CSS Lecture Library Listing
Welcome to the Online Lecture Library, an initiative of the IEEE Control Systems Society. The Library features plenary lectures from CSS conferences and selected other content. For more information, contact the Editor, Electronic Publications for the Society, Jianghai Hu (jianghai@purdue.edu).
2012 ACC
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Nanometer length scale analogues of most traditional control elements, such as sensors, actuators, and feedback controllers, have been enabled by recent advancements in device manufacturing and fundamental materials research. However, combining these new control elements in classical systems frameworks remains elusive. Methods to address the...
2012 American Control Conference Semi-Plenary Lecture - Montréal, Canada, June 2012 -
Cells are chemical reactors where reactions among molecules such as DNA, RNA, and proteins implement the sophisticated programs that support life. Biological molecules undergo thermal motion, and even when they have the propensity to react together, they only do so probabilistically. Therefore, biological processes are fundamentally stochastic...
2012 American Control Conference Semi-Plenary Lecture - Montréal, Canada, June 2012
2012 CDC
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Dynamic models for bipedal robots contain both continuous and discrete elements, with switching events that are spatially driven by unilateral constraints at ground contact and impulse-like forces that occur at foot touchdown. The complexity of the models has led to a host of ad hoc trial-and-error feedback designs. This presentation will show...
IEEE CDC 2012 Bode Lecture - Maui, Hawaii, December 2012
2011 Non Conference Videos
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Design of engineered systems whose operation is "best" or "optimal" in some sense is increasingly important. In many cases, the optimal operation of the system in steady-state is more critical than during the transients as the system operates most of the time in a steady-state regime. Moreover, in many cases it is not possible to accurately...
CSS Webinar Series -
As far back as 1963, Beniot Mandelbrot (who sadly passed away just a few weeks ago) pointed out that asset price movements in the real world don't follow the Gaussian distribution. Instead they are "heavy-tailed" -- that is, they display a kind of self-similarity and scale-invariance. Since then, similar patterns have been observed in extreme...
CSS Webinar Series
2011 CDC
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Concept abstraction is an important component of intelligence. Scientists today still do not know how the brain accomplishes it. In this talk we compare some recent mathematical results about random walks on manifolds and graphs with the features of concept abstraction processes to seek understanding of the algorithms involved.
IEEE CDC-ECC 2011 Semi-Plenary Lecture - Orlando, FL, December 2011 -
We live in a "distributed world" made by countless "nodes", being them cities, computers, people, etc., connected by a dense web of transportation, communication, or social ties. The term "network", describing such a collection of nodes and links, nowadays has become of common use thanks to our extensive reliance on "connections of...
IEEE CDC-ECC 2011 Semi-Plenary Lecture - Orlando, FL, December 2011 -
Recent policies combined with potential for technological innovations and business opportunities, have attracted a high level of interest in smart grids. The potential for a highly distributed system with a high penetration of intermittent sources poses opportunities and challenges. Any complex dynamic infrastructure network typically has many...
IEEE CDC-ECC 2011 Semi-Plenary Lecture - Orlando, FL, December 2011 -
Recent advances in experimental techniques have made it possible to generate an enormous amount of `raw' biological data, with cancer biology being no exception. The main challenge faced by cancer biologists now is the generation of plausible hypotheses that can be evaluated against available data and/or validated through further...
IEEE CDC-ECC 2011 Plenary Lecture - Orlando, FL, December 2011 -
We consider the NP-hard problem of finding a minimum norm vector in $n$-dimensional real or complex Euclidean space, subject to $m$ concave homogeneous quadratic constraints. We show that the semidefinite programming relaxation for this nonconvex quadratically constrained quadratic program (QP) provides an $O(m^2)$ approximation in the real...
IEEE CDC-ECC 2011 Semi-Plenary Lecture - Orlando, FL, December 2011