Message of the Coordinator
The main event this month is our DYSCO Study Day organized in Liège on May 12th, in the beautiful Château de Colonster. The preliminary programme in given below in this Newsletter. The ULg team has come up with an outstanding list of plenary speakers and, as usual, we have two poster sessions for those who want to present their results in an interactive manner. I am sure that this will be a very interesting and fruitful event and I hope to see many of you there !
Let me also draw your attention to our next graduate school course, which is on "System Identification" and will be given by Xavier Bombois and Paul Van den Hof from May 9 to May 20 at UCL. I encourage you to register for this course if you want to learn about this important aspect of systems and control. You will find more details about this below and you can register for the course via this newsletter.
Paul Van Dooren
DYSCO coordinator
Staff Movements and Visitors
VUB-ELEC
Participants VUB - doctoral school on Identification of Nonlinear Dynamic Systems: 9 May - 3 June 2011:
- Abu-Rmileh Amjad Hisham, Universitat de Girona, Spain
- Alexon Olle, Chalmers, Sweden
- Annergren Mariette, KTH, Sweden
- Csurcsia Péter Zoltán, Budapest University, Hungary
- De Román Mello Marco Antonio, UPAEP Mexico, Biomedical Engineering
- Domanov Ignat, KUL, Belgium
- Egebrand Freja, KTH, Sweden
- Harshit Rai, Dep. of Electrical Engineering, IIT Kanpur
- Hostettler Luleå, University of Technology, Sweden
- Huang Liron, KTH, Sweden
- Jung Ylva, Linköping University, Sweden
- Mattheijssens Joris, Royal Military Academy, Belgium
- Montalban Gessami, University of Valencia, Spain
- Niezabitowski Michal, IAPS, Poland
- Noël Jean-Philippe, Université de Liège, Belgium
- Personne Sébastien, Université de Technologie de Compiègne, France
- Sándor Kolumbán, Budapest University, Hungary
- Zenteno Efrain, KTH, Sweden
- Sundbom Malin, KTH, Sweden
KUL 2
- The KUL2 team welcomes Jelle Peeters (PhD student). He will work on control of large-scale LPV systems, under supervision of Wim Michiels, Jan Swevers and Goele Pipeleers.
UMONS
- On April 1st, 2011, Dr. Ciprian Vlad (PhD from the University of Galati, Romania) joined our group for a research stay until the 31st of May. Ciprian is working on control of biological wastewater treatment process under the supervision of Prof. Alain Vande Wouwer.
Seminars
UCL
- May 3, 2011 - 15:00 - Euler seminar room
John LATAIRE (VUB) - A frequency domain approach to the identification of time-varying systems. - May 10, 2011 - 15:00 - Euler seminar room
Dimos DIMAROGONAS (KTH) - Bridging the gap between multi-agent navigation and networked control.
KUL 1
- May 11, 2011 - 17:00 - Aud. Arenberg Castle, Leuven
Alexander Bertrand, Doctoral Presentation : Signal Processing Algorithms for Wireless Acoustic Sensor Networks. - May 24-25, 2011
Airborne Wind Energy Conference - AWEC2011, in Leuven (http://www.awec2011.com)
Organized by K.U. Leuven and its optimization in engineering center OPTEC, working together with the Airborne Wind Energy Consortium and Ampyxpower. - May 30, 2011 - 16:00 - ESAT, 00.62 - K.U.Leuven Seminars on Optimization in Engineering
Sebastian Sager (IWR, University of Heidelberg), Optimum Experimental Design in the light of Pontryagin's maximum principle.
Theses Defenses
UCL
Charlotte Beauthier, The LQ-optimal control problem for invariant linear systems (prom. : Joseph Winkin) : May 12, 2011 - 14:30, FUNDP, Auditoire E1, Faculté des sciences économiques, sociales et gestion.
Papers produced by the IAP Network
UCL
L. Demanet, P.D. Letourneau, N. Boumal, H. Calandra, J. Chiu, S. Snelson, Matrix probing: a randomized preconditioner for the wave-equation Hessian, Applied and Computational Harmonic Analysis, in press, 2011.
D. Bouagada, P. Van Dooren, On the Stability of 2D State-Space Models, submitted to Numerical Linear Algebra with Applications, 2011.
V.A. Traag, P. Van Dooren, Y. Nesterov, Narrow scope for resolution-free community detection, submitted to Phys. Rev. E, 2011.
V.A. Traag, P. Van Dooren, Y. Nesterov, Resolution-free community detection accepted for presentation at NetSci 2011, 6-10 June 2011, Budapest, Hungary.
A.S. Bazanella, M. Gevers, X. Bombois, Necessary and sufficient conditions for uniqueness of the minimum in Prediction Error Identification, submitted to Automatica, 2011.
M. Cucuringu, P. Van Dooren, V. D. Blondel, Extracting spatial information from networks with low-order eigenvectors, submitted to SIAM Journal on Matrix Analysis and Applications, 2011.
R. David, D. Dochain, J.-R. Mouret, A. Vande Wouwer, J.-M. Sablayrolles, Modeling of the aromatic profile in wine-making fermentation: the backbone equations, submitted to the 18th IFAC World congress, Milano, Italy, August 28 – September 2, 2011.
O. White, J.-L. Thonnard, A.M. Wing, R.M. Bracewell, J. Diedrichsen, P. Lefèvre, Grip force regulates hand impedance to optimize object stability in high impact loads, Neuroscience, in press, 2011.
A. Favache, D. Dochain, J.J. Winkin, Power-shaping control: writing the system dynamics into the Brayton-Moser form, accepted for publication in Systems & Control Letters, 2011.
H. Maclean, D. Dochain, G. Waters, M. Stasiak, M. Dixon, D. Van Der Straeten, Dynamic Model Development and Parameter Identification for Plant Growth, submitted to Plant, Cell & Environment, 2011.
KUL 1
Haverbeke N., Diehl M., De Moor B., A Schur complement active-set method for fast Moving Horizon Estimation, Internal Report 11-68, ESAT-SISTA, K.U.Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), 2011.
Haverbeke N., Diehl M., De Moor B., Robust Moving Horizon Estimation using the Huber function, Internal Report 11-69, ESAT-SISTA, K.U.Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), 2011.
Haverbeke N., Diehl M., De Moor B., Moving Horizon State and Input Estimation as a Convex Cardinality Problem, Internal Report 11-70, ESAT-SISTA, K.U.Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), 2011.
Falck T., Ohlsson H., Ljung L., Suykens J.A.K., De Moor B., Sum-of-norms regularization and kernel based models for segmentation of nonlinear time series, Internal Report 11-72, ESAT-SISTA, K.U.Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), 2011.
Houska B., Diehl M., Robust Design of Linear Control Laws for Constrained Nonlinear Dynamic Systems, Internal Report 11-74, ESAT-SISTA, K.U.Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), 2011. Accepted for publication in 18th IFAC World Congress, Milano, Italy.
Zhang J.X., Christensen M.G., Jensen S.H., Moonen M., Joint direction-of-arrival and multi-pitch estimation algorithm based on subspace techniques, Internal Report 11-75, ESAT-SISTA, K.U.Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), 2011.
Bertrand A., Moonen M., Distributed node-specific LCMV beamforming in wireless sensor networks, Internal Report 11-79, ESAT-SISTA, K.U.Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), 2011.
Houska B., Ferreau H.J., Diehl M., An Auto-Generated Real-Time Iteration Algorithm for Nonlinear MPC in the Microsecond Range, Internal Report 11-81, ESAT-SISTA, K.U.Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), 2011. Accepted for publication in Automatica.
De Brabanter K., Least Squares Support Vector Regression with Applications to Large-Scale Data: a Statistical Approach, PhD thesis, Faculty of Engineering, K.U.Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), Apr. 2011, 246 p.
Ojeda F., Alzate C., De Moor B., Suykens J.A.K, Entropy based selection for spectral clustering, Internal Report 11-83, ESAT-SISTA, K.U.Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), 2011.
UGent-SYSTeMS
Erik Quaeghebeur, Completely monotone outer approximations of lower probabilities on finite possibility spaces, accepted for presentation at NLMUA 2011, Beijing, China, September 7-9, 2011.
VUB-ELEC
Pintelon, R., G. Vandersteen, J. Schoukens, and Y. Rolain, Fast FRF measurement of multivariable systems using periodic excitations, IEEE International Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference - I2MTC, Hangzhou (China), May 10-12, 2011.
Louarroudi, E., R. Pintelon, J. Lataire, and G. Vandersteen, Estimation of nonparametric harmonic transfer functions for linear periodically time-varying systems using periodic excitations, IEEE International Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference - I2MTC, Hangzhou (China), May 10-12, 2011.
Vandersteen, G., D. Ugryumova, Y. Rolain, L. Delocht, R. Pintelon, and J. Schoukens, On the efficiency loss of the Local Polynomial method for single experiment MIMO Frequency Response Matrix extraction, IEEE International Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference - I2MTC, Hangzhou (China), May 10-12, 2011.
Gerd Vandersteen, Diana Ugryumova, Yves Rolain, Ludwig De Locht, Johan Schoukens, On the efficiency loss of the Local Polynomial method for single experiment MIMO Frequency Response Matrix extraction, IEEE International Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference - I2MTC, Hangzhou (China), May 10-12, 2011.
Kevin Voet and Wendy Van Moer, Design of a Software-Defined Radio for use in the IEEE L- and S-band, IEEE International Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference - I2MTC, Hangzhou (China), May 10-12, 2011.
Kevin Voet, Peter Händel, Niclas Björsell, and Wendy Van Moer, Mirrored parallel Hammerstein predistortion for multitone generation band, IEEE International Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference - I2MTC, Hangzhou (China), May 10-12, 2011.
Charles Nader, Wendy Van Moer, Kurt Barbe, Niclas Björsell, Peter Handel, Characterizing the Out-Of-Band Nonlinear Behaviour of RF Devices: the Key to Success Band, IEEE International Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference - I2MTC, Hangzhou (China), May 10-12, 2011.
Kurt Barbe, Laurent Vanbeylen, Wendy Van Moer, Transient conditions and overlapping sub-records: an excellent pair for FRF measurements band, IEEE International Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference - I2MTC, Hangzhou (China), May 10-12, 2011.
Griet Monteyne and Gerd Vandersteen, On the Use of Laplace and Warburg Variables for Heat Diffusion Modeling, 10th International Conference on Environment and Electrical Engineering, Rome, Italy, 8-11 May 2011.
Louarroudi, E., J. Lataire, and R. Pintelon, Frequency domain total least squares identification of linear, periodically time-varying systems from noisy input-output data, Proceedings 18th IFAC World Congress, Milano (Italy), Aug. 28-Sept. 2, 2011.
Miroslav Zivanovic and Johan Schoukens, On the Polynomial Approximation for Time-Variant Harmonic Signal Modeling, IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing,Vol. 19, No. 3, 2010, pp. 458-467.
Mussa Bshara, Umut Orguner, Fredrik Gustafsson and Leo Van Biesen, Robust Tracking in Cellular Networks Using HMM Filters and Cell-ID Measurements, IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, Vol. 60, No. 3, March 2011, pp. 1016-1024.
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).
Huang, Chengming; Vandewalle, Stefan, Unconditionally stable difference methods for delay partial differential equations, Numerische Mathematik, 2011 (Submitted).
Huybrechs, Daan; Iserles, Arieh; Nørsett, Syvert, From high oscillation to rapid approximation IV: Accelerating convergence, IMA Journal of Numerical Analysis, volume 31, issue 2, pages 442-468, 2011.
Speleers, Hendrik, On multivariate polynomials in Bernstein-Bézier form and tensor algebra, TW Reports, volume TW590, 16 pages, Department of Computer Science, K.U.Leuven, Leuven, Belgium, April 2011.
Vanherpe, Liesbeth; Moelans, Nele; Blanpain, Bart; Vandewalle, Stefan, Bounding box framework for efficient phase field simulation of grain growth in anisotropic systems, Computational Materials Science, volume 50, pages 2221-2231, 2011.
Vannieuwenhoven, Nick; Vandebril, Raf; Meerbergen, Karl, On the truncated multilinear singular value decomposition, TW Reports, volume TW589, 34 pages, Department of Computer Science, K.U.Leuven, Leuven, Belgium, March 2011.
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
PAI VI/4 DYSCO Study Day - 12 May 2011
The next DYSCO Study Day, which is organized by the University of Liège, will take place at Colonster.
The program can be found here : DYSCO Study Day on May 12, 2011.
Pleas note that car transportation between the train station Liege Guillemins and Colonster will be available at 9am and at 4:30 pm upon request. Interested people should send an email to Charline Debaets at c.ledent@ulg.ac.be, mentioning the train arrival time and a phone contact number. They will then be contacted directly by their driver.
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 |