The University of Southampton

CPS Seminar (Dr. Leila Bridgeman, Duke University) Input-Output Stability: Bringing a Landscape of Theorems to the Control of Networks - Event

Date:
21st of April, 2021  @  13:00 - 14:00

Event details

​The study of feedback control is arguably the most influential of engineering disciplines. Autonomous driving, spacecraft pointing, power systems regulation and modern cancer radiation therapy all hinge on the ability of a control system to robustly and reliably regulate system behaviour. Despite its diverse areas of application, the desire to optimize performance and guarantee acceptable behaviour in the face of inevitable uncertainty is pervasive throughout control theory. This creates a fundamental challenge since the necessity of robustly stable control schemes often favors conservative designs, while the desire to optimize performance typically demands the opposite. This talk will discuss how a return to one of the foundational results of inputoutput stability theory, George Zames’ Conic Sector Theorem, can lead to new design methods that aid in solving problems related to communication and scale of networked control systems.

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