Georgia Tech Chapter of Sigma Xi
Title: |
Half a Century of Control Theory: A Personal Perspective |
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Speaker: |
Dr. Petar Kokotovic |
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Affiliation: |
Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of California, Santa Barbara |
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When: |
Monday, October 26, 2009 at 2:00:00 PM |
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Where: |
College of Computing/Klaus Building, Room 1116E |
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Host: |
Richard Neu | |
Abstract Dr. Petar V. Kokotovic is well known for several pioneering contributions to control engineering. In the 1960's, he developed the sensitivity points method, a precursor to adaptive control, used for automatic tuning of industrial controllers. In the 1970's, he introduced singular perturbation techniques for multi-time-scale design of control systems and flight trajectories, which found widespread applications. In the 1980's, Kokotovic and coworkers identified the main forms of adaptive systems instability and introduced redesigns that made adaptive controllers more robust. In the 1990’s, he initiated the development of a popular nonlinear recursive design – ‘backstepping’, now widely used in robust and adaptive nonlinear control. He supervised 35 Ph.D. students and 25 postdoctoral researchers; with them he co-authored numerous papers and ten books, many of which are highly cited references. Please RSVP to Cecelia Jones at sigmaxi@me.gatech.edu by Friday, October 9, 2009, to let us know if you are able to attend. |
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