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Message from the DISC office
Benelux Meeting 2012
Best Thesis Award 2011
Best Junior Presentation Award
Summer School 2012
Interview with Job van Amerongen
The DESTECS Summer School on Collaborative Modelling and Co-simulation for Embedded Systems Design
SOCN Graduate School course
Vacancies
New people
Next issue of the Newsletter
Welcome to the DISC Newsletter of March/April 2012.
Message from the DISC office
Please find enclosed the new DISC Newsletter with reports on the recent Benelux Meeting, including the announcement of the Best Junior Presentation Award and the Best Thesis Award 2011. This year the Benelux Meeting took place in the surroundings of a Center Parcs resort, and as I have understood from several participants, this was well appreciated. We had over 200 attendees, showing that our community is very much alive and active.
After a sabbatical of 6 months I am picking up my regular DISC duties again, now largely from my new homebase in the EE Department in Eindhoven. There are several new DISC activities and initiatives planned, of which you will be informed in the next few months.
Meanwhile if people have suggestions for subjects/speakers of summer schools and winter courses, please send me your suggestions.
With best regards, on behalf of the DISC secretariat,
Paul Van den Hof
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Benelux Meeting 2012
   
From March 27-29 the 31th Benelux Meeting on Systems and Control was held in Heijen,The Netherlands. This year we had 222 participants including 57 from Belgium. There were plenary talks by Prof. Alessandro Astolfi (Imperial College) and Prof. Jan Lunze (Univ. Bochum)., and a three hour minicourse by Prof. Stefano Stramigioli (Univ. Twente). Like every year the atmosphere was great and there was - as always -ample opportunity for informal meetings. We hope that we see you all back next year in Belgium.
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DISC Certificates
During the Benelux Meeting the following PhD students received their DISC certificate:
Jos Elfring (TU/e-ME)
Sasanka Gottimukkala (RUG-JBI)
Rob Janssen (TU/e-ME)
Hanumant Shekhawat (UT-AM)
Marko Seslija (RUG-JBI)
Ewoud Vos (RUG-JBI)
Pieter van Zutphen (TU/e-ME)
Awarded during the year:
Mohamed Ezzeldin Mahdy (TU/e-EE)
Cesar Lopez (TU/e-ME)
Congratulations to you all!
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DISC PhD Thesis Award 2011
For the fourth time the DISC PhD Thesis Award has been granted.
The list of finalists was as follows:
Daniel Dirksz (RUG-ITM), "Robust Energy- and Power-based Control Design: Port Hamiltonian and Brayton-Moser Systems". Promotor: J.M.A. Scherpen
Tijs Donkers (TU/e-ME), "Networked and Event-Triggered Control Systems". Promotor: W.P.M.H. Heemels
Michel Franken (UT-EE), "Control of Haptic Interaction: An Energy-based Approach". Promotor: S. Stramigioli
Florian Kerber (RUG-JBI), "Compositional Analysis and Control of Dynamical Systems". Promotor: A.J. van der Schaft
Erik Steur (TU/e-ME), "Synchronous Behavior in Networks of Coupled Systems With Applications to Neuronal Dynamics". Promotor: H. Nijmeijer
Solomon Zegeye (TUD-DCSC), "Model-based Traffic Control for Sustainable Mobility". Promotors: B. De Schutter and H. Hellendoorn
The jury consisted of Michel Verhagen, Jan Willem Polderman and Karel Keesman.
The winner:
 Erik Steur was chosen as winner of the DISC PhD Thesis Award 2011. His PhD project "Synchronous Behavior in Networks of Coupled Systems With Applications to Neuronal Dynamics" was supervised by Prof.dr. H. Nijmeijer. Erik received the award and cheque of €1000 from the chairman of the jury Michel Verhaegen.
 Details of his PhD Thesis:
Synchronous Behavior in Networks of Coupled Systems With Applications to Neuronal Dynamics
Steur, E. Promotor Prof.dr. H. Nijmeijer, Eindhoven 2011, 189 pages, ISBN 978-90-386-2850-9
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Best Junior Presentation Award
The Best Junior Presentation Award (BJA) is an award that since 1996 is granted by DISC and awarded to the Dutch or Belgian PhD student that gives the best presentation during a Benelux Meeting.
Winner of BJA this year is:
 Ewoud Vos
University of Groningen
Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences
for his presentation entitled: "Port-Hamiltonian approach to deployment on a line" co-authored by Jacquelien Scherpen and Arjan van der Schaft.
Congratulations!!
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Summer School 2012
This year DISC will organize a Summer School on the subject "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, Seaside" in The Netherlands. This is near the city of Noordwijk in The Netherlands, located nearby the sea.
A number of national and international specialists are invited to lecture on different themes in optimization theory. They include Prof. Anders Rantzer (Lund University), Prof. Miroslav Krstic (UC San Diego, USA) and Prof. Anders Helmersson (Linkoping University). Further details will be announced on the DISC website shortly.
The total number of participants is limited to about 50 and registrations are accepted on a first-come, first-serve basis. As usual, there are no parallel sessions, and ample time is reserved for informal discussions. Registration for the Summer School is open at the DISC site.
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Interview with Job van Amerongen
At the occasion of his farewell address as full professor of Mechatronics in Twente, an interview with Prof. Job van Amerongen was published in "Mechatronica". Read it here.
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The DESTECS Summer School on Collaborative Modelling and Co-simulation for Embedded Systems Design
The DESTECS Summer School on Collaborative Modelling and Co-simulation for Embedded Systems Design
9-13 July 2012
University of Twente, Netherlands
PhD students and other researchers are invited to participate in a new summer school on multi-disciplinary approaches to collaborative modelling and co-simulation of embedded and distributed control systems. DESTECS ("Design Support and Tooling for Embedded Control Software", http://www.destecs.org/) is a consortium of research groups and companies working on the challenge of providing tools and methods that allow developers from different disciplines such as systems, mechanical, electrical and software engineering to collaborate in modelling and simulation of embedded systems at early stages in design.
The summer school provides an opportunity to explore the challenges of co-modelling and co-simulation using real tools and industry-led examples and case studies. Our hope is help establish a community of interest for future collaboration. We welcome participants with a background or strong interest in the development of control systems and software in a wide variety of application domains, or in the tools and methods to support this.
There is room for up to 20 participants. Participation is free of charge (including refreshment and lunch during the day). You need to fund your own travel, accommodation and per diem (lunches and coffee will be supplied free of charge).
For full details, visit http://destecs.org/summerschool.html. Applying for a place is easy: complete an on-line registration form and then send a poster about your own research interests that we can use to help select members for an appropriately mixed group of participants. The deadline for submission of your application is 13th April 2012. We will notify you of the outcome by the end of April.
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SOCN Graduate School course
The next course of the Belgian Graduate School in Systems, Optimization, Control and Networks will start on Monday, April 16 :
Observers for Control
Lecturer : Jaime A. Moreno (Engineering Institute, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM))
Dates : April 16, 18, 20, 23, 25, 27, 2012
Schedule : 9:15-12:15
The courses will take place at UCL, Bâtiment Euler, 4 av. Georges Lemaître, 1348 Louvain-la-Neuve (room A002, ground floor).
Web : http://sites.uclouvain.be/socn/Courses/Courses2011-4
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Vacancies
Delft University of Technology
Delft Center for Systems and Control:
Assistant Professor in the area of control of multidimensional systems in the field of photonics, optics and image processing using active optical components with application fields are in the area of health and life sciences, industrial high resolution imaging, astronomy and lasers. Please contact: Prof. Michel Verhaegen (
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New People
Delft University of Technology
 Name: Mohammad Shahbazi Aghbelagh
Starting date: March 1, 2012
Function: PhD student
Email:
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Group: TUD-DCSC
Supervisor: Prof.dr. R. Babuska
Project: Learnng Control for Rehabilitation Robots
I am Mohammad Shahbazi, born in Iran, 1984. I received my bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering and master’s degree in Dynamics and Control in Iran, and I am here for my PhD study. My master’s research topic had a closed relationship with the field of Control. Besides, I have great interest in the Dynamic and Control, so I want to achieve deeper knowledge in this issue. These motivated me to apply for DCSC as a full-time PhD student. My supervisor is Professor Robert Babuska and my daily supervisor is Dr. Gabriel Lopes. My main research interests will be on Adaptive and Learning Control with application in Rehabilitation Robotics. You can find me in room 8C-4-07 during working days. I’d like to read books, and playing soccer in my spare time. I hope we can have a good and closed relationship with each other so that I can learn a lot of things from you during my study at DCSC.
 Name: Subramanya Prasad Nageshrao
Starting date: March 15, 2012
Function: PhD student
Email:
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Group: TUD-DCSC
Supervisor: Prof.dr. R. Babuska
Project: Adaptive Learning Control for Robotics
Namste to everyone, I am Subramanya Prasad Nageshrao. I was born in 1984, in a small industrialized town in India. I did my bachelor degree in electronics and communication. After my graduation I joined software industry as embedded software engineer, I worked for Robert Bosch Ltd for little more than 4 years. Then I happily left my job to go for my higher studies. I did my MSc in Mechatronics from TU Hamburg, Germany.
Now I am here for my PhD. I will be working under Prof. Babuska and Dr. Lopes in the topic of `Adaptive and Learning Control for Robotics’. I am located in 8C-4-07.
I love to travel, if I am not lucky to find those many holidays then the next things in my list are playing table tennis, reading books, watching series and lot more.
I am eagerly looking forward to work in close relationship with all of you, and learn plenty of things about control and research.
University of Groningen
 Name: Anneroos Everts
Starting date: March 15, 2012
Function: PhD student
Email:
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Group: RUG-JBI
Supervisor: Dr. K. Camlibel
Project: Geometric Approach to feedback control of differential affine variational inequalities
Hello, my name is Anneroos Everts, I’m 23 years old and I’m from Hoogeveen (The Netherlands). I obtained both my Bachelor and Master degree in Mathematics at the Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, with specialization Algebra and Geometry. This month I started with my PhD study in the research group Systems Control and Applied Analysis in Groningen under the supervision of Kanat Camlibel. I already had the pleasure to meet some other DISC members at the 31st Benelux meeting. I’m looking forward to meeting more of you at one of the DISC courses or elsewhere. In my spare time I like to dance and juggle.
University of Twente
 Name: Dian Borgerink
Starting date: April 1, 2012
Function: PhD student
Email:
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Group: UT-EE
Supervisor: Prof.dr.ir. S. Stramigioli
Project: RoboShip; Robotics inspection system for ballast water tanks.
My name is Dian Borgerink, I'm living in a small, but nice village called Tubbergen. I received the Bachelor degree in Advanced Technology and the Master's degree in Mechatronics, both at the University of Twente. From the first of April I started working as a Ph.D candidate in the RoboShip project, which is part of the SmartBot project. Besides that I work twice a month at INCAS3; one of the SmartBot partners. INCAS3 aims to create a bridge between the fundamental knowledge and the practical applicability of sensor systems.
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PhD defences
Candidate: Shah Muhammad
Group: TUD-DIAM
Thesis: Dynamic Positioning of Ships. A nonlinear control design study
Promotor: Prof.dr.ir. A.W. Heemink
Copromotor: Dr. J.W. van der Woude
Date: April 23, 2012
Location: Aula TU Delft
Time: 12:30
Candidate: Mohamed Ezzeldin
Group: TU/e-EE
Thesis: Performance Improvement of Professional Printing Systems: from theory to practice
Promotor: Prof.dr.ir. P.P.J. van den Bosch
Copromotor: Prof.dr. S. Weiland
Date: April 25, 2012
Location: Collegezaal 5, Auditorium of Eindhoven University of Technology
Time: 16:00
Prior to the promotion from 13:30 to 15:00 there will be a mini symposium
Speakers: Prof. Robert Babuska (TU Delft), Prof. Peter Lucas (Radboud University Nijmegen) and Dr. Sjirk Koekebakker (Oce Technologies).
Candidate: Joris Sijs
Group: TU/e-EE
Thesis: State estimation in networked systems
Promotor: Prof.dr.ir. P.P.J. van den Bosch
Copromotor: Dr. M. Lazar
Date: April 26, 2012
Location: Collegezaal 5, Auditorium of Eindhoven University of Technology
Time: 16:00
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Next issue of the Newsletter
The next issue of this Newsletter will appear in May 2012.
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