Message from the Coordinator
On Thursday 28 May we will have our first study day in Mons, since the team of Alain Vande Wouwer (Faculté Polytechnique de Mons) is a new member of our network. The programme of this study day appears further in this Newsletter. Study days are an important opportunity for PhD students, particularly, to present their work to members of the other teams and to obtain valuable feedback and suggestions from these other members. In addition to the poster sessions, we will have a brief report on the research accomplished in the network, as well as two plenary lectures by senior members of DYSCO.
If you have not yet registered, please do so immediately. The promotor of each team collects the list of participants from his team. I look forward to meeting you all in Mons on that occasion.
Michel Gevers
DYSCO coordinator
Staff Movements and Visitors
UCL
On the 4th of May, Vincent Traag (University of Amsterdam) started a doctoral research under the supervision of Paul Van Dooren. His research topic is : "Social networks with positive and negative weights".
Jean-Baptiste Rouquier (ENS, Lyon) visited CESAME on 30 April.
VUB-ELEC
Jonas Sjoberg, Chalmers University of Technology, Göteborg, Sweden: from 12/5/2009 until 15/5/2009
Matthew S. Holzel, University of Michigan, Dept. of Aerospace Engineering, USA: from 16/5/2009 until 21/06/2009 (doctoral school)
Anthony M. D'Amato, University of Michigan, Dept. of Aerospace Engineering, USA: : from 16/5/2009 until 21/06/2009 (doctoral school)
Adam Narbudowicz, Universiteit Gent, Dept. of Information Technology: from 16/5/2009 until 21/06/2009 (doctoral school)
David Rijlaarsdam, Eindhoven University of Technology, Control and Systems Technology, The Netherlands: from 16/5/2009 until 21/06/2009 (doctoral school)
Hathi Erlan Sevil, Artificial Intelligence and Design Laboratory, Mechanical Engineering Dept., Izmir, Turkey: from 16/5/2009 until 21/06/2009 (doctoral school)
Per Landin, University of Gävle, Gävle, Sweden: : from 16/5/2009 until 21/06/2009 (doctoral school)
Wim De Mulder, Universiteit Gent, : from 16/5/2009 until 21/06/2009 (doctoral school)
Aditya Pappula, Department of Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur: from 16/5/2009 until 15/07/2009 (doctoral school)
Pepe Cilcacho, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, ESAT: from 16/5/2009 until 21/06/2009 (doctoral school)
Medishetty Bhavya, Department of Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur: from 16/5/2009 until 15/07/2009 (doctoral school)
Senay Amanuel Negusse, Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Stockholm, Sweden: from 16/5/2009 until 21/06/2009 (doctoral school)
Castaño Arranz Miguel, Luleå University of Technology, Dept. of Comp. Science and Electrical Engineering, Sweden: from 16/5/2009 until 21/06/2009 (doctoral school)
Seminars
UCL
- May 5, 2009 - 14:00 - Bât. Euler
Cristina STOICA (SUPELEC, France), Robustification hors ligne de lois de commande prédictives multivariables. - May 8, 2009 - 11:00 - Bât. Euler
Li-Bei Chen (Managing Director Vadis) (Large graphs and networks). - 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. - May 19, 2009 - 14:00 - Bât. Euler
Ilse IPSEN (North Carolina State University), Subset Selection. - June 4, 2009 - 16:30 - Bât. Euler
Pierre ROUCHON (Ecole des Mines, Paris), Colloquium CESAME-MAPA, Fonctions Gevrey et contrôle frontière de certaines EDP. - June 9, 2009 - 14:00 - Bât. Euler
Raphaël JUNGERS (CESAME), Joint spectral radius and combinatorics. - June 12, 2009 - 11:00 - Bât. Euler
Marco Campi (Dept. of Electrical Engineering for Automation - University of Brescia), (title will be communicated later).
KUL 1
- May 9, 2009 - 11:00 - Room ESAT 00.62
SISTA Seminar : Jan Luts, Differentation between gliobastosmas and metastases. - May 27, 2009 - 11:30 - Room ESAT 00.62
SISTA Seminar : Ivan Gligorijevic (title to be announced).
UGent-SYSTeMS
Series of seminars : SYSTeMS dialogues - every Wednesday at 3pm at the SYSTeMS Research Group, Universiteit Gent.
Address: Technologiepark Zwijnaarde 914, 9052 Zwijnaarde.
- 06/05/09, Nicolae Marinica : A hybrid model for distributed control of urban traffic networks. An algorithm for car recomposition from raw measurements.
- 13/05/09, Herman Sutarto : Optimization and synchronization problems on road traffic networks.
- 27/05/09, Frits Petit (exceptionally at 10am) : The nonlinear vibration absorber.
- 03/06/09, Stefan Haar (title to be communicated later)
- 10/06/09, Keivan Shariatmadar, Dealing with uncertainty via a probability box in a fuzzy linear system.
- 17/06/09, Filip Hermans, Imprecise Markov trees.
Papers produced by the IAP Network
UCL
Absil P.-A., Numerical representations of a universal subspace flow for linear programs, Communications in Information and Systems, 8(2), pp. 71-84, 2008
Absil P.-A., Gallivan K.A., Accelerated line-search and trust-region methods, SIAM Journal on Numerical Analysis, vol.47, n°2, pp.997-1018, 2009.
Theis Fabian J., Cason Thomas P., Absil P.-A., Soft dimension reduction for ICA by joint diagonalization on the Stiefel manifold, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 5441, pp. 354-361, 2009.
Sainlez M., Absil P.-A., Teschendorff A. E., Gene expression data analysis using spatiotemporal blind source separation, Proceedings of the 17th European Symposium on Artificial Neural Networks (ESANN), pp. 159-164, 2009.
Aguilar E., Dochain D., Alcaraz-Gonzalez V., Gonzalez-Alvarez V., A multivariable control scheme in a two-stage anaerobic digestion system described by partial differential equations, Journal of Process Control, in press, 2009.
Akçay H., Subspace-based rational interpolation of analytic functions from phase data, IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, 2009, submitted.
Beauthier Ch., Winkin J. J., LQ-Optimal Control of Positive Linear Systems, Optimal Control Applications and Methods, submitted, 2009.
Fidan B., Hendrickx J., Anderson B., Edge Contraction Based Maintenance of Rigidity in Multi-Agent Formations During Agent Loss, In : Proceedings of the 17th Mediterranean Conference on Control and Automation, Thessaloniki, Greece, June 24-26, 2009.
KUL 1
I. Cornet, J. Vandesteene, M. Peeters, E. Pauwels, A. Cappuyns, E. Van Derlinden, R. Dewil, J. Van Impe, Dynamics of simultaneous saccharification and fermentation of cellulose to ethanol, Accepted for poster presentation at the 5th International Conference on Renewable Resources & Biorefineries, Ghent, 10th-12th June, 2009.
E. Van Derlinden, K. Bernaerts, and J.F. Van Impe, Cardinal temperatures estimation via optimal dynamic experiment design for parameter estimation: validation on Z. bailii, In: I. Troch and F. Breitenecker (Eds.) MATHMOD 2009 - 6th Vienna International Conference on Mathematical Modelling - Full Papers CD Volume (ISBN 978-3-901608-35-3).
E. Van Derlinden and J.F. Van Impe, Describing the heterogeneous heat response of E. coli with a subpopulation type model, Accepted for oral presentation at SYSID 2009 - 15th IFAC Symposium on System Identification, Saint-Malo (France), July 6-8, 2009.
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 (accepted).
E.G. Velliou, P.J. D'Huys, E. Van Derlinden, A.H. Geeraerd, J.F. Van Impe, Adaptation of Escherichia coli K12 at lethal temperatures: consequences of heat pre-treatment of the medium and acidic pre-history, Accepted for presentation at MICROBIAL STRESS- from molecules to systems, 7-10 May 2009, Semmering, Austria.
E.G. Velliou, E. Van Derlinden, D. Aerts, E. Nikolaidou, A.H. Geeraerd, J.F. Van Impe, The influence of Trimethylamine-N-Oxide (TMAO) on the heat resistance of Esherichia coli K12 at lethal temperatures, Accepted for presentation at MICROBIAL STRESS- from molecules to systems, 7-10 May 2009, Semmering, Austria.
Pelckmans K., Suykens J.A.K., Gossip Algorithms for Computing U-statistics, Internal Report 09-70, ESAT-SISTA, K.U.Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), 2009.
Necoara I., Suykens J.A.K., A primal-dual consensus algorithm in convex optimization, Internal Report 09-71, ESAT-SISTA, K.U.Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), 2009.
Luts J., Laudadio T., Martinez-Bisbal M.C., Van Cauter S., Molla E., Piquer J., Suykens J.A.K., Himmelreich U., Celda B., Van Huffel S., Differentiation between brain metastases and glioblastoma multiforme based on MRI, MRS and MRSI, Internal Report 09-72, ESAT-SISTA, K.U.Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), 2009.
Van den Bogaert T., Carette E., Wouters J., Sound localization with and without hearing aids, in Proc. of the NAG-DAGA International Conference on Acoustics 2009 (NAG-DAGA), Rotterdam, The Netherlands, March 2009, pp. 1-4.
Van den Bogaert T., Doclo S., Wouters J., Moonen M., Preserving binaural hearing of hearing impaired subjects with binaural noise reduction systems for hearing aids, in Proc. of the NAG-DAGA International Conference on Acoustics 2009 (NAG-DAGA 2009), Rotterdam, The Netherlands, March 2009, pp. 1-4.
Suykens J.A.K., Support vector machines and kernel-based learning for dynamical systems modelling, Internal Report 09-75, ESAT-SISTA, K.U.Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), 2009. Accepted for publication in 15th IFAC Symposium on System Identification (SYSID 2009).
Chumerin N., Manyakov N.V., Combaz A., Suykens J.A.K., Van Hulle M.M., An application of feature selection to on-line P300 detection in brain-computer interface, Internal Report 09-76, ESAT-SISTA, K.U.Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), 2009.
Deburchgraeve W., Cherian P.J., De Vos M., Swarte R.M., Blok J.H., Visser G.H., Govaert P., Van Huffel S., Exploration of the CP decomposition combined with SVD analysis for neonatal oscillatory seizure localization, Internal Report 09-78, ESAT-SISTA, K.U.Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), 2009.
Deburchgraeve W., Cherian P.J., De Vos M., Swarte R.M., Blok J.H., Visser G.H., Govaert P., Van Huffel S., Neonatal seizure localization using PARAFAC decomposition, Internal Report 09-79, ESAT-SISTA, K.U.Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), 2009.
UGent-SYSTeMS
K. Ovaere, G. Deschrijver, K. Shariatmadar and E. E. Kerre, An improved method to solve a fuzzy linear system in the fuzzy finite element method, Submitted to Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics (JCAM).
Gert De Cooman and Erik Quaeghebeur, Exchangeability for sets of desirable gambles, Accepted for ISIPTA'09.
Jonathan Rogge and Dirk Aeyels, Multi-robot coverage to locate fixed and moving targets, 2009 IEEE-Multiconference on Systems and control, July 8th-10th, Saint-Petersburg.
F. Petit, M. Loccufier and D. Aeyels, On the attachment location of dynamic vibration absorbers, Journal of Vibration and Acoustics, 131(3), June 2009.
T. J. Vyncke, R. K. Boel and J. A. A. Melkebeek, A comparison of stator flux linkage estimators for use in a direct torque controlled PMSM drive, Submitted to IECON 2009.
C. Ionescu, R. De Keyser, Model-free adaptive control in frequency domain: application to mechanical ventilation, Chapter 13 in book: Frontiers in Adaptive Control, 2008, pages 253-270, ISBN 987-953-7619-43-5, free access at http://www.intechweb.org/books.php.
S. Syafiie, J. Nino, C. Ionescu, R. De Keyser, NMPC for Propofol Drug dosing during anesthesia induction, Chapter in book, L. Magni et al. (eds): Nonlinear model predictive control, LNCIS 384, pages 501-509, Springer-Verlag 2009.
C. Ionescu, K. Desager, R. De Keyser, Estimating respiratory mechanics with constant-phase models in healthy lungs from forced oscillations measurements, in Studia Universitatis "Vasile Goldis", Life Science Series, vol 19, issue 1, 2009, pages 123-132.
R. Hodrea, B. Nour, C. Ionescu, R. De Keyser, Model development for propofol and remifentanil induced anesthesia in ICU patients, Benelux Meeting, Spa, 2009, page 153.
D. Plaza, G. De Lannoy, V. Pawels, R. De Keyser, The Kalman filter applied to hydrologic systems, Benelux Meeting, Spa, 2009, page 72.
C. Ionescu, A. Oustaloup, F. Levron, P. Melchior, J. Sabatier, R. De Keyser, A model of the lungs based on fractal geometrical and structural properties, Accepted for publication in the Proceedings of the IFAC System Identification SYSID09 conference, St. Malo, France, 6-8 July 2009.
C. Ionescu, B. Nour, R. De Keyser, Flow controlled artificial ventilation of a COPD patient, Accepted for publication in the Proceedings of the European Control Conference ECC09, Budapesta, Hungary, 23-26 August 2009.
G. Farias, R. De Keyser, S. Dormido, F. Esquembre, Building Remote Labs Using Easy Java Simulation and Matlab, Accepted for publication in the Proceedings of the European Control Conference ECC09, Budapesta, Hungary, 23-26 August 2009.
R. Hodrea, B. Nour, C. Ionescu, R. De Keyser, Model Reduction for Adaptation in Surgery Anaesthesia, Accepted for publication in the Proceedings of the 7th IFAC Symposium on Modelling and Control in Biomedical Systems, Aalborg, Denmark, 12-14 August 2009.
M. Galvez, R. De Keyser, C. Ionescu, Nonlinear Predictive Control with Dead-time Compensator: Application to a Solar Power Plant, (Elsevier) Solar Energy, vol 83, pages 743-752, 2009.
VUB-ELEC
Pintelon R., Schoukens J., Vandersteen G., Nonparametric Noise Modeling in the Presence of Exogenous Inputs, IEEE International Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference - I2MTC, Singapore, May 5-7, 2009.
Schoukens J., Dobrowiecki T., Pintelon R., An upper bound for the nonlinear induced bias in frequency response function measurements, IEEE International Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference - I2MTC, Singapore, May 5-7, 2009.
Lauwers L., Barbé K., Van Moer W., Pintelon R., Estimating the parameters of a Rice distribution: a Baysian approach, IEEE International Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference - I2MTC, Singapore, May 5-7, 2009.
Barbé K., Pintelon R., Vandersteen G., Finite record effects of the Errors-In-Variables estimator for linear dynamic systems, IEEE International Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference - I2MTC, Singapore, May 5-7, 2009.
Vandersteen G., Jain M., Pintelon R., Characterization of sigma-delta modulators using Box-Jenkins identification methods, IEEE International Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference - I2MTC, Singapore, May 5-7, 2009.
Gommé L., Rolain Y., Schoukens J., Pintelon R., Baseband identification and RF validation of a nonlinear feedback model for a crystal detector, IEEE International Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference - I2MTC, Singapore, May 5-7, 2009.
Van Moer W., Rolain Y., Best Linear Approximation: revisited, IEEE International Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference - I2MTC, Singapore, May 5-7, 2009
Bronckers S., Van der Plas G., Marchal P., Rolain Y., Application of substrate noise simulation methodology to 3D-stacking, Workshop on 3D integration, 24 april 2009, Nice, France.
KUL 2
Deckers K., Bultheel A., Orthogonal rational functions with complex poles: The Favard theorem, Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications, 2009, accepted.
Delvaux S., Frederix K., Van Barel M., An algorithm for computing the eigenvalues of block companion matrices, TW Reports, TW538, 25 pp. Leuven, Belgium: Department of Computer Science, K.U.Leuven, 2009.
ULB
Anton O. Chugunov, John Simms, David R. Poyner, Yves Dehouck, Marianne Rooman, Dimitri Gilis, Ingrid Langer, Evidence that interaction between conserved residues in transmembrane helice 2, 3 and 7 are crucial for human VPAC1 receptor activation, submitted, 2009.
FPMs
G. Goffaux, A. Vande Wouwer, O. Bernard, Improving Continuous – Discrete Interval Observers with Application to Microalgae-based Bioprocesses, Journal of Process Control (in print).
T. Dubuisson, T. Dutoit, B. Gosselin, M. Remacle, On the Use of the Correlation between Acoustic Descriptors for the Normal/Pathological Voices Discrimination, EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing, 2009.
T. Dubuisson, T. Dutoit, B. Gosselin, M. Remacle, Discrimination between normal and pathological voices by using correlations between acoustic descriptors, (to appear in) Proceedings of AVFA 09, 2009.
J. Demeyer, T. Dubuisson, B. Gosselin, M. Remacle, Glottis segmentation with a high-speed glottography: a fully-automated method, (to appear in) Proceedings of AVFA 09, 2009.
J. Mailier, A. Vande Wouwer, Robust Methodology for the Identification of Dynamic Bioprocess Models, [accepted for presentation at] 15th IFAC Symposium on System Identification (SYSID 2009), Saint-Malo, France, July 2009.
L. Dewasme, A. Vande Wouwer, B. Srinivasan, M. Perrier, Adaptive extremum-seeking control of fed-batch cultures of micro-organisms exhibiting overflow metabolism, [accepted for presentation at] International Symposium on Advanced Control of Chemical Processes (ADCHEM 2009), Istanbul, Turkey, July 2009.
D. Coutinho, L. Dewasme, A. Vande Wouwer, Robust Control of Yeast Fed-Batch Cultures to Productivity Enhancement, [accepted for presentation at] International Symposium on Advanced Control of Chemical Processes (ADCHEM 2009), Istanbul, Turkey, July 2009.
J. Mailier, A. Vande Wouwer, A Fast and Systematic Procedure to Develop Dynamic Models of Bioprocesses – Application to Microalgae Cultures, [accepted for presentation at] 10th International Symposium on Process Systems Engineering (PSE’09), Salvador, Brazil, August 2009.
C. Vilas, A. Vande Wouwer, A Model Predictive Control Strategy for the Control of SMB Plants Based on the Wave Theory, [accepted for presentation at] European Control Conference (ECC 2009), Budapest, Hungary, August 23-26, 2009.
E. Rocha, A. Vande Wouwer, Estimation of the Dilution Rate and the States of a Microalgae Culture using a Linear Unknown Input Observer, [accepted for presentation at] European Control Conference (ECC 2009), Budapest, Hungary, August 23-26, 2009.
Study Days, Workshops and Summer Schools
DYSCO Study Day – May 28, 2009
Faculté Polytechnique de Mons
Amphithéâtre, 53 Rue du Joncquois, 7000 Mons
Programme :
9:00 Registration
9:30 Plenary lecture 1 : Real-Time Optimization for Fast Nonlinear MPC: Algorithms, Theory, and Applications.
Moritz Diehl - Optimization in Engineering Center (OPTEC) and Electrical Engineering Department (ESAT), KUL
10:30 Poster session 1
11:45 Status report of the Workpackages (WP) 1, 2, 3
12:30 Lunch
14:00 Status report of WP 4 and 5
14:30 Poster session 2
15:45 Plenary lecture 2: Altered gravity: a key to better understand the neural control of movement.
Summer School Mixed Integer Programming: Formulations and Algorithms
Wednesday May 13 - Friday May
Laurence A. Wolsey, CORE, Université catholique de Louvain
We are glad to announce that we are organizing a doctoral course endorsed by the CEMS, to help PhD students wishing to improve their skills in modeling and solving mixed integer programming problems.
The goal of the course will not be on advanced combinatorial optimization techniques, but rather on the modeling and reformulation of problems in order to make their solution more efficient with existing software solvers.
The course will be taught by Prof. Laurence Wolsey ; it will take place at CORE (room B-135) from Wednesday May 13 to Friday May 15 (9 AM - 5 PM).
For more information, please contact Mrs Danisa Zapparrata.
30th International Summer School in Automatic Control of Grenoble : Nonlinear Oscillators and Dynamic Systems
June 22-26, 2009
Grenoble, France
PROGRAMME :
1st day: General theory. Yakubovich oscillations. Oscillation control.
2nd day: Oscillations of Time Delay Systems and Applications.
3rd day: Nonlinear dynamics in Nano-Electromechanical Oscillations.
4th day: Synchronisation applications.
5th day: Mechanical Oscillations and Periodic coefficients.
Complements, exercises and computer simulations will be developed along the entire program.
Main lecturers :
Gennady Alekseevich Leonov (Professor, Faculty of Mathematics and Mechanics, St Petersburg State University, St Petersburg, Russia)
Gabor Stepan (Professor, Technical and Economics University of Budapest, Budapest, Hungary)
Aleksandr L. Fradkov (Professor, St. Petersburg Institute for the Problems of Mechanics, Russia)
Vladimir Rãsvan (Professor, University of Craiova, Craiova, Romania)
Andrei Halanay (Professor, Bucharest Technical University "Politehnica", Bucharest, Romania)
Radu Stefan (Assoc. Professor, Bucharest Technical University "Politehnica", Bucharest, Romania)
REGISTRATION :
Registration fees (excluding VAT):
Non academics: 700 € - Academics: 450 € - Students: 300 € - CNRS: free
The fees include five lunches, welcome cocktail, lodging, and documentation.
IEEE members have 50 € discount on the registration fee.
CONTACT :
Marie-Therese.DescotesGenon@grenoble-inp.fr
http://www.gipsa-lab.inpg.fr/summerschool/nonlinearoscil/
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 |