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SUMMARY:Custom Computing for Control and Control for Custom Computing.
DTSTART:20110923T101500
DTSTAMP:20260504T044809Z
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CATEGORIES:Conferences - Seminars
DESCRIPTION:Dr. Eric Kerrigan\, Department of Aeronautics\, Department of 
 Electrical and Electronic Engineering\, Imperial College\, London\, UK.\nT
 his talk will discuss how modern computing architectures can open up new p
 ossibilities for the practice and theory of control engineering. The first
  part of the talk will show how custom parallel digital circuits can be de
 signed to efficiently implement embedded optimization solvers  such as tho
 se arising in model predictive control. The second part will show how idea
 s from control theory can be used to design a new method for solving syste
 ms of equations with positive definite matrices  and that this new method 
 can outperform existing linear solvers when implemented on custom parallel
  digital circuits. The talk will conclude with some research questions and
  theoretical problems that have arisen while working at this interface bet
 ween control and computing. 
LOCATION:ME C2 405
STATUS:CONFIRMED
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