DISC - Summer School

Each year disc organizes a 4-day summer school in which international specialists are invited to lecture on a particular research topic of current interest within the field of systems and control. The summer school is directed towards disc and international PhD students. Recently organized summer schools are: “Modelling and Control of Hybrid Systems” (2003), “Modelling, Estimation and Optimizaiton of Complex Physical Systems” (2005), “Identification and Control of Linear Parameter-varying Systems” (2006), “Nonlinear Control” (2007), "Cells and Systems" (2008), "Distributed Control and Estimation" (2009) and "Dynamics and Control Problems in Medical Robotics" (2011).

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Summer School 2012 This year DISC will organize a Summer School on the topic "Optimization in Control Theory". The Summer School is scheduled from Monday June 11 through Thursday June 14, 2012 and will be held in conference Centre "De Baak,... Read more...

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A nation-wide institute that links all academic research groups in systems and control theory and engineering in the Netherlands, ranging from the three universities of technology: TUDelft, TUEindhoven and UTwente, to research groups in Amsterdam, Groningen, Maastricht, Tilburg and Wageningen.

disc has a coordinated research programme and provides an international network environment for researchers and PhD students.

A central PhD program is provided for PhD students in systems and control. It consists of a course programme offered in Utrecht, international summer schools and a yearly three-day Benelux Meeting. Since its start in 1987 this PhD program has become a cornerstone of the cooperation among the dutch academic community in this field.

Controlling the positioning and motion of objects with high speed and ultra-high precision (up to nanometers) is crucial in storage equipment as dvd’s, hard disk drives, in IC manufacturing and in scientific imaging instruments as AFM’s. Without feedback control this technology would not exist.

Industrial production processes in (petro)chemical, food and energy industry are dependent on appropriate control technology for designing operations that are economically efficient, safe, with optimal usage of resources and minimal environmental load. Model-based control technology provides the tools for achieving this.

Future automotive systems will show vehicles where comfort and driving conditions are highly automated while they are intelligently supervised to keep optimal distance and to optimize route planning. In this development distributed sensing and control is a key technology.

Guidance and navigation of airplanes and spacecrafts highly depends on automatic control systems. This dependency is even more pronounced when steering unmanned vehicles, e.g. for inspection tasks, or controlling (micro) sattelite formations in space. Aerospace applications have been important drivers for developing advanced and robustly operating control systems.

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