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SUMMARY:Gain-Scheduling and Distributed Control with Reduced Conservatism
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DTEND:20130503T110000
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DESCRIPTION:Carsten Scherer\nBio: Carsten W. Scherer received the Ph.D. de
 gree in mathematics from the University of Würzburg (Germany) in 1991. Af
 ter six months of research at the University of Groningen (The Netherlands
 )\, the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor) and Washington University (St. 
 Louis) respectively\, Dr. Scherer joined Delft University of Technology (T
 he Netherlands) in 1993 where he held positions as an assistant and associ
 ate professor. In fall 1999 he spent a three months sabbatical as a visiti
 ng professor at the Automatic Control Laboratory of ETH Zurich. From Decem
 ber 2001 until February 2010 he was a full professor within the Delft Cent
 er for Systems and Control at Delft University of Technology. Since March 
 2010 he holds the SRC SimTech Chair Mathematical Systems Theory in the Dep
 artment of Mathematics at the University of Stuttgart in Germany.\nHis mai
 n research interests cover various topics in applying optimization techniq
 ues for developing new advanced controller design algorithms and their app
 lication to mechatronics and aerospace systems.\nDr. Scherer acted as the 
 chair of the IFAC technical committee on Robust Control (2002-2008)\, and 
 he has served as an associated editor for IEEE Transactions on Automatic C
 ontrol (1997-1999)\, Automatica (2000-2006) and Systems and Control Letter
 s\; he is currently active on the editorial board of the European Journal 
 of Control and various control conferences.\nIn this talk we review gain-s
 cheduling controller synthesis by convex op- timization and sketch various
  applications of this design framework. Fur- thermore\, we present novel a
 lgorithms that allow to systematically reduce conservatism by relying on f
 requency-dependent stability multipliers. These are based on new technique
 s for manipulating linear matrix inequalities that are of independent inte
 rest and will be surveyed briefly. In the final part of the talk we reveal
  how the design framework allows the design of distributed controllers for
  spatially interconnected systems with reduced conservatism.
LOCATION:ME C2 405
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