Symposium Theme: 

Current challenges and future directions in control and automation.

CITRIS and the Banatao Institute, People and Robots Initiative (CPAR) Control Theory and Automation Symposium will be held on Friday, April 27, 2018, 10 am - 5 pm at UC Santa Cruz. This symposium will kick off the 1st NorCal Control Workshop, an annual event providing a forum to bring together students, postdocs and faculty from various universities, as well as representatives from industry, in the Northern California region working in the broad area of systems and control to share knowledge and build new connections.

This inaugural event is organized by CITRIS and the Banatao Institute, People and Robots Initiative (CPAR), and the Cyber-Physical Systems Research Center (CPSRC) at UC Santa Cruz and focuses on a timely theme to the field of systems and control. A goal of the symposium is to spark discussions leading to answers to the following questions: What are the key challenges in the development of control and automation solutions to the complex problems of today? What are unique future opportunities and problems where control and automation would play a key role? The event features two keynote talks, a panel with systems and control experts from academia and industry on current challenges and future directions, as well as a poster and networking session.

Event Program:

(with corresponding time code in video of proceedings on the CPSRC YouTube channel)

00:00 - 00:25 -- Welcome - Prof. Ricardo Sanfelice (UC Santa Cruz)

00:25 - 05:41 -- Introduction - Dean Alexander Wolfe (UC Santa Cruz)

05:58 - 20:40 Mengqiao Yu (UC Berkeley) - Making Intersections Safer with Intersection Intelligence Control System

20:49 - 35:00 -- Nathan Bucki (UC Berkeley) - Improved Quadcopter Disturbance Rejection using Added Angular Momentum

35:02 - 47:35 -- Erik Kiser (Naval Postgraduate School) - The Impact of Missions and Technologies on Contingency Base Fuel Consumption

47:42 - 01:02:50 -- Richard Shaffer (UC Santa Cruz) - Open-Loop Optimal Path Planning for a Nonlinear Flexible Double Gimbal with Parameter Uncertainty

01:02:53 - 01:13:44 -- Sina Dehghan (UC Merced) - PID2018 Benchmark Challenge: Model Predictive Control With Conditional Integral Control Using A General Purpose Optimal Control Problem Solver - RIOTS

01:13:59 - 02:12:56 -- Industry Keynote - Speaker: P.K. Menon (Optimal Synthesis Inc.) -- Title: Dynamics and Control of Air Traffic

02:13:15 - 02:14:35 -- Post-lunch Address Prof. Ken Goldberg (UC Berkeley)

02:14:36 - 02:30:12 -- Berk Altin (UC Santa Cruz) - Predictive Control of Hybrid Dynamical Systems

02:30:14 - 02:41:45 -- Gang Chen (UC Davis) - Formal Interpretation of Cyber-Physical System Performance with Temporal Logic

02:41:57 - 02:54:30 -- Pierre-Jean Meyer (UC Berkeley) - Sampled-data Reachability Analysis using Sensitivity and Mixed-monotonicity

02:54:47 - 03:11:35 -- Mo Chen (Stanford University) - A Differential Game Approach to Real-time Robust Planning

03:12:07 - 03:25:43 -- Sylvia Herbert (UC Berkeley) - Safe Control of Autonomous Dynamic Systems for Real-time Planning

03:25:45 - 04:14:00 -- Academia Keynote - Speaker: Prof. Arthur J. Krener (Naval Postgraduate School) - Title: Computational Issues in Nonlinear Control and Estimation

04:14:35 - 05:35:00 -- Panel discussion - Theme: Emerging Trends and Future Directions in Control Theory and Automation -- Panelists: Martin Sehr (Siemens), Murat Arcak (UC Berkeley), Stefano Carpin (UC Merced), Arthur J. Krener (NPS), Sanjay Lall (Stanford), P.K. Menon (Optimal Synthesis Inc.)

Watch the symposium on our YouTube channel: https://youtu.be/2AREYKF4pAE