讲座题目：Adaptive Control for Beginners 

报告人：Prof. A. Stephen Morse

时 间：5月20日（周五）下午2:30－3:40
地 点：力学楼434大教室
主持人：姜钟平（教授）

报告内容摘要：
     With the development of many clever and innovative ideas, adaptive feedback control has come a very long way over the past forty years. Despite this, it is fair to say that the methodology as not achieved widespread acceptance in practice or within the broader control research community. Two of the main reasons for this are (1) the methodology is not articulated clearly enough so that non-experts can easily grasp key concepts and (2) there is no convincing performance theory upon which to base designs. In this talk try to address these issues in two ways. First we will consider an example which on the one hand is simple enough to allow for a fairly transparent analysis, while on the other is formidable enough to exemplify how one might deal with two of the most challenging attributes associated with any adaptive control problem, namely noise and un-modeled dynamics. Second we will consider another example, complete with simulations and experimental results, which illustrates how these ideas might be used to address the three landmark station keeping problem in the plane in which range measurements are the only sensed signals upon which station keeping is to be based.

报告人简介：
     A. Stephen Morse was born in Mt. Vernon, New York. He received a BSEE degree from Cornell University, MS degree from the University of Arizona, and a Ph.D. degree from Purdue University. From 1967 to 1970 he was associated with the Office of Control Theory and Application {OCTA} at the NASA Electronics Research Center in Cambridge, Mass. Since 1970 he has been with Yale University where he is presently the Dudley Professor of Engineering. His main interest is in system theory and he has done research in network synthesis, optimal control, multivariable control, adaptive control, urban transportation, vision-based control, hybrid and nonlinear systems, sensor networks, and coordination and control of large grouping of mobile autonomous agents. He is a Fellow of the IEEE, a Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE Control System Society, and a co-recipient of the Society's 1993 and 2005 George S. Axelby Outstanding Paper Awards. He has twice received the American Automatic Control Council's Best Paper Award and is a co-recipient of the Automatica Theory/Methodology Prize . He is the 1999 recipient of the IEEE Technical Field Award for Control Systems. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and the Connecticut Academy of Science and Engineering.