I attended the 2014 Conference on Decision and Control in Los Angeles. I must say this was one of the best CDC’s I have ever attended. The venue was very nice, there was an abundance of high-quality talks, and all the organized events (breaks, receptions, banquet) were well planned and executed. Kudos to the organizers! It was also my first time visiting downtown LA. Although I spent most of my time in and around the conference hotel, I still got a taste for the surreal scale of things. Exhibit A: a 12-story-tall ad for the movie Interstellar (a great movie, incidentally!).
At the conference, I presented the paper “State-space solution to a minimum-entropy H-infinity optimal control problem with a nested information constraint”. This work provides an extension of the DGKF result (see my recent post about this) to a setting in which there are two cascaded plants controlled by cascaded controllers that must be simultaneously designed. Slides are available here.
Chris Meissen also presented the paper “Performance certification of interconnected nonlinear systems using ADMM”, co-authored by me, Murat Arcak, and Andrew Packard. The paper generalizes the results reported at ACC’14 (see my post) to nonlinear systems by using sum-of-squares (SOS) tools. CDC’14 in Los Angeles
I attended the 2014 Conference on Decision and Control in Los Angeles. I must say this was one of the best CDC’s I have ever attended. The venue was very nice, there was an abundance of high-quality talks, and all the organized events (breaks, receptions, banquet) were well planned and executed. Kudos to the organizers! It was also my first time visiting downtown LA. Although I spent most of my time in and around the conference hotel, I still got a taste for the surreal scale of things. Exhibit A: a 12-story-tall ad for the movie Interstellar (a great movie, incidentally!).
At the conference, I presented the paper “State-space solution to a minimum-entropy H-infinity optimal control problem with a nested information constraint”. This work provides an extension of the DGKF result (see my recent post about this) to a setting in which there are two cascaded plants controlled by cascaded controllers that must be simultaneously designed. Slides are available here.
Chris Meissen also presented the paper “Performance certification of interconnected nonlinear systems using ADMM”, co-authored by me, Murat Arcak, and Andrew Packard. The paper generalizes the results reported at ACC’14 (see my post) to nonlinear systems by using sum-of-squares (SOS) tools.