[eletter] eletter 348

[Jianghai Hu]

E-LETTER on Systems, Control, and Signal Processing
Issue 348
August 2017

Editor:
Jianghai Hu
School of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Purdue University
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West Lafayette, IN, 47907
USA
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Contents

1. IEEE CSS Headlines
1.1 CFP for Organizing the Conference on Control Technology and
Applications 2021
1.2 IEEE Control Systems Society Technically Cosponsored Conferences
1.3 IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control
1.4 IEEE Transactions on Control of Network Systems
1.5 IEEE Control Systems Letters
1.6 IEEE Control Systems Society Publications Content Digest

2. Award & Summer School
2.1 European Control Award
2.2 Summer School on “Approximation of Large-Scale Dynamic Models”

3. Books
3.1 An Introduction to Compressed Sensing

4. Journals
4.1 Contents: Automatica
4.2 Contents: Systems & Control Letters
4.3 Contents: Systems & Control Letters
4.4 Contents: European Journal of Control
4.5 Contents: IMA Journal of Mathematical Control and Information
4.6 Contents: International Journal of Applied Mathematics and Computer
Science
4.7 Contents: IEEE/CAA Journal of Automatica Sinica
4.8 Contents: Control Engineering Practice
4.9 Contents: Asian Journal of Control
4.10 Contents: Journal of Process Control
4.11 Contents: ISA Transactions
4.12 Contents: Mechatronics
4.13 Contents: Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence
4.14 Contents: Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence
4.15 Contents: International Journal of Control, Automation, and Systems
4.16 CFP: International Journal of Intelligent Robotics and Applications
4.17 CFP: IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology

5. Conferences
5.1 IFAC Conference on Analysis and Design of Hybrid Systems
5.2 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Cyber-Physical Systems
5.3 ACM International Conference on Hybrid Systems: Computation and Control
5.4 International Workshop on Robust Modeling, Design & Analysis: Tools,
Methods & AeroSpace Applications
5.5 International Conference on Control, Automation and Systems

6. Positions
6.1 PhD: McGill University, Canada
6.2 PhD: University of Exeter, UK
6.3 PhD: Imperial College London, UK
6.4 PhD: University of Sannio in Benevento, Italy
6.5 PhD: University of Melbourne, Australia
6.6 PhD: Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands
6.7 PhD/PostDoc: New York University Abu Dhabi, UAE
6.8 PhD/PostDoc: University of Kansas, USA
6.9 PhD/PostDoc: University of Melbourne, Australia
6.10 PhD/Engineer/Researcher: University of Seville, Spain
6.11 PostDoc: McGill University, Canada
6.12 PostDoc: McGill University, Canada
6.13 PostDoc: McGill University, Canada
6.14 PostDoc: Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden
6.15 PostDoc: Israel Institute of Technology, Israel
6.16 PostDoc: University of Warwick, UK
6.17 PostDoc: ONERA, France
6.18 PostDoc: National University of Singapore, Singapore
6.19 Research Fellow: Hull University, UK
6.20 Faculty: Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands
6.21 Engineer: ENERCON, Germany
6.22 Engineer: Corning Inc., USA

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1. IEEE CSS Headlines

1.1. CFP for Organizing the Conference on Control Technology and
Applications 2021
Contributed by: Maria Prandini, maria.prandini at polimi.it

CALL FOR PROPOSALS FOR ORGANIZING THE IEEE CONFERENCE ON CONTROL TECHNOLOGY
AND APPLICATIONS (CCTA) 2021

This call invites IEEE CSS members to submit a proposal to organize the
Conference on Control Technology and Applications 2021 (CCTA 2021).

If you are an IEEE CSS member with past experience in conference
organization and you are interested in organizing CCTA 2021, you are
invited to submit a proposal to the CSS Vice President for Conference
Activities, Maria Prandini (maria.prandini at polimi.it).

The proposal should contain the following information:

* Conference: Please include information on:
- Where (city/country) the conference is being proposed, and the
accessibility of the conference site from within the country and from
abroad. Please comment on additional issues such as cost and safety, if
appropriate.
- Possible venues (hotels, conference centers etc.) where the conference
will be held. For planning purposes, you may assume approximately 350
attendees and about 8 parallel tracks as in CCTA 2017,
http://ccta2017.ieeecss.org/.
- Expected member/nonmember registration fees (rough estimate), including
both advanced and on-site rates.
- Range of available hotel options, including cost.
- When the conference is proposed to be held (the month would suffice), and
the typical weather during this time.
- A sample of student-centric activities planned for the conference.
- A sample of industry involvement in the conference.

* General Chair (GC): Please provide a brief CV (at most 2 pages) of the
IEEE CSS member who is proposed as GC, highlighting her/his past experience
in conference organization and, in particular, in organizing CSS
conferences (ACC, MSC, CDC) or those that have been co-sponsored by CSS
(see http://www.ieeecss.org/conferences/technically-cosponsored for a list).

Please include any other information that you think would be relevant.

The entire proposal should not exceed four pages.

Submission deadline: September 30, 2017, midnight CET.

Proposals received by the deadline will be evaluated by the CSS Executive
Committee. The outcome of the selection will be communicated to the
proponents by the end of 2017.

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1.2. IEEE Control Systems Society Technically Cosponsored Conferences
Contributed by: Luca Zaccarian, CSS AE Conferences, zaccarian at laas.fr

The following conferences have been recently included in the list of events
technically cosponsored by the IEEE Control Systems Society:

- 2018 International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems (ICUAS 2018).
Dallas (TX), United States. Jun 12 - Jun 15, 2018.
http://www.uasconferences.com/

- 2018 SICE International Symposium on Control Systems. Tokyo,
Japan. Mar 9 - Mar 11, 2018. http://iscs2018.sice-ctrl.jp/

- XXVI International Conference on Information, Communication and
Automation Technologies (ICAT 2017). Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina. Oct
26 - Oct 28, 2017. http://icat.etf.unsa.ba/

- 21st International Conference on System Theory, Control and Computing
(ICSTCC 2017). Sinaia, Romania. Oct 19 - 21, 2017.
http://www.icstcc2017.ac.tuiasi.ro/

For a full listing of CSS technically cosponsored conferences, please visit
http://ieeecss.org/conferences/technically-cosponsored and for a list of
the upcoming and past CSS main conferences please visit
http://ieeecss.org/conferences

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1.3. IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control
Contributed by: Elizabeth Kovacs, ekovacs2 at nd.edu

Table of Contents
IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control
Volume 62 (2017), Issue 8 (August)

Please note that the contents of the IEEE Transactions on Automatic
Control, together with links to the abstracts of the papers may be found at
the TAC web site:
http://www.nd.edu/~ieeetac/contents.html

Table of Contents
p. C1

Scanning the Issue
p. 3698

Papers
- A Frequency-Sweeping Framework for Stability Analysis of Time-Delay
Systems, X-G. Li, S-I. Niculescu, A. Cela, L. Zhang, X. Li p. 3701
- Network Identifiability from Intrinsic Noise, D. Hayden, Y. Yuan, J.
Gonccalves p. 3717
- Characterizations of Integral Input-to-State Stability for Systems with
Multiple Invariant Sets, P. Forni, D. Angeli p. 3729
- Non-Convex Distributed Optimization, T. Tatarenko, B. Touri p. 3744
- Synchronization and Dynamic Consensus of Heterogeneous Networked Systems,
E. Panteley, A. Loria p. 3758
- A New Active Disturbance Rejection Control to Output Feedback
Stabilization for a One-Dimensional Anti-stable Wave Equation with
Disturbance, H. Feng, B-Z. Guo p. 3774
- Satisficing in Multi-Armed Bandit Problems, P. Reverdy, V. Srivastava, N.
E. Leonard p. 3788
- Bundle Reduction and the Alignment Distance on Spaces of State-Space LTI
Systems, B. Afsari, R. Vidal p.3804
- Resilient Stabilization of Switched Linear Control Systems against
Adversarial Switching, J. Hu, J. Shen, D. Lee p. 3820
- Local and Distributed Rendezvous of Underactuated Rigid Bodies, A. Roza,
M. Maggiore, L. Scardovi p. 3835
- Penalty Functions for Handling Large Deviation of Quadrature States in
NMPC, S. Gros, M. Zanon p. 3848
- Control Barrier Function Based Quadratic Programs for Safety Critical
Systems, A. D. Ames, X. Xu, J. W. Grizzle, P. Tabuada p. 3861
- Design of Coupled Harmonic Oscillators for Synchronization and
Coordination, X. Liu, T. Iwasaki p. 3877
- Boundary Estimation of Boundary Parameters for Linear Hyperbolic PDEs, M.
Bin, F. Di Meglio p.3890
- Inertial Hegselmann-Krause Systems, B. Chazelle, C. Wang p. 3905
- Synthesis of Maximally-Permissive Supervisors for the Range Control
Problem, X. Yin, S. Lafortune p. 3914
- Stable, Robust Hybrid Zero Dynamics Control of Powered Lower-Limb
Prostheses, A. E. Martin, R. D. Gregg p. 3930
- Multiple Lyapunov Functions-Based Small-Gain Theorems for Switched
Interconnected Nonlinear Systems, L. Long p. 3943
- Recursive Nonparametric Identification of Nonlinear Systems with Adaptive
Binary Sensors, W. Zhao, H-F. Chen, R. Tempo, F. Dabbene p. 3959
- Modified Euler-Frobenius Polynomials with Application to Sampled Data
Modelling, D. S. Carrasco, G. C. Goodwin, J. I. Yuz p. 3972

Technical Notes and Correspondence
- Distributed Subgradient Projection Algorithm over Directed Graphs, C. Xi,
U. A. Khan p.3986
- Consensus in Networks of Agents with Unknown High-Frequency Gain Signs
and Switching Topology, H. E. Psillakis p.3993
- The Robustness of Marginal-Cost Taxes in Affine Congestion Games, P. N.
Brown, J. R. Marden p. 3999
- Semi-Global Output Feedback Stabilization of Non-Minimum Phase Nonlinear
Systems, A. M. Boker, H. K. Khalil p. 4005
- Necessary and Sufficient Stabilizing Conditions for Networked Control
Systems with Simultaneous Transmission Delay and Packet Dropout, C. Tan, H.
Zhang p. 4011
- Immersion and Invariance Stabilization of Nonlinear Systems via Virtual
and Horizontal Contraction, L. Wang, F. Forni, R. Ortega, Z. Liu, H. Su p.
4017
- Hybrid Adaptive Multi-Sinusoidal Disturbance Cancellation, R. Marino, P.
Tomei p. 4023
- H_2-Control of Continuous-Time Hidden Markov Jump Linear Systems, F.
Stadtmann, O. L. V. Costa p. 4031
- Traffic Reduction in Packet Switched Networked Control Systems using
Deadband Error Modulation, U. Premaratne, S. K. Halgamuge, I. Mareels p.
4038
- A Note on Relationship Between Two Classes of Integral Inequalities, J.
Chen, S. Xu, B. Zhang, G. Liu p. 4044
- On Optimality of Sparse Long-Range Links in Circulant Consensus Networks,
M. Fardad p. 4050
- Stability Analysis and Control Design of Discrete-Time Switched Affine
Systems, G. S. Deaecto, J. C. Geromel p. 4058
- Sparsity Promotion in State Feedback Controller Design, M. Babazadeh, A.
Nobakhti p. 4066
- An Adaptive Unknown Periodic Input Observer for Discrete-Time LTI SISO
Systems, S-Y. Lin, J-Y. Yen, M-S. Chen, S-H. Chang, C-Y. Kao p. 4073
- Qualitative Stability of Nonlinear Networked Systems, M. T. Angulo, J-J.
Slotine p. 4080
- The Consensus for Discrete-time Linear Multi-agent Systems under Directed
Switching Networks, J. Huang p. 4086
- Bit Rate Conditions to Stabilize a Continuous-Time Scalar Linear System
Based on Event Triggering, Q. Ling p. 4093
- Minimax Observers for Linear DAEs, S. Zhuk, M. Petreczky p. 4101
- Chattering Analysis of HOSM Controlled Systems: Frequency Domain
Approach, A. Rosales, Y. Shtessel, L. Fridman, C. B. Panathula p. 4109
- Batch-to-Batch Finite-Horizon LQ Control for Unknown Discrete-Time Linear
Systems via Stochastic Extremum Seeking, S-J. Liu, M. Krstic, T. Basar p.
4116
- Linear Estimation for Measurement-Delay Systems with Periodic
Coefficients and Multiplicative Noise, X. Song, J. H. Park, X. Yan p. 4124
- The Zero Dynamics Form for Nonlinear Differential-Algebraic Systems, T.
Berger p. 4131
- Passification of Uncertain Singular Semi-Markovian Jump Systems with
Actuator Failures via Sliding Mode Approach, B. Jiang, Y. Kao, C-C. Gao, X.
Yao p. 4138
- Finite Uniform Bisimulations for Linear Systems with Finite Input
Alphabets, D. Fan, D. C. Tarraf p. 4144
- Rigid Motions of 3-D Undirected Formations with Mismatch between Desired
Distances, Z. Sun, S. Mou, B. D.O. Anderson, A. S. Morse p. 4151
- Stabilization of Input-Disturbed Stochastic Port-Hamiltonian Systems via
Passivity, Z. Fang, C. Gao p. 4159
- A Note on Recursive Schur Complements, Hurwitz Stability of Metzler
Matrices and Related Results, M. Souza, F. Wirth, R. N. Shorten p. 4167
- A Necessary and Sufficient Condition for a Resource Subset to Generate a
Strict Minimal Siphon in S4PR, S. Wang, D. You, M. Zhou p. 4173
- Dark Modes of Quantum Linear Systems, Y. Pan, D. Dong, I. R. Petersen p.
4180
- Existence of Continuous or Constant Finslerís Variables for Parameter
Dependent Systems, J. Y. Ishihara, H. T. Kussaba, R. A. Borges p. 4187
- Modelling and Control of ItÙ Stochastic Networked Control Systems with
Random Packet Dropouts Subject to Time-Varying Sampling, H. Zhipei, F.
Deng, M. Xing, L. Junhui p. 4194
- Time-Average Optimization with Non-Convex Decision Set and Its
Convergence, S. Supittayapornpong, L. Huang, M. J. Neely p. 4202
- Invariant Subset and Set Stability of Boolean Networks under Arbitrary
Switching Signals, Y. Guo, Y. Ding, D. Xie p. 4209
- Dwell-Time-Based Observers Design for Unknown Inputs Switched Linear
Systems Without Requiring Strong Detectability of Subsystems, R. Ma, J. Fu,
T. Chai p. 4215
- Stability and l_1 Gain Analysis of Boolean Networks with Markovian Jump
Parameters, M. Meng, L. Liu, G. Feng p. 4222
- A Differential Game Approach to Multi-Agent Collision Avoidance, T.
Mylvaganam, M. Sassano, A. Astolfi p. 4229
- An Interval Approach to Compute Invariant Sets, T. Le MÈzo, L. Jaulin, B.
Zerr p. 4236
- Accurate State Estimation in Continuous-Discrete Stochastic State-Space
Systems with Nonlinear or Nondifferentiable Observations, G. Yu. Kulikov,
M. V. Kulikova p. p. 4243
- Robust Consensus of Linear Feedback Protocols over Uncertain Network
Graphs, Z. Li, J. Chen p. 4251
- Constrained Consensus Algorithms with Fixed Step Size for Distributed
Convex Optimization Over Multi-agent Networks, Q. Liu, S. Yang, Y. Hong p.
4259
- Sliding Mode Control of Singular Stochastic Markov Jump Systems, Z. Feng,
P. Shi p. 4266
- On Asymptotic Stability of Discrete-Time Linear Time-Varying Systems, B.
Zhou, T. Zhao p. 4274
- Distributed Averaging Using Periodic Gossiping, C. (B) Yu, B. D.O.
Anderson, S. Mou, J. Liu, Fenghua He, A. Stephen Morse p. 4282
- Minimum-Time Transitions between Thermal Equilibrium States of the
Quantum Parametric Oscillator, D. Stefanatos p. 4290

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1.4. IEEE Transactions on Control of Network Systems
Contributed by: Denise Joseph, dejoseph at bu.edu

Volume 4 (2017), Issue 2 (June)
Table of Contents

The contents of the IEEE-Transactions on Control of Network Systems, with
links to the abstracts of the papers are available on
http://sites.bu.edu/tcns/home/june-2017/

- Éminence Grise Coalitions: On the Shaping of Public Opinion, Sadegh
Bolouki, Roland P. Malhame, Milad Siami, Nader Motee p. 133
- Supervisory Control of Networked Timed Discrete Event Systems and Its
Applications to Power Distribution Networks, Bo Zhao, Feng Lin, Caisheng
WANG, Xuesong Zhang, Michael P. Polis, Le Yi Wang, p. 146
- Optimal Resource Allocation for Control of Networked Epidemic Models,
Cameron Nowzari, Victor M. Preciado, George J. Pappas p.159
- On the Robustness of Uncertain Consensus Networks, Daniel Zelazo, Mathias
Bürger p.170
- Structural Monostability of Activation-Inhibition Boolean Networks,
Shun-ichi Azuma, Takahiro Yoshida, Toshiharu Sugie p.179
- Faithful Implementations of Distributed Algorithms and Control Laws,
Takashi Tanaka, Farhad Farokhi, Cedric Langbort p. 191
- Quantized H∞ Consensus of Multiagent Systems With Quantization Mismatch
Under Switching Weighted Topologies, Xiang-Gui Guo, Jian Liang Wang, Fang
Liao, Dong Wang p.202
- Optimal Design of Switched Networks of Positive Linear Systems via
Geometric Programming, Masaki Ogura, Victor M. Preciado p. 213
- Analysis for the Robust H∞ Synchronization of Nonlinear Stochastic
Coupling Networks Through Poisson Processes and Core Coupling Design,
Shih-Ju Ho, Chun-Yuan Chen, Bor-Sen Chen p. 223
- Time-Varying Output Formation for Linear Multiagent Systems via Dynamic
Output Feedback Control, Xiwang Dong, Guoqiang Hu p. 236
- Fast Convergence in Semianonymous Potential Games, Holly Borowski, Jason
R. Marden p. 246
- Optimal Network Control with Stochastic Link Variations and Indefinite
Quadratic Constraints, Ather Gattami p. 259
- Communication Delay Co-Design in H2-Distributed Control Using Atomic Norm
Minimization, Nikolai Matni p. 267
- An Anytime Distributed Load-Balancing Algorithm Satisfying Capacity and
Quantization Constraints, Evan Gravelle, Sonia Martinez p. 279
- Analysis of Failures in Power Grids, Saleh Soltan, Dorian Mazauric, Gil
Zussman p. 288
- A Minimal Realization Technique for the Dynamical Structure Function of a
Class of LTI Systems, Ye Yuan, Anurag Rai, Enoch Yeung, Guy-Bart Vincent
Stan, Sean Warnick, Jorge Goncalves p. 301
- Control With Communications Constraints: Measuring the Instability in
Parametric Linear Systems, Graziano Chesi p. 312
- Energy-Based Lifetime Maximization and Security of Wireless-Sensor
Networks With General Nonideal Battery Models, Sepideh Pourazarm, Christos
G. Cassandras p. 323
- A Robust Decentralized Control for Channel Sharing Communication, Franco
Blanchini, Daniele Casagrande, Giulia Giordano, Pier Luca Montessoro p. 336
- Uncovering Droop Control Laws Embedded Within the Nonlinear Dynamics of
Van der Pol Oscillators, Mohit Sinha, Florian Dörfler, Brian Johnson,
Sairaj Dhople p. 347
- Maximizing Algebraic Connectivity in the Space of Graphs With a Fixed
Number of Vertices and Edges, Kohnosuke Ogiwara, Tatsuya Fukami, Norikazu
Takahashi p. 359
- Emergent Behaviors Over Signed Random Dynamical Networks:
Relative-State-Flipping Model, Guodong Shi, Alexandre Proutiere, Mikael
Johansson, John S. Baras, Karl H. Johansson
p. 369
- Distributed Finite-Time Average-Consensus With Limited Computational and
Storage Capability, Gabriele Oliva, Roberto Setola, Christoforos N.
Hadjicostis p. 380
- Botnet Detection based on Anomaly and Community Detection, Jing Wang,
Ioannis Ch. Paschalidis p. 392

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1.5. IEEE Control Systems Letters
Contributed by: Francesca Bettini, bettini at dei.unipd.it

Table of Contents
IEEE Control Systems Letters
Volume 1 (2017), Issue 2 (October)

Please note that IEEE Control Systems Letters is accessible in IEEE Xplore
through the web page:
http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/RecentIssue.jsp?punumber=7782633

Papers
- Third Order Sliding Mode Observer-Based Approach for Distributed Optimal
Load Frequency Control; G. Rinaldi, M. Cucuzzella, and A. Ferrara - p. 215
- Target Enclosing and Trajectory Tracking for a Mobile Robot with Input
Disturbances; X. Yu and L. Liu – p. 221
- Abstracting Partially Feedback Linearizable Systems Compositionally; O.
Hussien, A. Ames, and P. Tabuada – p. 227
- New Classes of Finite Dimensional Filters with Non-Maximal Rank; J. Shi,
X. Chen, W. Dong, and S. S.-T. Yau – p. 233
- Change Detection for Undermodelled Processes Using Mismatched Hidden
Markov Model Test Filters; J. James, J. J. Ford, and T. L. Molloy – p. 238
- A Nonlinear Sampled-Data Observer of Vehicle Lateral Velocity; A. Borri –
p. 244
- A Stochastic Multiple-Leader–Follower Incentive Stackelberg Strategy for
Markov Jump Linear Systems; H. Mukaidani, H. Xu, T. Shima, and V. Dragan –
p. 250
- Invariant Sets Analysis for Constrained Switching Systems; N.
Athanasopoulos, K. Smpoukis, and R. M. Jungers – p. 256
- Provably Safe Cruise Control of Vehicular Platoons; S. Sadraddini, S.
Sivaranjani, V. Gupta, and C. Belta – p. 262
- Optimal Enforcement of Causality in Non-Parametric Transfer Function
Estimation; R. A. González, P. E. Valenzuela, C. R. Rojas, and R. A. Rojas
– p. 268
- Sliding Mode Based Platooning with Non-Zero Initial Spacing Errors; A.
Rupp, M. Steinberger, and M. Horn – p. 274
- Minimax Robust Quickest Change Detection with Exponential Delay
Penalties; T. L. Molloy, J. M. Kennedy, and J. J. Ford – p. 280
- A Time Series Distance Measure for Efficient Clustering of Input/Output
Signals by Their Underlying Dynamics; O. Lauwers and B. De Moor – p. 286
- Supermodular Batch State Estimation in Optimal Sensor Scheduling; P.
Singh, S. Z. Yong, and E. Frazzoli – p. 292
- Minimal Inputs/Outputs for a Networked System; T. Zhou – p. 298
- Analytic Analysis of the Data-Dependent Estimation Accuracy of Battery
Equivalent Circuit Dynamics; X. Lin – p. 304
- Nonsmooth Barrier Functions with Applications to Multi-Robot Systems; P.
Glotfelter, J. Cortés, and M. Egerstedt – p. 310
- Scalable Underapproximation for the Stochastic Reach-Avoid Problem for
High-Dimensional LTI Systems Using Fourier Transforms; A. P. Vinod and M.
M. K. Oishi – p. 316
- High-Voltage Solution in Radial Power Networks: Existence, Properties,
and Equivalent Algorithms; K. Dvijotham, E. Mallada, and J. W.
Simpson-Porco – p. 322
- Distributed Estimation of All the Eigenvalues and Eigenvectors of
Matrices Associated with Strongly Connected Digraphs; A. Gusrialdi and Z.
Qu – p. 328
- A Distributed Control Algorithm for Waterfilling of Networked Control
Systems via Consensus; R. Carli and M. Dotoli – p. 334
- Dynamic Pinning Consensus Control of Multi-Agent Systems; A. Sakaguchi
and T. Ushio – p. 340
- Fixed Mode Elimination by Minimum Communication Within an Estimator-Based
Framework for Distributed Control; Y. R. Stürz, A. Eichler, and R. S. Smith
– p. 346
- Robust Gradient-Based Adaptive Control of Nonlinearly Parametrized
Plants; S. B. Roy, S. Bhasin, and I. N. Kar – p. 352
- H∞ Based Estimation of Nonlinear Systems; I. Rusnak – p. 358
- Exploiting Nodes Symmetries to Control Synchronization and Consensus
Patterns in Multiagent Systems; D. Fiore, G. Russo, and M. di Bernardo – p.
364
- Super-Twisting Control of Double Integrator Systems with Unknown Constant
Control Direction; C. Ton, S. S. Mehta, and Z. Kan – p. 370
- Riemannian Optimal System Identification Algorithm for Linear MIMO
Systems; H. Sato and K. Sato – p. 376
- Output Feedback Stable Stochastic Predictive Control with Hard Control
Constraints; P. K. Mishra, D. Chatterjee, and D. E. Quevedo – p. 382
- EM-Based Hyperparameter Optimization for Regularized Volterra Kernel
Estimation; J. G. Stoddard, J. S. Welsh, and H. Hjalmarsson – p. 388
- A Data-Driven Stochastic Optimization Approach to the Seasonal Storage
Energy Management; G. Darivianakis, A. Eichler, R. S. Smith, and J. Lygeros
– p. 394
- Semi-Decentralized Nash Equilibrium Seeking in Aggregative Games with
Separable Coupling Constraints and Non-Differentiable Cost Functions; G.
Belgioioso and S. Grammatico – p. 400
- Improved Remote Estimation Over a Capacity-Limited and Lossy Channel;
J.-H. Park and S. Han – p. 406
- Zames–Falb Multipliers for Invariance; M. Fetzer and C. W. Scherer – p.
412
- Nonlinear Optimal Control Design Considering a Class of System
Constraints with Validation on a Magnetic Levitation System; A. T. Tran, S.
Suzuki, and N. Sakamoto – p. 418

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1.6. IEEE Control Systems Society Publications Content Digest
Contributed by: Elizabeth Kovacs, ekovacs2 at nd.edu

The IEEE Control Systems Society Publications Content Digest is a novel and
convenient guide that helps readers keep track of the latest published
articles. The CSS Publications Content Digest, available at
http://ieeecss.org/publications-content-digest provides lists of current
tables of contents of the periodicals sponsored by the Control Systems
Society.

Each issue offers readers a rapid means to survey and access the latest
peer-reviewed papers of the IEEE Control Systems Society. We also include
links to the Society’s sponsored Conferences to give readers a preview of
upcoming meetings.

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2. Award and Summer School

2.1. European Control Award
Contributed by: Paul Goulart, paul.goulart at eng.ox.ac.uk

The “European Control Award (ECA)” is to recognize outstanding
contributions by a young researcher in the area of systems and control. The
award is sponsored by the European Control Association (EUCA), and will be
presented during the annual European Control Conference. The recipient will
give a plenary lecture during the final day of the ECC.
Details of this award and the nomination procedure can be found at
http://www.euca-control.org/eca.html.

We encourage you to identify and to promote potential candidates for the
European Control Award 2018, before November 15th 2017.

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2.2. Summer School on “Approximation of Large-Scale Dynamic Models”
Contributed by: Antoneta Iuliana BRATCU, antoneta.bratcu at gipsa-lab.fr

Summer School on "APPROXIMATION OF LARGE-SCALE DYNAMIC MODELS"

Location and Date: GRENOBLE (France) - SEPTEMBER 11 TO 15, 2017
Scientific Chair: CHARLES POUSSOT-VASSAL (ONERA, Toulouse)
Website: http://www.gipsa-lab.fr/summerschool/auto2017/

EXTENDED REGISTRATION DEAD-LINE : JULY 18th 2017

Pre-registration link:
https://www.azur-colloque.fr/DR11/inscription/preinscription/132

FOR FRENCH PARTICIPANTS:
https://www.azur-colloque.fr/DR11/inscription/preinscription/132/fr

This Summer School aims at presenting the main mathematical tools and model
approximation algorithms, in order to bridge the gap between complexity and
representativeness required in control design, analysis, simulation and
optimisation. To this end, domain experts will be present to share their
expertise and cutting-edge research results. The Summer School is mainly
intended to PhD students, researchers and scholars interested in applying
approximation of large-scale dynamic models, being meanwhile open to
industrial participants. Basic knowledge in automatic control and
mathematics will be useful.

Speakers:
Thanos ANTOULAS (Rice University, Houston, Texas, USA)
Sara GRUNDEL (Max Planck Institute, Magdeburg, Germany)
Serkan GUGERCIN (Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, USA)
Christian HIMPE (Münster University, Münster, Germany)
Martine OLIVI (INRIA Sophia Antipolis, France)
Charles POUSSOT-VASSAL (ONERA, Toulouse, France)
Pierre VUILLEMIN (ONERA, Toulouse, France)

For further information, please contact Antoneta Iuliana BRATCU
antoneta.bratcu at gipsa-lab.fr

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3. Books

3.1. An Introduction to Compressed Sensing
Contributed by: Mathukumalli Vidyasagar, m.vidyasagar at utdallas.edu

Book: An Introduction to Compressed Sensing (Draft, about 70% complete)

Available to anyone upon request. Please email m.vidyasagar at utdallas.edu or
m.vidyasagar at iith.ac.in

The book will be about 250 to 300 pages long when finished. Existing books
on compressed sensing focus almost exclusively on probablistic methods
based on using Gaussian random variables to generate the measurement
matrices. During past five years or so, deterministic methods have evolved
that are far more efficient computationally for realistic-sized problems.
Another emerging area is the interplay between algebraic coding and
compressed sensing, specifically, the use of vertex and spectral expander
graphs to address the problems of vector recovery and matrix recovery
respectively. The controls community is beginning to appreciate the
potential of applying sparsity-inducing solution methods to control
problems.

The book will be mostly self-contained, with pointers to the original
sources for theorems that are not proved in the text. One novel feature of
the book is the inclusion of several numerical examples, illustrating the
relative efficiency of deterministic methods compared to the relative
inefficiency of probabilistic methods. This issue is studiously ignored in
most existing books.

Chapters 9 and 10 represent the research of my students and collaborators.

CONTENTS

1 Mathematical Preliminaries
1.1 Norms
1.2 Singular Value Decomposition
1.3 Convexity
1.3.1 Basic Concepts
1.3.3 Subdifferentials and Convex Optimization
1.3.4 Subdifferentials of Vector and Matrix Norms
1.4 Probability

2 Compressed Sensing: Problem Formulations
2.1 Some Historical Background
2.2 Problem Formulations
2.3 Some Application Domains
2.3.1 Signal Reconstruction
2.3.2 Matrix Completion
2.3.3 Control Systems

3 Vector Recovery
3.1 Null Space-Based Conditions
3.1.1 Exact Sparse Recovery
3.1.2 Stable Sparse Recovery
3.1.3 Robust Sparse Recovery
3.2 Restricted Isometry Property

4 Deterministic Construction of Measurement Matrices
4.1 Matrices with Low Coherence
4.2 DeVore’s Construction
4.3 Partial Fourier Matrices
4.4 Construction Based on Chirp Matrices
4.5 Construction Based on Alltop Vectors

5 Probabilistic Construction of Measurement Matrices
5.1 General Approach
5.2 Proof of the Restricted Isometry Property
5.3 Tail Probability Estimation
5.3.1 Some Useful Techniques
5.3.2 Sub-Gaussian Random Variables
5.3.3 Binary and Ternary Random Variables
5.4 Example of Sample Complexity Estimates

6 Optimization Algorithms

6.1 Compressive Sampling Matching Pursuit (CoSaMP)
6.2 Algorithms Based on Expander Graphs
6.2.1 Expander Graphs
6.2.2 Algorithms for Vector Recovery

7 Matrix Recovery
7.1 Connections Between Vector and Matrix Recovery
7.2 Algorithms for Matrix Completion
7.2.1 Algorithms Based on Random Sampling
7.2.2 Algorithms Based on Spectral Expander Graphs

8. Case Studies
8.1 Vector Recovery
8.2 Matrix Recovery

9. Some Emerging Topics
9.1 Alternatives to $\ell_1$-Norm Minimization
9.2 Group Sparsity
9.3 One-Bit Compressed Sensing
9.4 A New Vector Recovery Algorithm

10. Applications to Control Systems
10.1 Maximum Hands-Off Control
10.2 Partial Realization

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4. Journals

4.1. Contents: Automatica
Contributed by: Elisa Capello, automatica at polito.it

Automatica
Vol. 82
August 2017
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/00051098/82

- Maciej Niedźwiecki, Marcin Ciołek, Yoshinobu Kajikawa, On adaptive
covariance and spectrum estimation of locally stationary multivariate
processes, Pages 1-12
- Ivo Herman, Steffi Knorn, Anders Ahlén, Disturbance scaling in
bidirectional vehicle platoons with different asymmetry in position and
velocity coupling, Pages 13-20
- Yuzhe Qian, Yongchun Fang, Biao Lu, Adaptive repetitive learning control
for an offshore boom crane, Pages 21-28
- Justin P. Koeln, Andrew G. Alleyne, Stability of decentralized model
predictive control of graph-based power flow systems via passivity, Pages
29-34
- Rabah Ammour, Edouard Leclercq, Eric Sanlaville, Dimitri Lefebvre, Fault
prognosis of timed stochastic discrete event systems with bounded
estimation error, Pages 35-41
- Wei Wang, Dragan Nešić, Romain Postoyan, Observer design for networked
control systems with FlexRay, Pages 42-48
- Weili Yan, Chee Khiang Pang, Chunling Du, Disturbance observer-based
multirate control for rejecting periodic disturbances to the Nyquist
frequency and beyond, Pages 49-58
- Anton Selivanov, Emilia Fridman, Sampled-data relay control of diffusion
PDEs, Pages 59-68
- Erliang Zhang, Rik Pintelon, Identification of multivariable dynamic
errors-in-variables system with arbitrary inputs, Pages 69-78
- Ligang Wu, Yabin Gao, Jianxing Liu, Hongyi Li, Event-triggered sliding
mode control of stochastic systems via output feedback, Pages 79-92
- Tarek Ahmed-Ali, Fouad Giri, Miroslav Krstic, Laurent Burlion, Françoise
Lamnabhi-Lagarrigue, Adaptive observer design with heat PDE sensor, Pages
93-100
- S.J.L.M. van Loon, K.G.J. Gruntjens, M.F. Heertjes, N. van de Wouw,
W.P.M.H. Heemels, Frequency-domain tools for stability analysis of reset
control systems, Pages 101-108
- Shibdas Roy, Ian R. Petersen, Elanor H. Huntington, Coherent-classical
estimation for linear quantum systems, Pages 109-117
- Frédéric Mazenc, Michael Malisoff, Stabilization and robustness analysis
for time-varying systems with time-varying delays using a sequential
subpredictors approach, Pages 118-127
- Chuangchuang Sun, Ran Dai, Rank-constrained optimization and its
applications, Pages 128-136
- Tarek Hamel, Claude Samson, Position estimation from direction or range
measurements, Pages 137-144
- Elisa Mostacciuolo, Stephan Trenn, Francesco Vasca, Averaging for
switched DAEs: Convergence, partial averaging and stability, 145-157
- Filippo Cacace, Francesco Conte, Alfredo Germani, Giovanni Palombo,
Feedback quadratic filtering, Pages 158-164
- Weiyin Fei, Liangjian Hu, Xuerong Mao, Mingxuan Shen, Delay dependent
stability of highly nonlinear hybrid stochastic systems, Pages 165-170
- Chenglin Wen, Xingshuo Cheng, Daxing Xu, Chuanbo Wen, Filter design based
on characteristic functions for one class of multi-dimensional nonlinear
non-Gaussian systems, Pages 171-180
- Mirko Fiacchini, Sophie Tarbouriech, Control co-design for discrete-time
switched linear systems, Pages 181-186
- Márcio J. Lacerda, Peter Seiler, Stability of uncertain systems using
Lyapunov functions with non-monotonic terms, Pages 187-193
- Kang-Zhi Liu, Masao Ono, Xiaoli Li, Min Wu, Robust performance synthesis
for systems with positive-real uncertainty and an extension to the
negative-imaginary case, Pages 194-201
- Marc Jungers, Grace S. Deaecto, José C. Geromel, Bounds for the
remainders of uncertain matrix exponential and sampled-data control of
polytopic linear systems, Pages 202-208
- Zehor Belkhatir, Taous Meriem Laleg-Kirati, High-order sliding mode
observer for fractional commensurate linear systems with unknown input,
209-217
- Wuquan Li, Lu Liu, Gang Feng, Cooperative control of multiple stochastic
high-order nonlinear systems, Pages 218-225
- Josip Ćesić, Ivan Marković, Mario Bukal, Ivan Petrović, Extended
information filter on matrix Lie groups, Pages 226-234
- Yu Ren, Meng Joo Er, Guanghui Sun, Constraint admissible state sets for
switched systems with average dwell time, Pages 235-242
- Karl Worthmann, Mohamed W. Mehrez, George K.I. Mann, Raymond G. Gosine,
Jürgen Pannek, Interaction of open and closed loop control in MPC, Pages
243-250
- Cheng-Zong Bai, Fabio Pasqualetti, Vijay Gupta, Data-injection attacks in
stochastic control systems: Detectability and performance tradeoffs, Pages
251-260
- Sérgio Pequito, Guilherme Ramos, Soummya Kar, A. Pedro Aguiar, Jaime
Ramos, The robust minimal controllability problem, Pages 261-268
- Matthias A. Müller, Karl Worthmann, Quadratic costs do not always work in
MPC, Pages 269-277
- Lei Wang, Alberto Isidori, Zhitao Liu, Hongye Su, Robust output
regulation for invertible nonlinear MIMO systems, Pages 278-286
- Erik Weyer, Marco Claudio Campi, Balázs Csanád Csáji, Asymptotic
properties of SPS confidence regions, Pages 287-294
- Pierdomenico Pepe, Emilia Fridman, On global exponential stability
preservation under sampling for globally Lipschitz time-delay systems,
Pages 295-300
- Pauline Bernard, Laurent Praly, Vincent Andrieu, Observers for a
non-Lipschitz triangular form, Pages 301-313
- Xiangze Lin, Chih-Chiang Chen, Chunjiang Qian, Smooth output feedback
stabilization of a class of planar switched nonlinear systems under
arbitrary switchings, Pages 314-318
- Guojie Zheng, Jun Li, Stabilization for the multi-dimensional heat
equation with disturbance on the controller, Pages 319-323
- Georgios Birpoutsoukis, Anna Marconato, John Lataire, Johan Schoukens,
Regularized nonparametric Volterra kernel estimation, Pages 324-327
- Hong-Bing Zeng, Kok Lay Teo, Yong He, A new looped-functional for
stability analysis of sampled-data systems, Pages 328-331
- Rajesh Devaraj, Arnab Sarkar, Santosh Biswas, Comments on “Supervisory
control for real-time scheduling of periodic and sporadic tasks with
resource constraints” [Automatica 45 (2009) 2597–2604], Pages 332-334
- Seong-Jin Park, Jung-Min Yang, Reply to “Comments on ‘Supervisory control
for real-time scheduling of periodic and sporadic tasks with resource
constraints”’ [Automatica 45 (2009) 2597–2604], Page 335
- George Yin, Stochastic systems: Estimation, identification, and adaptive
control, Reprint of 1986 edition, Vol. 75, P.R. Kumar, Pravin Varaiya, in:
Classics in applied mathematics. Society for Industrial and Applied
Mathematics (SIAM), Philadelphia, PA (2016), xvii+358, ISBN:
978-1-611974-25-6, Pages 336-337
- Baozhu Du, James Lam, Zhan Shu, Yong Chen, Corrigendum to “On reachable
sets for positive linear systems under constrained exogenous inputs”
[Automatica 74 (2016) 230–237], Page 338

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4.2. Contents: Systems & Control Letters
Contributed by: John Coca, j.coca at elsevier.com

Systems & Control Letters
Vol. 104
June 2017

- Shaolin Ji, Xiaomin Shi, Explicit solutions for continuous time
mean–variance portfolio selection with nonlinear wealth equations, Pages 1-4
- Siyun Wang, Jodie M. Simkoff, Michael Baldea, Leo H. Chiang, Ivan
Castillo, Rahul Bindlish, David B. Stanley, Autocovariance-based
plant-model mismatch estimation for linear model - predictive control,
Pages 5-14
- Hojin Lee, Linh Thi Hoai Nguyen, Yasumasa Fujisaki, Algebraic
connectivity of network-of-networks having a graph product structure, Pages
15-20
- Francisco Javier Muros, Encarnación Algaba, José María Maestre, Eduardo
F. Camacho, The Banzhaf value as a design tool in coalitional control,
Pages 21-30
- José L. Mancilla-Aguilar, Hernan Haimovich, On zero-input stability
inheritance for time-varying systems with decaying-to-zero input power,
Pages 31-37
- Alán Tapia, Miguel Bernal, Leonid Fridman, Nonlinear sliding mode control
design: An LMI approach, Pages 38-44
- Peng Lin, Wei Ren, Distributed constrained consensus problem, Pages 45-48
- Yueqian Liang, Yingmin Jia, Tangent vector field approach for curved path
following with input saturation, Pages 49-58
- Feng Xiao, Tongwen Chen, Huijun Gao, Consensus in time-delayed
multi-agent systems with quantized dwell times, Pages 59-65
- Georges Bastin, Jean-Michel Coron, A quadratic Lyapunov function for
hyperbolic density–velocity systems with nonuniform steady states, 66-71
- A.Yu. Aleksandrov, E.B. Aleksandrova, Convergence conditions for some
classes of nonlinear systems, Pages 72-77
- F.D. Araruna, E. Fernández-Cara, S. Guerrero, M.C. Santos, New results on
the Stackelberg–Nash exact control of linear parabolic equations, Pages
78-85
- Henrik Anfinsen, Ole Morten Aamo, Adaptive output-feedback stabilization
of linear hyperbolic systems using anti-collocated sensing and control,
Pages 86-94
- Jian Wang, Quantizer design for asymptotic stability of quantized linear
systems with saturations, Pages 95-103

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4.3. Contents: Systems & Control Letters
Contributed by: John Coca, j.coca at elsevier.com

System & Control Letters
Vol. 105
July 2017

- Martin Redmann, Peter Benner, An -type error bound for balancing-related
model order reduction of linear systems with Lévy noise, Pages 1-5
- Vojtech Veselý, Adrian Ilka, Generalized robust gain-scheduled PID
controller design for affine LPV systems with polytopic uncertainty, Pages
6-13
- Rui Li, Yiguang Hong, Xingyuan Wang, Nonlinear norm-observability and
simulation of control systems, Pages 14-19
- K.M.D. Motchon, K.M. Pekpe, J.-P. Cassar, Conditions for strict
distinguishability of single-output nonlinear control-affine systems, Pages
20-26
- Noorma Yulia Megawati, Arjan van der Schaft, Abstraction and control by
interconnection of linear systems: A geometric approach, Pages 27-33
- Jan Maximilian Montenbruck, Shen Zeng, Collinear dynamical systems, Pages
34-43
- Xiuxiang Zhou, Integral-type approximate controllability of linear
parabolic integro-differential equations, Pages 44-47
- Fuchun Liu, Rixiang Mo, Correctability of fault-tolerant stochastic
discrete-event systems, Pages 48-54
- Bao Wang, Quanxin Zhu, Stability analysis of Markov switched stochastic
differential equations with both stable and unstable subsystems, Pages 55-61
- Sorin Micu, Ademir F. Pazoto, Stabilization of a Boussinesq system with
generalized damping, Pages 62-69
- Xinglong Niu, Yungang Liu, Yongchao Man, Consensus via time-varying
feedback for uncertain nonlinear multi-agent systems with rather coarse
input disturbances, Pages 70-77
- P.-Y. Chevalier, J.M. Hendrickx, R.M. Jungers, Tight bound for deciding
convergence of consensus systems, Pages 78-83
- iaotao Liu, Yang Shi, Daniela Constantinescu, Robust distributed model
predictive control of constrained dynamically decoupled nonlinear systems:
A contraction theory perspective, Pages 84-91
- Andrii Mironchenko, Uniform weak attractivity and criteria for practical
global asymptotic stability, Pages 92-99

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4.4. Contents: European Journal of Control
Contributed by: John Coca, j.coca at elsevier.com

European Journal of Control
Volume 36
July 2017

- Chenguang Liu, Rudy R. Negenborn, Huarong Zheng, Xiumin Chu, A
state-compensation extended state observer for model predictive control,
Pages 1-9
- Van Thanh Huynh, Hieu Trinh, Eigenvalue assignment for positive observers
and its feasibility, Pages 10-17
- Chunyu Shen, Lixin Tian, Optimal control and optimality condition of the
Camassa–Holm equation, Pages 18-29
- Griselda I. Zamora-Gómez, Arturo Zavala-Río, Daniela J. López-Araujo,
Observer-less output-feedback global continuous control for the finite-time
and exponential stabilization of mechanical systems with constrained
inputs, Pages 30-42
- Heping Ma, Bin Liu, Infinite horizon optimal control problem of
mean-field backward stochastic delay differential equation under partial
information, Pages 43-50
- Yorai Wardi, Carla Seatzu, Performance regulation in discrete event and
hybrid dynamical systems using IPA, Pages 51-61

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4.5. Contents: IMA Journal of Mathematical Control and Information
Contributed by: Charis Edworthy, charis.edworthy at oup.com

IMA Journal of Mathematical Control and Information 34:02

A new issue of IMA Journal of Mathematical Control and Information is now
available online.
The Table of Contents below can be viewed at: http://bit.ly/2uFQztm

- Robust stabilization of differential systems with state delays, Rigoberto
Medina; Carlos Martinez
http://bit.ly/2tHKDTd
- On homogeneous parameter-dependent quadratic Lyapunov function for robust
fault detection filter design and application, Guochen Pang; Jinjin Liu;
Kanjian Zhang; Haikun Wei
http://bit.ly/2tln6pb
- An LMI-based controller design method for a discrete-time linear system
with time-varying state delays, Nobutaka Wada; Katsuya Satoh; Masami Saeki
http://bit.ly/2tMb3UW
- A new approach to risk sensitivity, Jack Baczynski
http://bit.ly/2uFt7fF
- Stability of homogeneous non-linear systems, Thouraya Kharrat
http://bit.ly/2tM0z7Y
- The optimal control problem with state constraints for forward–backward
stochastic systems with jumps, Qingmeng Wei
http://bit.ly/2uG2A1Z
- Robust reduced-order controller synthesis: a dilated LMI approach, Arash
Sadeghzadeh
http://bit.ly/2sHTP5S
- Interpolation techniques for robust constrained model predictive control
based on polyhedral invariant set, Soorathep Kheawhom; Pornchai Bumroongsri
http://bit.ly/2tlnjIY
- Existence and general decay for the full von Kármán beam with a
thermo-viscoelastic damping, frictional dampings and a delay term, Wenjun
Liu; Kewang Chen; Jun Yu
http://bit.ly/2tl8xlC
- Fuzzy networked control systems with communication constraints, Magdi S.
Mahmoud
http://bit.ly/2uFznEi
- Supervisor synthesis for enforcing linear constraints on a class of Petri
nets with unobservable transitions, Ning Ran; Shouguang Wang; Hongye Su;
Chengying Wang
http://bit.ly/2sHSCMa
- Synchronization of complex networks with coupling delay via pinning
control, Xinsong Yang; Jinde Cao
http://bit.ly/2slFOeP
- Continuous fractional sliding mode-like control for exact rejection of
non-differentiable Hölder disturbances, A. J. Muñoz-Vázquez; V. Parra-Vega;
A. Sánchez-Orta
http://bit.ly/2sltsDz
- A direct approach for approximate optimal control of integro-differential
equations based on homotopy analysis and parametrization method, M.
Alipour; M. A. Vali; A. H. Borzabadi
http://bit.ly/2sBNbDj
- Asymptotic stability analysis of planar switched homogeneous systems,
Khatereh Sokhanvar Mahani; Ali Karimpour; Naser Pariz
http://bit.ly/2tlAA4m
- Asynchronous control of discrete-time switched systems with non-linear
perturbation, Juan Gao; Xing Tao Wang
http://bit.ly/2tLYKId
- Containment control for multi-agent systems with input saturation,
Guoying Miao; Yuanzhen Feng; Tao Li
http://bit.ly/2uFUXIK
- Event-trigger-based hybrid scheduling and feedback control for networked
control systems, Qiaoli Ma; Chuan Zhou; Xincheng Zhu; Ronghao Wang
http://bit.ly/2tMdoPI
- Optimal control problem with unilateral constraints for longitudinal
vibration of a viscoelastic valve, Bing Sun
http://bit.ly/2uFPO3r

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4.6. Contents: International Journal of Applied Mathematics and Computer
Science
Contributed by: AMCS, amcs at uz.zgora.pl

International Journal of Applied Mathematics and Computer Science (AMCS)
2017, Volume 27, Number 2 (June)
Regular issue
www.amcs.uz.zgora.pl

CONTENTS
- Tagade P.M. and Choi H.-L. A dynamic bi-orthogonal field equation
approach to efficient Bayesian inversion 229
- Kaczorek T. Reduced-order perfect nonlinear observers of fractional
descriptor discrete-time nonlinear systems 245
- Gupta S. and Smita The effect of viscosity and heterogeneity on
propagation of G-type waves 253
- Zhirabok A., Shumsky A., Solyanik S. and Suvorov A. Fault detection in
nonlinear systems via linear methods 261
- Przybylski M. and Putz B. D* Extra Lite: A dynamic A* with search-tree
cutting and frontier-gap repairing 273
- Domański P.D. and Ławryńczuk M. Assessment of the GPC control quality
using non-Gaussian statistical measures 291
- Łangowski R. and Brdys M.A. An interval estimator for chlorine monitoring
in drinking water distribution systems under uncertain system dynamics,
inputs and chlorine concentration measurement errors 309
- Leska M., Aschemann H.,Melzer M. and Meinert M. Comparative calculation
of the fuel-optimal operating strategy for diesel hybrid railway vehicles
323
- Saha S. and Roy P.K. A comparative study between two systems with and
without awareness in controlling HIV/AIDS 337
- AbouEisha H., Calo V.M., Jopek K., Moshkov M., Paszyńska A., Paszyński M.
and Skotniczny M. Element partition trees for h-refined meshes to optimize
direct solver performance. Part I: Dynamic programming 351
- Baek J., Dudina O. and Kim C. A queueing system with heterogeneous
impatient customers and consumable additional items 367
- Vasiliu L., Pop F., Negru C., Mocanu M., Cristea V. and Kolodziej J. A
hybrid scheduler for many task computing in big data systems 385
- Rybarczyk A., Hertz A., Kasprzak M. and Blazewicz J. Tabu search for the
RNA partial degradation problem 401
- Zuo C., Wu L., Zeng Z.-F. and Wei H.-L. Stochastic fractal based
multiobjective fruit fly optimization 417
- Bonollo M., Di Persio L., Mammi L. and Oliva I. Estimating the
counterparty risk exposure by using the Brownianmotion local time 435

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4.7. Contents: IEEE/CAA Journal of Automatica Sinica
Contributed by: Yan Ou, yan.ou at ia.ac.cn

IEEE/CAA Journal of Automatica Sinica
Volume 4 (2017), Issue 3 (July)
http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/RecentIssue.jsp?punumber=6570654

REVIEWS
- Parallel Learning: a Perspective and a Framework. L. Li, Y. L. Lin, N. N.
Zheng, and F.-Y. Wang, page 389
- Recent Progresses in Deep Learning Based Acoustic Models. D. Yu and J.
Li, page 396
- Recent Advances in Image Dehazing. W. C. Wang and X. H. Yuan, page 410

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Controlled Voltage Source Power Inverters. N. Malla, U. Tamrakar, D.
Shrestha, Z. Ni, and R. Tonkoski, page 447
- Robust Tracking Control for Self-balancing Mobile Robots Using
Disturbance Observer. M. Chen, page 458
- Social Energy: Mining Energy From the Society. J. J. Zhang, D. W. Gao, Y.
C. Zhang, X. Wang, X. Y. Zhao, D. L. Duan, X. X. Dai, J. Hao, F. -Y. Wang,
page 466
- Design of Second Order Sliding Mode and Sliding Mode Algorithms: A
Practical Insight to DC-DC Buck Converter. S. M. RakhtAla, M. Yasoubi, and
H. HosseinNia, page 483
- Neural Network Based Terminal Sliding Mode Control for WMRs Affected by
an Augmented Ground Friction With Slippage Effect. M. Yue, L. J. Wang, and
T. Ma, page 498
- Sampled-data Observer Design for a Class of Stochastic Nonlinear Systems
Based on the Approximate Discrete-time Models. X. X. Fu, Y. Kang, and P. F.
Li, page 507
- Distributed Virtual Inertia Based Control of Multiple Photovoltaic
Systems in Autonomous Microgrid. W. -S. Im, C. Wang, W. X. Liu, L. M. Liu,
and J. -M. Kim, page 512
- Weather Prediction With Multiclass Support Vector Machines in the Fault
Detection of Photovoltaic System. W. Y. Zhang, H. G. Zhang, J. H. Liu, K.
Li, D. S. Yang, and H. Tian, page 520
- Dual-mode Nonlinear MPC via Terminal Control Laws With Free-parameters.D.
F. He, page 526
- Iterative Learning Fault Diagnosis Algorithm for Non-uniform Sampling
Hybrid System. H. F. Tao, D. P. Chen, and H. Z. Yang, page 534
- Decentralized Adaptive Strategies for Synchronization of Fractional-order
Complex Networks. Q. Xu, S. X. Zhuang, Y. F. Zeng, and J. Xiao, page 543
- Discrimination of Motor Imagery Patterns by Electroencephalogram Phase
Synchronization Combined With Frequency Band Energy. C. W. Liu, Y. F. Fu,
J. Yang, X. Xiong, H. W. Sun, and Z. T. Yu, page 551
- A Novel Multi-agent Formation Control Law With Collision Avoidance. A.
Mondal, L. Behera, S. R. Sahoo, and A. Shukla, page 558
- Asymptotic Tracking Control for Wind Turbines in Variable Speed Mode. W.
Lin, Z. T. Lu, and W. Wei, page 569

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4.8. Contents: Control Engineering Practice
Contributed by: Martin Böck, cep at acin.tuwien.ac.at

Control Engineering Practice
Volume 65
August 2017

- Yanliang Cui, Lanlan Xu, Minrui Fei, Yubin Shen, Observer based robust
integral sliding mode load frequency control for wind power systems,Pages
1-10
- Kræn Vodder Nielsen, Mogens Blanke, Lars Eriksson, Morten
Vejlgaard-Laursen, Adaptive feedforward control of exhaust recirculation in
large diesel engines,Pages 26-35
- Slawomir Mandra, Krzysztof Galkowski, Harald Aschemann, Robust guaranteed
cost ILC with dynamic feedforward and disturbance compensation for accurate
PMSM position control,Pages 36-47
- J.S. Solís-Chaves, Mariana Silva Barreto, Mauricio B.C. Salles, Valdemir
Martins Lira, Rogerio V. Jacomini, Alfeu J. Sguarezi Filho, A direct power
control for DFIG under a three phase symmetrical voltage sag
condition,Pages 48-58
- Jussi Karttunen, Samuli Kallio, Jari Honkanen, Pasi Peltoniemi, Pertti
Silventoinen, Stability and performance of current harmonic controllers for
multiphase PMSMs,Pages 59-69
- Chunhui Zhao, Furong Gao, A sparse dissimilarity analysis algorithm for
incipient fault isolation with no priori fault information,Pages 70-82
- Luis A. Aguirre, Bruno O.S. Teixeira, Bruno H.G. Barbosa, Alex F.
Teixeira, Mario C.M.M. Campos, Eduardo M.A.M. Mendes, Development of soft
sensors for permanent downhole Gauges in deepwater oil wells,Pages 83-99
- Kirti D. Mishra, K. Srinivasan, Robust control and estimation of
clutch-to-clutch shifts,Pages 100-114
- Timo Korpela, Pekka Kumpulainen, Yrjö Majanne, Anna Häyrinen, Pentti
Lautala, Indirect NO emission monitoring in natural gas fired boilers,Pages
11-25

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4.9. Contents: Asian Journal of Control
Contributed by: Lichen Fu, lichen at ntu.edu.tw

Asian Journal of Control
Vol.19, No.4 July, 2017
Special Issue: Advances in Control and Optimization Over Wireless Sensor
and Actuator Networks

CONTENTS

[Group 1: State Estimation Issues with WSANs]
1. Observable Degree Analysis to Match Estimation Performance for Wireless
Tracking Networks (pages 1259–1270), Quanbo Ge, Jinyan Ma, Shaodong Chen,
Yongting Wang and Liang Bai
2. Realization of Actuator-Fault Estimation for Distributed Wireless
Networked Control Systems (pages 1271–1283), Dongmei Xu, Ying Wang and
Liping Zhang
3. Distributed Consensus Filter for a Class of Continuous-Time Nonlinear
Stochastic Systems in Sensor Networks (pages 1284–1294), Ahmadreza
Jenabzadeh, Behrouz Safarinejadian and Foroogh Mohammadnia
4. Testing and Defending Methods Against DOS Attack in State Estimation
(pages 1295–1305), Heng Zhang, Yifei Qi, Huan Zhou, Jian Zhang and Jing Sun
5. Distributed State Estimation of Smart Grids with Packet Losses (pages
1306–1315), Md Masud Rana, Li Li and Steven W. Su

[Group 2: Control Issues with WSANs]
6. Slow Sampling Control of Singularly Perturbed Systems Subject to
Actuator Saturation and L2 Disturbance (pages 1316–1328), Lei Ma, Chenxiao
Cai and Xiaoping Ma
7. Loop-Shaping Feedback and Feedforward Control for Networked Systems With
Saturation and Delay (pages 1329–1349), Torbjörn Wigren
8. Cascading Target Tracking Control in Wireless Camera Sensor and Actuator
Networks (pages 1350–1364), Tian Wang, Zhen Peng, Wenzheng Xu, Junbin
Liang, Guojun Wang, Hui Tian, Yiqiao Cai and Yonghong Chen
9. Distributed Adjacency Weight Design for Second-order Consensus in
Wireless Sensor and Actuator Networks (pages 1365–1374), Zhenping Chen,
Yourui Huang, Dequan Li and Chaoli Tang

[Group 3: Applications of WSANs]
10. ClimaCon: An Autonomous Energy Efficient Climate Control Solution for
Smart Buildings (pages 1375–1391), Wael A. Farag
11. Design and Implementation of The Plug&Play Enabled Flexible Modular
Wireless Sensor and Actuator Network Platform (pages 1392–1412), Konstantin
Mikhaylov and Juha Petäjäjärvi
12. A Packet Loss Tolerant Rendezvous Algorithm for Wireless Networked
Robot Systems (pages 1413–1423), Sabato Manfredi, Enrico Natalizio, Claudio
Pascariello and Nicola Roberto Zema
13. A Memory Sharing based Low Loss Rate Data Gathering Algorithm with a
Mobile Sink for Wireless Sensor and Actuator Networks (pages 1424–1440), C.
Zhu, G.J. Han, Y. Wang, P. Bao and J. Shen

[Regular Papers]
1. Mixing Adaptive Fault Tolerant Control of Quadrotor UAV (pages
1441–1454), Kemal Büyükkabasakal, Barış Fi̇dan and Aydoğan Savran
2. The Controllability of Fractional Damped Stochastic Integrodifferential
Systems (pages 1455–1464), T. Sathiyaraj and P. Balasubramaniam
3. Bayesian Sensor Fault Detection in a Markov Jump System (pages
1465–1481), Hamed Habibi, Ian Howard and Reza Habibi
4. ZD, ZG and IOL Controllers and Comparisons for Nonlinear System Output
Tracking with DBZ Problem Conquered in Different Relative-Degree Cases
(pages 1482–1495), Jian Li, Mingzhi Mao, Yunong Zhang, Dechao Chen and
Yonghua Yin
5. Membership Function Dependent Observer-Based Controller Design for A T-S
Fuzzy System (pages 1496–1507), Wen-Bo Xie, Yu-Long Wang, Jian Zhang and
Ling Huang
6. Optimal Modified Tracking Performance of Time-Delay Systems with Packet
Dropouts Constraint (pages 1508–1518), Xi-Sheng Zhan, Zhu-Jun Zhou, Jie Wu
and Tao Han
7. Chattering Attenuation Sliding Mode Approach for Nonlinear Systems
(pages 1519–1531), Hamidreza Nemati, Mai Bando and Shinji Hokamoto
8. Fault Diagnosis for Discrete Event Systems Modeled By Bounded Petri Nets
(pages 1532–1541), Ning Ran, Shouguang Wang, Hongye Su and Chengying Wang
9. H∞ Preview Control of A Class of Uncertain Discrete-Time Systems (pages
1542–1556), Li Li, Fucheng Liao and Jiamei Deng
10. Weighted Pseudo Anti-Periodic Solutions for Cellular Neural Networks
with Mixed Delays (pages 1557–1563), Qiyuan Zhou
11. A Sequential Algebraic Parametric Identification Approach for Nonlinear
Vibrating Mechanical Systems (pages 1564–1574), F. Beltran-Carbajal, G.
Silva-Navarro and L. G. Trujillo-Franco
12. Adaptive Non-Linear Control of UPFC for Stability Enhancement in a
Multimachine Power System Operating with a DFIG Based Wind Farm (pages
1575–1594), S.K. Routray, R.K. Patnaik and P.K. Dash
13. Pattern Recognition Based Dynamics Description of Production Processes
in Metric Spaces (pages 1595–1607), Mushu Wang, Zhengguang Xu and Lingli Guo
14. Semi-Global Exquisite Disturbance Attenuation Control for Perturbed
Uncertain Nonlinear Systems (pages 1608–1619), Jun Yang, Chuanlin Zhang,
Shihua Li and Xitong Niu

[Brief Paper]
1. L-Step Reachability and Observability of Networked Control Systems with
Bandwidth Limitations: Feasible Lower Bounds on Communication Periods
(pages 1620–1629), Mohammad Mahdi Share Pasand and Mosen Montazeri
2. Global Asymptotical Bounded Synchronization for a Class of Coupled
Complex Networks With Nonidentical Nodes (pages 1630–1640), Qingbo Li, Jin
Guo, Yuanyuan Wu and Chang-Yin Sun
3. Output Feedback Robust MPC Based on Off-line Observer for LPV Systems
via Quadratic Boundedness (pages 1641–1653), Xubin Ping

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4.10. Contents: Journal of Process Control
Contributed by: John Coca, j.coca at elsevier.com

Journal of Process Control
Volume 56
August 2017

- J.L. Pitarch, C.G. Palacín, C. De Prada, B. Voglauer, G. Seyfriedsberger,
Optimisation of the resource efficiency in an industrial evaporation
system, Pages 1-12
- Ridong Zhang, Qin Zou, Zhixing Cao, Furong Gao, Design of fractional
order modeling based extended non-minimal state space MPC for temperature
in an industrial electric heating furnace, Pages 13-22
- Ye Wang, Vicenç Puig, Gabriela Cembrano, Non-linear economic model
predictive control of water distribution networks, Pages 23-34
- L.E. Olivier, I.K. Craig, Should I shut down my processing plant? An
analysis in the presence of faults, Pages 35-47
- Mojtaba Sharifi, Hamed Moradi, Nonlinear robust adaptive sliding mode
control of influenza epidemic in the presence of uncertainty, Pages 48-57
- Timothy T.V. Yap, Ai Hui Tan, Wooi Nee Tan, Identification of
higher-dimensional ill-conditioned systems using extensions of virtual
transfer function between inputs, Pages 58-68
- Shiqi Lai, Fan Yang, Tongwen Chen, Online pattern matching and prediction
of incoming alarm floods, Pages 69-78
- Jiayuan Kang, Zhijiang Shao, Xi Chen, Xueping Gu, Lianfang Feng, Fast and
reliable computational strategy for developing a rigorous model-driven soft
sensor of dynamic molecular weight distribution, Pages 79-99
- Suryanarayana Vegi, Yogendra Shastri, Optimal control of dilute acid
pretreatment and enzymatic hydrolysis for processing lignocellulosic
feedstock, Pages 100-111
- Hongfeng Tao, Wojciech Paszke, Eric Rogers, Huizhong Yang, Krzysztof
Gałkowski, Iterative learning fault-tolerant control for differential
time-delay batch processes in finite frequency domains, Pages 112-128

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4.11. Contents: ISA Transactions
Contributed by: John Coca, j.coca at elsevier.com

ISA Transactions
Volume 69
July 2017

- Yiheng Wei, Peter W. Tse, Zhao Yao, Yong Wang, The output feedback
control synthesis for a class of singular fractional order systems, Pages
1-9
- Mohammad Tabatabaei, Generalized characteristic ratios assignment for
commensurate fractional order systems with one zero, Pages 10-19
- Xi Zhou, Yiheng Wei, Shu Liang, Yong Wang, Robust fast controller design
via nonlinear fractional differential equations, Pages 20-30
- Javier A. Gallegos, Manuel A. Duarte-Mermoud, Convergence of fractional
adaptive systems using gradient approach, Pages 31-42
- Hui Liu, Yucai Ding, Jun Cheng, New results on H∞ filtering for Markov
jump systems with uncertain transition rates, Pages 43-50
- Xing Liu, Dan Wang, Zhouhua Peng, Improved finite-control-set model
predictive control for active front-end rectifiers with simplified
computational approach and on-line parameter identification, Pages 51-64
- Arezou Elahi, Alireza Alfi, Finite-time H∞ control of uncertain networked
control systems with randomly varying communication delays, Pages 65-88
- Mehdi Taheri, Farid Sheikholeslam, Majddedin Najafi, Maryam Zekri,
Adaptive fuzzy wavelet network control of second order multi-agent systems
with unknown nonlinear dynamics, Pages 89-101
- Jiaojiao Ren, Xinzhi Liu, Hong Zhu, Shouming Zhong, Passivity analysis of
neural networks with two different Markovian jumping parameters and mixed
time delays, Pages 102-121
- Jie Li, Yuanqing Xia, Xiaohui Qi, Pengpeng Zhao, Robust absolute
stability analysis for interval nonlinear active disturbance rejection
based control system, Pages 122-130
- Majeed Mohamed, Indra Narayan Kar, Stochastic contraction based online
estimation of second order wiener system, Pages 131-139
- Tao Han, Zhi-Hong Guan, Ming Chi, Bin Hu, Tao Li, Xian-He Zhang,
Multi-formation control of nonlinear leader-following multi-agent systems,
Pages 140-147
- Jili Tao, Qinru Fan, Longhua Ma, Improved linear quadratic and
proportional control system for improved liquid level system regulation in
a coke fractionation tower, Pages 148-156
- Zhiwei Xu, Xiaohong Nian, Haibo Wang, Yinsheng Chen, Robust guaranteed
cost tracking control of quadrotor UAV with uncertainties, Pages 157-165
- Ramy Rashad, Ayman El-Badawy, Ahmed Aboudonia, Sliding mode disturbance
observer-based control of a twin rotor MIMO system, Pages 166-174
- Julian Barreiro-Gomez, Carlos Ocampo-Martinez, Nicanor Quijano, Dynamical
tuning for MPC using population games: A water supply network application,
Pages 175-186
- Haidong Shao, Hongkai Jiang, Fuan Wang, Yanan Wang, Rolling bearing fault
diagnosis using adaptive deep belief network with dual-tree complex wavelet
packet, Pages 187-201
- Ali Molavi, Aliakbar Jalali, Mahdi Ghasemi Naraghi, Adaptive fuzzy
control of a class of nonaffine nonlinear system with input saturation
based on passivity theorem, Pages 202-213
- Ti Chen, Hao Wen, Haiyan Hu, Dongping Jin, Distributed finite-time
tracking for a team of planar flexible spacecraft, Pages 214-221
- Isuru A. Udugama, Florian Wolfenstetter, Robert Kirkpatrick, Wei Yu,
Brent R. Young, A comparison of a novel robust decentralised control
strategy and MPC for industrial high purity, high recovery, multicomponent
distillation, Pages 222-233
- M.R. Bongulwar, B.M. Patre, Design of PIλDμ controller for global power
control of Pressurized Heavy Water Reactor, Pages 234-241
- Zhankui Song, Kaibiao Sun, Adaptive compensation control for attitude
adjustment of quad-rotor unmanned aerial vehicle, Pages 242-255
- Vinay Kumar Pandey, Indrani Kar, Chitralekha Mahanta, Controller design
for a class of nonlinear MIMO coupled system using multiple models and
second level adaptation, Pages 256-272
- Sheng Wu, Qibing Jin, Ridong Zhang, Junfeng Zhang, Furong Gao, Improved
design of constrained model predictive tracking control for batch processes
against unknown uncertainties, Pages 273-280
- Zhiliang Zhu, Zhiqiang Meng, Zhengjiang Zhang, Junghui Chen, Yuxing Dai,
Robust particle filter for state estimation using measurements with
different types of gross errors, Pages 281-295
- Akshaya K. Pati, N.C. Sahoo, Adaptive super-twisting sliding mode control
for a three-phase single-stage grid-connected differential boost inverter
based photovoltaic system, Pages 296-306
- Anirudh Nandan, Syed Imtiaz, Nonlinear model predictive control of
managed pressure drilling, Pages 307-314
- Xiaolong Yu, Xin Lin, Yiquan Dai, Kunpeng Zhu, Image edge detection based
tool condition monitoring with morphological component analysis, Pages
315-322

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4.12. Contents: Mechatronics
Contributed by: John Coca, j.coca at elsevier.com

Mechatronics
Vol. 44
June 2017

- Michael Ruderman, On break-away forces in actuated motion systems with
nonlinear friction, Pages 1-5
- Ádám Bárdos, Huba Németh, Model development for intake gas composition
controller design for commercial vehicle diesel engines with HP-EGR and
exhaust throttling, Pages 6-13
- M. Brahim, I. Bahri, Y. Bernard, Real time implementation of H-infinity
and RST motion control of rotary traveling wave ultrasonic motor, Pages
14-23
- Takenori Atsumi, Minimization of unobservable oscillation in repeatable
run-out for magnetic-head positioning system of hard disk drives, Pages
24-31
- Shingo Ito, Severin Unger, Georg Schitter, Vibration isolator carrying
atomic force microscope’s head, Pages 32-41
- Mohammad Sheikh Sofla, Mohammad Zareinejad, Mohsen Parsa, Hassan
Sheibani, Integral based sliding mode stabilizing a camera platform using
Kalman filter attitude estimation, Pages 42-51
- Viet Ha Le, Van Du Nguyen, Cheong Lee, Gwangjun Go, Jong-Oh Park, Sukho
Park, Miniaturized biopsy module using gripper tool for active locomotive
capsule endoscope, Pages 52-59
- Asal Nahidi, Alireza Kasaiezadeh, Saeid Khosravani, Amir Khajepour,
Shih-Ken Chen, Bakhtiar Litkouhi, Modular integrated longitudinal and
lateral vehicle stability control for electric vehicles, Pages 60-70
- Donghong Ning, Shuaishuai Sun, Lidui Wei, Bangji Zhang, Haiping Du,
Weihua Li, Vibration reduction of seat suspension using observer based
terminal sliding mode control with acceleration data fusion, Pages 71-83
- Yum Ji Chan, Jing-Wei Huang, Multiple-point vibration testing with
micro-electromechanical accelerometers and micro-controller unit, Pages
84-93
- S. Hasanzadeh, F. Janabi-Sharifi, P. Keenan, Backlash characterization
and position control of a robotic catheter manipulator using
experimentally-based kinematic model, Pages 94-106
- Yan Cai, Jinchun Song, Nariman Sepehri, Quantitative analysis and
evaluation of bilateral control schemes applied to electro-hydrostatic
actuators, Pages 107-120
- Grzegorz Jóźwiak, Daniel Kopiec, Wojciech Majstrzyk, Teodor Gotszalk,
Piotr Grabiec, Real-time stochastic response analysis as a tool for
monitoring cantilever mechanical properties, Pages 121-128

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4.13. Contents: Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence
Contributed by: John Coca, j.coca at elsevier.com

Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence
Volume 62
June 2017

- Mohammad Zhalechian, Reza Tavakkoli-Moghaddam, Yaser Rahimi, A
self-adaptive evolutionary algorithm for a fuzzy multi-objective hub
location problem: An integration of responsiveness and social
responsibility, Pages 1-16
- Tautvydas Mickus, Paul Mitchell, Tim Clarke, The Emergence MAC (E-MAC)
protocol for wireless sensor networks, Pages 17-25
- Alexis Sardá-Espinosa, Subanatarajan Subbiah, Thomas Bartz-Beielstein,
Conditional inference trees for knowledge extraction from motor health
condition data, Pages 26-37
- Zhiqiang Geng, Jungen Dong, Jie Chen, Yongming Han, A new Self-Organizing
Extreme Learning Machine soft sensor model and its applications in
complicated chemical processes, Pages 38-50
- Ali Reihanian, Mohammad-Reza Feizi-Derakhshi, Hadi S. Aghdasi, Community
detection in social networks with node attributes based on multi-objective
biogeography based optimization, Pages 51-67
- Hui Li, Jianwen Zhang, Fast source term estimation using the PGA-NM
hybrid method, Pages 68-79
- S. Kemmoé-Tchomté, D. Lamy, N. Tchernev, An effective multi-start
multi-level evolutionary local search for the flexible job-shop problem,
Pages 80-95
- Yuyu Liang, Mengjie Zhang, Will N. Browne, Image feature selection using
genetic programming for figure-ground segmentation, Pages 96-108
- Urszula Libal, Zygmunt Hasiewicz, Risk upper bound for a NM-type
multiresolution classification scheme of random signals by Daubechies
wavelets, Pages 109-123
- Yueshen Xu, Yuyu Yin, Jianwei Yin, Tackling topic general words in topic
modeling, Pages 124-133
- Mukhtar Fatihu Hamza, Hwa Jen Yap, Imtiaz Ahmed Choudhury, Cuckoo search
algorithm based design of interval Type-2 Fuzzy PID Controller for Furuta
pendulum system, Pages 134-151
- Berna Altınel, Murat Can Ganiz, Banu Diri, Instance labeling in
semi-supervised learning with meaning values of words, Pages 152-163
- Muhammad Akmal Remli, Safaai Deris, Mohd Saberi Mohamad, Sigeru Omatu,
Juan Manuel Corchado, An enhanced scatter search with combined
opposition-based learning for parameter estimation in large-scale kinetic
models of biochemical systems, Pages 164-180
- Javier F. Botía, Ana M. Cárdenas, Carlos M. Sierra, Fuzzy cellular
automata and intuitionistic fuzzy sets applied to an optical frequency comb
spectral shape, Pages 181-194
- J. Faccin, I. Nunes, A tool-supported development method for improved BDI
plan selection, Pages 195-213
- Mohammad Kazem Ebrahimpour, Masoumeh Zare, Mahdi Eftekhari, Gholamreza
Aghamolaei, Occam's razor in dimension reduction: Using reduced row Echelon
form for finding linear independent features in high dimensional microarray
datasets, Pages 214-221
- R. Moeini, M. Soltani-nezhad, M. Daei, Constrained gravitational search
algorithm for large scale reservoir operation optimization problem, Pages
222-233
- Olavo Holanda, Seiji Isotani, Ig I. Bittencourt, Diego Dermeval, Williams
Alcantara, An object triple mapping system supporting detached objects: A
performance and memory usage empirical comparison, Pages 234-251
- L. Yu, Y.P. Li, G.H. Huang, B.G. Shan, A hybrid fuzzy-stochastic
technique for planning peak electricity management under multiple
uncertainties, Pages 252-264
- Yousif Al-Dunainawi, Maysam F. Abbod, Ali Jizany, A new MIMO ANFIS-PSO
based NARMA-L2 controller for nonlinear dynamic systems, Pages 265-275
- Erkan Kayacan, Joshua M. Peschel, Girish Chowdhary, A self-learning
disturbance observer for nonlinear systems in feedback-error learning
scheme, Pages 276-285
- Lingraj Dora, Sanjay Agrawal, Rutuparna Panda, Ajith Abraham, An
evolutionary single Gabor kernel based filter approach to face recognition,
Pages 286-301
- Carlos A. Coello Coello, Vincenzo Cutello, Doheon Lee, Mario Pavone,
Recent advances in immunological inspired computation, Pages 302-303
- Justin Melunis, Uri Hershberg, A spatially heterogeneous Gillespie
algorithm modeling framework that enables individual molecule history and
tracking, Pages 304-311
- Alex Upton, Miguel Blanca, José Antonio Cornejo-García, James Richard
Perkins, Weighted Epistatic Analysis of NSAIDs Hypersensitivity Data, Pages
312-319
- Stjepan Picek, Dominik Sisejkovic, Domagoj Jakobovic, Immunological
algorithms paradigm for construction of Boolean functions with good
cryptographic properties, Pages 320-330
- Dongdong Zhao, Wenjian Luo, Ran Liu, Lihua Yue, Experimental analyses of
the K-hidden algorithm, Pages 331-340
- Rostislav Savinkov, Alexey Kislitsyn, Daniel J. Watson, Raoul van Loon,
Igor Sazonov, Mario Novkovic, Lucas Onder, Gennady Bocharov, Data-driven
modelling of the FRC network for studying the fluid flow in the conduit
system, Pages 341-349
- Ran Liu, Jinghui Peng, Shanyu Tang, Multiple-negative survey method for
enhancing the accuracy of negative survey-based cloud data privacy:
Applications and extensions, Pages 350-358
- Sajjad Fouladvand, Alireza Osareh, Bita Shadgar, Mario Pavone, Siyamack
Sharafi, DENSA: An effective negative selection algorithm with flexible
boundaries for self-space and dynamic number of detectors, Pages 359-372
- Andrea Patanè, Andrea Santoro, Piero Conca, Giovanni Carapezza, Antonino
La Magna, Vittorio Romano, Giuseppe Nicosia, Multi-objective optimization
and analysis for the design space exploration of analog circuits and solar
cells, Pages 373-383
- Tao Gong, Tiantian Fan, Jizheng Guo, Zixing Cai, GPU-based parallel
optimization of immune convolutional neural network and embedded system,
Pages 384-395
- Dongdong Zhao, Wenjian Luo, One-time password authentication scheme based
on the negative database, Pages 396-404
- Tao Gong, Tiantian Fan, Lei Pei, Zixing Cai, Magnetic resonance
imaging-clonal selection algorithm: An intelligent adaptive enhancement of
brain image with an improved immune algorithm, Pages 405-411

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4.14. Contents: Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence
Contributed by: John Coca, j.coca at elsevier.com

Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence
Volume 63
August 2017

- Ernesto F.M. Ferreira, Patrícia H.M. Rêgo, João V.F. Neto, Numerical
stability improvements of state-value function approximations based on RLS
learning for online HDP-DLQR control system design, Pages 1-19
- Vimal Savsani, Mohamed A. Tawhid, Non-dominated sorting moth flame
optimization (NS-MFO) for multi-objective problems, Pages 20-32
- C. Bousquet-Jette, S. Achiche, D. Beaini, Y.S. Law-Kam Cio, C.
Leblond-Ménard, M. Raison, Fast scene analysis using vision and artificial
intelligence for object prehension by an assistive robot, Pages 33-44
- Nasser R. Sabar, Le Minh Kieu, Edward Chung, Takahiro Tsubota, Paulo
Eduardo Maciel de Almeida, A memetic algorithm for real world
multi-intersection traffic signal optimisation problems, Pages 45-53
- Mingjing Wang, Huiling Chen, Huaizhong Li, Zhennao Cai, Xuehua Zhao,
Changfei Tong, Jun Li, Xin Xu, Grey wolf optimization evolving kernel
extreme learning machine: Application to bankruptcy prediction, Pages 54-68
- B. John Oommen, Sang-Woon Kim, Occlusion-based estimation of independent
multinomial random variables using occurrence and sequential information,
Pages 69-84
- Cheng-Hsiung Weng, Revenue prediction by mining frequent itemsets with
customer analysis, Pages 85-97
- Hamed Kazemi, Mohammad Mahdavi Mazdeh, Mohammad Rostami, The two stage
assembly flow-shop scheduling problem with batching and delivery, Pages
98-107
- Monika Rani, Amit Kumar Dhar, O.P. Vyas, Semi-automatic terminology
ontology learning based on topic modeling, Pages 108-125

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4.15. Contents: International Journal of Control, Automation, and Systems
Contributed by: Young Hoon Joo, journal at ijcas.com

International Journal of Control, Automation, and Systems (IJCAS)
ISSN: 1598-6446
http://www.springer.com/engineering/robotics/journal/12555

Table of contents
Vol. 15, No. 4, August 2017

- Robust Model Predictive Control with Time-Varying Tubes, Pornchai
Bumroongsri* and Soorathep Kheawhom 1479-1484
- Multiple-mode Adaptive State Estimator for Nonlinear Switched Systems,
Junqi Yang*, Yantao Chen, and Lizhi Cui 1485-1493
- Control of Large Model Mismatch Systems using Multiple Models, Feng Gao*,
Dongfang Dang, Shengbo Eben Li, and MengChu Zhou 1494-1506
- Model Reference Robust Adaptive H∞ Controller Design, Qiang Zhang, De-Zhi
Xu*, and Kang-Kang Zhang 1507-1514
- Consensus Problems for Discrete-time Agents with Communication Delay,
Zhenhua Wang*, Huanshui Zhang, Xinmin Song, and Huaxiang Zhang 1515-1523
- Multi-switching adaptive synchronization of two fractional-order chaotic
systems with different structure and different order, Shuai Song, Xiao-Na
Song*, Nimisha Pathak, Ines Tejado Balsera 1524-1535
- Finite-time Circle Surrounding Control for Multi-agent Systems, Dan Ma*
and Yingchun Sun 1536-1543
- Robustness design of a dynamic output-feedback decentralized controller
using H∞ synthesis and LMI paradigm, Ali Sghaier Tlili 1544-1552
- Explicit Solution and Stability of Linear Time-Varying Differential State
Space Systems, Jing-Min Wang 1553-1560
- Exponential stability of a class of impulsive stochastic delay partial
differential equations driven by a fractional Brownian motion, Dingshi Li
and Guiling Chen* 1561-1568
- Multi-agent Formation Control in Switching Networks using Backstepping
Design, Qin Wang*, Qingguang Hua, Yang Yi, and Tianping Zhang 1569-1576
- A Novel Interpretation of the Invariance Condition of Mismatched
Uncertain Large-Scale Systems, Viet Anh Duong and Yao-Wen Tsai* 1577-1591
- Exponential H∞ Control for Singular Systems with Time-varying Delay,
Jiemei Zhao* and Zhonghui Hu 1592-1599
- New stability analysis for generalized neural networks with interval
time-varying delays, Yanmin Liu, Junkang Tian*, Zerong Ren 1600-1610
- Disturbance Attenuation in Linear Systems Revisited, Jiqiang Wang*, Hong
Yue, and Georgi Dimirovski 1611-1621
- Coupled stochastic gradient identification algorithms for multivariate
output-error systems using the auxiliary model, Wu Huang, Feng Ding*,
Tasawar Hayat, and Ahmed Alsaedi 1622-1631
- A Robust Controller for Trajectory Tracking of a DC Motor Pendulum
System, Carlos Aguilar-Ibanez*, Julio Mendoza-Mendoza, Jorge Davila, Miguel
S. Suarez-Castanon and Ruben Garrido M. 1632-1640
- Deep Auto-encoder Observer Multiple-Model Fast Aircraft Actuator Fault
Diagnosis Algorithm, Jun Ma, Shihong Ni, Wujie Xie, and Wenhan Dong*
1641-1650
- An Uncertainty-based Approach to Discrete-time Fault Estimation Observer
design for nonuniformly sampled systems, Aibing Qiu*, Jing Zhang, and
Juping Gu 1651-1660
- Nonlinear Robust Adaptive Sliding Mode Control Design for Miniature
Unmanned Multirotor Aerial Vehicle, Shafiqul Islam*, Peter X. Liu, and
Abdulmotaleb El Saddik 1661-1668
- Sliding Mode Control for Continuous Casting Mold Oscillatory System
Driven by Servo Motor, Sheng-Li Shi, Ke-Song Kang, Jian-Xiong Li, Yi-Ming
Fang* 1669-1674
- Optimal Vibration Control for Nonlinear Systems of Tracked Vehicle
Half-Car Suspensions, Yan-Jun Liang*, Na Li, De-Xin Gao, and Zhong-Sheng
Wang 1675-1683
- Speed tracking and nonlinear disturbance rejection of PM synchronous
motor by internal model design, Zhaowu Ping*, Qingchuan Ma, Hao Tang, Qi
Tan, and Jun-Guo Lu 1684-1692
- Relative Diagnosability of Discrete-Event Systems and Its Opacity-Based
Test Algorithm, Rui Zhao, Fuchun Liu*, and Zhusong Liu 1693-1700
- Fault Detection and Diagnosis for Delay-Range-Dependent Stochastic
Systems Using Output PDFs, Liping Yin*, Pengwei Zhu, and Tao Li 1701-1709
- Iterative Learning Control for Two-Dimensional Linear Discrete Systems
with Fornasini-Marchesini Model, Kai Wan and Xiao-Dong Li* 1710-1719
- Wind Direction Prediction for Yaw Control of Wind Turbines, Dongran Song,
Jian Yang*, Yao Liu, Mei Su, Anfeng Liu, and Young Hoon Joo* 1720-1728
- B-plane Targeting Method for Orbit Maneuver Using Low Thrust, Dong-Hyun
Cho, Donghun Lee*, Hyochoong Bang and Hae-Dong Kim 1729-1737
- Leader-Follower Type Distance-based Formation Control of a Group of
Autonomous Agents, Kwang-Kyo Oh* and Hyo-Sung Ahn 1738-1745
- Visual Servoing Based on Efficient Histogram Information, Hajer Abidi*,
Mohamed Chtourou, Khaled Kaaniche, and Hassen Mekki 1746-1753
- Heterogeneous-ants-based Path Planner for Global Path Planning of Mobile
Robot Applications, Joonwoo Lee 1754-1769
- Similar Hand Gesture Recognition by Automatically Extracting Distinctive
Features, Zeyu Ding, Yanmei Chen, Yen-Lun Chen*, and Xinyu Wu 1770-1778
- Adaptive Control of Multiple Mobile Manipulators Transporting a Rigid
Object, Abdelkrim Brahmi*, Maarouf Saad, Guy Gauthier, Wen-Hong Zhu, and
Jawhar Ghommam 1779-1789
- Cyclic Error Correction based Q-learning for Mobile Robots Navigation,
Rongkuan Tang, Hongliang Yuan* 1790-1798
- MPC-based Approach to Optimized Steering for Minimum Turning Radius and
Efficient Steering of Multi-axle Crane, Kwangseok Oh, Jaho Seo*, Jin-Gyun
Kim, and Kyongsu Yi 1799-1813
- The Dynamic Compliance and Its Compensation Control Research of the
Highly Integrated Valve-controlled Cylinder Position Control System,
Kai-Xian Ba, Xiang-Dong Kong, Bin Yu*,, Hua-Long Zhao, Jin-Song Zhao,
Qi-Xin Zhu, and Chun-He Li 1814-1825
- Inverse Reinforcement Learning Control for Trajectory Tracking of a
Multirotor UAV, Seungwon Choi, Suseong Kim, and H. Jin Kim* 1826-1834
- Pol-E: Large-obstacle overcoming based on energy conversion method using
an elastic link, JaeNeung Choi, Kyungmin Jeong, and TaeWon Seo* 1835-1843
- Improved Positioning Method for Magnetic Encoder Type AGV using Extended
Kalman Filter and Encoder Compensation Method, Hyunhak Cho, Eun Kyeong Kim,
Eunseok Jang, and Sungshin Kim* 1844-1856
- Minimum-Energy Cornering Trajectory Planning with Self-Rotation for
Three-Wheeled Omni-Directional Mobile Robots, Hongjun Kim* and Byung Kook
Kim 1857-1866
- Local Stability Analysis of T?S Fuzzy Systems Using Second-order Time
Derivative of the Membership Functions, Donghwan Lee and Young Hoon Joo*
1867-1876
- Adaptive Synchronization between Two Non-identical BAM Neural Networks
with Unknown Parameters and Time-varying Delays, Mostafa Zarefard and
Sohrab Effati* 1877-1887
- Novel results on stability analysis of neutral-type neural networks with
additive time-varying delay components and leakage delay, R. Samidurai, S.
Rajavel, R. Sriraman, Jinde Cao*, Ahmed Alsaedi and Fuad E. Alsaadi
1888-1900
- Complex Performance Control Using Sliding Mode Fuzzy Approach for
Discrete-Time Nonlinear Systems via T-S Fuzzy Model with Bilinear
Consequent Part, Wen-Jer Chang*, Feng-Ling Hsu and Cheung-Chieh Ku 1901-1915
- Global Adaptive Tracking Control of Robot Manipulators Using Neural
Networks with Finite-time Learning Convergence, Chenguang Yang*, Tao Teng,
Bin Xu, Zhijun Li, Jing Na and Chun-Yi Su 1916-1924
- Neural-Network-Based integral sliding-mode tracking control of
secondorder multi-agent systems with unmatched disturbances and completely
unknown dynamics, Xi Ma*, Fuchun Sun, HongBo Li, and Bing He 1925-1935
- Greenhouse Climate Fuzzy Adaptive Control Considering Energy Saving,
Yuanping Su, Lihong Xu*, and Erik D. Goodman 1936-1948
- Adaptive Control of Bilateral Teleoperation System with Compensatory
Neural-Fuzzy Controllers, Rabah Mellah*, Said Guermah and Redouane Toumi
1949-1959
- Optimal type II fuzzy neural network controller for Eight-Rotor MAV,
Xiang-jian Chen*, Di Li, Xi-Bei Yang, and Yuecheng Yu 1960-1968
- Efficient Aimpoint Tracking using Target Range Profiles of a Wideband
FMCW Seeker, Won-Sang Ra*, Ick-Ho Whang, Hyo-Sang Shin, and Antonios
Tsourdos 1969-1974

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4.16. CFP: International Journal of Intelligent Robotics and Applications
Contributed by: Chien Chern Cheah, ecccheah at ntu.edu.sg

International Journal of Intelligent Robotics and Applications

Call for Papers, Focused Section on Human-Centered Robotics

Guest Editors:
Santosh Devasia, University of Washington, U.S.A., devasia at uw.edu Chien
Chern Cheah, Nanyang Technological Univ., Singapore, ecccheah at ntu.edu.sg
Marcello Pellicciari, Università degli Studi di Modena e Reggio Emilia
(UniMORE), Italy, marcello.pellicciari at unimore.it Margherita Peruzzini,
Università degli Studi di Modena e Reggio Emilia (UniMORE), Italy,
margherita.peruzzini at unimore.it

Human-centered robotics requires a fundamental shift from the traditional
robot-in-a-cage model to robots interacting with people in an open
environment with applications that include wearable robotics, social robots
for home and entertainment, and collaborative manufacturing. Many efforts
are underway to guarantee safety and improve performance when such robots
operate in human environments, such as improved sensors and actuators and
data-based methods for enhanced cognition. This generates numerous
opportunities for innovation. At the same time there are substantial
challenges before such robots become ubiquitous. In an effort to
disseminate current advances of various robotics technologies for
human-centered applications, this focused session seeks submissions in
relevant areas. Papers should contain both theoretical and
practical/experimental results. Potential topics include but are not
limited to:

- Design of robots (soft and deformable structures) for human interaction
- Human-robot co-learning
- Modeling and control for human-robot interactions
- Safety of human-robot interactions
- Smart actuators and sensors for effective human-robot interfaces
- Wearable robotics including active robotic prostheses and orthoses

Manuscript preparation:
Papers must contain original contributions and be prepared in accordance
with the journal standards. Instructions for authors are available online
at: http://www.springer.com/41315.

Manuscript submission:
Manuscripts should be submitted online at:
https://www.editorialmanager.com/jira/default.aspx. The cover letter should
report the following statement: “This paper is submitted for possible
publication in the focused section on Human-Centered Robotics.” All
manuscripts will be subjected to the peer review process. If you have any
questions relating to this focused section, please email one of the Guest
Editors.

Important dates:
Paper submission: October 15, 2017
Completion of first review: January 1, 2018 Submission of revised papers:
Feb 1, 2018 Completion of final review: March 1, 2018 Submission of final
manuscripts and copyright forms: March 15, 2018
Publication: June 2018

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4.17. CFP: IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology
Contributed by: Guillaume Merc` ere, guillaume.mercere at univ-poitiers.fr

CFP: Special Issue on System identification and control in biomedical
applications in IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology

Contributions are invited for a special issue of the IEEE Transactions on
Control Systems Technology devoted to the subject of System Identification
and Control in Biomedical Applications. The purpose of this special issue
is to document the current status of research in this field through an
original collection of diverse, high-quality papers. The emphasis is on the
role control systems technology plays in advancing the state of the art in
the challenges of applying feedback control in living organisms, with
emphasis on biomedicine. Specifically, we aim at (i) pointing out
theoretical and practical issues specific to bio-medical systems, (ii)
bringing together solutions developed under different settings with
specific attention to the validation of these tools in bio-medical settings
using real-life datasets and experiments, and (iii) introducing significant
case studies. Topics of common interests include (but are not limited to)
the following:
- theoretical and implementation challenges which arise in medical systems,
- control engineering tools for solving specific system design problems in
medical technology,
- novel data-driven modeling techniques capturing the dynamics of
biomedical systems, and accounting for intra- and inter-individual
variability,
- evidence of successful projects in biomedicine enabled by system
identification and control, such as the artificial pancreas and closed-loop
anesthesia.
- application areas in healthcare and medical systems, such as assistive
devices and therapeutics in medical rehabilitation, and mathematical models
of infectious disease spread.
- prevention and treatment of chronic, relapsing disorders and illnesses
such as cancer, diabetes, obesity, and HIV.

Only contributions that include significant results based on analysis of
real data or experimental validation will be included. Papers must contain
high-quality original contributions and be prepared in accordance with the
IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology standards. Prospective
authors should state in their cover letter and in the notes section of the
submission site that their manuscript is intended for the special issue on
“system identification and control in biomedical applications.” Submitted
manuscripts must not have been previously published or be under review for
possible publication elsewhere.

Time line:
Manuscripts Due: November 1, 2017
Notification to authors (after the first round of reviews): March 1, 2018
Notification of final decision: June 1, 2018
Publication Date: January 2019

Authors can submit their manuscripts via
https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/tcst

Information for Authors prior to submitting a paper is available via
http://www.ieeecss.org/publications/tcst/information-authors

All inquiries should be directed to G. Mercère you can contact via his
email address: guillaume.mercere at univ-poitiers.fr

Guest Editors:
Guillaume Mercère, Université de Poitiers, France (LEAD)
Bayu Jayawardhana, University of Groningen, The Netherlands
Alexander Medvedev, Uppsala University, Sweden
Daniel E. Rivera, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, USA
Caterina Scoglio, Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas, USA

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5. Conferences

5.1. IFAC Conference on Analysis and Design of Hybrid Systems
Contributed by: Daniele Magazzeni, daniele.magazzeni at kcl.ac.uk

ADHS 2018 Call for Papers
The 6th IFAC Conference on Analysis and Design of Hybrid Systems
Oxford University, UK, July 11-13, 2018.
Website: http://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/conferences/ADHS18/

* Papers and Invited Session Proposals due: December 2017
* Author notification: February 2018

The Organising Committee has the pleasure of inviting you to participate in
the 6th IFAC Conference on Analysis and Design of Hybrid Systems (ADHS 18)
to be held at Oxford University, UK, July 11-13, 2018.

ADHS 2018 takes place as a workshop of the Conference on Computer Aided
Verification (CAV 2018), and within FLOC 2018. The conference happens under
the auspices of IFAC and is sponsored by the IFAC Technical Committee on
Discrete Event and Hybrid Systems.

Contributions are invited in all areas pertaining to the engineering of
hybrid systems including: modelling, specification, verification, analysis,
control synthesis, simulation, validation, and implementation. We solicit
papers and invited session proposals describing theoretical or applied
research in the area. We also welcome papers describing tools, reporting
case studies or connecting the cognate fields of control theory and formal
verification.

Contributions are encouraged on applications of hybrid methods in various
fields, such as automotive, avionics, energy and power, mobile and
autonomous robotics, the process and manufacture industry, transportation
and infrastructure networks, communication networks and networked control
systems, cyber-physical systems, safety-critical systems, systems and
synthetic biology.

Author Guidelines
* Regular papers: Regular papers can have a length of up to 8 pages at
submission. Accepted papers are limited to 6 pages in the conference
preprints and on-line proceedings.
* Invited session proposals: Invited sessions consist of 4 to 6 papers
related to a common theme that fits within the scope of ADHS. An invited
session proposal should contain a short description of the common theme as
well as the list of papers in the session and their abstracts.
The invited session organiser first has to submit the pdf file of the
session proposal (without participating papers). The IFAC Conference
Manuscript Management System then returns an acknowledgment that contains
an alpha-numeric code for the proposed session. Subsequently, the organiser
has to notify the contributing authors of their invited session code. The
corresponding author of each paper then submits the paper on-line as an
invited paper.
* Invited session papers: Invited session papers can have a length of up to
8 pages at submission. Invited session papers go through the same review
process as regular papers. Accepted papers are limited to 6 pages in the
conference preprints and on-line proceedings. Submission as an invited
session paper requires the invited session code, which can be obtained from
the session organiser.

Submission Instructions
* All papers submitted to ADHS 18 must be written in English and formatted
in the standard IFAC 2-column format provided on the IFAC Conference
Management System website (see the item "Support for Authors" above).
* For initial submissions, all regular and invited session papers are
limited to eight (8) pages. The submission website will not permit longer
papers to be uploaded.
* For the final upload all accepted and invited papers are limited to six
(6) pages.
* For each accepted paper at least one of the authors should have a full
registration in order to have the paper included in the preprints and the
post-conference on-line proceedings at IFAC-PapersOnLine.
* Author's kits with style (.cls) files for LaTeX are available from the
submission website. Go to http://ifac.papercept.net and select "Support"
for these files and example files, or directly go to the support page.
Please do not change the formatting in any way.

Important Dates
Papers and Invited Session Proposals due: December 2017
Author notification: February 2018
Final papers due: TBA
Early registration: TBA
Conference: Jul. 11-13, 2018

The reference timezone for all deadlines is UTC-12.

Committees

General Chair
* Alessandro Abate (U. Oxford, UK)

Program Chairs
* Maurice Heemels (TU Eindhoven, NL)
* Antoine Girard (CNRS, FR)

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5.2. ACM/IEEE International Conference on Cyber-Physical Systems
Contributed by: Necmiye Ozay, necmiye at umich.edu

ACM/IEEE ICCPS 2018 CALL FOR PAPERS
The 9th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Cyber-Physical Systems
April 11-13, 2018 in Porto, Portugal, part of CPSWeek 2018
http://iccps.acm.org/2018

Overview:
As digital computing and communication become faster, cheaper, and
available in packages that are smaller and use less power, these
capabilities are increasingly embedded in many objects and structures in
the physical environment. Cyber-physical systems (CPS) are physical and
engineered systems whose operations are monitored, coordinated, controlled,
and integrated by computing and communication. Broad CPS deployment is
transforming how we interact with the physical world as profoundly as the
world wide web transformed how we interact with one another, and further
harnessing their capabilities holds the possibility of enormous societal
and economic impact. ACM/IEEE ICCPS is the premier single-track conference
for reporting advances in all CPS aspects, including theory, tools,
applications, systems, test-beds and field deployments.

ICCPS 2018 will, for the first time, have two tracks: Theory and
Applications. Authors will be required to select a track (see description
below) when submitting papers. Please note that the program co-chairs may
move a paper to a more appropriate track based on their judgment and
suggestions from the program committee. Each track will have its own
program committee. The theory track focuses on the core science to develop
fundamental principles that underpin the integration of cyber and physical
elements. The applications track focuses on the development of
technologies, tools, and architectures for building CPS systems, and on the
design, implementation, and investigation of CPS applications. Application
domains for both tracks include (but are not limited to): transportation,
energy, water, agriculture, ecology, supply-chains, medical and assistive
technology, sensor and social networks, and robotics. Among the relevant
research areas are security, control, optimization, machine learning, game
theory, mechanism design, mobile and cloud computing, model-based design,
verification, data mining / analytics, signal processing, and
human-in-the-loop shared or supervisory control. Papers on secure and
resilient CPS infrastructure (the focus of the former HiCoNS conference)
can either be submitted to the theory or to the applications track
depending on the emphasis of the paper.

Submissions:
Manuscripts should have a main body with no more than 10 pages in either
ACM or IEEE two-column conference style, including figures and references.
Up to 2 additional pages of appendices may follow the main body of the
paper, within the same submitted .pdf file.

Important Dates:
Full paper submission deadline: October 6, 2017;
Author notification: December 18, 2017;
Camera ready papers due: February, 2018.

General Co-Chairs:
Chris Gill, Washington University in St. Louis, USA;
Bruno Sinopoli, Carnegie Mellon University, USA.

Program Co-Chairs:
Xue Liu, McGill University, Canada;
Paulo Tabuada, UCLA, USA.

Steering Committee:
Insup Lee, University of Pennsylvania, USA; Jack Stankovic, University of
Virginia, USA; Eric M. Feron, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA; Karl H.
Johansson, Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Sweden; Sonia Martinez (Ex
Officio), UC San Diego, USA; Eduardo Tovar (Ex Officio), CISTER/INESC-TEC,
Polytechnic Institute of Porto, Portugal.

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5.3. ACM International Conference on Hybrid Systems: Computation and Control
Contributed by: Kostas Margellos, kostas.margellos at eng.ox.ac.uk

HSCC 2018 CALL FOR PAPERS

21st ACM International Conference on Hybrid Systems: Computation and
Control (HSCC)
April 11-13, 2018,
Porto, Portugal

URL: www.hscc2018.deib.polimi.it

Important dates:
Paper submission deadline: October 6, 2017 (11:59pm UTC-12)
Notification: December 2017
Camera-ready: February 2018
Conference dates: April 11-13, 2018
* Please refer to the conference website for up-to-date information. *

Paper submission information:
Regular papers (maximum 10 pages, 10pt font, two-column ACM format)
Tool and Case Study Papers (maximum 6 pages, 10pt font, two-column ACM
format)
Demos and posters:
Demos (maximum 2 pages, 10pt font, two-column ACM format, title should
begin with “Demo”)
Posters (maximum 2 pages, 10pt font, two-column ACM format, title should
begin with “Poster”)

Awards:
- Best Repeatability Evaluation Award
- Best Paper Award *New*
- Test-of-Time Award *New*

Conference scope:
HSCC 2018 is the 21st in a series of conferences focusing on original
research on concepts, tools, and techniques from computer science, control
theory, and applied mathematics for the analysis and control of hybrid
systems, with an emphasis on computational aspects. By drawing on
strategies from computation and control, hybrid systems theory finds
application in both man-made cyber-physical systems (ranging from small
robots to global infrastructure networks) and natural systems (ranging from
biochemical networks to physiological models). Papers are expected to cover
a wide spectrum of topics from theoretical results to practical
considerations, from academic research to industrial adoption, including
but not limited to:

- Mathematical foundations, computability and complexity
- Analysis, verification, validation, and testing
- Modelling paradigms and techniques
- Design, synthesis, planning, and control
- Programming and specification languages
- Network science and network-based control
- Security, privacy, and resiliency in cyber-physical systems with a focus
on computation and control
- Artificial intelligence and machine learning in control algorithms
- Software tools
- Applications and industrial case studies in: automotive, transportation,
autonomous systems, avionics, energy and power, robotics, medical devices,
manufacturing, systems and synthetic biology, models for the life sciences,
and other related areas

Program Committee Chairs:
Maria Prandini, Politecnico di Milano
Jyotirmoy V.Deshmukh, University of Southern California

Repeatability Evaluation Chair:
Sergiy Bogomolov, Australian National University

Publicity Chair:
Kostas Margellos, University of Oxford

Demo and Poster Session Chair:
Jens Oehlerking, Robert Bosch GmbH

Awards Chair:
Akshay Rajhans, The MathWorks

Program Committee:
See conference website.

Steering Committee:
Rajeev Alur, University of Pennsylvania
Werner Damm, OFFIS
John Lygeros, ETH Zurich
Oded Maler, Verimag
Paulo Tabuada, University of California at Los Angeles
Claire Tomlin, University of California at Berkeley

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5.4. International Workshop on Robust Modeling, Design & Analysis: Tools,
Methods & AeroSpace Applications
Contributed by: Andres Marcos, andres.marcos at bristol.ac.uk

International Workshop on Robust Modeling, Design & Analysis: Tools,
Methods & AeroSpace Applications
18th & 19th September 2017, at the University of Bristol, Bristol (UK)
Organized by Andres Marcos (UoB) and Jean-Marc Biannic (ONERA)

A two-day workshop dedicated to present recent robust modeling, design and
analysis toolboxes (ONERA’s SMAC and UMN’s LPVTools) and their application
to AeroSpace systems ranging from aircraft flutter (EU H2020 FLEXOP and US
PAAWS projects), to Mars Moon’s exploration (UK Space Agency NTSP2 project)
and Launchers (ESA VEGAdapt project). It includes presentation and release
of a full aircraft landing, nonlinear benchmark by SMAC.

CONFIRMED SPEAKERS
S. Bennani (ESA), P. Seiler (UMN), D. Alazard (ISAE), V. Banek & T. Peni
(SZTAKI),
J.M. Biannic & C. Roos & C. Cumer (ONERA), T.Kier (DLR), H. Pfifer
(UNottingham). R. Cavallaro (UC3M), A. Marcos & J. Cooper & A. Iannelli &
D. Navarro-Tapia & P. Simplício (UoB), S. Maraniello (Imperial)

The event is supported by the School of Civil, Aerospace and Mechanical
Engineering (CAME) of the University of Bristol.

The first 20 Post-Graduate students to register are free (standard
registration)
Deadline for registration: 1st September 2017
Please visit for more information and registration instuctions:
http://www.bristol.ac.uk/engineering/events/2017/international-aerospace-workshop.html

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5.5. International Conference on Control, Automation and Systems
Contributed by: Hye-Soo Kim, conference at icros.org

2017 17th International Conference on Control, Automation and Systems
(ICCAS 2017)
October 18(WED)-21(SAT), 2017
Ramada Plaza, Jeju Island, Korea
http://2017.iccas.org

CALL FOR PAPERS:
http://icros.org/data/download/ICCAS2017/ICCAS2017_CFP.pdf

The aim of the ICCAS is to bring together researchers and engineers
worldwide to present their latest works, and disseminate the
state-of-the-art technologies related to control, automation, robotics, and
systems.

IMPORTANT DATES
Proposal for Invited/Organized Session (Mini-symposium)
- July 15, 2017: Submission Deadline (Extended!!)
Regular Papers (3 - 6 pages) & Invited/Organized Session Papers (1 - 6
pages)
- July 15, 2017: Submission Deadline (Extended!!)
- August 1, 2017: Notification of Acceptance
- August 31, 2017: Submission of Final Camera-ready Papers
Research Poster Papers (1 - 2 pages)
- August 22, 2017: Submission Deadline
- August 31, 2017: Notification of Acceptance
- September 7, 2017: Submission of Final Camera-ready Papers

PAPER SUBMISSION: The conference invites three types of submission:
"Regular Paper", "Research Poster Paper", and "Invited(Organized)
Session/Mini-symposium Paper". To submit papers, go "Online Paper
Submission" on the website: http://online.2017.iccas.org

PAPER SUBMISSION GUIDELINE: http://2017.iccas.org/?page_id=21

Indexed in: IEEE Xplore, EI compendex, and SCOPUS

PLENARY SPEAKERS
- Richard D. Braatz (Massachusetts Inst. of Tech., USA)
"New Directions in the Control in Advanced Manufacturing Systems"
- Reza Moheimani (Univ. of Texas at Dallas, USA)
"On-Chip Atomic Force Microscope: Why and How?"
- Antonella Ferrara (Univ. of Pavia, Italy)
"Modern Sliding Mode Control with Application to Automotive Systems"
- Huijun Gao (Harbin Inst. of Tech., China)
"Network-Based Control and Estimation"
- Atsuo Takanishi (Waseda Univ., Japan)
"Humanoid Robotics Research and Its Applications"

VENUE: The Jeju is the largest island off the coast of the Korean
Peninsula. The Jeju contains the natural World Heritage Site Jeju Volcanic
Island and Lava Tubes, and has a temperate climate.
- Selected as the New 7 Wonders of Nature
- Only place in the world that has been certified by UNESCO Triple Crown in
Natural Science: Biosphere Reserves, World Natural Heritage, World
Geological Park
- Designated by WHO (World Health Organization) as an International Safe
City
- No visa entry and 30-day stay for 187 countries including China

ACCOMMODATION: ICCAS 2017 participants can reserve rooms at the appointed
hotels at a special (discounted) rate. View details:
http://2017.iccas.org/?page_id=63

Organized by Institute of Control, Robotics and Systems (ICROS)
Technically Co-Sponsored by IEEE IES, IEEE CSS, IEEE RAS, SICE, ACA, CAA,
CACS, ECTI, CAAI, and ISA

General Chair: Dong-il “Dan” Cho (Seoul Nat’l Univ., Korea / ICROS
President)
Organizing Chair: Doyoung Jeon (Sogang Univ., Korea)
Program Chair: Hyosung Ahn (GIST, Korea)

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6. Positions

6.1. PhD: McGill University, Canada
Contributed by: Ahmad Haidar, ahmad.haidar at mcgill.ca

Position Title: PhD Researcher– System Identification and Parameter
Estimation of Gluco-regulatory Systems using Bayesian Methods

The Department of Biomedical Engineering in the Faculty of Medicine at
McGill University is seeking outstanding candidates for a PhD position. The
successful candidate will develop a mathematical model for the
gluco-regulatory system that incorporates pramlintide, SGLT2i, physical
activity, and day-to-day variability, using our unique clinical data. The
candidate will propose several candidate models from physiology literature
featuring a number of characteristics, and contrast them based on the
deviance information criterion.

The candidate will build and validate a set of virtual patients by
estimating model’s parameters by fitting our clinical data using a Bayesian
approach (a process termed “e-cloning” in the literature). The candidate
will integrate the virtual patients in a simulation environment to help our
team develop artificial pancreas systems (closed-loop delivery systems to
regulate glucose levels in type 1 diabetes).
Our lab is highly multi-disciplinary and includes researchers with
backgrounds of endocrinology, control engineering, nutrition, nursing, and
computer science. This is a great opportunity for a highly motivated
applicant who wants to utilize their expertise in system identification to
tackle medical problems. Our department offers unique courses on
intellectual property, regulatory affairs, and clinical trials tailored
specifically for biomedical engineers who wish to pursue careers in
industry.

McGill University ranks 1st in Canada among medical-doctoral universities
(Maclean’s) and is Canada’s most international university. McGill is
located in the vibrant multicultural Montreal in the francophone province
of Quebec. Montreal is a city steeped in culture and is named the best
student city in the world (QS Ranking).

Desired Skills:
• Expertise in system identification and parameter estimation.
• Expertise in Bayesian methods and Markov chain Monte Carlo algorithms.
• programming skills.

Starting Date:
• January, May, or September 2018.

Apply with your curriculum vitae to Prof. Ahmad Haidar (
ahmad.haidar at mcgill.ca). Please refer to www.mcgill.ca/haidar for more
information on our research program. For information on registration
instructions, rights and responsibilities, and how to get a work permit if
you're joining us from abroad, please refer to
http://www.mcgill.ca/gps/postdocs.

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6.2. PhD: University of Exeter, UK
Contributed by: C Edwards, c.edwards at exeter.ac.uk

A fully funded PhD position is available in the area of Control of Launch
and Recovery in Enhanced Sea-States.

College of Engineering, Mathematics and Physical Sciences, University of
Exeter, Exeter UK.

Project Description: Currently many marine operations, such as Launch and
Recovery (L&R) from a mother ship of small craft, manned and unmanned air
vehicles and submersibles, can only be attempted safely in sufficiently
calm sea-states. As an example, the L&R of a small craft from a mother ship
typically involves the two vessels moving together in proximity (often
linked by a bow-line) before the main physical connection of the two via a
crane/hoist mechanism. Current practice is entirely operator experience
dependent: the operator uses their judgment of the sea conditions to decide
unilaterally whether and when to initiate a recovery. The objective of the
project is to extend the range of sea-states in which existing wave limited
maritime operations such as L&R can be safely carried out.

The proposed work is closely coupled to two projects funded under the EPSRC
Launch and Recovery Co-Creation Initiative. This project represents a
collaboration between Exeter University, Queen Mary University of London
and the industrial partners BAE Systems, SEA Ltd, James Fisher Marine and
the MOD.

The overall project deliverables are:
• the development of a predictive decision support system for the vessel
operator to aid in the decision to initiate L&R;
• the creation of a robust control system for the hoist mechanism to ensure
the transient trajectories of the smaller craft during the recovery process
do not collide with the hull of the mothership or exhibit excessive
pitch/roll which would endanger the crew on board.
• The establishment of a co-design tool to maximise (financial) cost versus
performance of future sea going L&R technology.

The PhD studentship will mainly focus on the creation of a control scheme
for the hoist mechanism and the development of a ‘disturbance observer’ to
provide robustness to the closed-loop system.

The applicant should have or expect to achieve at least a 2:1 Honours
degree, or equivalent, in Engineering/Mathematics. Experience in control
systems is desirable.

For further information please see:
http://www.exeter.ac.uk/studying/funding/award/?id=2678

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6.3. PhD: Imperial College London, UK
Contributed by: Giordano Scarciotti, g.scarciotti at imperial.ac.uk

PhD studentship in Control of Uncertain Nonlinear Systems, Imperial College
London, United Kingdom

Applications are invited for a PhD studentship in "Control of Uncertain
Nonlinear Systems: a stochastic and set-valued approach". The work will be
based within the Control and Power group in the Department of Electrical
and Electronic Engineering. The student will be supervised by Dr Giordano
Scarciotti. The studentship will start as soon as possible from October 2017

Every model of a real system has some degree of uncertainty. A parameter of
the model may be unknown, some dynamics may be unmodeled, or the model may
be completely unknown. Uncertainty arises in, for example, power production
(unpredictable renewable sources), power distribution (energy
price/demand), control of aircrafts, and biological and chemical reactions.

The project will tackle the problem of modelling, analysis and control of
uncertain systems with two complementary approaches: stochastic
differential equations allow to model randomness; set-valued mappings allow
simultaneous modelling of multiple behaviours. Note that instead of
considering a robust control approach, the objective of the project is to
describe and deal with uncertainty within these two frameworks in a
comprehensive manner.

The ideal candidate should have a strong background in Control Engineering,
Automation Engineering or Applied Mathematics. Strong knowledge of linear
system theory, a basic understanding of nonlinear systems and some
experience in using MATLAB is required. Any knowledge of advanced topics
such as stochastic systems and hybrid systems would be beneficial, but are
not required skills as these will be acquired during the PhD.

Applications are invited from candidates with (or who expect to gain) a
first-class honours degree or an equivalent degree in Engineering,
Mathematics or a related discipline (for more details, see
https://www.imperial.ac.uk/study/pg/apply/requirements/pgacademic/).The
studentship provides a (tax-free) bursary of £16,553 (Standard RCUK Bursary
rate) per annum for up to 3.5 years to cover living expenses, together with
the College tuition fees at the UK/EU rate for 3 years. Applications from
Overseas will also be considered, but the difference in the Overseas and
UK/EU rate will have to be met by the successful applicant.

For a description of the Control and Power Research Group please visit our
website at http://www3.imperial.ac.uk/controlandpower.

Informal enquiries and requests for additional information for this post
can be made to Dr Giordano Scarciotti by email at
g.scarciotti at imperial.ac.uk.

Applications will be assessed as received and all applicants should follow
the standard College application procedure (indicating Dr Giordano
Scarciotti as supervisor) (
http://www3.imperial.ac.uk/pgprospectus/howtoapply).

Closing date for applications: Open until filled
Start Date: As soon as possible from October 2017.

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6.4. PhD: University of Sannio in Benevento, Italy
Contributed by: Davide Liuzza, davide.liuzza at unisannio.it

PhD Position available at the Department of Engineering of the University
of Sannio in Benevento, Italy
Contacts: Prof. Luigi Glielmo (email glielmo at unisannio.it), Dr. Davide
Liuzza (email davide.liuzza at unisannio.it)

The GRACE (Group for Research on Automatic Control Engineering) at the
University of Sannio offers a PhD position in control theory and
applications to be started in October 2017. The successful candidate will
collaborate to our group’s research on control and optimization theory,
including their implementation in different areas.
Such areas comprise control of energy flows in smart grid, control of
cyber-physical system, machine learning application to industrial
processes, with special emphasis on the energy application.

Our ideal candidate has a sound knowledge in control and optimization
methods from his/her Bachelor and Master degree, an excellent academic
track record, well developed analytical and problem solving skills and a
strongly motivated personality. Interests in both theoretical research and
applications to practical control problems as well as the ability of
working independently complete the candidate profile.

The candidate will be selected according to applicant fulfilment of the
above qualifications.

Interested candidates must send detailed CV and two contacts to whom we can
ask references to the email address davide.liuzza at unisannio.it .
Answers will be given at the beginning of September, 2017.

The selected candidate will join the control system group at the University
of Sannio, Benevento, Italy.

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6.5. PhD: University of Melbourne, Australia
Contributed by: Iman Shames, ishames at unimelb.edu.au

Applications are invited for two PhD scholarships in the areas of (1)
real-time decision making for autonomous systems in uncertain environments,
(2) secure networked control systems.

The work will be based within the Control and Signal Processing (CSP) Lab,
MIDAS Lab, the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering. The
student will be supervised by Dr Iman Shames (see https://imanshames.blog
for more information) and co-supervised by another MIDAS Lab faculty member.

The ideal candidate should have a degree in electrical and electronic
engineering, computer science, applied mathematics, or mechanical
engineering with solid background in applied mathematics and particularly
in numerical methods, control theory, and/or optimisation.

The PhD scholarship provides 30K AUD a year tax-free stipend for up-to four
years (subject to passing the PhD candidature confirmation after 12 months)
as well as tuition fees for the duration of studies. Additionally, up to
15K AUD will be made available for travel funding to visit other research
institutes and attending international conferences.

MIDAS is a large and complementary group of academic researchers and
postgraduates collaborating across multiple departments within the
Melbourne School of Engineering in areas including automation, control,
analytics, machine learning, and optimisation.

Expressions of interest are invited from candidates with (or who expect to
gain) a first-class honours degree or an equivalent degree in engineering,
computer science, physics, mathematics, or a related discipline. Interested
candidates should contact Dr. Shames (ishames at unimelb.edu.au) directly and
include (1) a brief statement of interest in this position with clear
indication of preference for the 2 areas mentioned above (maximum 2 pages),
(2) their detailed CV, (3) bachelors and masters/honours transcripts, and
(4) names and contact details of at least two referees.

Application Closing Date: 1 December 2017.
Start Date: As soon as possible from March 2018.

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6.6. PhD: Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands
Contributed by: Javier Alonso-Mora, j.alonsomora at tudelft.nl

Safe and socially intuitive navigation for teams of mobile robots in urban
environments

We offer a PhD position at the Autonomous Multi-Robots Lab of the Delft
University of Technology. Our main research interest is in navigation,
motion planning and control of autonomous mobile robots, with a special
emphasis in multi-robot systems and robots that interact with other robots
and humans. We contribute novel methods and solutions in the areas of
collision avoidance, motion planning, formation control, vehicle routing,
task assignment, aerial videography and human-swarm interaction. Building
towards the smart cities of the future, we apply these techniques in
various fields, including autonomous cars, automated factories, aerial
vehicles and intelligent transportation systems.

For autonomous robots, safe and socially intuitive navigation is critical
when moving among other robots and humans. Think of the challenges that a
bicyclist faces when navigating through busy streets. Yet, current methods
for navigation and autonomous driving are typically limited to relatively
low speeds or clutter-free environments with very few moving obstacles and
little interaction. The goal of this project is to develop novel methods
for motion planning and multi-robot coordination that grant high
performance and demonstrate safe motion through changing, dynamic and
crowded urban environments. Tools from constrained optimization,
distributed consensus and machine learning will be employed, and a tight
integration with perception is expected. Tests will be performed with
autonomous boats and/or automated cars navigating in urban environments.

The main external collaborators in this project are the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology (Roboat project), the Amsterdam Institute for
Advanced Metropolitan Solutions and Waternet.

-- Requirements:
- A MSc degree in Computer Science, Mechanical Engineering, Electrical
Engineering, Applied Mathematics or a related field to Robotics.
- Strong interest in performing cutting-edge research in autonomous
navigation and multi-robot coordination.
- Excellent academic record.
- Strong analytical, mathematical and programming (C/C++) skills
- Very good command of spoken and written English.
- Experience with robotic hardware, autonomous navigation, motion planning,
constrained optimization or machine learning is a plus.

-- Conditions of employment
We offer a four-year PhD research contract at the Cognitive Robotics
department of the Delft University of Technology, which includes a
contribution towards pension and social security. Salary and benefits are
in accordance with the Collective Labor Agreement for Dutch Universities.

-- Information and application:
The Delft University of Technology is constantly ranked among the best
universities in Engineering (World top 20 in THE and QS rankings).
Information about our research can be found at
http://www.dcsc.tudelft.nl/~jalonsomora/

To apply send your application to Dr. Javier Alonso-Mora (Assist. Prof.)
j.alonsomora at tudelft.nl. Include your CV with publication list, the
transcript of records from your BSc/MSc, a motivation letter stating your
interest in the project and relevant experience, and two or three
references / recommendation letters.

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6.7. PhD/PostDoc: New York University Abu Dhabi, UAE
Contributed by: Nikolaos M. Freris, nf47 at nyu.edu

RESEARCH OPPORTUNITIES IN CYBERPHYSICAL SYSTEMS

The Cyberphysical Systems Lab at New York University Abu Dhabi is hiring
PhD Students and a Postdoctoral Fellow

About: The focus of the Cyberphysical Systems Lab (CPSLab) is to conduct
interdisciplinary research across a broad range of topics and applications
pertinent to cyberphysical systems, such as: a) distributed algorithms for
estimation, optimization and control, b) big data: data mining/machine
learning, c) wireless sensor networks, d) system theory: control &
optimization, e) signal processing: sparse sampling and online algorithms,
as well as applications in transportation, robotics, cyber security,
networking, and biomedical modeling.

Requirements: PhD applicants and research assistant applicants must hold
(or be close to completing) an MS degree, and postdoctoral fellow
applicants a PhD degree, in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science,
Applied Mathematics, with significant research experience in at least one
of the aforementioned areas. PhD applicants need to also apply directly to
NYU (http://engineering.nyu.edu/admissions/graduate) for admission, by Dec.
15. A proven publication record, solid mathematical background, excellent
communication skills, and the ability to work in multi disciplinary teams
are essential. Applicants must submit a CV, research statement, cover
letter with a brief research plan, along with the names and contact
information for three recommenders in a single PDF file to Prof. Nick
Freris (nf47 at nyu.edu).

Start date & Salary: The start date is flexible. A very competitive salary
and benefits package (including relocation, housing, insurance,
transportation and conference travel support) are provided – note: UAE do
not levy any income tax.

For more information, please visit: https://wp.nyu.edu/cpslab

About NYUAD: New York University has established itself as a Global Network
University, a multi-site, organically connected network encompassing key
global cities and idea capitals. The network has three foundational
degree-granting campuses: New York, Abu Dhabi, and Shanghai, complemented
by a network of 12 research and study-away sites across five continents.
Faculty and students circulate within the network in pursuit of common
research interests and the promotion of cross-cultural and
interdisciplinary endeavors, both local and global.
Entering its seventh year, NYU Abu Dhabi has recruited a cohort of faculty
who are at once distinguished in both research and teaching. Our students
are drawn from around the world and surpass all traditional recruitment
benchmarks, both US and global. NYU Abu Dhabi’s highly selective liberal
arts enterprise is enhanced by an institute for advanced research,
sponsoring cutting-edge projects across the Arts, Humanities, Social
Sciences, Sciences, and Engineering. NYUAD is housed at a newly built
campus in the vibrant city of Abu Dhabi, the capital of UAE.

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6.8. PhD/PostDoc: University of Kansas, USA
Contributed by: Huazhen Fang, fang at ku.edu

PhD/Postdoc: University of Kansas, USA

​Applications are invited for a postodoctoral and a Ph.D. student position
in Dr. Huazhen Fang's group at the Department of Mechanical Engineering,
University of Kansas. Both positions are anticipated to start as early as
January 2018. The projects will be concerned with estimation and filtering
for linear and nonlinear systems. The candidates will work on fundamental
research involving Bayesian estimation, Kalman filtering, particle
filtering, machine learning and optimization. A background in the broad
areas of estimation, detection, control, signal processing, mathematics,
and machine learning will be desirable. A Ph.D. degree is needed for the
postdoctoral position, and a master's degree is preferred but not required
for the Ph.D. position.

The postdoctoral appointment is for one year, with possible extension
contingent on availability of funds and research performance. The salary
will be in accordance with the postdoctoral salary scale of the University
of Kansas. The successful Ph.D. applicant will be awarded a competitive
scholarship covering both tuition and living expenses.
​
Further information can be obtained from, and a CV detailing academic
achievements can be sent to Dr. Huazhen Fang at fang at ku.edu. For more
information about Dr. Fang and his research, please visit
http://fang.faculty.ku.edu.

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6.9. PhD/PostDoc: University of Melbourne, Australia
Contributed by: Girish Nair, gnair at unimelb.edu.au

Post-doctoral and PhD Positions, University of Melbourne, Australia

Topic: Filtering, Control and Causal Estimation using Nonstochastic
Information Theory

One Post-doctoral and two PhD positions are available to investigate the
use of nonstochastic information theory in filtering, control and causal
inference problems with deterministic disturbances or unknown noise
distributions. These positions are based in the Department of Electrical
and Electronic Engineering, University of Melbourne, Australia.

**Post-doctoral applicants should have a theoretically-focused PhD in a
relevant area such as: control, state estimation, coordination, consensus,
causal inference, communications, or information theory. Knowledge of
probability theory and random sampling methods would be useful.

Salary: from AU$87,415/year before tax, dependent on experience, plus
employer superannuation contribution of 9.25%.
Duration: one year including probation period. Extensions are subject to
performance and funding.
Starting date: flexible, but preferably before Feb 2018.

To express interest, please email a research statement and CV, with 3
referees listed, to Prof. Girish Nair, gnair at unimelb.edu.au

**PhD candidates should have a Bachelors and/or Masters degree with a
strong background in control or information theory. Knowledge of
probability theory would be helpful. Candidates must also meet the PhD
admission requirements of the Department of Electrical and Electronic
Engineering and the University of Melbourne.

Stipend: AU$30,000/year tax-free for 3.5 years, with up to AU$15,00 for
travel and conferences; subject to passing Departmental confirmation after
one year.
Starting date: flexible, but preferably before Feb 2018.

To express your interest, please email a research statement and CV, with 2
referees listed, to Prof. Girish Nair, gnair at unimelb.edu.au

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6.10. PhD/Engineer/Researcher: University of Seville, Spain
Contributed by: José Ángel Acosta, jaar at us.es

The Group of Robotics, Vision and Control (GRVC) at the University of
Seville (Spain), has currently several research positions available to work
in projects mainly dealing with aerial robotics and unmanned aerial systems.

We are looking for highly motivated candidates with a Msc/PhD degree on
Electrical Engineering, Aerospace, Computer Science, or related areas, to
join our research teams. The successful candidates should have background
and experience in one (or more) of the following topics:

* Aerial robotic manipulation involving control, perception and planning
* Real time perception and/or vision, including visual servoing, 3D
mapping and/or localization
* Real time control and planning of autonomous systems
* Multi-robot systems planning and decision making
* Autonomous aerial vehicles navigation and integration in the air space

We offer positions with the following profiles:

- Systems/Software Engineers: They will work closely with colleagues, and
with supervision from senior researchers to analyze project requirements in
order to develop robust systems/software architectures. The work will
involve system design, software development, documentation, testing and
maintenance, etc.

- PhD students: They will work closely with colleagues, and with
supervision from senior researchers, to analyze scientific problems and
perform research work related to the above topics in the projects. The work
may involve collaborations with other researchers in the project and from
other institutions.

- Researchers: the candidates should hold a PhD degree (or be close) and
they will be in charge of analyzing project requirements, monitoring and
guiding PhD students? work, coordinating development teams, etc.

The generic expected skills are:

* Excellent coordination, communication and problem-solving skills, team
orientation, experienced/comfortable working in a research environment
* Background on software development. Knowledge on collaborative tools like
GIT is a plus.
* Knowledge of Unix/Linux systems.
* Strong programming skills and experience with C/C++ and/or script
languages Python/Matlab. Previous knowledge on ROS is a plus.
* Excellent written and spoken English skills

Grant or contract duration and salary will be competitive and dependent on
the experience and background of the candidate. The selected candidates
will work as members of the GRVC research group, which is led by Prof.
Anibal Ollero, and will be involved in European robotics projects, having
the opportunity to collaborate with other European partners. The GRVC is a
main actor in Europe for aerial and multi-robot systems, having led several
European projects and participated in many others. Visit https://grvc.us.es
for a list of our research topics and projects.

Candidates should send an email to grvc.us.es at gmail.com with the subject
?candidates? until September 30 by including:

* A brief description about research interests, motivation and profile
(specifying preferences from the topics above).
* A detailed CV, including a list of publications.
* Recommendation letters or at least the name and contact of 2 references.

Applications will be considered as they arrive.

The University of Seville was created in the early 16th century, and it is
one of the most important higher education institutions in Spain, with
70,000 students and 4,400 professors. Moreover, Seville is the largest city
in the south of Spain. Situated on the plain of the river Guadalquivir, and
with a population of about 1.5 million, Seville enjoys favorable weather
conditions and contains three UNESCO Word Heritage Sites.

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6.11. PostDoc: McGill University, Canada
Contributed by: Ahmad Haidar, ahmad.haidar at mcgill.ca

Position Title: Post-doc Researcher – Filtering for Continuous Glucose
Sensors

The Department of Biomedical Engineering in the Faculty of Medicine at
McGill University is seeking outstanding candidates for a Postdoc position.
The successful candidate will develop a calibration algorithm (real-time
filtering) for a novel, under-development, continuous glucose sensor.

A disposable probe is inserted under the skin, and generates continuous
electrical current proportional to the glucose concentrations in the
interstitial liquid. The probe is connected to a transmitter, which holds a
calibration algorithm that estimates plasma glucose levels using electric
current signal and intermittent capillary glucose values. Continuous
glucose sensors are currently used in clinical practice and form essential
components of artificial pancreas systems.

The successful candidate will design and optimize the calibration algorithm
using data collected in clinical experiments, and will consequently work
with our industrial partner on the real-time implementation of the
algorithm in the transmitter. This is a great opportunity for a highly
motivated applicant who wants to utilize their expertise in filtering
methods to tackle medical problems.

Our lab is highly multi-disciplinary and includes researchers with
backgrounds of endocrinology, control engineering, nutrition, pediatrics,
and computer science. Our lab implements a quality management system
(ISO13485) and this is an industry-funded project. Our department offers
unique courses on intellectual property, regulatory affairs, and clinical
trials tailored specifically for biomedical engineers who wish to pursue
career in industry.

McGill University ranks 1st in Canada among medical-doctoral universities
(Maclean’s) and is Canada’s most international university. McGill is
located in the vibrant multicultural Montreal in the francophone province
of Quebec. Montreal is a city steeped in culture and is named the best
student city in the world (QS Ranking).

Desired Skills:
• Strong expertise in estimation algorithms, observers, and Kalman
filtering.
• Strong programming skills.

Starting Date:
• January 2018 (flexible).

Apply with your curriculum vitae to Prof. Ahmad Haidar (
ahmad.haidar at mcgill.ca).

Please refer to www.mcgill.ca/haidar for more information on our research
program. For information on registration instructions, rights and
responsibilities, and how to get a work permit if you're joining us from
abroad, please refer to http://www.mcgill.ca/gps/postdocs.

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6.12. PostDoc: McGill University, Canada
Contributed by: Ahmad Haidar, ahmad.haidar at mcgill.ca

The Department of Biomedical Engineering in the Faculty of Medicine at
McGill University is seeking outstanding candidates for a Postdoc position.
The successful candidate will develop a calibration algorithm (real-time
filtering, observer design, and parameter estimation) for a novel,
under-development, continuous glucose sensor.

A disposable probe is inserted under the skin, and generates continuous
electrical current proportional to the glucose concentrations in the
interstitial liquid. The probe is connected to a transmitter, which holds a
calibration algorithm that estimates plasma glucose levels using electric
current signal and intermittent capillary glucose values. Continuous
glucose sensors are currently used in clinical practice and form essential
components of artificial pancreas systems.

The successful candidate will design and optimize the calibration algorithm
using data collected in clinical experiments, and will consequently work
with our industrial partner on the real-time implementation of the
algorithm in the transmitter. This is a great opportunity for a highly
motivated applicant who wants to utilize their expertise in filtering
methods to tackle medical problems.

Our lab is highly multi-disciplinary and includes researchers with
backgrounds of endocrinology, control engineering, nutrition, pediatrics,
and computer science. Our department offers unique courses on intellectual
property, regulatory affairs, and clinical trials tailored specifically for
biomedical engineers who wish to pursue career in industry.

McGill University ranks 1st in Canada among medical-doctoral universities
(Maclean’s) and is Canada’s most international university. McGill is
located in the vibrant multicultural Montreal in the francophone province
of Quebec. Montreal is a city steeped in culture and is named the best
student city in the world (QS Ranking).

Desired Skills:
• Strong expertise in estimation algorithms, observers, Kalman filtering,
and parameter estimation methods.
• Strong programming skills.

Starting Date:
• January 2018.

Apply with your curriculum vitae to Prof. Ahmad Haidar (
ahmad.haidar at mcgill.ca). Please refer to www.mcgill.ca/haidar for more
information on our research program. For information on registration
instructions, rights and responsibilities, and how to get a work permit if
you're joining us from abroad, please refer to
http://www.mcgill.ca/gps/postdocs.

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6.13. PostDoc: McGill University, Canada
Contributed by: Ahmad Haidar, ahmad.haidar at mcgill.ca

Position Title: Post-doc Researcher –Fuzzy learning for Artificial Pancreas
System

The Department of Biomedical Engineering in the Faculty of Medicine at
McGill University is seeking outstanding candidates for a Postdoc position.
The Department of Biomedical Engineering at McGill University is seeking
outstanding candidates for a Postdoc position. The successful candidate
will develop a learning algorithm for an electromechanical artificial
pancreas in type 1 diabetes. The artificial pancreas is a closed-loop
system to regulate glucose levels. A model predictive control is already in
place and has been extensively tested in human clinical trials, but it
requires further development to handle more efficiently slow changes in
insulin needs over time. The successful candidate will develop and
implement a learning algorithm based on fuzzy control, conduct extensive
simulations, and lead the design and the conduction of a clinical trial to
test his algorithm.

Our lab is highly multi-disciplinary and includes researchers with
backgrounds of endocrinology, control engineering, nutrition, pediatrics,
and computer science. Our department offers unique courses on intellectual
property, regulatory affairs, and clinical trials tailored specifically for
biomedical engineers who wish to pursue career in industry.

McGill University ranks 1st in Canada among medical-doctoral universities
(Maclean’s) and is Canada’s most international university. McGill is
located in the vibrant multicultural Montreal in the francophone province
of Quebec. Montreal is a city steeped in culture and is named the best
student city in the world (QS Ranking).

Desired Skills:
• Strong expertise in fuzzy methods.
• Strong desire to work in a clinical setting
• Strong programming skills.

Starting Date:
• As soon as possible.

Apply with your curriculum vitae to Prof. Ahmad Haidar (
ahmad.haidar at mcgill.ca). Please refer to www.mcgill.ca/haidar for more
information on our research program. For information on registration
instructions, rights and responsibilities, and how to get a work permit if
you're joining us from abroad, please refer to
http://www.mcgill.ca/gps/postdocs.

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6.14. PostDoc: Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden
Contributed by: Paolo Falcone, falcone at chalmers.se

At the Mechatronics Group of the Electrical Engineering Department, we are
engaged in both fundamental and applied research related to intelligent
transportation systems. Ongoing research projects focus on the design and
the experimental validation of control algorithms for autonomous vehicles
operating in complex urban environments. We consider both cooperative and
non-cooperative settings, where the challenges are the control over
wireless networks and making decisions in a mixed automated-human
environment, respectively. Our research is, where possible, validated
through experiments on full-scale vehicles and in collaboration with
industrial partners.

We invite applications for one post-doctoral position in networked control
systems. The candidate will join a team of post-docs and Ph. D. students
engaged in neighboring research, with the main objective of developing
algorithms to control mobile networked systems, when the information
necessary to close the control loop are delivered through wireless network
and possibly generated by Cloud applications. Clearly, in such setup,
information losses and delays arising from the state of the network may
unacceptably degrade the performance of the overall system or even lead to
unsafe operation. Our objective is to harness the emerging information and
communication technologies by proactively planning the control actions to
the systems and the access to remote information in order to circumvent
classical limitation of networked control systems, where the control is
designed based on a communication protocol decided beforehand.
The successful candidate will be engaged in both fundamental and
experimental research. In particular, if relevant to the research,
experimental setup in the field of transportation systems might be
available to demonstrate the developed algorithms. Strong theoretical
background in control and practical problem-solving capabilities are
required.

The working time of post-doctoral staff is mainly devoted to research.
Undergraduate teaching duties, not exceeding 20% of the working time, may
include supervision of MSc students. The appointment is a full-time
employment (not a scholarship) for a period of not more than two years
(1+1).

A PhD (or close to completion) in control theory, applied math or
neighboring relevant field is required. Experience with networked control
systems will be preferred. Ability to initiate new research collaborations
is essential. Good communication skills in oral and written English are
required.

For further info contact:
Paolo Falcone (falcone at chalmers.se), Division of Systems and Control. Tel.:
+46 31 772 1803
Jonas Sjöberg, (jonas.sjoberg at chalmers.se), Division of Systems and
Control. Tel.: +46 31 772 1855

Submit you application at:
http://www.chalmers.se/en/about-chalmers/vacancies/?rmpage=job&rmjob=5240&rmlang=UK

Deadline: August 31st

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6.15. PostDoc: Israel Institute of Technology, Israel
Contributed by: Leonid Mirkin, mirkin at technion.ac.il

Postdoctoral position at the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology

Applications are invited for a post-doctoral research position in the areas
of sampled-data / event-triggered / networked control at the Faculty of
Mechanical Engineering, Technion, Israel. The position is for a period of 1
year, with the possibility of renewal to another 2 years contingent on
performance. Applicants are required to have a recently completed PhD in
control or related area of engineering or applied mathematics.

Applications (a motivation letter + CV with a list of publications) and
enquiries should be addressed to Leonid Mirkin (mirkin at technion.ac.il).

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6.16. PostDoc: University of Warwick, UK
Contributed by: Declan Bates, d.bates at warwick.ac.uk

A three-year PDRA position in modelling and control of synthetic biological
systems is now available in the Warwick Integrative Synthetic Biology
Centre. The successful candidate will work with a team of other researchers
in my lab to develop new mathematical tools, analytical design/analysis
methods and computational software for the control of chemical reaction
networks.

For more details, please email Prof. Declan Bates (D.Bates at warwick.ac.uk)
attaching a copy of your CV. The anticipated closing date for applications
is the end of August 2017 and the project start date is expected to be 1st
December 2017. There are no nationality restrictions associated with this
position.

More details of our research are available at:
http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/eng/staff/dgb

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6.17. PostDoc: ONERA, France
Contributed by: Andrey POLYAKOV, andrey.polyakov at inria.fr

Postdoc Position in Control Systems

Location: ONERA, Lille, France
Duration: 12 months
Salary: about 25 k€ / year (net salary, medical insurance included)
Starting date: the end of 2017

ONERA (Office National d’Etudes et Recherches Aérospatiales) is the French
national aerospace research center. It is a public research establishment,
with eight major facilities in France and about 2,000 employees, including
1,500 scientists, engineers and technicians.

The post:
The research is aimed at improving of modeling technique for flight control
system. A simple pre-established model should be enhanced by means of
learning techniques in order to increase the precision of the
reconstruction of the system behavior around equilibria and especially in
the vicinity of the bifurcation points. Taking into account of the
experimental data this will lead to obtaining a numerical model allowing a
better prediction of aircraft's behavior in off-hover flight.

Requirements:
Applicants must have a relevant PhD and be able to demonstrate sufficient
knowledge of research methods and techniques to work within the project, in
particular, Learning Technique, Ordinary Differential Equations, Dynamic
Systems, Aerodynamics and Flight Mechanics, Programming (Matlab,
Python,...). The successful applicant must be able to present information
on research progress/outcome and communicate orally, in writing and
electronically. The successful applicant must also be able to work
collaboratively and supervise the work of others as required.

Contacts:
Olivier Renier – olivier.renier at onera.fr - +33 (0)3 20 49 69 19
Pr. Thomas Gomez - thomas.gomez at univ-lille1.fr
Dr. Andrey Polyakov - andrey.polyakov at inria.fr

(For more information see also
https://team.inria.fr/non-a/files/2017/07/Postdoc_onera_2017.pdf)

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6.18. PostDoc: National University of Singapore, Singapore
Contributed by: Chong Jin Ong, mpeongcj at nus.edu.sg

Post-doctoral Position available.

Applicants are invited for Research Fellow/Associate positions to work on
approaches to distributed control/optimization of multi-agent system. In
particular, effective approaches are sought that solve the consensus
problem for a multi-agent, network system under several settings: the
presence of global constraint, time-switching network and/or state and
control constraints.

Candidate with PhD degree (preferably in Multi-agent Control, distributed
optimization or other branches of control) is preferred and will be
considered for Research Fellow position. Those with at least a Master’s
degree with at least 2 years’ relevant work experience may be considered
under the Research Associate position. The applicants should have very good
foundation in mathematics and control theory. Those who have recently
obtained a PhD degree in general control theory, computer science and
mathematics are also encouraged to apply. Current PhD students who are on
the last leg of their candidature (submitting their thesis within the next
one or two months) or waiting for their oral defence may also be considered
for the position.

Remuneration will commensurate with experience.

Applications with full CV to be submitted electronically to Assoc Prof Ong
Chong Jin at email: mpeongcj at nus.edu.sg

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6.19. Research Fellow: Hull University, UK
Contributed by: Ron J Patton, r.j.patton at hull.ac.uk

Senior Research Fellowship

Applications are invited from experts in Robust Detection and Isolation
(Fault Diagnosis) and Fault Tolerant Control to apply for a Research Fellow
position tenable for up to 5 years at Hull University UK within an Offshore
Wind turbine research project with Siemens and Dong Energy and in
partnership with Sheffield and Durham Universities. The research interest
is to (a) Establish Fault Detection and Isolation methods capable of
identifying a variety of faults based on control system performance and
integrating these methods with component based Condition Monitoring methods
and (b) the development of robust integrated approaches to fault tolerant
control, including applications to real wind turbine plant systems. Please
contact Professor Ron J Patton.

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6.20. Faculty: Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands
Contributed by: Diana Heijnerman -Douma, secretariaat.CS at tue.nl

The Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e) has a vacancy for an
Assistant/Associate Professor in Control of structured networks with
applications in smart energy systems
in the Control Systems (CS) group of the Department of Electrical
Engineering.

Current day developments in modelling, control and optimization of
dynamical systems require the handling of structured and (spatially)
distributed systems. Modular built-up of systems, as well as structured
connections of subsystems, ask for modelling and control tools that
effectively utilize the distributed / structured character in the related
modelling, control and optimization problems.

With the current developments in distributed power generation as well as
the increase of renewable energy resources (wind, solar), there is an
increasing demand on the proper handling of dynamical phenomena in power
distribution networks. The introduction of smart energy systems in
electricity grids (smart grids), sustainable cities and building automation
requires advanced analysis and synthesis tools for design and optimal
operation of structured dynamic networks. However also in other domains as
industrial process control and in high-tech mechatronic systems the
handling of structured and distributed systems is an important challenge
for the systems and control domain.
To further strengthen the dynamics and control activities in this domain in
the electrical engineering department, a position is created for an
assistant/associate professor with a background in systems and control and
a strong interest in energy systems technology. The prospective candidate
should enjoy operating in a multidisciplinary environment, in particular in
relation with energy systems groups.

Control systems group:
The Control Systems group has a long tradition in modeling, system
identification and control of dynamical systems.
With an international staff and close cooperation with industrial research
partners, the group covers four technology domains:
industrial production processes, high-tech mechatronic systems, power
networks and automotive systems.
The basis of systems and control research and competence in the group is in
system identification, model approximation, (nonlinear) model predictive
control, spatial-temporal systems, networked and event-driven control, and
model-based optimization. The group provides education modules in the BSc
and MSc programmes of Electrical Engineering, Automotive Systems and the
MSc programme Systems and Control. The group also actively participates in
the PhD programme of the Dutch Institute of Systems and Control (DISC).
Currently the group consists of about 40 people, among which 7 full-time
academics. There are extensive links with industrial research partners, and
there two awarded ERC projects on dynamic network identification and on
identification and control synthesis of LPV systems.

As assistant/associate professor your role will be to:
-Perform fundamental and applied research at the forefront of the systems
and control domain;
-Publish in renowned scientific journals and conferences;
-Realize technological projects at the forefront of energy systems
technology;
-Set up and teach inspiring courses and lab projects in the BSc, MSc and
PhD programs at TU/e;
-Supervise PhD and MSc students as well as BSc student projects;
-Maintain and expand an effective network of cooperation partners in
academia, institutes and industry
-Contribute to acquiring funding for research projects from (inter)national
research funding agencies.

Job requirements:
We are looking for a candidate who meets the following requirements:
-A research profile in systems and control aspects of distributed and
structured systems, and affinity with
developments in energy systems and networks.
-Affinity with both the theoretical and the applied aspects of modelling
and control of smart energy systems
in an electrical engineering context.
-PhD and preferably some years of postdoc experience;
-Ambition for teaching and improving teaching performance by taking part in
educational training programmes;
-Excellent English language skills and for international applicants
willingness to acquire knowledge of the Dutch language;
-Good communication and didactical skills; team-player-attitude.
-Ability to develop an independent academic and recognized position;

Further information on this vacancy can be found at:
https://jobs.tue.nl/en/vacancy/assistant-associate-professor-control-of-structured-networks-318947.html
or contact Prof. Paul Van den Hof: p.m.j.vandenhof at tue.nl

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6.21. Engineer: ENERCON, Germany
Contributed by: Soenke Engelken, soenke.engelken at enercon.de

Engineer (m/f) Modelling and Test for Control Development

ENERCON. Where everything revolves around your future. Represented in 36
countries, ENERCON is one of the world´s leading wind turbine
manufacturers. If you want to become a member of our team, now is the time
to apply!

Your responsibilites:
- Modelling and analysis of electrical, mechanical and aerodynamic systems
- Development of test environments for automated testing of control
algorithms
- Modelling and simulation in MATLAB/Simulink
- Contribution to process optimization for control development

Your qualifications:
- Graduate degree in electrical or information engineering with an emphasis
on control engineering (or comparable)
- Some work experience desirable
- Experience in automatic code generation for embedded control systems
- Knowledge of test methods and tools for control algorithms in embedded
control systems desirable
- Excellent command of German and good command of English required
- Systematic and detail-oriented way of working
- Strong communication and teamwork skills

Reference Code: DE108496
Location: Bremen, Germany

Please apply online by quoting the reference code:
http://www.enercon.de/en/karriere-portal/home/

For further information, please contact Ms Kathrin Schreiber (+49 4941 927
216).

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6.22. Engineer: Corning Inc., USA
Contributed by: Jeff Ahrens, ahrensjh at corning.com

Corning Inc. is currently hiring PHDs for Advanced Controls Engineering
positions at our Sullivan Park R&D center in Corning, NY. Please contact
Jeff Ahrens directly (ahrensjh at corning.com) and visit the corning.com
career site to apply (position number: 832).

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