Control Problems in Industry

San Diego, California

This symposium will focus on industrial control applications that have benefited from recent mathematical and technological developments. The presentations have been selected primarily for the practical significance of the problems solved, though all have significant mathematical content. They are a good sample of current work in industrial control, with emphasis on real-world payoff.

The speakers come from industry and academia, and they will cover a broad range of applications, including applications from the automotive, aerospace, chemical, electronics industries and applications in optics, process control and image processing. Anyone who values useful mathematics will find much of interest in this symposium.

The symposium is being conducted by SIAM with the cooperation of the Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique (INRIA).

The symposium is conducted with partial support from the Department of Energy.

Symposium Themes

• Applications of Control Techniques in
  • the aerospace industry
  • the automotive industry
  • the environmental sciences
  • manufacturing processes
  • the petroleum industry
• Optimal Shape Design in Aerospace Applications
• Optimal Design of Micro-optics
• Robust Control and H-infinity Methods

Irena Lasiecka (Chair), Department of Applied Mathematics, University of Virginia

Blaise Morton, Honeywell Technology Center, Minneapolis

Jacques Henry, INRIA, Le Chesnay, France

Program

Thursday Evening, July 21

• 6:00-8:00: Registration opens / Pacific Ballroom Foyer

Friday Morning, July 22

• 7:30: Registration opens / Pacific Ballroom Foyer
• 8:15-8:30: Opening Remarks: Irena Lasiecka and Blaise Morton / Pacific D Ballroom
• 8:30-9:10: Applied Mathematics and the Automotive Control. Barry Powell, Ford Research, Belleville, Michigan
• 9:10-9:20: Break / Pacific Foyer
• 9:20-10:00: Modeling the Induction Process of a 4 Cylinder Engine. Jeffrey Cook, Ford Motor Company, Dearborn, Michigan
• 10:00-10:15: Coffee / Pacific Foyer
• 10:15-10:55: Gage Control of Film and Sheet Forming Processes. James B. Rawlings, University of Texas, Austin
• 10:55-11:05: Break / Pacific Foyer
• 11:05-11:45: Applications of Control to Semiconductor Manufacturing Equipment: Real-Time Control of a Reactive Ion Etcher. Pramod P. Khargonekar, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

Friday Afternoon, July 22

• 11:45-1:15: Lunch (Attendees are on their own)
• 1:15-1:55 Control Law Design for the Space Station
• Michael Elgersma, Honeywell Technology Center, Minneapolis
• 1:55-2:05 BreakPacific Foyer
• 2:05-2:45 Modeling and Wavefront Reconstruction Methods for Adaptive Optics Systems for Large Telescopes
• Mark Millman, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena
• 2:45-3:00 CoffeePacific Foyer
• 3:00-3:40 Robustness Analysis of Dynamic Inversion Control Laws for Nonlinear Control of Fighter Aircraft
• Bingyu Zhang, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis
• 3:40-3:50 BreakPacific Foye
• 3:50-4:30 Nonlinear Dynamics of Axial Flow Compressors
• Frances McCaughan, Case Western Reserve University

4:30-5:30 Contributed Presentations I

• 4:30 An Identification Problem Arising from Petroleum Industry Hua Song and William W. Symes, Rice University
• 4:45 Integrated Design of Collision Avoidance Systems for Ground Vehicle šmit ™zguner, Konur A. šnyelioglu, and Sergey Drakunov, Ohio State University
• 5:00 Optimal Strategies for Energy-Efficient Train Control P.G. Howlett, J. Cheng, and P.J. Pudney, University of South Australia, Australia
• 5:15 Mechanical Systems Stabilization Via Observers Ilya Burkov, St. Petersburg Technical University, Russia
• 6:00-7:00 Cocktail Reception/Poolside (if weather is good). Porthole (if weather is threatening). Complimentary beverages and hors d'oeuvres.

Saturday Morning, July 23

• 7:30 Registration opens Pacific Ballroom Foyer

• 8:15-8:55 Controlled Scattering of Light Waves: The Optimal Design of Micro-Optical Devices David C. Dobson, Texas A&M University, College Station Pacific D Ballroom

• 8:55-9:05 BreakPacific Foyer

• 9:05-9:45 The Invariant Heat Equation and Image Analysis Guillermo Sapiro, Technion--Israel Institute of Technology, Israel
• 9:45-10:00 CoffeePacific Foyer

• 10:00-10:40 Application of Controllability Methods to Scattering by Coated Obstacles Jacques Periaux, Avions Marcel Dassault, St. Cloud, France
• 10:40-10:50 BreakPacific Foyer

• 10:50-11:30 Control of Wave Generators in a Canal Jean-Pierre Yvon, Universit‚ de Technologie de Compiegne, France

Saturday Afternoon, July 23

11:30-12:30 Contributed Presentations II

• 11:30 Simultaneous Stabilization with Multiple Bounded Domains of Stability in Chemical Process Control. Francisco J. Arteaga-Bravo and Guy O. Beale, George Mason University
• 11:45 Automatic Differentiation: Obtaining Fast and Reliable Dervatives -- Fast Christian Bischof and Peyvand Khademi, Argonne National Laboratory; and Alan Carle, Rice University
• 12:00 Design of High-Performance and Reliable PI-Type Compensators Shahram M. Shahruz, Berkeley Engineering Research Institute
• 12:15 An X-Ray Diagnostics of Semiconductors and the Phase Problem A.A. Stepanov, Latvian University, Latvia
• 12:30-1:30 Lunch (Attendees are on their own)
• 1:30-2:10 Identification and Control of the Plasma Equilibrium in a Tokamak Jacques Blum, CNRS-INRIA, France
• 2:10-2:20 BreakPacific Foyer
• 2:20-3:00 New Directions in Industrial Control Edward J. Davison, University of Toronto, Canada
• 3:00-3:15 Coffee/Pacific Foyer
• 3:15-3:55 Control of Hydraulic Equipments of a River Valley Serge Steer, INRIA, Le Chesnay, France
• 3:55-4:05 Break/Pacific Foyer
• 4:05-4:45 Applications of Optimal Control to Groundwater Contamination: Large-Scale Control Algorithms . Christine A. Shoemaker, Cornell University
• 4:45-4:55 Break/Pacific Foyer
• 4:55-5:35 Use of Control Theory in the Petroleum Industry Richard E. Ewing, Texas A&M University, College Station
• 5:35 Symposium adjourns
• 6:30 ForumSymposium Dinner Shells Room