Mechanical Systems Control Laboratory Group Seminar Schedule Fall, 2000     Time: 10:00am - 11:00am, Fridays Place: 3110 Etcheverry Hall Organizer: Meihua Tai e-mail

 
September 1, 2000
Jiagen Ding
"Milli-actuator Design for Hard Disk Drive Control"
 

Abstract: Industry forecasts predict that future generation hard disk drives will use two-stage actuator architectures in order to achieve higher track densities. Piezo milli-actuators are being proposed ... More

 
 
September 8, 2000
Meihua Tai
"Robust Controllers Based on Feedback Linearization for Automated Lane Guidance of Heavy Vehicles"
 

Abstract: The first part of the presentation talks about the design of nonlinear lateral controllers for tractor- semitrailer vehicles on automated highway systems. ... More

 
 
September 15, 2000
Erwin Satrya Budiman
"Aplication of Linear Conditioning for an Indirect Drive Unit with Actuator Saturation"
 

Abstract: From the mechanical design point of view, maximizing the payload to manipulator inertia ratio is desirable. This can be done by using a gear reduction mechanism ... More

 
 
September 22, 2000
Soichi Ibaraki
"H-infinity State Observers: H-infinity Optimization of Matched and Mismatched Observers and Its Applications"
 

Abstract: My main research interest is in the extension of numerical algorithms to solve the H-infinity optimization problems and its application to practical control-related optimization problems, ... More

 
 
September 29, 2000
Ryan White
"Autonomous Following of Heavy Vehicles Using the IRIS-2 Visual Sensor"
 

Abstract: Autonomous following of heavy vehicles has the potential to greatly reduce the costs of operating platoons of trucks. Computer controlled following allows a vehicle to follow another vehicle at close range, ... More

 
 
October 6, 2000
Prof. Doyoung Jeon
"The Application of MR (Magneto Rheological) Fluids"
 

Abstract: The MR (Magneto Rheological) fluids have a property that their yield strength changes according to the intensity of applied magnetic fields. ... More

 
 
October 13, 2000
Bo Zhu
"A new statistical model for direct PES minimization of hard disk drives"
 

Abstract: Tuning controller parameters for mass- produced hard disk drives is an iterative process. ... More

 
 
October 20, 2000
Shahrum Shahruz
"Study of Lasers as Nonlinear Dynamical Systems"
 

Abstract: The rate equations of a large class of lasers are considered. These equations represent the evolution of photon ... More

 
 
October 27, 2000
1. Jeng-Yu Wang
"Reachability Analysis of Hybrid Lateral Control Problem for Automated Heavy Vehicles"
 

Abstract: Since the lateral control problem for heavy vehicles (HVs) consists of lane following and lane changing, switching between these operating modes gives the closed-loop system a hybrid nature. ... More

 
2. Carlo Cloet
"Optimal control of a copier paperpath using dynamic programming: a reachability analysis"
 

Abstract: The main idea behind optimal paperpath control using dynamic programming (DP) was presented earlier this year. ... More

 
 
November 3, 2000
Shashikanth Suryanarayanan
"Fault management in automated systems"
 

Abstract: Fault management in automated systems has attracted attention over the last couple of decades motivated by demands for safer and reliable automated systems for the future. ... More

 
 
November 10, 2000
S. Y. Kim

November 17, 2000
Lu Guang

November 24, 2000
Ye Sheng and Jihua Huang

December 1, 2000
Kun Zhou

December 8, 2000
Dong-Jun Lee

December 15, 2000
Takeshi Kimura