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

C4C Project Meeting at Verona

21-23 March 2011
University of Verona
Verona, Italy

Venue

Sala Verde
Department of Computer Science
Ca' Vignal, 2
Strada Le Grazie, 15
37134 Verona

Hotel information

Program outline (tentative)

Monday March 21st
  • Session 1: WP8 - Communication and Control
    Charalambos D. Charalambous (Chairman)
  • 09:00 – 10:30

    "QoS-adaptive LQ controllers over lossy networks"
    Davide Quaglia, Riccardo Muradore (UVR) pdf

    "Co-simulation of wireless controlled vehicles"
    Davide Quaglia, Riccardo Muradore (UVR) pdf

    "Distributed algorithms for average consensus"
    Christoforos Hadjicostis (UCY) pdf

  • 10:30 - 11:00 Break.
  • Session 2: WP4 - Road networks
    Jos Vrancken (Chairman)
  • 11:00 – 12:30

    "The scenario coordination module"
    Marcel Valé (TRI) pdf

    "Multi-criteria control for ramp metering"
    Mohsen Davarynejad (TUD) pdf

    "Platoon based control of traffic lights"
    Nicolae Marinica (UGE) pdf

  • 12:30 – 14:15 Lunch
    Lunch of the C4C Team Leaders at a separate table
  • Session 3: WP5 - AGVs – Container terminal
    Rene K. Boel (Chairman)
  • 14:15 – 15:30

    "Recent work on AGV systems for automated container terminals"
    Qin Li (TUE) pdf

    Discussion
    Rene K. Boel (Chairman)

  • 15:30 – 16:00 Break.
  • Session 4a: WP2+WP3 – Underwater vehicles
    Jan H. van Schuppen (Chairman)
  • 16:00 – 16:45

    Developments of WP2
    Fernando Lobo Pereira (UPO) pt. 1. pdf pt. 2. pdf

  • Session 4b: C4C Project plans
    Jan H. van Schuppen (Chairman)
  • 16:45 – 18:00

    Announcements about the C4C Project
    C4C Deliverables 2011 (due 30 April 2011)
    Plan for C4C Review 2011
    Discussion on Report Coordination Control
    All participants are invited to this part
    Jan H. van Schuppen (Coordinator)

    C4C General Assembly Meeting
    Team leaders are expected (HNN be represented)
    Other participants are welcome but should not feel obliged to attend
    Jan H. van Schuppen (Coordinator)

  • 19:30 – 22:30 Dinner at "Al bracere"
Tuesday March 22st
  • Session 5: WP8 - Communication and Control
    Charalambos D. Charalambous (Chairman)
  • 09:00 – 10:30

    "Causal rate distortion theory: applications to control/communication"
    Speaker (UCY) pdf

    "Communication with feedback"
    Speaker (UCY) pdf

    "Distributed state estimation with communication of observations"
    Andre C.M. Ran (CWI/VU), Jan H. van Schuppen (CWI) pdf

  • 10:30 – 11:00 Break
  • Session 6: WP7 – Control
    Jan H. van Schuppen (Chairman)
  • 11:00 – 12:30

    "Update of distributed network control"
    Dimitrios Katsaros (CER) pdf

    "Performance analysis of production networks operated under decentralized optimal control"
    Konstantin Starkov (TUE) pdf

    "Towards supervisory control for interactive Markov chains: controllability"
    Jasen Markovski (TUE) pdf

  • 12:30 – 14:15 Lunch
  • Session 7: WP2+WP3+WP7 – Vehicles and Control
    Fernando Lobo Pereira (Chairman)
  • 14:15 – 15:15

    "A formation flying algorithm for autonomous underwater vehicles"
    Pia L. Kempker (CWI/VU) pdf

    "Control for coordination of automata: the example of a paint factory"
    Olivier Boutin (CWI) pdf

  • 15:15 – 15:45 Break
  • 15:45 – –-:-- Social Program at "Castelvecchio"
  • 19:30 - 22:30 Dinner at "Il ciottolo"
Wednesday March 23st
  • Session 8: WP9 – Informations and control, WP10 – Tools
    Tiziano Villa (Chairman)
  • 09:00 – 10:30

    An application of world automata
    Roberto Segala, Marta Capiluppi (UVR) pdf

    "Formal verification of plans for robotic surgery"
    Riccardo Muradore, Davide Bresolin, Luca Geretti, Paolo Fiorini, Tiziano Villa (UVR) pdf

    "Coordination control of irrigation channels"
    Rene K. Boel (UGE) pdf

  • 10:30 – 11:00 Break
  • Session 9: WP4 – Road networks
    Jos Vrancken (Chairman)
  • 11:00 – 12:30

    "Applications of the Hierarchical Model: solving the congestion problem"
    Jos Vrancken (TUD) pdf

    "The adaptive filter for predicting inflow on the network's boundary"
    Yubin Wang (TRI), Jan H. van Schuppen (CWI) pdf

    "Overview of road traffic control"
    Jos Vrancken (TUD) pdf

  • 12:30 – 14:00 Lunch
  • Session 10: WP7 – Control
    Jan H. van Schuppen (Chairman)
  • 14:00 – 15:00

    "Control of distributed Gaussian systems - Overview"
    Jan H. van Schuppen (CWI) pdf

    WP7 Overview of control research
    Jan H. van Schuppen (CWI)

  • 15:00 – 15:30 Tea/coffee and farewell saying
    Taxis from meeting site to airport (if needed)
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