[CvGmt News] Fwd: Courses in control

[buttazzo at dm.unipi.it]

----- Forwarded message from Francis Clarke <clarke at math.univ-lyon1.fr> -----
    Date: Fri, 8 Dec 2006 17:40:51 +0100
    From: Francis Clarke <clarke at math.univ-lyon1.fr>
Reply-To: Francis Clarke <clarke at math.univ-lyon1.fr>
 Subject: Courses in control
      To: buttazzo at dm.unipi.it

Dear colleague,

A number of one-week courses in control theory are being offered in  
February-March-April by the HYCON European Embedded Control Institute  
(near Paris). These are described at the following site:

	http://www.ist-hycon.org/index.php?p=EECI

They may interest thesis or postdoctoral/young faculty level people  
you know...please pass on this message to anyone who might wish to  
attend.

As for the course I am giving, it's entitled

	"Optimality, Stabilization, and Feedback in Nonlinear Control",

and takes place from April 2 to 6. A brief course description appears  
below.

With best regards,

Francis Clarke

___________

"Optimality, Stabilization, and Feedback in Nonlinear Control" April 2-6
Francis Clarke, Institut universitaire de France et Université de  
Lyon 1 <clarke at math.univ-lyon1.fr>

This course presents some modern tools for treating truly nonlinear  
control problems, including nonsmooth calculus and discontinuous  
feedback. The need for such tools will be motivated, and applications  
made to central issues in optimal and stabilizing control. Topics  
include:

	1. Dynamic optimization: from the calculus of variations to the  
Pontryagin Maximum Principle

	2. Some constructs of nonsmooth analysis, and why we need them

	3. Lyapunov functions, classical to modern

	4. Discontinuous feedback synthesis for stabilization

	5. Sliding modes and hybrid systems: a new approach

References:

R1. 	"Nonsmooth Analysis and Control Theory", by F. Clarke, Yu.  
Ledyaev, R. Stern and P. Wolenski,
	Graduate Texts in Mathematics Vol. 178, Springer-Verlag, New York,  
1998.

R2. 	F. Clarke, "Lyapunov functions and feedback in nonlinear  
control," in "Optimal Control, Stabilization and 	Nonsmooth  
Analysis", M.S. de Queiroz, M. Malisoff, P. Wolenski (Eds.), Lecture  
Notes in Control and Information 	Sciences Vol. 301, pp. 267-282,  
Springer-Verlag, 2004.

R3. 	F. Clarke, "Necessary Conditions in Dynamic Optimization",  
Memoirs of the Amer. Math. Soc., No. 816,
	vol. 173 (2005) (113 pages).

R4. 	F. Clarke, "Nonsmooth analysis in control theory: a survey,"  
European J. of Control 7 (2001) 63-78.

R5. 	F. Clarke, Yu. Ledyaev, L. Rifford and R. Stern, "Feedback  
stabilization and Lyapunov functions,"
	SIAM J. Control and Optim. 39 (2000) 25-48.

Some of these references are available on Francis Clarke's website :  
http://igd.univ-lyon1.fr/~clarke/Clarke-english.html


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