Sunday, May 20, 2012
Control For Coordination of Distributed Systems

C4C Tenth Project Meeting

4-5 July 2011
Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto
Porto, Portugal

Venue

Room B.002
Faculty of Engineering (FEUP)
Rua Dr. Roberto Frias
4200-465 Porto, Portugal

Program outline

Monday 4 July
  • Session 1. WP7 Control
    Jan H. van Schuppen (Chairman)
  • 09:00 – 10:30

    Coordination control of linear systems (tentative title)
    Pia L. Kempker (CWI/VU)

    Voltage coordination via communication in large-scale multi-area power systems
    Mohammed Moradzadeh (UGE)

    Control for coordination of automata - Coordinating shared pipes in a paint factory
    Olivier Boutin (CWI) pdf

  • 10:30 - 11:00 Break.
  • Session 2. WP2 Underwater vehicles, WP3 Aerial vehicles and WP5 AGVs
    Jan H. van Schuppen (Chairman)
  • 11:00 – 12:30

    A value function framework for AUV coordinated control
    Fernando Lobo Pereira, Joao Sousa (UPO)

    Formation flying of underwater vehicles
    Pia Kempker (CWI/VU)

    Search by aerial vehicles
    Theofanis Lambrou (UCY)

    AGVs on the container terminal of HNN
    Jonathan Rogge (UGE)

    AGVs on the container terminal of HNN
    Demetris Stavrou (UCY)

  • 12:30 – 14:00 Lunch
    Lunch of the C4C Team Leaders at a separate table
  • Session 3. WP7 Control
    Jan H. van Schuppen (Chairman)
  • 14:00 – 15:30

    Performance analysis of re-entrant production networks operating under decentralized surplus-based control and experimental platform development
    Konstantin Starkov (TUE)

    T.b.d. Sasha Pogromsky (TUE)

  • 15:30 – 16:00 Break.
  • Session 4. WP4 Road network control
    Jos Vrancken (Chairman)
  • 16:00 – 18:00

    Session overview and recent developments in ITS
    Jos Vrancken (TUD)

    Large Scale Distributed Traffic Simulation
    Yubin Wang (TRI)

    Adaptive Filtering of On-ramp inflow
    Yubin Wang (TRI)

    Platoon based Urban Traffic Modelling
    Nicolai Marinica (UGE)

    Network Configuration for Network Control
    Jos Vrancken (TUD)

    The DVM-Exchange interoperability standard for traffic control systems
    Jos Vrancken (TUD)

  • 19:30 – 21:30 Dinner
Tuesday 5 July
  • Session 5. WP7 Control WP8 Communication and control
    Jan H. van Schuppen (Chairman)
  • 09:00 – 10:30

    Communication for Control: Feedback and Causality
    Charalambos D. Charalambous (UCY)

    Control theory
    Rene K. Boel (UGE)

    Overview of problems and approaches to coordination control
    Jan H. van Schuppen pdf

  • 10:30 – 11:00 Break
  • Session 6. General discussion
    Jan H. van Schuppen (Chairman)
  • 11:00 – 12:30

    General discussion about: Control, communication, informatics of distributed systems; Research needs in the light of the current state
    Jan H. van Schuppen (Chairman)

  • 12:30 – 14:00 Lunch
  • Session 7. C4C
    Jan H. van Schuppen (Chairman)
  • 14:00 – 15:30
    • Research highlights of C4C Project
    • C4C Review meeting. Plan
    • C4C finances after 1 September 2011
    • New research proposals?
    • Report on Coordination Control
      • Opinions on current version report
      • Options for publication
          Electronic report
          Book in LN Control and Information Sciences
      • Decision
      • How to proceed?
    • No C4C General Assembly Meeting is planned
  • 15:30 – 16:00 Break
  • Session 8. WP10 Tools
  • 16:00 – 17:30

    Forward-backward reachability refinement for constraint set satisfaction
    Luca Geretti (UVR) pdf

    Session may be extended by lectures of other sessions of this project meeting.

  • 19:00 – 21:00 Dinner
List of participants
C4C Consortium
  • CWI

    Jan H. van Schuppen, Pia Kempker, Olivier Boutin

  • CER

    Savvas Gitzenis

  • TUD

    Jos Vrancken

  • TUE

    Jos Baeten, Konstantin Starkov, Sasha Pogromski

  • UCY

    Charalambos D. Charalambous, Christos Panayiotou

  • UGE

    Rene Boel, Mohammed Moradzadeh,Jonathan Rogge, Nicolai Marinicae

  • UPO

    Fernando Lobo Pereira, Joao Sousa

  • UVR

    Tiziano Villa, Luca Geretti, Marta Capiluppi

  • MST

    Alexandre Arada de Sousa, Luis Maduiero

  • TRI

    Yubin Wang

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