IAP Newsletter - April 2011 - Issue 139

Message of the Coordinator

Dear all,

Today, Monday April 4th, BELSPO organizes a conference at the Palais des Beaux-Arts - Paleis der Schone Kunsten around the evaluation of the IAP-VI programme. The press was invited to this conference and particular attention will be given to the future of the IAP programme. You can see the BELSPO report of this evaluation in the "Reports"? section of our DYSCO website. Let me also mention that Michel Gevers was asked to present there the impact it had on our own network. We can only hope that this event will have a positive effect on our politicians and that they will secure the budget to maintain this fine programme.

I am also pleased to let you know that the International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC) has nominated DYSCO as the new National Member Organization for Belgium, which recognizes its leading role in Belgium in the area of systems and control.

On Thursday May 12th, the ULg team organizes our next study day in Colonster, Liège. More information to come soon. Please mark that day in your agenda now : I hope to see many of you there !

Finally, I wish to congratulate Johan Schoukens for the Doctor Honoris Causa degree he will receive on May 28th from the Budapest University of Technology and Economics.

Paul Van Dooren
DYSCO coordinator

Staff Movements and Visitors

UCL

Paolo Frasco (Politecnico de Torino) will stay at UCL from 4 to 15 April. His host is J-Ch Delvenne and he will work on the topic Consensus, covering and communication constraints in control.
Pr. Darrell Haile (Indiana University) will stay with us from 3 to 15 April.

KUL 1

01/04/2011 : Yi Fan-Chiang (Promotor M. Moonen)
01/04/2011 : Jenny Carolina Varon Perez (Promotor S. Van Huffel)

UGent-SYSTeMS

Dr. M. Kearney (Melbourne University) will visit SYSTeMS on April 13-15.

VUB-ELEC

Kin Kwan Wong, University of Warwick, School of Engineering (from 7/3/2011 until 8/4/2011)
Adrian Wills, School of Elec. Eng. & Comp. Sci., University of Newcastle, Callaghan, Australia (from 27/3/2011 until 10/4/2011)

ULB

Dr. Roozbeh Razavi-Far (PhD from Univ. of Milano) will start a 6 months post-doctoral stay on April 1st 2011 to work on robust fault detection and isolation.

Seminars

UCL

April 1, 2011 - 11:00 - Euler seminar room
Vladimir PROTASSOV (Moscow State University) - Families of matrices sharing a common invariant cone.
April 5, 2011 - 15:00 - Euler seminar room
Paolo FRASCA (Politecnico di Torino) - Graph coverings and gossip coverage control.
April 7, 2011 - 11:00 - Euler seminar room
Seweryn DYNEROWICZ (FUNDP) - title to be announced
April 26, 2011 - 15:00 - Euler seminar room
Arnaud BROWET (UCL) - title to be announced
April 29, 2011 - 11:00 - Euler seminar room
Benoît DONNET (UCL) - title to be announced
May 3, 2011 - 15:00 - Euler seminar room
John LATAIRE (VUB) - A frequency domain approach to the identification of time-varying systems.

KUL 1

April 6, 2011 – ESAT 00.62 – 9:00-10:00 - SISTA Seminar
Vladimir Matic (K.U.Leuven, ESAT-SCD) - Sparse approximation of the neonatal EEG signal and applications.
April 20, 2011 – ESAT 00.62 – 11:00-12:00 - SISTA Seminar
Devy Widjaja (K.U.Leuven, ESAT-SCD) - Comparison of techniques to extract a respiratory signal from the ECG.
April 27, 2011 – ESAT 00.62 – 11:00-12:00 - SISTA Seminar
Kris Cuppens (K.U.Leuven, ESAT-SCD) - Extraction features for myoclonic shock detection in video based on mean shift clustering for constructing motion tracks.
April 27, 2011 – ESAT Aud. A – 17:00-18:00 : K.U.Leuven Seminars on Optimization in Engineering
Dr.Hammad Ahmad (Univ. of Limerick, Ireland) - Design, Development, Integration and Sea Trials of ROVLatis : A Smart Remotely Operated Tethered Underwater Vehicle.

Theses Defenses

VUB-ELEC

Maite Bauwens, Nonlinear and Dynamical Models for Temperature Reconstructions from Multi Proxy Data in Bivalve Shells, Doctoral Dissertation Vrije Universiteit Brussel, March 2011.
John Lataire, Frequency Domain Measurement and identification of Linear, Time-varying Systems, Doctoral Dissertation Vrije Universiteit Brussel, March 2011.

Papers produced by the IAP Network

UCL

B. Abouzaid, M. E. Achhab, V. Wertz, Feedback Stabilization of Infinite-Dimensional Linear Systems with Constraints on Control and Its Rate, European Journal of Control, accepted, 2011.

M. Ishteva, P.-A. Absil, S. Van Huffel, L. De Lathauwer, Tucker compression and local optima, Chemometrics and Intelligent Laboratory Systems, vol. 106(1), 2011, pp. 57-64, doi 10.1016/j.chemolab.2010.06.006.

C. Casenave, C. Prieur, Controllability of SISO Volterra Models via Diffusive Representation, accepted for presentation at the 18th IFAC World Wongress 2011, Milano, Italy, August 28 - September 2, 2011.

T. André, V. Lévesque, V. Hayward, P. Lefèvre, J.-L. Thonnard, Effect of skin hydration on the dynamics of fingertip gripping contact, Journal of the Royal Society Interface, in press.

D. Bouagada, P. Van Dooren, On the solution of implicit fractional continuous time state space systems, In MAMERN11, 4th International Conference on Approximation Methods and Numerical Modelling in Environment and Natural Resources, Saidia (Morocco), May 23-26, 2011.

Ngoc Ha Hoang, Françoise Couenne, Denis Dochain, Yann Le Gorrec, From Brayton-Moser Formulation to Port Hamiltonian Representation: The CSTR Case Study, submitted for presentation at the 18th IFAC World Congress, Milano, Italy, August 28 – September 2, 2011.

Rafael Vazquez, Jean-Michel Coron, Miroslav Krstic, Georges Bastin, Local Exponential H2 Stabilization of a 2 × 2 Quasilinear Hyperbolic System using Backstepping, submitted to Joint 50th IEEE CDC and ECC conference, Orlando (USA), December 2011.

KUL 1

Signoretto M., Olivetti E., De Lathauwer L., Suykens J. A. K., Classification of Multichannel Signals with Cumulant-based Kernels, Internal Report 11-38, ESAT-SISTA, K.U.Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), 2011.

Bertrand A., Moonen M., Sayed A.H., Diffusion-based bias-compensated RLS for distributed estimation over adaptive sensor networks, Internal Report 11-39, ESAT-SISTA, K.U.Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), 2011.

Bertrand A., Moonen M., Distributed signal estimation in sensor networks where nodes have different interests, Internal Report 11-41, ESAT-SISTA, K.U.Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), 2011.

Serizel R., Moonen M., Wouters J., Jensen S. H., A Zone of Quiet Based Approach to Integrated Active Noise Control and Noise Reduction for Speech Enhancement in Hearing Aids, Internal Report 11-43, ESAT-SISTA, K.U.Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), 2011.

Forouzan A. R., Moonen M., Technical Analysis of a Few Potential Modulation Schemes for Next Generation Digital Subscriber Lines, Internal Report 11-44, ESAT-SISTA, K.U.Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), 2011.

Timmerman D., Ameye L., Fischerova D., Epstein E., Melis G.B., Guerriero S., Van Holsbeke C., Savelli L., Fruscio R., Lissoni A.A., Testa A.C., Veldman J., Vergote I., Van Huffel S., Bourne T., Valentin L., Simple ultrasound rules to distinguish between benign and malignant adnexal masses before surgery: prospective validation by IOTA group, British Medical Journal, doi: 10.1136/bmj.c6839, vol. 341, Dec. 2010.

Domanov I., De Lathauwer L., Blind Channel Identification of MISO Systems Based on the CP Decomposition of Cumulant Tensors, Internal Report 11-46, ESAT-SISTA, K.U.Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), 2011.

Szurley J., Bertrand A., Moonen M., Ruckebusch P., Moerman I., Utility based cross-layer collaboration for speech enhancement in wireless acoustic sensor networks, Internal Report 11-48, ESAT-SISTA, K.U.Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), 2011.

Moraes R.B., Maes J., Van Biesen L., Moonen M., The Rate Maximization Problem in DSL with mixed Spectrum and Signal Coordination, Internal Report 11-49, ESAT-SISTA, K.U.Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), 2011.

Combaz A., Chumerin N., Manyakov N.V., Robben A., Suykens J.A.K., Van Hulle M.M., Error-related Potential recorded by EEG in the context of a P300 Mind-Speller Brain-Computer Interface, Internal Report 11-50, ESAT-SISTA, K.U.Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), 2011.

Signoretto M., Van De Plas R., De Moor B., Suykens J. A. K., Tensor Versus Matrix Completion: a Comparison with Application to Spectral Data, Internal Report 11-51, ESAT-SISTA, K.U.Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), 2011.

Yazbek J., Ameye L., Timmerman D., Testa A.C., Valentin L., Holland T.K., Van Holsbeke C., Jurkovic D., Use of ultrasound pattern recognition by expert operators to identify borderline ovarian tumors: a study of diagnostic performance and interobserver agreement, Ultrasound in Obstetrics and Gynecology, vol. 35, no. 1, Jan. 2010, pp. 84-88.

Falck T., Dreesen P., De Brabanter K., Pelckmans K., De Moor B., Suykens J.A.K., Least-Squares Support Vector Machines for the Identification of Wiener-Hammerstein Systems, Internal Report 11-55, ESAT-SISTA, K.U.Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), 2011.

Van den Broeck L., Diehl M., Swevers J., Model predictive control for time-optimal point-to-point motion control, Internal Report 11-56, ESAT-SISTA, K.U.Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), 18th IFAC World Congress, Milan, Italy, Aug. 2011

Van den Broeck L., Diehl M., Swevers J., Experimental validation of time optimal MPC on a flexible motion system, Internal Report 11-57, ESAT-SISTA, K.U.Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), Proceedings of the 2011 American Control Conference 2011, San Francisco, 2011.

Volckaert M., Diehl M., Swevers J., Iterative learning control for nonlinear systems with input constraints and discontinuously changing dynamics, Internal Report 11-58, ESAT-SISTA, K.U.Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), Amercian Control Conference, San Francisco, 2011.

Logist F., Houska B., Diehl M., Van Impe J., Robust optimal control of a biochemical reactor with multiple objectives, Internal Report 11-59, ESAT-SISTA, K.U.Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), European Symposium on Computer Aided Process Engineering (ESCAPE) Chalkidiki, Greece, 2011

Van Looy W., Cuppens K., Bonroy B., Van de Vel A., Ceulemans B., Lagae L., Van Huffel S., Vanrumste B., Dectection of body movement using optical flow and clustering, Internal Report 11-60, ESAT-SISTA, K.U.Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), accepted for publication in Proc. 2nd International Conference on Positioning and context-Awareness (PoCA 2011), 2011.

Valentin L., Ameye L., Savelli L., Fruscio R., Leone F.P.G., Czekierdowski A., Lissoni A.A., Fischerova D., Guerriero S., Van Holsbeke C., Van Huffel S., Timmerman D., Adnexal masses difficult to classify as benign or malignant using subjective assessment of gray scale and Doppler ultrasound findings : logistic regression models do not help, Internal Report 11-62, ESAT-SISTA, K.U.Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), 2011.

Agudelo M., Barrero O., Viaene P., De Moor B., Assimilation of ozone measurements in the air quality model AURORA by using the Ensemble Kalman Filter, Internal Report 11-64, ESAT-SISTA, K.U.Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), 2011.

Necoara I., Dumitrache I., Suykens J.A.K., Smoothing techniques-based distributed MPC algorithms, Internal Report 11-66, ESAT-SISTA, K.U.Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), 2011.

Cherian P.J., Deburchgraeve W., Swarte R.M., De Vos M., Govaert P., Van Huffel S., Visser G.H., Validatioin of a new automated neonatal seizure detection system : a clinician's perspective, Clinical Neurophysiology, 2011, in press.

L. Mertens, T. D. T. Dang, A. H. Geeraerd, A. Vermeulen, E. Van Derlinden, A. M. Cappuyns, J. Debevere, F. Devlieghere, J. F. Van Impe, A predictive model for the growth/no growth boundary of Zygosaccharomyces bailii at 7°C and conditions mimicking acidified sauces, Food and Bioprocess Technology, 2011 (Accepted for publication).

'Astrid M. Cappuyns, Linde J. Debor, Ilse Y. Smets, Dirk Springael, Leen Bastiaens, Jan F. Van Impe, Modelling methyl tertiary butyl ether (MTBE) and tertiary butyl alcohol (TBA) biodegradation by a bacterial consortium, Mathematical and Computer Modelling of Dynamical Systems, 2011 (Accepted for publication).

J. Vanlaer, P. Van den Kerkhof, G. Gins, J.F.M. Van Impe, The influence of measurement noise on PLS-based batch-end quality prediction, Accepted for presentation at IFAC World Congress 2011, Milan, 28/08-02/09/2011.

Peter M.M. Van Erdeghem, Filip Logist, Christoph Dittrich, Jan F. Van Impe, Detailed steady-state simulation of tubular reactors for LDPE production: plug flow versus cascaded CSTR model, accepted for presentation at IFAC World Congress 2011, Milan, 28/08-02/09/2011.

Van Derlinden, E., Herckens, B., and Van Impe, J.F., Performance evaluation of models describing the growth rate as a function of temperature: focus on the suboptimal temperature range, accepted for presentation at the 7th International Conference on Predictive Modelling of Food Quality and Safety, Dublin (Ireland), September 12-15, 2011.

T. Skåra, A.M. Cappuyns, E. Van Derlinden, J.T. Rosnes, V.P. Valdramidis, J.F.M. Van Impe, Quantifying the combined effect of salt and temperature on the growth of Listeria strains isolated from salmon and salmon processing environments, accepted for presentation at the 11th International Congress on Engineering and Food, Athens (Greece), May 22-26, 2011.

T. Skåra, A.M. Cappuyns, S.O. Johnsen, E. Van Derlinden, J.T. Rosnes, Ø. Olsen, J.F.M. Van Impe, V.P. Valdramidis, A thermodynamic approach to assess a cellular mechanism of inactivation and the thermal resistance of Listeria innocua, accepted for presentation at the 11th International Congress on Engineering and Food, Athens (Greece), May 22-26, 2011.

P. Van den Kerkhof, G. Gins, J. Vanlaer, J.F.M. Van Impe, Fault detection and diagnosis performance assessment for (bio)chemical batch processes, accepted for presetnation at EuroPACT 2011, Glasgow, 27-29/04/2011.

J. Van Dierdonck, R. Van den Broeck, C. Dotremont, T. Mann, P. Nijskens, F. Logist, J. Van Impe, I. Smets, Cost efficient water reuse through a flexible control strategy of low pressure membrane filtration processes, accepted for presentation at Water Convention Conference at the Singapore International Water Week 2011, Singapore, July 4-8, 2011.

P.M.M. Van Erdeghem, F. Logist, C. Dittrich, J.F. Van Impe, Steady-state simulation approaches of tubular reactors for the production of LDPE: influence of discretization on polymer properties, In: Book of Abstracts 30th Benelux Meeting on Systems and Control, 135, Eds. Clara Ionescu, Robin De Keyser, Patrick Guillaume, Rik Pintelon, Johan Schoukens, Ilse Smets, Joos Vandewalle, Jan Van Impe and Jan Swevers, 2011.

D. Telen, F. Logist, E. Van Derlinden, J. Van Impe, Optimal experiment design in dynamic bioprocesses: a multi-objective optimisation approach, In: Book of Abstracts 30th Benelux Meeting on Systems and Control, 87, Eds Clara Ionescu, Robin De Keyser, Patrick Guillaume, Rik Pintelon, Johan Schoukens, Ilse Smets, Joos Vandewalle, Jan Van Impe and Jan Swevers, 2011.

M. Vallerio, F. Logist, J. Van Impe, Explicit weights tuning for optimal control problems with weighted objectives, In: Book of Abstracts 30th Benelux Meeting on Systems and Control, 116, Eds Clara Ionescu, Robin De Keyser, Patrick Guillaume, Rik Pintelon, Johan Schoukens, Ilse Smets, Joos Vandewalle, Jan Van Impe and Jan Swevers, 2011.

J. Vanlaer, P. Van den Kerkhof, G. Gins, J.F.M. Van Impe, The influence of input and output measurement noise on online PLS-based prediction of final batch quality, In: Book of Abstracts 30th Benelux Meeting on Systems and Control, 89, Eds Clara Ionescu, Robin De Keyser, Patrick Guillaume, Rik Pintelon, Johan Schoukens, Ilse Smets, Joos Vandewalle, Jan Van Impe and Jan Swevers, 2011.

UGent-SYSTeMS

De Smet F., Aeyels D., Coexistence of stable stationary behavior and partial synchrony in all-to-all coupled spiking neural network, Physical Review E, 10.1103/PhysRevE.82.066208, Vol. 82, N° 6, Part 2, 2010.

Peuteman J., Aeyels D., Averaging techniques without requiring a fast time varying differential equation, Automatica, 10.1016/j.automatica.2010.10.039, Vol. 47, N° 1, pp. 192-200, 2011.

Ionescu C., Desager K., De Keyser R., Fractional order model parameters for the respiratory input impedance in healthy and inasthmatic children, Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine, 10.1016/j.cmpb.2010.11.010, 101, 315-323, 2011.

Ionescu C., De Keyser R., Sabatier J., Oustaloup A., Levron F., Low frequency constant-phase behaviour in the respiratory impedance, Biomedical Signal Processing and Control, 6, 197-208, 2011.

Sbarciog M., Loccufier M., Vande Wouwer A., On the Optimization of Biogas Production in Anaerobic Digestion Systems, accepted for publication: 18th IFAC world congress, August 28 - September 2, 2011, Milano, Italy.

Quaeghebeur E., Completely monotone outer approximations of lower probabilities on finite possibility spaces, submitted for presentation at NLMUA 2011.

Neamtu D., Wyns B., Ionescu C., De Keyser R., Lazea Gh., Leader-follower formation control using visual tracking, 30th Benelux Meeting on Systems and Control, Lommel, Belgium, p. 55, 2011.

Dutta A., De Keyser R., Dutta A., Nopens I., Nonlinear extended prediction self-adaptive control (NEPSAC) of a coupled, time-varying biochemical system, 30th Benelux Meeting on Systems and Control, Lommel, Belgium, p. 88, 2011.

Dutta A., Wyns B., De Keyser R., Towards robust learning predictive control of machines, 30th Benelux Meeting on Systems and Control, Lommel, Belgium, p. 148, 2011.

Hernandez A., Ionescu C., De Keyser R., PID control of a lung function device, 30th Benelux Meeting on Systems and Control, Lommel, Belgium, p. 181, 2011.

Plaza G., De Lannoy G., Pauwels V., De Keyser R., A comparative study between the ensemble Kalman filter and the particle filter in rainfall-runoff models, 30th Benelux Meeting on Systems and Control, Lommel, Belgium, p. 196, 2011.

KUL 2

Abbeloos, Dirk; Diehl, Moritz; Hinze, Michael; Vandewalle, Stefan, Nested multigrid methods for time-periodic, parabolic optimal control problems, Computing and Visualization in Science, 2011 (Accepted).

Banks, H. T.; Sutton, Karyn L.; Thompson, W. Clayton; Bocharov, Gennady; Roose, Dirk; Schenkel, Tim; Meyerhans, Andreas, Estimation of cell proliferation dynamics using CFSE data, Bulletin of Mathematical Biology, volume 73, issue 1, pages 116-150, 2011.

Bultheel, Adhemar, A two-phase implementation of the fractional Fourier transform, TW Reports, volume TW588, 11 pages, Department of Computer Science, K.U.Leuven, Leuven, Belgium, March 2011.

Bultheel, Adhemar; González-Vera, Pablo; Hendriksen, Erik; Njåstad, Olav, Quadratures associated with pseudo-orthogonal rational functions on the real half line with poles in [−∞,0], TW Reports, volume TW587, 19 pages, Department of Computer Science, K.U.Leuven, Leuven, Belgium, March 2011.

Corveleyn, Sam; Vandewalle, Stefan, Numerical solution of fuzzy elliptic partial differential equations by a polynomial Galerkin approximation, TW Reports, volume TW585, 22 pages, Department of Computer Science, K.U.Leuven, Leuven, Belgium, February 2011.

Deckers, Karl; Cantero, Maria Jose; Moral, Leandro; Velazquez, Luis, An extension of the associated rational functions on the unit circle, Journal of Approximation Theory, volume 163, issue 4, pages 524-546, 2011.

Elman, Howard; Meerbergen, Karl; Spence, Alastair; Minghao, Wu, Lyapunov inverse iteration for identifying Hopf bifurcations in models of incompressible flow, UMIACS Technical Reports, issue UMIACS-TR, 22 pages, University of Maryland, Department of Computer Science, March 2011.

Gorban, Alexander; Roose, Dirk (eds.), Coping with complexity: model reduction and data analysis, Lecture Notes in Computational Science and Engineering, volume 75, 363 pages, Springer-Verlag, Berlin Heidelberg, 2011.

Gumussoy, Suat; Michiels, Wim, Fixed-order strong H-infinity control of interconnected systems with time-delays, World Congress of the International Federation of Automatic Control, Milano, Italy, 28 August - 2 September 2011 (Accepted).

Gumussoy, Suat; Michiels, Wim, On the sensitivity of the H-infinity norm of interconnected systems with time-delays, World Congress of the International Federation of Automatic Control, Milano, Italy, 28 August - 2 September 2011 (Accepted).

Huang, Chengming; Vandewalle, Stefan, Unconditionally stable difference methods for delay partial differential equations, Numerische Mathematik, 2011 (Submitted).

Michiels, Wim, Eigenvalue based techniques for the stability analysis and robust control of linear systems with time-delay, Seminars in Systems and Control, Université catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, 22 February 2011.

Michiels, Wim; Verriest, Erik I., A look at fast varying and state dependent delays from a systems theory point of view, TW Reports, volume TW586, 16 pages, Department of Computer Science, K.U.Leuven, Leuven, Belgium, March 2011.

Rosseel, Eveline; Scheerlinck, Nico; Vandewalle, Stefan, Newton-multigrid for biological reaction-diffusion problems with random coefficients, Numerical Mathematics, pages 1-22, 2011 (Accepted).

Samaey, Giovanni; Vandekerckhove, Christophe; Vanroose, Wim, A multilevel algorithm to compute steady states of Lattice Boltzmann models, Gorban, Alexander N.; Roose, Dirk (eds.), Coping with Complexity: Model Reduction and Data Analysis, pages 151-167, Springer-Verlag, 2011.

Schumaker, Larry L.; Speleers, Hendrik, Convexity preserving splines over triangulations, Computer Aided Geometric Design, 2011 (Accepted).

Speleers, Hendrik, On the use of Powell-Sabin B-splines for the numerical solution of PDEs, New Trends in Applied Geometry, Hurdal, Norway, 20-25 February 2011.

Verleye, Bart; Walbran, W.A.; Bickerton, S.; Kelly, P.A., Simulation and experimental validation of force controlled compression resin transfer moulding, Journal of Composite Materials, 2011.

Bultheel, Adhemar; Cruz Barroso, Ruyman; González-Vera, Pablo; Perdomo-Pío, Francisco, Computation of Gauss-type quadrature formulas with some preassigned nodes, Jaen Journal on Approximation, volume 2, issue 2, pages 163-191, 2010.

Meerbergen, Karl; Vandebril, Raf, A reflection on the implicitly restarted Arnoldi method for computing eigenvalues near a vertical line, Linear Algebra and Its Applications, in press, 2010.

Moelans, Nele; Samaey, Giovanni, Special Issue: Multiscale modeling of moving interfaces in materials, Leuven, Belgium, July 2-4, 2008, Mathematics and Computers in Simulation, volume 80, issue 7, pages 1359-1360, 2010.

Samaey, Giovanni; Vanroose, Wim, An analysis of equivalent operator preconditioning for equation-free Newton-Krylov methods, SIAM Journal on Numerical Analysis, volume 48, issue 2, pages 633-658, 2010.

ULB

J. Verspecht, L. Catoire, S. Torfs, M. Kinnaert, Identification of a hybrid model for simulation of the instrument/trocar interaction force, Submitted to IEEE IROS 2011.

E. Nuno, I. Sarras, L. Basanez, M. Kinnaert, A Proportional Plus Damping Injection Controller for Teleoperators with Flexibility and Time–Delays, Submitted to IEEE IROS 2011.

Rooman M., Cauët E., Liévin J., Wintjens R., Conformations consistent with charge migration observed in DNA and RNA X-ray structures, J. Biomol. Struct. Dyn. 28 (2011) 949-954.

UMONS

Duvinage Matthieu, Jimenez René, Castermans Thierry, Verlinden Olivier, Dutoit Thierry, An active foot lifter orthosis based on a PCPG algorithm, IEEE 12th International conference on rehabilitation robotics, 2011, Zurich, Switzerland (accepted).

Castermans Thierry, Duvinage Matthieu, Hoellinger Thomas, Petieau Mathieu, Dutoit Thierry, Cheron Guy, An analysis of EEG signals during voluntary rhythmic foot movements, 5th International IEEE EMBS Neural Engineering Conference, 2011, Cancun, Mexico (accepted).

Duvinage Matthieu, Castermans Thierry, Hoellinger Thomas, Reumaux Jeremie, Dutoit Thierry, Modeling Human Walk by PCPG for Lower Limb Neuroprosthesis Control, 5th International IEEE EMBS Neural Engineering Conference, 2011, Cancun, Mexico (accepted).

Graduate School in Systems, Optimization, Control and Networks

The SOCN Graduate School 2010-2011 programme is available on-line : http://sites-test.uclouvain.be/socn/.

The next course is entitled "System Identification". It will be given by Xavier BOMBOIS and Paul VAN DEN HOF (Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands) on May 9, 11, 13, 16, 18, 20, 2011 (9:15-12:15) at UCL, bâtiment Euler, 4 av. Georges Lemaître, 1348 Louvain-la-Neuve (seminar room).
More information about this course : http://sites.uclouvain.be/socn/Courses/Courses2010-4

On-line registrations are welcome via this form.

Study Days, Workshops and Summer Schools

Course at the University of Namur (FUNDP) : Dynamical modelling, estimation and control of reactional systems by D. Dochain

6, 8, 27 and 29 April and 4, 6, 11 and 13 May 2011

The aim of this course is to introduce the attendees to the paramount concepts of dynamical systems in which matter and energy transformations are involved, for example chemical, biological and ecological systems, their mathematical properties and the use of the latters for developping appropriate and efficient tools of monitoring and control.

Main topics :

Dynamical models of reactional systems
Properties of reactional system models
Design of monitoring tools (state and parameter estimation)
Design of control laws

References :

Dochain D., Automatique des Bioprocédés, Hermès, Paris, 2001.
Bastin G. and Dochain D., “On-line Estimation and Adaptive Control of Bioreactors”, Elsevier, Amsterdam, 1990.

Venue :
The course will be given in French, at the Departement of Mathematics of the University of Namur (FUNDP), 2nd floor of the Economic Sciences building, rempart de la vierge 8, Namur, room MA 2.

Schedule :
The lectures will take place from 9 am to 12.30 at the following dates: 6, 8, 27 and 29 April and 4, 6, 11 and 13 May 2011.

Registration :
Those who are interested in attending the course are invited to send an email to Joseph Winkin (Joseph.Winkin@fundp.ac.be) before 5 April.

DISC Summer School : Dynamics and Control Problems in Medical Robotics

NH Conference Centre Leeuwenhorst (Noordwijkerhout), The Netherlands, June 20-23, 2011

Awards

VUB-ELEC

Maarten Schoukens received the IMEC award for best Master Theses: "Ontwerp en Realisatie van een Compensatie voor Niet-Lineaire RF Vermogenversterkers" (Design and Realization of a Compensation for Nonlinear RF Power Amplifiers)
Diane De Coster received the "Barco High Tech Awards" - FWO for her Master Theses: "Ontwerp en realisatie van een geminiaturiseerde elektronische lock-in detectiemodule voor het meten van biomoleculen in fotonische 'lab-on-a-chip' systemen"
Johan Schoukens will receive the prestigious title of "Doctor Honoris Causa" of the Budapest University of Technology and Economics, 28th May, 2011.

Miscellaneous

ERCIM calls for nominations for the 2011 Cor Baayen Award

Deadline for nominations: 30 April 2011.

The Cor Baayen Award is awarded each year to a promising young researcher in computer science and applied mathematics. The award was created in 1995 to honour the first ERCIM President.
The award consists of a cheque for 5000 Euro together with an award certificate. The selected fellow will be invited to the ERCIM meetings in autumn. A short article on the winner, together with the list of all candidates nominated, will be published in ERCIM News.

Eligibility
Nominees must have carried out their work in one of the 'ERCIM countries': Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, The Netherlands and the United Kingdom Nominees must have been awarded their PhD (or equivalent) after 30 April 2008. A person can only be nominated once for the Cor Baayen Award.

Submitting a nomination
Nominations should be made by a staff member of the university or research institute where the nominee is undertaking research. Self nominations are not accepted.
To submit a nomination fill out the Cor Baayen Award Nomination Form and provide a URL to the candidate's PhD thesis as well as the candidate's best papers (max. 5).
Nominations must be submitted online - the nomination form is available here. Alternatively contact the ERCIM Executive Committee member (the national contact point) for the country in which the nominee is undertaking research (see http://www.ercim.eu/about/execom)

Selection
Initial selection will be made by each ERCIM institute (the national contact point) which is allowed to put forward up to two candidates from its country.
Nominees will be informed if they have been selected as one of the two candidates from their country.
The selection of the Cor Baayen award winner is the responsibility of the ERCIM Executive Committee, who will consult expert opinion in reaching their decision.

Further Information can be obtained from your national contact or from the Cor Baayen Award coordinator László Monostori, SZTAKI (laszlo.monostori@ercim.eu).

Introduction to System Identification
12 Apr 2011, 9:00 AM EDT, 2:00 PM EDT

In this webinar, you will learn about system identification from a world-renowned subject expert, Professor Lennart Ljung. Professor Ljung will explain the basic concepts of system identification and show you how to get started with System Identification Toolbox. You will learn:

Basic concepts behind identification of models using measured data
How to easily estimate transfer functions, state-space models, and other dynamic models using a GUI
How to compare and contrast models, validate their quality, and make the estimation results robust to disturbances
How to use the estimated models for analysis and control design

A live Q&A session with Professor Ljung will follow the presentation and demos.

You can enroll to secure a spot online via Register for this webinar.

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