Sample Talks

 

PDE Control and Delay Systems

• Boundary Control of PDEs: A Short Course on Backstepping Designs (a 20-hr course)

o   beam stabilization movie (2.2 MB); string tracking movie (4.2 MB); flexible inverted pendulum movie (1.4 MB).

o   Adaptive Control of PDEs and Nonlinear Systems (a 2.5-hour short course)

o   Control of PDEs and Turbulent Fluid Flows (an older 1-hr seminar, but contains applications with CFD and experiments)

• Delay systems (2-hr tutorial at CDC 2012)

 

Extremum Seeking

• Extremum Seeking — a 3-hr short course on the theory and some applications from Dutch summer school 2012.
• Extremum Seeking (older) — propulsion and other applications. 
• Source Seeking – autonomous vehicles.

o   Tracking a diffusive source—animation—movie (5.8 MB, Quicktime).

o   Mobile robot light seeking with obstacles—experiment—movie (2.9 MB, Quicktime).

o   Fish locomotion source seeking—animation—movie (0.9 MB, Windows Media Player).

 

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