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SUMMARY:Input allocation using dynamics: theory and applications - Luca Za
 ccarian\, LAAS-CNRS and University of Trento
DTSTART:20151008T130000Z
DTEND:20151008T140000Z
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CONTACT:Tim Hughes
DESCRIPTION:Typical control systems designs concentrate on plant output sp
 ecifications and don't always take sufficiently into account specification
 s related to its input (e.g.\, coming from saturation problems). This fact
  is especially relevant when there are degrees of freedom in the plant inp
 ut selection due to some kind of actuator redundancy. In this talk we will
  present a dynamic input allocation scheme that has been proposed roughly 
 five years ago. The core ideas behind the dynamical allocation scheme will
  be first discussed and motivated. Then we will overview a number of appli
 cation experiences where the method has shown desirable performance.\n\nBi
 osketch: Luca Zaccarian received the Ph.D. degrees from the University of 
 Roma Tor Vergata (Italy) in 2000\, where he has been Assistant Professor i
 n control engineering from 2000 to 2006 and then Associate Professor. Sinc
 e 2011 he is Directeur de Recherche at the LAAS-CNRS\, Toulouse (France) a
 nd since 2013 he holds a part- time associate professor position at the Un
 iversity of Trento\, Italy. Luca Zaccarian's main research interests inclu
 de analysis and design of nonlinear and hybrid control systems\, modeling 
 and control of mechatronic systems. He has been a member of the IEEE-CSS C
 onference Editorial Board and an associate editor for Systems and Control 
 Letters. He is currently a member of the EUCA-CEB\, an associate editor fo
 r the IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control and the IFAC journal Automatc
 a. He was a member of the Board of Governors of the IEEE-CSS in 2014 and h
 e is a senior member of the IEEE since 2009. He was a recipient of the 200
 1 O. Hugo Schuck Best Paper Award given by the American Automatic Control 
 Council.
LOCATION:Cambridge University Engineering Department\, LR5
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