scheme, Internal Report 08-190, ESAT-SISTA, K.U.Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), 2008. IEEE Transactions on Communications, 2008.
Ercsey-Ravasz M., Fransens F., Pfeiffer H., Monavon G., Korosec C., HIllger W., Van Huffel S., Wevers M., Structural Health Monitoring of a helicopter tail boom using lamb waves ? Advanced data analysis of results obtained with integrated optical fibre sensing technology, in Proc. of the Project Meeting on Aircraft Integrated Structural Health Assessment (AISHA), Leuven, Belgium, Jun. 2007, 8 p. 08-192
Tsiaflakis P., Yi Y., Chiang M., Moonen M., Dynamic Spectrum Management for Green DSL, Internal Report 08-192, ESAT-SISTA, K.U.Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), 2008.
De Brabanter K., Dreesen P., Karsmakers P., Pelckmans K., De Brabanter J., Suykens J.A.K., De Moor B., Fixed-Size LS-SVM Applied to the Wiener-Hammerstein Benchmark, Internal Report 08-196, ESAT-SISTA, K.U.Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), 2008.
Huyck B., Logist F., De Brabanter J., Van Impe J., De Moor B., Black-Box Identification for PLC based MPC of a Binary Distillation Column., Internal Report 08-199, ESAT-SISTA, K.U.Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), 2008.
Pelckmans K., Van Belle V., Van Huffel S., Suykens J.A.K., Learning Lipschitz-smooth Utility Functions for Transformation Models in Ranking Problems, Internal Report 08-201, ESAT-SISTA, K.U.Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), 2008.
Falck T., Pelckmans K., Suykens J.A.K., De Moor B., Identification of Wiener-Hammerstein Systems using LS-SVMs, Internal Report 08-202, ESAT-SISTA, K.U.Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), 2008.
Signoretto M., Pelckmans K., Suykens J.A.K., Functional ANOVA Models: Convex-concave approach and concurvity analysis, Internal Report 08-203, ESAT-SISTA, K.U.Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), 2008.
Le Nir V., van Waterschoot T., Moonen M., Duplicy J., Blind ZP-OFDM parameter estimation in frequency selective channels, Internal Report 08-204, ESAT-SISTA, K.U.Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), 2008.
Francart T., Perception of binaural localization cues with combined electric and acoustic hearing, PhD thesis, Faculty of Engineering, K.U.Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), Nov. 2008, 217 p.
Van Dun B., Improving auditory steady-state response detection using multichannel EEG signal processing, PhD thesis, Faculty of Engineering, K.U.Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), Dec. 2008, 223 p.
Komarov M.A., Osipov G.V., Suykens J.A.K., Sequentially activated clusters in neural networks, Internal Report 08-207, ESAT-SISTA, K.U.Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), 2008.
Poullet J.B., Quantification and Classification of Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopic Data for Brain Tumor Diagnosis, PhD thesis, Faculty of Engineering, K.U.Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), Nov. 2008, 206 p.
N. Moelants, I.Y. Smets and J.F. Van Impe, Single family wastewater treatment systems: a guide to select the most suited system, submitted, 2008
T.E. Theys, A.H. Geeraerd, F. Devlieghere, J.F. Van Impe, Simulating evolution of living and dead cell fractions of Salmonella Typhimurium colonies in gelatin gels based on microscopic images and plate count data, Letters in Applied Microbiology, submitted, 2008
T.E. Theys, A.H. Geeraerd, J.F. Van Impe, Evaluation of a mathematical model structure describing the effect of (gel) structure on the growth of Listeria innocua, Lactococcus lactis and Salmonella Typhimurium, Journal of Applied Microbiology, submitted, 2008
J. Bonilla, M. Diehl, F. Logist, B. De Moor and J. Van Impe, A convexity-based homotopy method for nonlinear optimization in model predictive control, Revised version submitted, 2008
Julian Bonilla, Moritz Diehl, Bart L.R. De Moor, Jan F.M. Van Impe, Nonlinear Least Squares Estimation Procedure without Initial Parameter Guesses, 47th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Cancun, Mexico, December, 9-11 2008
B. Huyck, F. Logist, J. De Brabanter, J. Van Impe and B. De Moor, Black-Box Identification for PLC based MPC of a Binary Distillation Column, submitted to conference, 2008
F. Logist, M. Fabré, M. Verwerft, B. Pluymers and J.F. Van Impe, Identification and control of a pilot scale binary distillation column, submitted to conference, 2008
UGent-SYSTeMS
F. Petit, M. Loccufier, D. Aeyels, On the attachment location of dynamic vibration absorbers, accepted for publication in Journal of Vibration and Acoustics, 2008
Ionescu C., De Keyser R., Relations between Fractional Order Model Parameters and Lung Pathology in Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease, IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, 10 pages, in print, 2009
Ionescu C., Segers P., De Keyser R., Mechanical properties of the respiratory system derived from morphologic insight, IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, 10 pages, in print, 2009
Manuel Galvez, De Keyser R., Ionescu C., Nonlinear Predictive Control with Dead-time Compensator: Application to a Solar Power Plant, Elsevier, Solar Energy, in print, 2009
Nino J., Syafiie S., De Keyser R., Ionescu C., Struys M., EPSAC Controlled anesthesia with online gain adaptation, accepted for special issue "Trust me I am a doctor" of the Int. Journal of Adaptive Control and Signal Processing, in print, 2009
Ionescu C., De Keyser R., Exploring the advantages of blind source separation in monitoring input respiratory impedance during apneic events, in the CEAI Journal of Control Engineering and Applied Informatics, Politechnica University of Bucharest, Romania, 10(3), ISSN 1454-8658, Ed.: Dumitrache I., pp. 53-58, 2008 (free access at: www.ceai.srait.ro)
Ionescu C., Chirita M., Stress-strain properties of natural and biomimetical formed collagen constructs, Int. Journal of Technology and Healthcare, IOS Press, in print, 2009
Ionescu C., De Keyser R., Model-free Adaptive Control in Frequency Domain: Application to Mechanical Ventilation, In: Frontiers in Adaptive Control, pp. 253-270, to appear in Dec 2008, I-Tech press
Ionescu C., De Keyser R., Time domain validation of a fractional order model for human respiratory system, in the 14th IEEE Mediterranean Electrochemical Conf (MELECON08), Ajaccio, Corsica, IEEE Cat Nr CFP08MEL-CDR, ISBN 978-1-4244-1633-2, pp. 89-95, 2008
Hodrea R., Ionescu C., De Keyser R., Nonlinear EPSAC predictive control of blood glucose level in diabetic patients for prandial disturbance rejection, in Proceedings of the IEEE-TTTC Int. Conf. on Automation, Quality and Testing Robotics (AQTR08), 1-4244-2577-8/08, Cluj-Napoca, Romania, 6 pages, 2008
Ionescu C, Nour B., De Keyser R., Dugan V., Respiratory pressure level regulation based on a fractional-order model for subjects with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, in IEEE Proc. 11th Int. Conf. on Optimization of electrical and electronic equipment (OPTIM08), IEEE Cat. Nr 08EX1996C, ISBN 1-4244-1545-4, Vol ID-04, pp.99-104, 2008
Ionescu C., De Keyser R., Correlations between fractional-order model parameters and the effect of geometrical changes in human respiratory airways, in Proceedings of the 8th Int. Conf. on Technical Informatics (CONTI08), Timisoara, Romania, vol I, pp. 41-46, 2008
Ionescu C., Hodrea R., De Keyser R., Impact of disturbance filter in nonlinear EPSAC predictive control of blood glucose level in type I diabetic patients, in Proceedings of the IEEE - Multi Conference on Systems & Control, ISSN 978-1-4244-4/08, San Antonio, Texas USA, 672-677, 2008
Ionescu C., Tun M., De Keyser R., Lazar C., A Frequency response tool for CACSD in Matlab with generalized order transfer function in CD-Rom Proceedings of the 3rd IFAC Int. Conf. - FDA08 Fractional Differentiation and Applications, 5-7 Nov 2008, Ankara, Turkey
Nascu I., De Keyser R., Vlad G.,Nascu I(a)., Modelling and control aspects of wastewater treatment processes, Ecoterra, nr 18, year V, Sept 2008, pp. 27-30, ISSN 154-7071
Orjuela Vargas S., Copot C, Syafiie S, Vansteenkiste E., Rooms F., Philips W., De Keyser R., Van Langenhove L., Carpet wear classification using coocurrence matrices and support vector machines, in Proceedings of the XIII Symp de tratamento de señales, imágenes y vision artificial, STSIVA 2008, Bucaramanga, 10-12 Sept. 2008
VUB-ELEC
T. De Troyer, P. Guillaume, R. Pintelon, S. Vanlanduit, Fast calculation of confidence intervals on parameter estimates of least-squares frequency-domain estimators, Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing, 23 (2009), pp. 261-273
S. Bronckers, K. Scheir, G. Van der Plas, Y. Rolain, The impact of substrate noise on a 48-53 GHz mm-wave LC-VCO, 9th Topical Meeting on Silicon Monolithic Integrated Circuits in RF Systems (SiRF09), San Diego, CA, January 19-21, 2009
L. Vanbeylen, R. Pintelon, J. Schoukens, Blind maximum likelihood identification of Hammerstein systems, Automatica 44 (2008), pp. 3139-3146
KUL 2
A. Bultheel and M.J. Cantero, A matricial computation of rational quadrature formulas on the unit circle, Numer, Algorithms, to appear, 2008.
ULg-SYST
Michel Journée, Yurii Nesterov, Peter Richtarik, Rodolphe Sepulchre, Generalized power method for sparse principal component analysis, http://arxiv.org/abs/0811.4724
ULB
M. Kinnaert, T. Delwiche and Y. Yamé, State resetting for bumpless switching in supervisory control, Submitted to ECC09
Graduate School on Systems, Optimization, Control and Network.
- Introduction to derivative-free optimization, by L.N. Vicente (University of Coimbra, Portugal)
Date : December 01, 03, 05, 2008 - Optimal control and optimization, by E. Verriest (Georgia Institute of Technology)
Date : December 01, 03, 05, 2008
These two courses will take place at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Department Elektrotechniek ESAT, Kasteelpark Arenberg 10, 3001 Heverlee.
For more details, see : Graduate School
You can register electronically by filling in this form.
Study Days, Workshops and Summer Schools
The 28th Benelux Meeting on Systems and Control
will be held in the Domain Sol Cress, Spa, Belgium, on March 16-18, 2009.
The aim of this meeting is to promote research activities and cooperation between researchers in Systems and Control. It is the twenty-eigth in a series of annual conferences that are held alternately in Belgium and The Netherlands.
The scientific program includes:
- Two plenary lectures:
- Navin Khaneja (Harvard University, USA): Control of ensembles
- René Vidal (Johns Hopkins University, USA): Binet-Cauchy Kernels for the Recognition of Visual Dynamics
- A mini course : Jorge Cortés and Sonia Martínez (University of California at San Diego, USA): Distributed control of Robotic Networks
- Regular and invited sessions with contributed lectures
Abstracts are solicited for the regular sessions through online submission on the conference website.
The deadline for abstract submission is December 31, 2008.
Miscellaneous
UCL
- The EECI PhD Award, which is given annually in recognition of the best PhD thesis in Europe in the field of Embedded and Networked Control, has been granted this year to Julien Hendrickx. He will be given this award in December during the 47th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control in Cancun, Mexico. Dr Hendrickx realized his thesis under the supervision of Prof. Vincent Blondel; he is a holder of a research mandate funded by FNRS and will be a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the MIT (Cambridge, USA) from January, 2009.
- Ph. Lefèvre, S. Coppe, F. Crevecoeur, P. Daye, G. Leclercq and Th. André took part to Neuroscience 2008, the 38th annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, held from November 15 to 19 in Washington, DC and to the 4th European Biomedical Engineering Congress held in Antwerp from November 23 to 27, where they presented posters.
- In the framework of the Chaire Francqui Interuniversitaire au titre étranger 2008-2009, the UCL Crypto Group invites you to a talk given by Erik Demaine (MIT)', whose title is: (Theoretical) Computer Science is Everywhere. This talk will take place on Wednesday December 3, 2008 (16:00) at UCL, Place Sainte Barbe 1, Auditoire BARB 92. More information here.
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 |