Texas Systems Day 2018 was held at UT Dallas
8:30 a.m. -9:30 a.m. – Keynote
- “Control of Wind Turbines and Wind Farms”
Prof. Lucy Pao, Univeristy of Colorado, Boulder
9:30 a.m. -10:00 a.m. Coffee Break
10:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. Morning Session
- “Robustly Stable, Computationally Feasible Model Predictive Control of Nonlinear Systems”
Dragan Djurdjanovic, UT-Austin - “Polynomial Optimization via Parabolic Relaxation with Applications to Power System Control and Planning”
Ramtin Madani, UTArlington - “Throughput-Optimal Scheduling for Multi-Hop Networked Transportation Systems with Switch-Over Delay”
I-Hong Hou, Texas A&M University - “Cooperative Learning Control”
Rangana N. Jayawardhana, Texas Tech University - “Information Theory for Feedback Systems: Recent Developments and Perspectives”
Takashi Tanaka, UT-Austin - “Computational Optimization of Internal Combustion Engines”
Haiwen Ge, Texas Tech University
12:00 p.m. – 1:00 p.m. Lunch Break
1:00 p.m. – 2:20 p.m. Afternoon Session
- “Bio-inspired Underwater Robots Enabled by Electroactive Polymer Artificial Muscles”
Zheng Chen, University of Houston - “Soft actuators for Soft Robots and Humanoids”
Yonas Tadesse, UT Dallas - “Aerospace Robotics: Structural and Sensing Systems”
Manoranjan Majji, Texas A&M University - “Hierarchical Control of Aircraft Electro-Thermal Systems”
Justin Koeln, UT Dallas
2:20 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. NSF Talk
- “Funding Opportunities as NSF in Dynamics and Control — Atul Kelkar, NSF