Message of the Coordinator


Paul Van Dooren
Coordinator of DYSCO


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I'd like to welcome all the new members who joined our network. I hope that they will find our network an inspiring environment to develop and expand their research interests. The newsletter is our main tool to distribute information of our network and you will find a lot of information about our networking activities. Have a look at the website of our Graduate School in Systems, Optimization, Control and Networks (see http://sites.uclouvain.be/socn/); the first course is scheduled already in mid October. You will also find information on the seminars organized in the different universities. And most importantly, I wish to draw your attention to the IAP Study day that will be hosted by our KULeuven and UCLouvain on Thursday December 1st in Louvain-la-Neuve. We will send you more detailed information as soon as possible, but you can take note of this date already !

I wish all of you an excellent academic year !

A message to all IEEE members

There is a proposal being advanced at the highest level of the IEEE to modify the IEEE Board of Directors (the so-called IEEE2030 initiative). This fall, there will be a ballot on a constitutional amendment to modify/optimize the IEEE Board Structure. The IEEE Control Systems Society President, Frank Doyle, has very strong feelings about this amendment and urges all IEEE members to express their opinion about it. You will find out more about this on http://www.ieeecss.org/e-letter/2016/jul/special-issue-e-letter-july-23-2016


Staff Movements and Visitors

UCL
  • Staff
    • Benoît Legat, PhD student (FNRS), promotor R. Jungers, October 1, 2016 - September 30, 2018.
    • Joachim Verstraete, PhD student (FNRS), promotor J.P. Tignol, October 1, 2016 - September 30, 2018.
    • Matthieu Génicot will leave us at the end of the month to work in a startup.
    • Michaël Schaub (Post-Doc) will leave us on October 31, 2016 to work at the MIT in Boston.
KUL
  • Staff
    • Kaat Vandecasteele (PhD), promotor S. Van Huffel - September 1, 2016.
    • Jonathan Moeyersons (PhD), promotor S. Van Huffel - September 1, 2016.
    • Michiel Vandecappelle (PhD), promotor L. De Lathauwer - September 1, 2016.
    • Pantelis Sopasakis (Post-Doc), promotor P. Patrinos - October 1, 2016.
    • Thibaut Vaulet (PhD), promotor B. De Moor - October 1, 2016.
    • Bob Vergauwen (PhD), promotor B. De Moor - October 1, 2016.
  • Guest Professor
    • Alwin Stegeman, promotor L. De Lathauwer- September 1, 2016 - August 31, 2017.
VUB
  • Staff
    • Geerardyn Egon (PhD), ‘Development of User-Friendly System Identification Techniques’, Doctoral Dissertation, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, August 2016.

Seminars

VUB

Seminars at ELEC: see http://vubirelec.be/education/seminarsSe

Marc RÉBILLAT (Laboratoire PIMM), ‘Nonlinear system identification in structural heath monitoring’, Thursday October 6th , Dept. ELEC, Buiding K, 7th floor

ULg

Systmod weekly seminars normally take place on each Friday, 11am. They are announced on this webpage.

UNamur

Unless otherwise stated, naXys weekly seminars take place on each Tuesday, 1pm, in the Salle de Conférence (room E25), Department of Mathematics, 2nd floor of the Faculté des Sciences Economiques, Sociales et de Gestion building, Rempart de la Vierge 8, Namur. They are announced on this webpage.

Graduate School in Systems, Optimization, Control and Networks

The SOCN Graduate School 2016-2017 programme is available here : http://sites.uclouvain.be/socn/

The next course is entitled Algorithmic Convex Optimization. It will be given by François Glineur (UCL) and Yurii Nesterov (UCL) on October 17, 19, 21, 24, 28, 31, 2016 at UCL/CORE (Room c.035).

More information about this course : http://sites.uclouvain.be/socn/Courses/Courses2016-1

Travel instructions are available here. The address where the course will be held is : Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE) - Voie du Roman Pays 34 - 1348 Louvain-la-Neuve.

Papers produced by the IAP Network

UCL

Gerardo Lara-Cisneros, Ricardo Aguilar-Lopez, Denis Dochain, Ricardo Ricardo, On-line estimation of VFA concentration in anaerobic digestion via methane outflow rate measurements. In: Computers & Chemical Engineering, (2016). (Accepted). http://hdl.handle.net/2078.1/175537

Amir Ghasemian, Pan Zhang, Aaron Clauset, Christopher Moore, Leto Peel, Detectability Thresholds and Optimal Algorithms for Community Structure in Dynamic Networks. In: Physical Review X, Vol. 6, p. 031005 (July 2016). doi:10.1103/PhysRevX.6.03100. http://hdl.handle.net/2078.1/176377

Martin Guay, Denis Dochain, A proportional-integral extremum-seeking controller design technique. In: Automatica, (2016). (Accepted) http://hdl.handle.net/2078.1/176378

Pierre-Antoine Absil, Pierre-Yves Gousenbourger, Paul Striewski, Benedikt Wirth, Differentiable piecewise-Bézier surfaces on Riemannian manifolds. In: SIAM Journal on Imaging Sciences, (2016). (Accepted). http://hdl.handle.net/2078.1/176421

KUL

16-124
R. Zink, B. Hunyadi, S. Van Huffel, M. De Vos, Mobile EEG on the bike: disentangling attentional and physical contributions to auditory attention tasks'', Journal of Neural Engineering, vol. 13, no. 4, Jun. 2016, pp. 046017., Lirias number : 545090.

16-131
L. Billiet, T. Swinnen, R. Westhovens, K. de Vlam, S. Van Huffel, SPARKLE@Home : Bringing Health Technology to Daily Life'', in Proc. of the conference on Engineering4Society (E4S), Leuven, Belgium, Sep. 2016, pp. 33-39., Lirias number : 548755.

16-132
A. Dereymaeker, A.H. Ansari, K. Jansen, P.J. Cherian, J. Vervisch, P. Govaert, L. De Wispelaere, C. Dielman, V. Matic, A. Caicedo Dorado, M. De Vos, S. Van Huffel, G. Naulaers, Interrater agreement in visual scoring of neonatal seizures based on majority voting on a web-based system : the Neoguard EEG database'', Internal Report 16-132, ESAT-SISTA, KU Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), 2016.

16-134
J. Vandewalle, A short history of Circuits and Systems'', in The history of Circuits and Systems Education, (Maloberti F., and Davies A., eds.), River Publishers (Aalborg, Denmark), 2016, pp. 226-230., Lirias number : 546877.

16-135
J. Vandewalle, Current and emerging topics : Circuits and Systems Education and Outreach'', in The history of Circuits and Systems Education, (Maloberti F., and Davies A., eds.), River Publishers (Aalborg, Denmark), 2016, pp. 258-259., Lirias number : 546880.

16-136
J. Vandewalle, In Memoriam : Tamas Roska'', in The history of Circuits and Systems Education, (Maloberti F., and Davies A., eds.), River Publishers (Aalborg, Denmark), 2016, pp. 314-315., Lirias number : 546881.

16-137
J. Vandewalle, In Memoriam : Vitold Belevitch'', in The history of Circuits and Systems Education, (Maloberti F., and Davies A., eds.), River Publishers (Aalborg, Denmark), 2016, pp. 291-292., Lirias number : 546882.

16-142
Y. Yang, Y. Feng, J.A.K. Suykens, Robust Matrix Completion through Nonconvex Approaches and Efficient Algorithms'', in Chapter 8 Handbook of Robust Low-Rank and Sparse Matrix Decomposition, (Bouwmans T., Serhat Aybat N., and Zahzah E., eds.), Chapmann and Hall (London, UK), 2016, pp. 210 -228., Lirias number : 548760.

16-143
R. Zink, B. Hunyadi, S. Van Huffel, M. De Vos, Alpha and low-beta oscillatory patterns extracted with Canonical Polyadic Decomposition relate to LDA classifier performance in real-life Mobile EEG'', Internal Report 16-143, ESAT-SISTA, KU Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), 2016. Accepted for publication in 8th International Workshop on Biosignal Interpretation (BSI2016)., Lirias number : 548762.

16-144
R. Zink, A. Baptist, A. Bertrand, S. Van Hufffel, M. De Vos, Online detection of auditory attention in a neurofeedback application'', Internal Report 16-144, ESAT-SISTA, KU Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), 2016. Accepted for publication in 8th International Workshop on Biosignal Interpretation (BSI2016)., Lirias number : 548765.

16-145
H. Wu, T. Tambuyzer, I. Nica, M. Deprez, K. van Kuyck, J.M. Aerts, S. Van Huffel, B. Nuttin, Field potential oscillations in the bed nucleus of the stria terminalis correlate with compulsion in a rat model of obsessive-compulsive disorder'', Internal Report 16-145, ESAT-SISTA, KU Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), 2016. Accepted for publication in The Journal of Neuroscience, 2016., Lirias number : 548786.

16-149
Y. Yang, S. Hu, L. De Lathauwer, J.A.K. Suykens, Convergence Study of Block Singular Value Maximization Methods for Rank-1 Approximation to Higher Order Tensors'', Internal Report 16-149, ESAT-SISTA, KU Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), 2016.

16-150
O. Debals, M. Sohail, L. De Lathauwer, Analytical Multi-Modulus Algorithms Based on Coupled Canonical Polyadic Decompositions'', Internal Report 16-150, ESAT-SISTA, KU Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), 2016.

16-157
S. Luca, D. Clifton, B. Vanrumste, Extreme Value Analysis for Multivariate Process Monitoring'', Proc. of the Annual conference of the European network for business and industrial statistics (ENBIS), Sheffield, UK, Sep. 2016, pp. 1., Lirias number : 549432.

16-159
B. De Moor, Will Life Go Live One Day'', in Chapter 1 A Truly Golden Handbook : The Scholarly Quest for Utopia, (Achten V., Bouckaert G., and Schokkaert E., eds.), Leuven University Press (Leuven, Belgium), 2016., Lirias number : 550603.

VUB

Conference Papers

• J.P. Noel, A.F. Esfahani, G. Kerschen, J. Schoukens, ‘Hysteresis Identification Using Nonlinear State-Space Models’, Proceedings of the 34th IMAC Conference and Exposition on Structural Dynamics, Orlando, FL, January 25-28, 2016, pp. 323-338

• Koen Tiels, ‘A polynomial nonlinear state-space toolbox for Matlab’, 21st IMEKO TC-4 International Symposium on Understanding the World through Electrical and Electronic Measurement, and 19th International Workshop on ADC Modelling and Testing September 7-9, 2016 Budapest, Hungary, pp. 28-31

• J. Ertveldt, J. Stoev, M. Verbandt, J. Swevers, S. Vanlanduit, R. Pintelon, ‘Study of the nonlinear aeroelastic response of a cantilever wing from wind tunnel tests on the Active Aeroelastic Test Bench’, ISMA-2016, proceedings of the 2016 Leuven Conference on Noise and Vibration Engineering, September 19-21 in Leuven, Belgium

• Gabriel Hollander , Philippe Dreesen , Mariya Ishteva , Johan Schoukens, ‘Parallel Wiener-Hammerstein Identification : A case study’, ISMA-2016, proceedings of the 2016 Leuven Conference on Noise and Vibration Engineering, September 19-21 in Leuven, Belgium

• I. Markovsky and N. Guglielmi, ‘Model order estimation based on a method for computing distance to uncontrollability.’, ISMA-2016, proceedings of the 2016 Leuven Conference on Noise and Vibration Engineering, September 19-21 in Leuven, Belgium

• Adam Cooman, Francesco Ferranti, Yves Rolain, Gerd Vandersteen and Ebrahim Louarroudi, ‘Common-denominator modelling for stability analysis of electronic circuits’, European Microwave Week 2016, London, UK, October 3-7, 2016

Journal Papers

• K. Usevich and I. Markovsky, ‘Variable projection methods for approximate (greatest) common divisor computations’, Theoretical Computer Science, Vol. 95, September 2016, pp. 53–61

• Johan Schoukens, Mark Vaes and Rik Pintelon, ‘Linear System Identification in a Nonlinear Setting: Nonparametric Analysis of the Nonlinear Distortions and Their Impact on the Best Linear Approximation’, IEEE Control Systems Magazine, June 2016, Vol. 36 No. 3, pp. 38-69

• Per Hagg, Johan Schoukens, Michel Gevers and Hakan Hjalmarsson, ‘The transient impulse response modeling method for non-parametric system identification’, AUTOMATICA, June 2016, Vol. 68, pp. 314-328

• John Lataire, ‘Multi-disciplinary dialogue and collaboration are the key [Future Trends in I&M]’, IEEE Instrumentation & Measurement Magazine, Vol. 19, No. 4, pp. 36-37

• U. Schneidewind, M. van Berkel, C. Anibas, G. Vandersteen, C. Schmidt, I. Joris, P. Seuntjens, O. Batelaan and H.J. Zwart, ‘LPMLE3: A novel 1-D approach to study water flow in streambeds using heat as a tracer’, Water Resources Research, Vol. 52, No. 8, August 2016, 15 pages

• I. Markovsky, ‘The most powerful unfalsified model for data with missing values’, Systems & Control Letters, Vol. 95, September 2016, pp. 53–61

• Yves Rolain, Mariya Ishteva, Evi Van Nechel and Francesco Ferranti, ‘A Tensor-Based Extension for the Multi-Line TRL Calibration’, IEEE Transaction of Microwave Theory and Techniques, Vol. 64, No. 7, July 2016, pp. 2121-2128

• Julian Stoev and Johan Schoukens, ‘Nonlinear system identification-Application for industrial hydro-static drive-line’, CONTROL ENGINEERING PRACTICE, September 2016, Vol. 54, pp. 154-165

• J. Lataire and T. Chen, ‘Transfer function and transient estimation by gaussian process regression in the frequency domain’, Automatica, Vol. 72, October 2016, pp. 217–229

Journal Papers accepted for publications

• J.P. Noël, A.F. Esfahani, G. Kerschen and J. Schoukens, ‘A nonlinear state-space approach to hysteresis identification’, Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing, accepted for publication

• J. Ertveldt, R. Pintelon and S. Vanlanduit, ‘Identification of unsteady aerodynamic forces from forced motion experiments on the AATB’, AIAA Journal, accepted for publication

• J. Goos, J. Lataire, E. Louarroudi and R. Pintelon, ‘Frequency domain weighted nonlinear least squares estimation of parameter varying differential equations’, Automatica, accepted for publication

• Ivan Markovsky, ‘A Missing Data Approach to Data-Driven Filtering and Control’, IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, Accepted for publication

• Ivan Markovsky and Guillaume Mercère, ‘Subspace identification with constraints on the impulse response’, International Journal of Control, accepted for publication

• Rishi Relan, Yousef Firouz, Jean-Marc Timmermans and Johan Schoukens, ‘Data driven nonlinear identification of Li–ion battery based on a frequency domain nonparametric analysis’, accepted for publication in the IEEE Transactions on Control System Technology

UMons

• Juliana Sbarciog Mihaela, Alain Vande Wouwer, "Bifurcation Analysis of an Anaerobic Digestion System" in "20th International Conference on System Theory, Control and Computing (ICSTCC)" , Sinaia, Romania, 2016 (2016) – (accepted)

• Jonathan Grimard, Laurent Dewasme, Alain Vande Wouwer, "Nonlinear model predictive control of a twin-screw extruder" in "20th International Conference on System Theory, Control and Computing (ICSTCC)" , Sinaia, Romania, 2016 (2016) - (accepted)

• Thomas Abbate, Laurent Dewasme, Alain Vande Wouwer, "Reduced mathematical model of dengue vaccine production in vero cell cultures" in "6th IFAC Conference on Foundations of Systems Biology in Engineering" , Madgeburg, Germany, 2016 (2016) - (accepted)

IAP Contact Persons

UCLMarie-Christine Joveneau
KULIda Tassens
UGentMargot Roels
VUBAnn Pintelon
ULgSophie Cimino
UMonsLaurent Dewasme
UNamurJoseph Winkin

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