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SUMMARY:Forecasts and Control: Theory and Practice. - Francesco Borrelli\,
  University of California at Berkeley
DTSTART:20140325T140000Z
DTEND:20140325T150000Z
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CONTACT:Tim Hughes
DESCRIPTION:Forecasts will play an increasingly important role in the the 
 next\ngeneration of autonomous and semi-autonomous systems. Applications i
 nclude  transportation\, energy\, manufacturing and healthcare systems.\n
 Predictions of systems dynamics\, human behavior and environment condition
 s can improve safety and performance of the resulting system. However\, co
 nstraint satisfaction\, performance guarantees and real-time computation a
 re challenged by the growing complexity of the engineered system\, the hum
 an/machine interaction and the uncertainty of\nthe environment where the s
 ystem operates.\n\nIn this talk I will present the theory and tools that w
 e have developed\nover the past ten years for the systematic design of pre
 dictive controllers for uncertain linear and nonlinear systems. I will fir
 st provide an overview of our theoretical efforts. Then\, I will focus on 
 our recent results for exploiting symmetry in large-scale networked  syste
 ms and real-time computation by using analog optimization. Throughout the 
 talk I will use two applications to motivate our research and show the ben
 efits of the proposed techniques: Safe Autonomous Cars and Green Intellige
 nt Buildings.
LOCATION:Cambridge University Engineering Department\, LR3
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