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Message from the DISC office
Course Scedule 2010-2011
Harry Trentelman
Royal Honour for Prof. Bob Mulder
Staff news
PhD defences
Vacancies
Next issue of the Newsletter
Welcome to the DISC Newsletter of May 2010.
Message from the DISC office
In this Newsletter we announce the DISC course programme of next academic year. You may want to take a look at the programme. Although the final details (exact dates and location) might be up for some changes, the basic structure of the programme has been set now. The printed information brochure with all the details will be distributed before the summer.
Concerning the 2010 Summer School we have been runing into problems in scheduling a school with appropriate lecturers in a predefined week. It has been the intention to organize a school on the subject of robotics, but we have not been successful in attracting the right people at the right time. One of the current options is to shift this initiative to next year (June 2011). In stead we are still trying to organize an additonal (summer) course - like our winter courses - in the last week of August.
Just to give you an indication of the popularity of the DISC courses: the current course "design methods", which has been taught by Maarten Steinbuch and Siep Weiland in the spring trimester has attracted 53 participants (!). This is definitely an all-time record for DISC courses. It also has given us a clear reason to start thinking about reconsidering the lecture-room facilities that we are currently using from Regardz La Vie in Utrecht. We are looking at possibly more appropriate options for the next academic year.
Meanwhile the DISC proposal that has been submitted in the NWO Graduate Programme has been reviewed and has received very positive reviews. We hope to move to the second round, consisting of interviews with the NWO Jury, at the end of June. The DISC proposal is available at our DISC website.
Finally, we congratulate DISC member Prof. Bob Mulder (TUD-AE) with his Royal Honour! (see below).
Best regards
Paul Van den Hof
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Course Scedule 2010-2011
This year the following courses are scheduled:
Distributed Control of Multi-Agent Systems
Mathematical Models of Systems
Modeling and Control of Hybrid Systems
Design Methods for Control Systems
System Identification for Control
Networked Contol Systems
System and Control Theory of Nonlinear Systems
Linear Matrix Inequalities for Control
Check the concept course program here.
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Harry Trentelman
 Harry Trentelman has been appointed as full professor in Systems and Control at the Johann Bernoulli Institute for Mathematics and Computer Science of the University of Groningen. His oration will be on June 1, 2010 at the University of Groningen.
We congratulate Harry Trentelman with his appointment!
Royal Honour for Prof. Bob Mulder
Prof.dr.ir. J.A. Mulder was named a Knight in the Order of the Dutch Lion. He received this Royal Honour from the mayor of Pijnacker-Nootdorp for his important contributions to science, education, air safety and his public information role.
Prof. dr. Ir. J.A. Mulder from Pijnacker-Nootdorp, Professor Control & SImulation at Delft University of Technology did cutting edge aircraft control and safety research. He was a major contributor to to the development of SIMONA, the most advanced flight simulator in the world (RNL).
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Staff news
Eindhoven University of Technology
 Name: Carmen Cochior
Starting date: 01-03-2010
Function: PhD student
Group: Department of Electrical Engineering, Control Systems Group
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Supervisor: Prof. Dr.ir. P.P.J. van den Bosch
Carmen Cochior was born in Bacau (Romania) on February 14th, 1985. She received her Master degree in 2009 at Technical University of Iasi, Romania, Faculty of Automatic and Computer Engineering, Department of Automatic and Applied Informatics.
Currently, Carmen is working on the Octopus project; a joint project of a consortium of the Embedded Systems Institute (ESI), OCE Océ-Technologies B.V. and academic partners - Delft University of Technology, Eindhoven University of Technology, Radboud University Nijmegen and University of Twente. The purpose of this project is to improve system evolvability, i.e. the ability to easily adapt systems in response to evolution of technology, competition, and/or customer expectations. The control system needs to assure high productivity requirements, combining throughput, reliability, availability.
Research interests: model predictive control, optimal control.
 Name: Ana Virag
Starting date: 01-03-2010
Function: PhD student
Group: Department of Electrical Engineering, Control Systems Group
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Supervisor: Prof. Dr.ir. P.P.J. van den Bosch
Ana Virag was born on 26th December, 1985 in Zagreb, Croatia. She received her Dipl.Ing. degree from the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing (FER), University of Zagreb in 2009. She is currently working as a PhD student on the E-Price project at the Control Systems group of the Department of Electrical Engineering, Eindhoven University of Technology under the supervision of Prof.dr.ir. P.P.J. van den Bosch and Dr. A. Jokic.
The main research interests of Ana Virag include optimal control and distributed model predictive control.
 Name: Thomas Voß
Function: PostDoc
Group: Department of Electrical Engineering, Control Systems Group
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Thomas Voß was born on 22nd of May 1979, in Goch, Germany. He studied Information Technology (Computing) at the University of Wuppertal, in Germany, where he obtained the Masters degree in 2005. His graduation thesis was done at the Philips research laboratories Eindhoven (Natlab) and was entitled „Model-reduction for nonlinear differential-algebraic equations for circuit simulation“. Since 2006, Thomas Voß has been working on his Ph.D. Thesis „Port-Hamiltonian Modeling and Control of Piezoelectric Beams and Plates – an application to inflatable space structures“. This research has been performed under the supervision of Prof.dr.ir. J.M.A. Scherpen first at TU Delft and later at the University of Groningen. During his Ph.D. research Thomas Voß also obtained the DISC certificate for fulfilling the course program requirements of the Dutch Institute for Systems and Control. Currently he is with the Control Systems Group at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering of TU/e.
The research interests of Thomas Voß include modeling, structure preserving spatial discretization and control of finite and infinite dimensional port-Hamiltonian systems and (structure preserving) model oder reduction of linear and nonlinear systems.
 Name: Veaceslav Spinu
Starting date: 01-02-2010
Function: PhD student
Group: Department of Electrical Engineering, Control Systems Group
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Supervisor: Prof. Dr.ir. P.P.J. van den Bosch
Veaceslav Spinu was born in Chisinau (Republic of Moldova) on November 17th, 1983. He is working on the "Ultra-High Precision Amplifier" project.
Research interests: Real-Time Model Predictive Control, Autonomous Robotic Systems, Reconfigurable Hardware.
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PhD defences
Candidate: Willem-Jan Evers
Thesis: Improving driver comfort in commercial vehicles: Modeling and control of a low-power active cabin suspension system
Supervisor: prof.dr. H. Nijmeijer
Date: May 20, 2010
Location: Kasteel van Helmond, Helmond
Time: 16:00
Candidate: Thomas Voss
Thesis: Port-Hamiltonian modeling and control of piezoelectric beams and plates: Application to inflatable space structures
Supervisor: prof.dr.ir. J.M.A. Scherpen
Date: May 21, 2010
Location: University of Groningen
Time: 16:00
Candidate: Thomas Lombaerts
Thesis: Fault Tolerant Flight Control. A Physical Model Approach.
Supervisor: prof.dr.ir. J.A. Mulder
Co-promotor: dr. Q.P. Chu
Date: May 25, 2010
Location: Delft, Aula Senaatszaal
Time: 15:00
Candidate: Jorn van Doren
Thesis: Model Structure Analysis for Model-based Operation of Petroleum Reservoirs
Supervisor: prof.dr.ir. P.M.J. Van den Hof,
Co-promotor: prof.dr.ir. J.D. Jansen
Date: June 14, 2010
Location: Delft, Aula Senaatszaal
Time: 15:00
Candidate: Paolo Massioni
Thesis: Decomposition Methods for Distributed Control and Identification
Supervisor: prof.dr.ir. M. Verhaegen
Date: June 21, 2010
Location: Delft, Aula Senaatszaal
Time: 12:30
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Vacancies
University of Groningen
Full professor Smart Manufacturing Systems, University of Groningen
Text of this vacancy is available here.
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