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SUMMARY:Performance Verification and Optimal Synthesis of Embedded Optimiz
 ation-Based Controllers - Colin Jones\, EPFL\, Switzerland
DTSTART:20170515T130000Z
DTEND:20170515T140000Z
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CONTACT:Tim Hughes
DESCRIPTION:The field of fast-MPC\, or the use of embedded optimization fo
 r high speed control\, is a rapidly growing field in academia and increasi
 ngly in industry. Achieving the required extremely high speed optimization
 \, often within micro-seconds\, on low-end embedded platforms calls for a 
 wide range of heuristic procedures for both the control design\, as well a
 s in the implementation of the optimization algorithms themselves. This se
 mi-heuristic process leads to complex control laws that can be very effect
 ive\, but that are also extremely difficult to tune and design. This talk 
 will introduce a framework for the non-conservative analysis of many of th
 e heuristics used in these controllers via a convex sum-of-squares approac
 h. We will then build on this framework to develop a formal optimal synthe
 sis procedure for very high-speed embedded optimization-based control laws
 .\n\nBio:\n\nColin Jones is an Assistant Professor in the Automatic Contro
 l Laboratory at the EPFL in Switzerland. He was a Senior Researcher at the
  Automatic Control Lab at ETH Zurich until 2010 and obtained a Ph.D. in 20
 05 from the University of Cambridge for his work on polyhedral computation
 al methods for constrained control. Prior to that\, he was at the Universi
 ty of British Columbia in Canada\, where he took his bachelor and master d
 egrees in Electrical Engineering and Mathematics. His current research int
 erests are in the areas of high-speed predictive control and optimization\
 , as well as green energy generation\, distribution and management.
LOCATION: Cambridge University Engineering Department\, LR6
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