TSD 2017
Texas Systems Day is a one day event to promote interaction between researchers in Texas who are working in the area of systems, controls and robotics.
Date:
March 31st, 2017.
Venue:
Symposium: Gates Ballroom (room 2400), Rudder Tower, College Station, TX.
Poster Session: Bethancourt Ballroom (2300B), Rudder Tower, College Station, TX.
Registration
Registration is free, but required. Please click here.
Program: Tentative
8:00 Registration
8:30 Opening Remarks
9:00 – 10:00 Plenary Talk. Speaker: Dr. Jonathan How
| 10:20 | SPEAKER 1 | Kamesh Namuduri | IEEE P1920.1 – Standards for Self-organized Aerial Networking | UNT |
| 10:40 | SPEAKER 2 | Beibei Ren | UDE-based Robust Droop Control of Inverters in Parallel Operation | TT |
| 11:00 | SPEAKER 3 | Souparno Ghosh | Sequential Feature Selection and Inference using Multivariate Random Forests | TT |
| 11:20 | SPEAKER 4 | Yan Wan | Co-Design of Networking and Decentralized Control to Enable Aerial Networks in an Uncertain Airspace | UT Arlington |
| 11:40 | SPEAKER 5 | Ramtin Madani | Methods for Control and Optimization of Power Systems | UT Arlington |
| 12:00 | SPEAKER 6 | Moble Benedict | Novel VTOL Micro Air Vehicle Concepts | TAMU |
| 12:30 |
LUNCH
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| 1:40 | SPEAKER 7 | Joseph Sang-Il Kwon | Modeling and Control of hydraulic fracturing to achieve uniform proppant concentration | TAMU |
| 2:00 | SPEAKER 8 | Brandon Jones | Random Finite Set Based Multi-Target Filters with Object Spawning | UT Austin |
| 2:20 | SPEAKER 9 | Renato Zanetti | A Splitting Gaussian Mixture Formilation for a Nonlinear Measurement Update | UT Austin |
| 2:40 | SPEAKER 10 | Matthew Brake | Nonlinear System Identification for Jointed Structures | Rice |
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| 3:20 | SPEAKER 11 | Pedram Hassanzadeh | Reduced-Order Modeling of Turbulent Flows for Flow Control and More | Rice |
| 3:40 | SPEAKER 12 | Yaoyu Li | Optimal Energy Management of Electric Vehicles as Load and Source for Smart Buildings and Communities | UT Dallas |
| 4:00 | SPEAKER 13 | Justin Ruths | Quantifying Attacker Capabilities in Cyber-Physical Systems | UT Dallas |
| 4:20 | SPEAKER 14 | Aaron T. Becker | Controlling dumb swarms in a smart way | UH |
| 4:40 | SPEAKER 15 | Rose F | System Identification of Cortisol Secretion: Characterizing Pulsatile Dynamics | UH |
Poster Session
5:00 – 6:30 Poster Session
Participants:
Texas A&M
| Gyroscopic Tensegrity System Dynamics | James Hendrickson, Raman Goyal, Robert Skelton, Manaoranjan Majjii |
| Artificial Gravity Space Habitat | Raman Goyal |
| Privacy-preserving tracking and state estimation | Yulin Zhang |
| State Constrained Adaptive Control of Hypersonic Air Vehicles | Douglas Famularo, Sean Whitney, and John Valasek |
| Nonlinear Observer for Control of Two-Time Scale Nonlinear Systems | Dipanjan Saha and John Valasek |
| Deep Reinforcement Learning for Control of Morphing Systems | Vinicius Goeks and John Valasek |
| Online System Identification of Unmanned Air Systems | Jack Lu and John Valasek |
| Nonlinear Adaptive Dynamic Inversion Control For Variable Stability Small Unmanned Aircraft Systems | Joshua Harris and John Valasek |
| Heterogeneous Multi-Vehicle Modular Control Framework with Payload Integration | Cameron T. Rogers and John Valasek |
| Design and Control of a Robot for Railroad Safety | Charles Noren, Cameron Rogers, and JohnValasek |
| Modeling LPS-induced TNF Production in Macrophages | Dongheon Lee, Yufang Ding, Arul Jayaraman, Joseph Kwon |
| Modeling of hydraulic fracturing and designing of online pumping schedules to achieve uniform proppant concentration | Prashanth Siddhamshetty, Joseph Kwon |
| Bayesian Modeling of Plant Drought Resistance Pathway | Aditya Lahiri, Priyadharshini Sundararajan Venkatas, Aniruddha Datta |
| Optimal Transport Based Satellite State Estimation | Niladri Das, Raktim Bhattacharya |
| Control Theoretic Design of Tesegrity Based Mars Landers | Shao-Chen Hsu, Raktim Bhattacharya |
| Design and Control of an Omni directional Quadrotor | Jaewon Kim, Raktim Bhattacharya |
| A Novel VTOL Aircraft Design for Light-Weight High Value Payload Delivery | Sunsoo Kim, Raktim Bhattacharya |
| Model order reduction of distributed parameter systems based on dynamic mode decomposition with control | Abhinav Narasingam, Joseph Kwon |
UT Dallas
| Supervised Learning for Battery Pack Capacity Fade Estimation | M. Pyne and S. Yurkoivch |
| Charge Balancing in Grid-Connected Battery Packs | M. Ditsworth and S. Yurkovich |
| OCV Model based capacity fade estimation of Li-ion batteries using Incremental Capacity Analysis | S. Ramasubramanian and S. Yurkovich |
| Self-tuning PI Controller for High-Performance Scanning Tunneling Microscopy | F. Tajaddodianfar and R. Moheimani |
| A Silicon-on-Insulator MEMS Approach to On-Chip Tapping Mode Atomic Force Microscopy | M. Maroufi, A. G. Fowler, and R. Moheimani |
| Q Control of Microfabricated Piezoelectric Cantilevers with On-Chip Feedthrough Cancellation | M. B. Coskun, A. G. Fowler, and R. Moheimani |
| A Closed-loop MEMS Force Sensor with Adjustable Stiffness | M. Maroufi, H. Alemansour, R. Moheimani |
| Transfemoral Amputee Experiments for Varying Speeds and Slopes using a Unified Controller for a Powered Knee-Ankle Prosthesis | D. Quintero and R. Gregg |
| Energy Minimization for Robots Driven by Variable Stiffness Actuators | E. Bolivar and R. Gregg |
| Stochastic optimal power flow based on data-driven distributionally robust optimization | Y. Guo and T. Summers |
| Spoof resilient coordination in multi-robot networks | V. Renganathan and T. Summers |
| Information structure design in team decision problems | C. Li and T. Summers |
| Concurrent assignment and planning of trajectories in multi-robot networks | B. Gravell and T. Summers |
| Compressed Sensing Using Expander Graphs | M. Lotfi and M. Vidyasagar |
| Continuous Hands-Off Control via CLOT-Norm Minimization | N. Challapalli, M. Nagahara and M. Vidyasagar |
| Parameter estimation for stochastic mobile systems | J. Lin and W. Park |
| Road Geometry Recovery from a Single Moving Camera | Y. Li and N. Gans |
| A 3-DOF Neuro-Adaptive Pose Correction System For Frameless and Maskless Cancer Radiotherapy | O. Ogunmolua nd N. Gans |
| Distributed Formation Control Using Vision Feedback | K. Fathian and N. Gans |
University of Houston
| Maximizing Swarm Coverage | Mary Burbage and Aaron T. Becker |
| Magnetic Hammer Actuation for Tissue Penetration using Millirobots | Ashwin Ramakrishnan, Julien Leclerc and Aaron T. Becker |
| Mapping, Foraging, and Coverage with a Particle Swarm Controlled by Uniform Inputs | Arun Mahadev and Aaron T. Becker |
| Parallel Self-Assembly under Uniform Control Inputs | Sheryl Manzoor and Aaron T. Becker |
| Microswimmer Swarms Aggregation and Environment Interference with a Global Input | Li Huang and Aaron T. Becker |
| Hardware coverage algorithms with turn cost | An Nguyen And Aaron T. Becker |
| control and mechanism study of 1 DOF SMT line | Haoran Zhao, Xin Liu and Aaron T. Becker |
| Algorithms For Shaping a Particle Swarm With a Shared Control Input Using Friction | Shiva Shahrokhi and Aaron T. Becker |
| MRI-Actuated millirobots | Julien Leclerc, Ashwin Ramakrishnan and Aaron T. Becker |
| MRI-Compatible Gauss Guns Submerged in Fluid | Jarrett Lonsford and Aaron T. Becker |
| Swarms and Their Ability to Apply Torque | Lillian Lin, Shiva Shahrokhi, and Aaron T. Becker |
| Updating Robotics for Mathematica | M. Sultan and Aaron T. Becker |
Texas Tech
| A System Theoretic Viewpoint of Thehuman Eye with a Corneal Contact Lens | Sanjeewa Karunarathna and Ram Iyer |
| Asymptotic Reference Tracking and Disturbance Rejection of UDE-Based Robust Control | Jiguo Dai, Qing-Chang Zhong and Beibei Ren |
University of North Texas
| Leader-Follower Model for Consensus Building in Sensor Networks | Roya Norouzi Kandalan and Ramanpreet Singh |
| Analysis of Mobility Models for Conselsus Building in Sensor Networks | Sindhu Alla, Ramanpreet Singh, and Roya Norouzi Kanadalan |
Poster Guidelines
- The participants will bring posters (single chart, standard conference 36″ tall, 48″ wide) with them.
- Conference will provide boards and pins.
- If there is need for a custom size, we will try to accommodate them. Please make request in advance
- Please submit name of the student, advisor and title.
Entrances to the University Center Parking Garage are on Houston Street and on Throckmorton Street, just south of Joe Routt Boulevard. Click here for parking rates and availability. Alternate parking is available at Cain Parking Garage and it is located off Gene Stallings Blvd (across from the MSC between W. Lamar and Joe Routt Blvd).
The College Station Hilton Garden Inn has a block of 20 rooms for the Texas Systems Day. Rate is $110/night plus all applicable taxes. The room block is listed under Texas Systems Day. The number is 979-703-7919. Cut off date for reservation is March 16.
List of other nearby hotels are available here: http://www.visitaggieland.com/hotels/hotels-motels-inns/
Steering Committee
- P. R. Kumar (TAMU)
- Mark Spong (UT Dallas)
- Ari Arapostathis(UT Austin)
Organization Committee
- Raktim Bhattacharya (Chair, from Host Institution Texas A&M),
- Steve Yurkovich (UT Dallas),
- Kamesh Subbarao (UT Arlington),
- Beibei Ren (Texas Tech),
- Fathi Ghorbel (Rice),
- Maruthi Akella (UT Austin)
- Aaron Becker (Univ. of Houston)
- Kamesh Namuduri (Univ. of North Texas)