Workshop on Networked Embedded Sensing and Control
October 17-18, 2005
University of Notre Dame



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Transportation: The Inn at St. Mary's will provide a shuttle service to the workshop venue. Check with the hotel reception for departure times.

Internet: Workshop participants can access internet at McKenna Hall, room 109 (Building 1079 on campus map).

Workshop program:


Sunday, October 16
5:00-7:00
Welcome to arriving participants
Inn at St. Mary's
Lemans Room



Monday, October 17
8:00 - 8:30
Registration
8:30 - 8:45
Opening
8:45 - 9:45
Plenary Talk:

     Motion coordination for multi-agent networks
     Francesco Bullo
     University of California at Santa Barbara
9:45 - 10:15
Coffee break
10:15 - 11:35
Multi-agent control:

     Discrete time Kuramoto models with delay
     Benjamin I. Triplett, Daniel J. Klein, and Kristi A. Morgansen 

     Symmetries in the Coordinated Consensus Problem
     Ruggero Carli, Fabio Fagnaniy, Marco Focoso, Alberto Speranzon and Sandro Zampieri

     On Communication Requirements for Multi-agent Consensus Seeking
     Lei Fang and Panos Antsaklis

     Applications of Connectivity Graph Processes in Networked Sensing and Control
     Abubakr Muhammad, Meng Ji and Magnus Egerstedt
11:45 - 13:00
Lunch at Morris Inn
13:00- 14:00
Campus walk
14:00 - 15:00
Plenary talk:

     Embedded sensing and control: Applications and application requirements
     Tariq Samad
     Honeywell
15:00 - 16:00
Simulation and implementation:

     Simulation of Large-Scale Networked Control systems Using GTSNetS
     ElMoustapha Ould-Ahmed-Vall, George F. Riley and Bonnie S. Heck

     Neclab, the Network Embedded Control Lab
     Nicholas Kottenstette and Panos J. Antsaklis

     Homogeneous Semantic Preserving Deployments of Heterogeneous Networks of Embedded Systems
     Aaron D. Ames, Alberto Sangiovanni-Vincentelli and Shankar Sastry 
16:00 - 16:30
Coffee break
16:30 - 17:30
Distributed sensing, filtering and estimation:

     Belief Consensus and Distributed Hypothesis Testing in Sensor Networks
     Reza Olfati-Saber, Elisa Franco, Emilio Frazzoli and Jeff S. Shamma

     Distributed Kalman Filtering and Sensor Fusion in Sensor Networks
     Reza Olfati-Saber

     Distributed Evidence Filtering in Networked Embedded Systems
     Duminda Dewasurendra, Peter Bauer and Kamal Premaratne
17:30 - 18:45
Panel discussion:

     Real-time Systems, Sensor/Actuator Networks and Autonomous Vehicles:  What do they have in Common?

     Ashok Agrawala
     Professor of Computer Science
     Director of the Maryland Information and Network Dynamics (MIND) Lab
     University of Maryland

     Phil Chandler, DR-IV
     Cooperative Control Research Lead
     Control Sciences Center of Excellence
     Wright-Patterson AFB

     Emre Ertin
     Senior Research Associate
     Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
     Ohio State University

     Jennifer Hou
     Professor and Director of the Illinois Network Design and EXperimentation (INDEX) Group
     Department of Computer Science
     University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

     Panos J. Antsaklis (moderator)
     H.C. and E.A. Brosey Professor of Engineering
     Department of Electrical Engineering
     University of Notre Dame
    
    
19:00
Dinner at Morris Inn



Tuesday, October 18
8:45 - 9:45 Plenary talk:

     Control over communication networks: Impact of delays on performance
     Dawn Tilbury
     University of Michigan
9:45 - 10:15 Coffee break
10:15 - 11:55
Control over networks I:

     Anticipative and Non-anticipative controller design for networked control systems
     Payam Naghshtabrizi and Joao P. Hespanha

     On quantization and delay effects in nonlinear control systems
     Daniel Liberzon

     Performance Evaluation for Model-Based Networked Control Systems
     Luis A. Montestruque and Panos J. Antsaklis

     Beating the Bounds on Stabilizing Data Rates in Networked Embedded Systems
     Yupeng Liang and Peter H Bauer

     Disturbance Attenuation Bounds in the Presence of a Remote Preview
     Nuno C. Martins, Munther A. Dahleh and John C. Doyle
11:55 - 13:30
Lunch at Morris Inn
13:30 - 14:30
Plenary talk:

     The role of information theory in communication constrained control systems

     Sekhar Tatikonda
     Yale University
14:30 - 15:30
Control over networks II:

     Delay-reliability tradeoffs in wireless networked control systems
     Min Xie and Martin Haenggi

     A Cross-Layer Approach to Energy Balancing in Wireless Sensor Networks
     Daniele Puccinelli, Emmanuel Sifakis, and Martin Haenggi

     Distributed Control with Stochastically Failing Communication Links
     Cedric Langbort, Vijay Gupta and Richard M. Murray
15:30
End of workshop









Page maintained by Paulo Tabuada (nesc@ee.nd.edu). Last updated 10/05/05.
The workshop is co-sponsored by the Office of Research, the Center for Applied Mathematics, the Department of Electrical Engineering, the H.C. and E.A. Brosey Endowed Chair fund of the University of Notre Dame and by the National Science Foundation. The workshop is technically co-sponsored by the IEEE Control Systems Society.