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August 30, 2017

2017 CCTA

I just returned from the first annual IEEE Conference on Control Theory and Applications on the Big Island of Hawaii where I presented Norm and Linear-Inequality-Constrained State Estimation: An LMI Approach, which was primarily the hard work of Stephen...

July 17, 2017

A Comparative Study of Input-Output Stability Results

A Comparative Study of Input-Output Stability Results is now available online. As a follow-up to The Extended Conic Sector Theorem, the paper shows how many input-output stability results can be linked together using the Extended Conic Sector Theorem....

July 17, 2017

IFAC World Congress

I just returned from the 2017 IFAC World Congress in Toulouse, France. It was a massive conference (over 3400 people)! The passivity-based control session was a highlight. The 'interactive sessions' where presenters had big screens and could present...

May 27, 2017

2017 American Control Conference

I just returned from the 2017 American Control Conference in Seattle, Washington, where I co-chaired the Robust Control I session and presented some recent work on optimal, observer-based, conic controller design. I presented some recent research on...

April 15, 2017

Duke Robotics Day

Duke Robotics had its annual Student Symposium on April 14. I gave an introduction to the challenges of control engineering. There were some great talks by my colleagues and an especially good keynote from Amazon Robotics. The Pratt website has a...