Vice Chair Industry and Applications – 01ACC 29th Nov 2001

LK Mestha

Wilson Center for Research & Technology Xerox Corporation

800 Phillips Rd Webster, NY 14580

Email: lkmestha@crt.xerox.com

Using the guidelines published in 99ACC Vice Chair for Industry and Applications, Prof. Russell Rhinehart, prepared a call for tutorials – a sample copy is shown below. Most important step in a VC’s job for I&A is to shape the publicity words and make as much contact as possible with subject matter experts who might be interested to submit proposals. While at the same time modified various forms (tutorial session form & manuscript submission form) and electronic versions were published on the Conference website. Since Tutorial Sessions are exceptions to many traditions, an early start on the solicitations was made through word of mouth at various control conferences. A list containing potential solicitors with their postal addresses, proposed session titles and relevant contact information was prepared (See Section 2 for solicitations data table). A carefully drafted invitation was then sent out to all the addresses. We allowed session’s main authors 15 pages in the proceedings with a 1-hour presentation time and the industry papers upto a maximum of 6 pages. Industry presenters for short presentations were asked to supply an abstract of the results for the review process with simple visuals at the presentation. Short presentations could be from industry presenters, National Research Laboratories, commercial banks, public utilities, military, government regulatory agencies or Universities who may have worked in industry to apply the technology to practice.

Of the 55 solicitations, many promised to submit the proposal with great willingness, but at the end they could not do it. Some of the industry speakers had travel difficulties and were less enthusiastic to present the material for free without even getting any reimbursement for presenting at the invited tutorial sessions. Since there was no financial incentive for presenting at these sessions, it became difficult to attract presenters. Such problems were discussed at length in OpCom meetings. In my view we could not come up with an acceptable incentive especially for industry presenters. However, we solved the problem by going to an unusually large number of solicitations. We received about 15 verbal ‘yes’ for submitting a proposal. Out of these, we received 10 written proposals. Reviewers approved a total 9 sessions so that 3 sessions can be run on each day for a total of three full days. See Section 3 for titles of final proposals and comprehensive review statements by four reviewers.

To simplify many of the organizational difficulties all Tutorial Invited Sessions were held in a single room. We tried our best to tie in each Tutorial Invited Session to an Invited Session with an invited session of recent research advances immediately following the tutorial. This gave some continuity to the program. Also, many session organizers requested for electronic submission. Although we faced some difficulties in recognizing the electronically submitted proposals from regular invited sessions proposals, it would be a good idea to find ways to separate them from other session papers during submission itself.

Overall sessions were well attended and feedback was extremely positive. I counted attendees form first two days of each session. The numbers in the parenthesis in the session title shown below reflect the number of attendees at 5 minutes, at 30 minutes and 2 hours from the start of the session.

Disk drive control [50 80 60] Modeling and control of economic systems [59 71 30] Optimization-based hybrid control tools [110 130 130] Failure diagnosis of dynamic systems using discrete-event models [52 65 70] Fault tolerant control [64 70 90]

Constraint based scheduling [31 25 20] 1. ACC 2001 CALL FOR TUTORIALS

Tutorials are a two-hour Invited Sessions in the American Control Conference (ACC) designed to integrate practice and theory and to educate attendees on an important technology. These sessions are especially intended for attendees from industry who apply control as a tool in the “real world" and can relate to the issues that face the practitioner (such as personnel training, compatibility with maintenance practices, impact on ISO9000, getting management buy-in, etc.) These sessions begin with an hour-long “teaching” presentation on a technology that is relatively new, but proven to some extent in industrial practice. The one-hour teaching presentation is followed by either four 15-minute or five 12-minute presentations revealing industrial applications. The tutorial presenter will be a recognized expert who has both academic and industrial credibility, who can present the technological concepts and implementation issues in an easily understandable manner, and who can satisfy questioners from both the theoretical and the practice community. Questions from the audience should be encouraged throughout the tutorial presentation. The tutorial paper will be allowed 15 pages in the proceedings. (There is currently a plan being developed to collect and publish the tutorial papers as a book by the American Automatic Control Council (AACC), the ACC sponsor.) The 4 or 5 shorter presentations from industrial representatives will reveal results from industrial implementations of the technology. Academics presenting lab or simulation data will not provide the credibility that we seek. The industrial representatives should comment on needs for continued technology development. While submission of a two-page paper will be encouraged from these presenters, in order to accommodate the publication issues within many businesses, a paper will neither be required nor expected. Quality of the Tutorial Sessions is of primary importance. The tutorial organizer will submit the proposal for review to the Vice Chair for Industry and Applications with the following elements:

1) Tutorial Session Form (from the ACC web page) with the complete names, titles, addresses, (postal, email, phone, and fax) of each presenter;

2) Manuscript Submission Forms (from the ACC web page); 3) Justification of the session, that argues for the relevance of the topic, the benefit of presenting it to the ACC; 4) Tutorial presenter qualifications; 5) Draft of tutorial manuscript (including figures) of substantial length so the reviewers can judge its completeness,

quality, and utility; and 6) Summary of each of the 12 or 15 minute industrial presentations (500-1000 word abstract, figures).

The submission deadline for Tutorial Sessions for the 2001 ACC is September 15, 2000. Potential organizers may wish to contact the Vice Chair for Industry and Applications earlier, to be sure that the proposal will comply with ACC needs. That Vice Chair is Dr. Lingappa. K. Mestha, Principal Scientist, Wilson Center for Research & Technology, Xerox Corporation, MS128-56E, 800 Phillips Rd, Webster, NY 14580, Tel# (716) 422 5123, Email: lkmestha@crt.xerox.com.

2. DATASOURCE (ADDRESS) TABLE FOR SOLICATION LETTER Address Dear Notes Title Contact Info C.V. Hollot Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Office 209E Knowles Engineering Building University of Massachusetts Amherst Amherst, MA 01003

Dear Prof. Hollot

Planning – Declined recently

Robust Control Telephone: (413) 545-1586 email: hollot@ecs.umass.edu

T. Katayama Department of Applied Mathematics & Physics, Graduate School of Informatics, Kyoto University KYOTO 606-8501 Japan

Dear Prof. Katayama

Stochastic Systems

A. Sano Dept of System Design Engineering Keio University 3-14-1 Hiyoshi, Kohoku-ku Yokohama, 223-8522 Japan

Dear Prof. Sano

Modeling and Control of Environmental Systems

Peter P. Groumpos Department of Electrical Engineering Laboratory of Automation and Robotics University of Patras GR-26500 Rion, Greece

Dear Prof. Groumpos

Large Scale Systems Fax: +30 61 997-309, Tel: +30 61 997-295 Email: groumpos@ee.upatras.gr

S. Mittnik Universität Kiel Institut für Statistik und Ökonometrie Olshausenstraße 40-60 D-24118 Kiel , GERMANY

Dear Prof. Mittnik

Business and Management Techniques

Tel.: (+49) 431 - 880 - 2166 FAX: (+49) 431 - 880 - 7605 email: mittnik@stat-econ.uni-kiel.de

Reinhard Neck Dept of Economics University of Klagenfurt Universitaetsstrasse 65-67 A-9020 Klagenfurt, Austria

Dear Prof. Neck

Mostly YES Modeling and Control of Economic Systems

Reinhard.neck@uni-klu.ac.at

Michel Perrier Ecole Polytechnique POB 6079 Station Centre-ville Montreal, Quebec H3C 3A7, Canada

Dear Prof. Perrier

Wants to present a tutorial in Y2002 ACC

Control of Biotechnological Processes

Tel: 1 514 340 4711 ext 4180 Fax: 1 514 340 4159 E-Mail: Michel.Perrier@mail.polymtl.ca

Gergio Rizzoni The Ohio State Univ. Mechanical Eng Department 2049 Robinson Lab 206 W Eighteenth Ave. Columbus, Ohio 43210

Dear Prof. Rizzoni

Probably yes. Attending the ACC.

Automotive Control Phone : (614)-292-3331 (614)-688-3856 E-Mail : Rizzoni.1@osu.edu

Jay H. Lee Professor 123 Bunger – Henry School of Chemical Engineering Georgia Tech Atlanta, Ga 30332

Dear Prof. Lee

No Process Modeling for Control

Phone : 765-496-2707 (#117B) & 494-4055 (#1) e-mail: jhl@ecn.purdue.edu jlee@che.gatech.edu

404 385 2148 (Georgia Tech #)

Cho, Dong-iL School of Electrial Engineering, Seoul National Univ, San 56-1, Shinlim-dong, Kwanak-ku, Seoul 151-742 KOREA

Dear Prof. Cho

Verbally said Yes at ACC2000 mtg

Control Engineering for MEMS System

TEL: +82-2-880-8371 FAX: +82-2-885-6620 E-mail: dicho@asri.snu.ac.kr •Office: 301-1008

Tzyh-Jong Tarn, D.Sc., WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST. LOUIS Department of Systems Science and Mathematics One Brookings Drive St. Louis, Missouri 63130

Dear Prof. Tarn

Contacted by phone. Invitation was resent. Thinks subject is not matured enough for general public

Quantum Computing Telephone: 314-935-6001 Fax: 314-935-6121 tarn@wuauto.wustl.edu

Christos G. Cassandras Dept. of Manufacturing Eng. Boston Univ. 15 St. Mary’s St. Boston MA 02215

Dear Prof. Cassandras

Asked for more information. No finally.

Discrete Event Systems Tel#: (617) 353-7154 Email: cgc@bu.edu

Pravin P. Varaiya Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences 271M Cory Hall University of California Berkeley, CA 94720-1770

Dear Prof. Varaiya

Yes. Invitations were sent to receive industrial participations.

Hybrid Systems (510) 642-5270 E-Mail address: Varaiya@eecs.berkeley.edu

Edwardo Misawa School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Oklahoma State University 218 Engineering North Stillwater, OK 74078-5016

Dear Prof. Misawa

Variable Structure Control

Tel : (405) 744-5900 Fax : (405) 744-7873 misawa@okstate.edu

Suhada Jayasuriya Kotzebue Professor and Department Head Department of Mechanical Engineering Texas A&M University College Station, TX 77843-3123

Dear Prof. Jayasuriya

Verbally said yes at the ACC2000 mtg

Semiconductor Processing

Office: 101 Engineering/Physics Building Phone: 979-845-0271 Fax: 979-845-3081 Email: sjayasuriya@mengr.tamu.edu

N. Eva Wu Binghamton University-SUNY Dept. of Electrical Engineering P.O. Box 6000 Binghamton, NY 13902-6000

Dear Prof. Wu

Planning Fault tolerant control, diagnosis & reliability

Tel#: 607-777-4375 evawu@binghamton.edu

Stephane Lafortune Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science The University of Michigan 1301 Beal Avenue Ann Arbor, MI 48109-2122

Dear Prof. Lafortune

Planning. Might happen with Meera Sampath & Eva Wu. YES

Discrete Event Systems for Diagnostics

Tel: (734) 763-0591 Fax: (734) 763-8041 E-mail: stephane@eecs.umich.edu

Christas Georgakis Department of Chemical Engineering 111 Research Drive Iacocca Hall Lehigh University Bethlehem, PA 18015

Dear Prof. Georgakis

Was approached by Russ in Y1999. Willing to give one more try.

Operability Analysis Phone: (610) 758-5432 e-mail CG00@Lehigh.edu

Kumpati Narendra Becton Engineering Center Yale Center for Systems Science.

Dear Prof. Narendra

Probably No. Said NO finally.

Adaptive Systems E-mail: kumpati.narendra@yale.edu Tel: 1 (203) 432-4296

15 Prospect Street P.O. Box 208284 New Haven, CT 06520-8284

Fax: 1 (203) 432-7481

F. L. Lewis, Director of Advanced Controls, Automation and Robotics Research Institute, The University of Texas at Arlington, 7300 Jack Newell Blvd. S, Ft. Worth, TX 76118-7115

Dear Prof. Lewis

No. Passed the ball to Syrmos

Optimal Control Tel. 817-794-5972, Fax. 817-794-5952, email flewis@controls.uta.edu.

Dennis Bernstein Department of Aerospace Engineering The University of Michigan 1320 Beal Avenue Ann Arbor, MI 48109-2140

Dear Prof. Bernstein

No, will not be able to organize this session

Robust & Nonlinear Controls

Office:(734)764-3719 Fax: (734)763-0578 email:dsbaero@engin.umich.edu

Brad Paden Department of Mechanical and Environmental Engineering Room 2336, Engineering II University of California Santa Barbara, CA 93106

Dear Prof. Paden

Phoned: no answer Biological/Biomedical Systems

Phone: (805) 893-8165 Fax: (805) 893-8651 E-mail: paden@engineering.ucsb.edu

Karl Hedrick James Marshall Wells Professor and Chairman Mechanical Engineering 6143 Etcheverry Hall University of California Berkeley, CA 94720-1740

Dear Prof. Hedrick

May be. Not sure. Intelligent Vehicle Systems

Phone: (510) 642-2482 Fax: (510) 642-6163 Email: khedrick@me.berkeley.edu

Mike Grimble Industrial Control Centre University of Strathclyde Graham Hills Bldg., 50 George St. Glasgow, G1 1QE U.K.

Dear Prof. Grimble

Yes Performance Benchmarking of Industrial Systems

m.grimble@eee.strath.ac.uk; ordys@icu.strath.ac.uk

John Doyle Mail Code 107-81, Office: 103 Steele California Institute of Technology Pasadena, CA 91125

Dear Prof. Doyle

Said Yes at the ACC2000 mtg. To be confirmed

Networks and Complexity

Phone: (626) 395-4808 Fax: (626)796-8914 Email: doyle@cds.caltech.edu Website: http://www.cds.caltech.edu/~doyle

Andrew Teel Engr. I, Room 5121 Department of Electrical Eng. University of California, Santa Barbara Santa Barbara, CA 93106

Dear Prof. Teel

Probably Yes. Still thinking. Problems are seen in industrial presentations. No.

Anti-windup Synthesis 805-893-3616 teel@ece.ucsb.edu

Roberto Horowitz Mechanical Engineering 6193 Etcheverry Hall University of California Berkeley, CA 94720-1742

Dear Prof. Horowitz

Yes. Bill Messner is submitting the proposal.

Disk Drive Storage Systems

Phone: (510) 642-4675 Fax: (510) 643-5599 Email: horowitz@me.berkeley.edu

Roberto Tempo Director of Research IRITI-CNR, Politecnico di Torino Corso Duca degli Abruzzi 24 10129 Torino Italy

Dear Prof. Tempo

No due to lack of industrial presenters

Probabilistic Robust Control

Telephone: +39 011 564-7034 Fax: +39 011 564-4089 E-mail: tempo@polito.it

Asok Ray Dear Prof. Yes Life Exending Control: Tel: (814) 865-6377

Professor of Mechanical Engineering 234 Reber Building Pennsylvania State University University Park, PA 16802, USA

Ray An evolving field of interdisciplinary research

FAX: (814) 863-4848 Email: axr2@psu.edu http://www.me.psu.edu/faculty/Ray.html

Mario A. Rotea 1282 Grisson Hall Purdue University West Lafayette, IN 47906-1282

Dear Prof. Rotea

Yes Multi-objective optimization, applications to aerospace engineering problems

Email: rotea@ecn.purdue.edu Phone: 765-494-6212

Markus P.J. Fromherz Xerox Palo Alto Research Center Systems and Practices Lab 3333 Coyote Hill Road Palo Alto, CA 94304

Dear Dr. Fromherz

Planning - YES Constraint-based scheduling

Tel: +1 650 812 4273 Fax: +1 650 812 4334 E-mail: fromherz@parc.xerox.com Administration: +1 650 812 4303

Peter Dorato Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering University of New Mexico Albuquerque, NM 87131-1356

Dear Prof. Dorato

No Multivariat Polynomial Inequalities; Mathematics of Practical Feedback System Design

peter@eece.unm.edu Tel: 505 277 0299

Dimitri P. Bertsekas Dept. Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Mass. Institute of Technology, Rm 35-210 77 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, MA 02139

Dear Prof. Bertsekas

No. Not planning to attend ACC2001.

Neuro-Dynamic Programming

Tel: (617) 253-7267 FAX: (617) 258-8553 Email: dimitrib@mit.edu http://web.mit.edu/dimitrib/www/home.html

G. Conte Departimento di Elettronica ed Automatica Universita di Ancona Via Brecce Bianche 60131 Ancona - Italy

Dear Prof. Conte

Probably Theory and Design of Time Delay Systems

gconte@popcsi.unian.it

Alberto Isidori Dipartimento di Informatica e University of Rome ``La SapRome

Dear Prof. Isidori

Nonlinear Systems isidori@giannutri.caspur.it

John N. Tsitsiklis Dept. Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Mass. Institute of Technology, Rm 35-205 77 Massachusetts Ave. Cambridge, MA 02139 U.S.A.

Dear Prof. Tsitsiklis

No Neuro-Dynamic Programming

jnt@mit.edu

Vassilis Syrmos Department of Electrical Engineering Univ. Hawaii at Manoa 2540 Dole Street Honolulu, HI 96822 USA

Dear Prof. Syrmos

Planning Optimal Control Tel: 808 956-3432 Fax: 808 956-3427 hellas@euclid.eng.hawaii.edu

William C. Messner Mechanical Engineering Scaife Hall 312 Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh, PA 15213-3890

Dear Prof. Messner

Yes with Roberto Horowitz (#27)

Disk Drive Storage Systems with Prof. Horowitz

Tel # 412 268 2510 Fax# 412 268 3348 Email: bmessner@andrew.cmu.edu

R. Doraiswami Dept of Electrical and Computer Engineering University of New Brunswick

Dear Prof. Doraiswami

Fault Diagnosis in Complex Systems

dorai@unb.ca

Fredericton, NB, E3B 5A3 Canada Julian Morris Dept. of Chemical and Process Engg., University of Newcastle upon Tyne, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 7RU, UK

Dear Prof. Morris

Interested in the future. Declined because of prior commitments in Australia, Canada & Europe.

Process Monitoring Julian.morris@ncl.ac.uk

Ewart R Carson Centre for Measurement and Information in Medicine City University Northampton Square London, EC1V 0HB UK

Dear Prof. Carson

Modeling and Control of Biomedical Systems

Phone: +44 (0)171 477 8570 Fax: +44 (0)171 477 8579 Email: e.r.carson@city.ac.uk

Kazuhisa Kawai Toyohashi University of Technology, Toyohashi 441-8580 JAPAN

Dear Prof. Kawai

Human-Machine Systems

Phone : +81-532-44-6896 +81-532-47-0111

FAX : +81-532-44-6873 E-mail: kawai@tut.ac.jp

Dr. Ir. R. A. Vingerhoeds Faculty of Technical Mathematics and Informatics Technical Informatics Department Knowledge Based Systems Chair Zuidplantsoen 42628 BZ Delft

Dear Dr. Vingerhoeds

AI in Real-Time Control Phone: +31 15 278 2510 Fax: +31 15 278 7141 Room 2.328 Phone extension: 4698 Email: R.A.Vingerhoeds@cs.tudelft.nl

Joe S. Qin Department of Chemical Engineering The University of Texas at Austin Austin, TX 78712-1062 USA

Dear Prof. Qin

Auto Tuning

Luke P. Lee Department of Bioengineering, 459 Evans Hall # 1762 University of California Berkeley, CA 94720-1762

Dear Prof. Lee

No due to not having enough time.

Bio MEMS Email:lplee@socrates.berkeley.edu Phone: (510) 642-5855

Geoff N. Roberts Director, Mechatronics Research Center University of Wales College, Newport Allt-Yr-Yn Campus, POB 180 Newport, Gwent NP9 5XR UK

Dear Prof. Roberts

Has placed this in his August 24th Technical Committee meeting in Aalborg, Denmark.

Control Engineering Practices in Marine Systems

g.roberts@newport.ac.uk

Dr. Ir. R. A. Vingerhoeds 34, rue de Martini F-31500 Toulouse FRANCE

Dear Prof. Vingerhoeds

AI in Real-Time Control eaai@wanadoo.fr

Mr. Kensuke Kawai Principal Office 1-1 Toshiba Corporation Shibaura 1-Chome, Minatu-ku Tokyo 105 8001 JAPAN

Dear Prof. Kawai

Human-Machine Systems

kensuke.kawai@toshiba.co.jp

Sirish L. Shah Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada T6G 2G6

Dear Prof. Shah

Presenting a tutorial workshop at the ACC2001. Hence declined to consider tutorial session.

Performance Assessment slshah@ualberta.ca Phone: 780-492-5162 (voice@work)) 780-492-2881 (facsimilie) 780-437-6879 (voice@home) Internet:http://www.ualberta.ca/~slshah

CPC Gropup: http://www.ualberta.ca/chemeng/groups/cpc.html

Manfred Morari "Automatic Control Lab ETH-Z / ETL I 29" Zurich CH-8092 Switzerland

Dear Prof. Morari

Recommended by Jorge A. Mandler mandleja@apci.com

Control of Hybrid Systems

Morari@aut.ee.ethz.ch Phone: +41-1-632-7626 Fax: +41-1-632-1211

Aravind Padmanabhan Principal Research Scientist Sensors Center of Excellence Honeywell Technology Center 12001 State Highway 55 Plymouth, MN 55441

Dear Dr. Padmanabhan

Recommended by Tariq Samad. YES. Later said NO due to lack of industry presenters

Microsensors & actuators for bioMEMS

aravind.padmanabhan@honeywell.com 612.954.2970 (phone) 612.954.2504 (fax)

Stanley Gershwin Dear Prof. Gershwin

Recommended by Sudhendu Rai of Xerox Corporation. No.

Control Applications to Manufacturing Systems

gershwin@mit.edu

Robert E Skelton Professor Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Director, Structural Systems and Control Lab University of California San Diego 9500 Gilman Dr. La Jolla, CA 92093

Dear Prof. Skelton

Xerox Distinguished Lecturer. Expressed interest to host a session.

System Design: The Challenge of System Theory

bobskelton@ucsd.edu reskelton@ames.ucsd.edu 858 822 1054 phone 858 822 3107 fax

Won-jong Kim, Ph.D. Assistant Professor Department of Mechanical Engineering Texas A&M University College Station, TX 77843

Dear Prof. Kim

Yes Semiconductor Processing

wjkim@mengr.tamu.edu (979)845-3645, phone (979)862-2418, fax

Dr. Arthur J. Helmicki Associate Professor Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Computer Science University of Cincinnati Cincinnati, Ohio 45221-0030

Dear Dr. Helmicki

Recommended by Gary Fedder

Control Engineering Applied to MEMS Technology

Office: (513)556-6069 Fax: (513)556-7326 Email: arthur.helmicki@uc.edu

3. A SAMPLE SOLICITATION LETTER General Chair Bruce H. Krogh Carnegie Mellon University Dept. of Elec. & Comp. Engr. Pittsburgh, PA 15213 Tel: 412-268-2472 Fax: 412-268-3890 krogh@ece.cmu.edu Vice-Chair, Industry & Applications LK Mestha Wilson Ct. for Research & Technology Xerox Corporation, B128/56E 800 Phillips Rd., Webster, NY 07102 Tel: 716-422-5123 Fax: 716-265-7133 lkmestha@crt.xerox.com Publications Chair Dawn Tilbury Mechanical Eng. & Applied Mechanics Univiversity of Michigan, CoE/2250 GG Brown Lab 2350 Hayward Street Ann Arbor, MI 48109-2125 Tel: 734-936-2129 Fax: 734-647-3170 tilbury@umich.edu Program Chair Wayne Bequette Chemical Engr. Dept. Rensselaer Polytechnic . Inst. Troy, NY 12180-3590 Tel: 518/276-6683 Fax: 518/276-4030 bequeb@rpi.edu Workshops Chair Mike Masten Texas Instruments 2309 Northcrest Plano, TX 75075 Tel: 972-997-5179 Fax: 972-997-5693 m.masten@ieee.org Publicity Chair Oscar D. Crisalle Dept of Chemical Engineering University of Florida Gainesville, FL 32611-6005 Tel: 352-392-5120 Fax: 352-392-9513 crisalle@che.ufl.edu Vice Chair, Contributed Papers Siva Banda AFRL/VAAD, 2210 8th St. Wright-Patterson AFB, OH 45433-7521 Tel: 937-255-8677 Fax: 937-656-4000 siva.banda@va.afrl.af.mil Vice Chair, Invited Sessions S.N. Balakrishnan School of Electrical & Computer Engr. Purdue University 1285 EE Bldg. West Lafayette, IN 47907 Tel: 765-494-0728 Fax: 765-494-3371 ragu@ecn.purdue.edu Finance Chair Asok Ray 205 Mechanical Engineering University Park, PA 16802 Tel: 814- 865-6377 Fax: 814- 863-4848 axr2@psu.edu Exhibits Chair Jacob Apkarian Quanser Consulting Inc. 102 George St Hamilton, ONT L8P 1E2 CANADA Tel: 905-527-5208 Fax: 905-570-1906 jacob@quanser.com Registration Chair Larry Holloway Department of Electrical Engineering 453 Anderson Hall, Univ. of Kentucky Lexington. KY 40506-0108 Tel: 606-257-6262 Fax: 606-257-1071 holloway@engr.uky.edu Local Arrangements Chair Greg Walsh Department of Mechanical Engineering Engineering Classroom Bldg. (088) Univ. Maryland, College Park, MD 20742 Tel: 301-405-5447 Gwalsh@eng.umd.edu

Aug 24th, 2000 «Address» «Dear»:

I am writing you this letter as the Vice-Chair, for Industry & Applications for the 2001 American Control Conference inviting you to organize a Tutorial Session featuring a one-hour tutorial presentation on «Title» followed by a series of short presentations from participants discussing the implementation, application, and benefits of the technology.

For your information, the American Automatic Control Council (AACC) will hold the 2001 American Control Conference (ACC) Monday through Wednesday, June 25-27, 2001 at the Crystal Gateway Marriott in Arlington, Virginia. The AACC is a non-profit organization that is the official United States representative to the International Federation for Automatic Control (IFAC). The eight AACC member institutions are the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA), the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE), the Association of Iron and Steel Engineers (AISE), the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), the International Society of Measurement and Control (ISA), and the Society for Computer Simulation (SCS). Each of these institutions is a professional society. The conference will bring together people working in the fields of control, automation, and related areas. Further information about the conference is available on the world wide web at URL: http://acc2001.che.ufl.edu. The AACC is particularly interested in enhancing the applications and industrial perspective of the ACC. The 2001 ACC, in addition to regular invited sessions, tutorial workshops and presentation of contributed papers, will include Invited Tutorial Sessions featuring a one-hour tutorial presentation on an industrially proven but still relatively new technique, followed by a series of short presentations (any where between 3 to 5) from participants discussing the implementation, application, and benefits of the technique. The purposes of the Invited Tutorial Session are to integrate practice and theory, to increase industrial attendance in the ACC, and to educate attendees on an important technology. The tutorial paper will be allowed 15 pages in the proceedings. Submission of a two-page paper will be encouraged from the other presenters; a paper will not be mandatory from the other presenters in order to accommodate publication constraints affecting many industrial participants. (There is currently a plan being developed to collect and publish the tutorial papers as a book by the American Automatic Control Council (AACC), the ACC sponsor). Quality of the Tutorial Sessions is of primary importance. If you or any of your colleagues are interested in organizing a session, the tutorial organizer will submit the proposal for review to the Vice Chair for Industry and Applications with the following elements:

• Tutorial Session Form (from the ACC web page) with the complete names, titles, addresses, (postal, email, phone, and fax) of each presenter;

• Manuscript Submission Forms (from the ACC web page); • Justification of the session, that argues for the relevance of the topic, the benefit of presenting it to the ACC; • Tutorial presenter qualifications; • Draft of tutorial manuscript (including figures, if necessary) of substantial length so the reviewers can judge its

completeness, quality, and utility; and • Summary of each of the 12 or 15 minute industrial/short presentations (500-1000 word abstract, figures).

ACC programs for previous two years are good examples that you may refer in preparing the descriptions. The submission deadline for reviewing Tutorial Session proposals for the 2001 ACC is September 15, 2000. You may wish to contact me (lkmestha@crt.xerox.com, Tel# 716 422 5123) earlier, to be sure that the proposal will comply with ACC needs. After the proposal is accepted for presentation, we will request you to submit completed papers. I thank you for your consideration in this matter. If you have any questions or require additional information, please feel free to contact me. Sincerely, ________________________________ L.K. Mestha, PhD Vice-Chair for Industry & Applications, ACC 2001

A REVIEW TABLE # of proposals reviewed = 10 # of reviewers = 4 # of accepted proposals=9

Reviewer#1 Reviewer#2 Reviewer#3 Reviewer#4 Corresponding author & Session title Comments R Comments R Comments R Comments R

Overall

Ratings

Reinhard Neck

Modeling and Control of Economic Systems

Do these ideas really work in controlling economies of Germany, Slovania etc. ?

4 • Too “in-bred” – all folks are from same institute.

• No confidence for attracting good audience.

• No one from US Federal Reserve Board or similar.

• Accept as a very last resort.

2.5 • Extremely interesting to many attendees.

• The presentations to be understandable and accessible.

• Presenters describe applications to real economic systems.

• Good balance and perspective on the general observations.

• The session is well planned and well organized.

4 • Team has counseled Gov of Austria. • The 4th paper is by Sohbet

KARBUZ, affiliated with OECD 332, Paris. Others are presented by Academics.

• It talks about real world applications. • It is a new opportunity to ACC

audience. • Team is presenting tools developed

for decision making in economics; OPTCON & OPTGAME, & their applications. Very good.

4.5 3.75

Pravin P. Varaiya

Communication And Control of Distributed Hybrid Systems

I am not sure how much Varaiya will really participate. His student name shows up a lot.

4 • Better as an invited session – most presentations are from Univ & last one is a grad student.

2.0 • Has appeal to academic and industrial attendees.

• The tutorial focuses on the hybrid simulation language, SHIFT.

• No real industrial applications. • Emphasis is on the presentations

of languages and tools • Valuable tutorial. • Nice running theme focusing on

tools for modeling hybrid systems.

2 • Gives in-depth survey of distributed hybrid systems.

• Hybrid simulation language SHIFT & SmartAHS are the main topics.

• Short presentations talk about Teja, Lambda-SHIFT, CHARON & Ptolemy II packages.

• TWO industry speakers out of 5. • Concern about how much is already

covered in workshops. Good.

3.5 2.88

N. Eva Wu

Fault tolerant control

This one and Lafortune’s session are very similar. This one is probably not up to date.

3 • Like this proposal. • Focus is on motors

and aircraft, while 4 has covered other application areas.

4.5 • Considerable interest to industrial & academic participants.

• Paper #1 is very academic & dry. • The non-academic participation

is good . 4 papers from ind.ustry. • The first three papers are very

interesting. • Three of the four applications

relate to aircraft control.

4.5 • Main paper from Univ & 4 short papers from industry.

• In tutorial session, overview of concepts and methods in fault tolerant control are presented.

• 4 industrial examples are covered. • Proposal is well written. Hopefully it

will be well presented. • 15-page paper is enclosed. Excellent.

5.0 4.25

Stephane Lafortune Failure Diagnosis of Dynamic Systems Using Discrete-Event Models

This is more timely and relevant.

5 • A good proposal. • See no reason not

to include #3 & #4.

4 • Failure detection and diagnosis is important to industry & academia.

• 3 applications give a nice diversity to the potential for using the methods presented in the tutorial.

• The whole session focuses on one "school," designed to explain the approach developed by the author.

• Paper #1 is not a survey. General info is not included.

• The focus on one technique limits the educational value.

• Useful to have a panel discussion to say about problems of failure detection and diagnosis in industry.

3.5 • Deals with failure diagnosis of dynamic systems based on DES approach.

• Talks very much about one method. Nevertheless seems to have wide applications in places where good knowledge of model is not required. Useful for ACC audience.

• 3 industry presentations show the applicability of the method.

• Main tutorial presenter is reputed and will definitely do a good job. Very good proposal.

4.5 4.25

Mike Grimble Process Control Loop Benchmarking And Revenue

It looks like it is mostly University of Strathclyde show.

4 • An important area. • This should not be

presented as a University of Strathclyde workshop.

• Papers 2,3,4,5 have nice application

4 • Should be of interest to industry and academic attendees.

• Appears comprehensive, covering motivation, definitions, concepts and theory.

• Applications are very interesting and involve industrial plants.

• Although most of the presentations involve people

4 • Looks very interesting & useful for industry.

• Tutorial session reviews the relationship b/w economic and technical benchmarking.

• Tutorial paper is not written as the review of various methodologies available for benchmarking. Relationship between described theory

4 4

Optimization content. • Remove paper #6

by Ordys, which is on the development of a software tool.

from the same group in Strathclyde, the industrial collaboration on different systems brings balance to the collection of examples.

• The tutorial and examples will be very informative.

• There are too many papers.

and problem was not clear. • Paper #6 is a software tool. Other

short papers talk about benchmarking application to real-world problems.

• Good proposal.

John Doyle Robustness and complexity in networks, biology, and physics

Although Doyle will attract audience, I am not sure if this material is ready for consideration as a tutorial. He is very lively and is trying to apply control to biology.

3.5/5

• Session has great potential.

• Selected presenters would probably not have much of an industrial focus.

• If you are willing to work with Doyle on this, you can probably make it into a nice session.

• I am thrown-off by his comment that he probably won't be attending many control conferences in the future.

?? • This proposal was incomplete, so it could not be evaluated.

1 • Requested for short bio for other speakers. Did not get them on time.

• Only a tentative proposal was submitted. John did not have time to prepare a proper proposal.

• It will be very popular session and will draw a large audience.

• Additional speakers are not lined up. • If accepted John has promised to get

the additional speakers, in turbulence, biology, and networking.

• I am positive, if a decision is made to include the session, John will make every effort to prepare an exciting session.

• I am not sure whether John will prepare a 15 page long paper.

??

Asok Ray Life Exending Control: An evolving field of interdisciplinary research

GE, UTRC and NASA Glenn. Good industrial participation.

4.5/5

• This is a nice, well-integrated proposal.

4.5 • This is a very interesting topic. I don't know how widely the concept is known, but it should be of considerable interest to industrial attendees.

• The tutorial focuses on the use of standard control techniques to address life extension as an objective (that is, reducing the wear on physical components).

• The four additional presentations represent real applications in non-academic organizations. These papers look very interesting.

• It is unfortunate that all of the applications are engine control, with three focusing on gas turbine engines (the NASA engine may also be this type of engine). I'm concerned that these papers may be repetitive.

• The proposal is well organized. It would have been nice to have more variety.

3.5 • Well written proposal. Will be useful to industry since the methods are focussed to showing how to extend the operating life of the system.

• Real applications are discussed. • Easily understandable session.

4.5 4.25

Markus P.J. Fromherz Constraint-Based scheduling

Good industrial participation and may encourage other industries to attend the ACC.

4.5

• Not as enthused about this proposal, but still feel it should be accepted. Although Markus indicates the possibility of 2 extra presentations, we should make it clear that only 1 more would be allowed.

• There is simply not enough time for a tutorial + 5 application papers.

3.5 • Scheduling is not a core topic at the ACC, but it is related to the interests of many attendees, and the real-time applications in this session make it relevant.

• The tutorial provides a nice overview of a set of techniques and tools.

• The three application papers describe real applications.

• The session is designed well. • I believe this session will be

educational to anyone who attends.

• Encourage the organizers to put together a panel and have some good questions ready to stimulate discussion.

3.5 • Invited Markus to prepare this session to give control researchers & industrialists avenues for new subject/problem areas – focussing largely on scheduling activities over time.

• The real-time applications discussed in short presentations will make this session interesting to controls community.

• This session will bring some of the techniques developed & used in computer science to system controls. Largely helpful for supervisory level functions. Should be interesting.

• 3 presentations from industry, one from academia. 2 more might get added.

4.5 4

William C. Messner Disk Drive Control

Timely topic. A good tutorial type with industry participants.

4.5

• This is a nice application area.

• It is written as if the industrial folks only expect to

4.5 • This is an excellent proposal in an important domain.

• From the proposal it is clear the presentations will be interesting and informative

5 • Excellent proposal and timely. Very relevant to information storage systems.

• Bill is an excellent tutorial presenter. We can guarantee a large audience for

5 4.625

make presentations.

• The industry perspective is well represented in the three invited talks

• The tutorial appears to give a nice perspective on all facets of the problem.

• The audience should learn a lot from this session

• With only five presenters, there will be ample time for discussion.

• Note: Change the session title to simply "Disk Drive Control"

this session. • Very good collection of industry

papers.

Manfred Morari Optimization-Based Hybrid Control Tools

Real good topic and very practical.

5 • This is a nice proposal on an important topic.

• Switch papers #3 and #4. The ABS paper should appear directly after the traction control paper. Also, remove paper #6 (Gentilini) - it doesn't fit.

4.5 • This session will have strong appeal to the MPC and hybrid systems communities.

• The basic concepts are very intuitive, so it should be very accessible to ACC attendees.

• The "applications" are all research projects, involving academic researchers (in most cases from the ETH). In this respect, the applications are not mature and there is no real industrial experience to be reported. Nevertheless, the applications are real—i.e., these are not theoretical papers.

• The breadth of applications is impressive.

• It will certainly be an informative and interesting session.

• There are too many application papers (5). Recommend moving the examples in Paper 2 into the tutorial presentation to stick to the desired format.

4 • Little parallels between #2 and this session is expected.

• Very useful for industry. • ABS & Traction control examples are

very good. • Don’t know anything about the main

presenter’s capability to deliver a tutorial talk.

4.5 4.5

Final ranking based on average ratings (Shown in bold are ‘accepted proposals’ in DFW Ops Com meeting): Messner Morari Lafortune Wu Ray Grimble Fromherz Neck Varaiya Doyle

4. A SAMPLE ACCEPTANCE LETTER

General Chair Bruce H. Krogh Carnegie Mellon University Dept. of Elec. & Comp. Engr. Pittsburgh, PA 15213 Tel: 412-268-2472 Fax: 412-268-3890 krogh@ece.cmu.edu Vice-Chair, Industry & Applications LK Mestha Wilson Ct. for Research & Technology Xerox Corporation, B128/56E 800 Phillips Rd., Webster, NY 07102 Tel: 716-422-5123 Fax: 716-265-7133 lkmestha@crt.xerox.com Publications Chair Dawn Tilbury Mechanical Eng. & Applied Mechanics Univiversity of Michigan, CoE/2250 GG Brown Lab 2350 Hayward Street Ann Arbor, MI 48109-2125 Tel: 734-936-2129 Fax: 734-647-3170 tilbury@umich.edu Program Chair Wayne Bequette Chemical Engr. Dept. Rensselaer Polytechnic . Inst. Troy, NY 12180-3590 Tel: 518/276-6683 Fax: 518/276-4030 bequeb@rpi.edu Workshops Chair Mike Masten Texas Instruments 2309 Northcrest Plano, TX 75075 Tel: 972-997-5179 Fax: 972-997-5693 m.masten@ieee.org Publicity Chair Oscar D. Crisalle Dept of Chemical Engineering University of Florida Gainesville, FL 32611-6005 Tel: 352-392-5120 Fax: 352-392-9513 crisalle@che.ufl.edu Vice Chair, Contributed Papers Siva Banda AFRL/VAAD, 2210 8th St. Wright-Patterson AFB, OH 45433-7521 Tel: 937-255-8677 Fax: 937-656-4000 siva.banda@va.afrl.af.mil Vice Chair, Invited Sessions S.N. Balakrishnan School of Electrical & Computer Engr. Purdue University 1285 EE Bldg. West Lafayette, IN 47907 Tel: 765-494-0728 Fax: 765-494-3371 ragu@ecn.purdue.edu Finance Chair Asok Ray 205 Mechanical Engineering University Park, PA 16802 Tel: 814- 865-6377 Fax: 814- 863-4848 axr2@psu.edu Exhibits Chair Jacob Apkarian Quanser Consulting Inc. 102 George St Hamilton, ONT L8P 1E2 CANADA Tel: 905-527-5208 Fax: 905-570-1906 jacob@quanser.com Registration Chair Larry Holloway Department of Electrical Engineering 453 Anderson Hall, Univ. of Kentucky Lexington. KY 40506-0108 Tel: 606-257-6262 Fax: 606-257-1071 holloway@engr.uky.edu Local Arrangements Chair Greg Walsh Department of Mechanical Engineering Engineering Classroom Bldg. (088) Univ. Maryland, College Park, MD 20742 Tel: 301-405-5447 Gwalsh@eng.umd.edu

Jan 10th, 2001 Reinhard Neck Dept of Economics University of Klagenfurt Universitaetsstrasse 65-67 A-9020 Klagenfurt, Austria Dear Prof. Neck:

Your Tutorial Session proposal followed by a series of short presentations from participants discussing the implementation, application, and benefits of the technology has now been reviewed. I am pleased to report that the ACC’01 Operating Committee has selected your proposal Modeling and Control of Economic Systems in Session # 041 for a presentation at the get-together.

We will have a total of nine Invited Tutorial sessions in 2001 ACC with three tutorials scheduled on

each day running sequentially one after the other for three full days in a single, fairly large size room. We expect a large number of attendees to participate in these Invited Tutorials. The purposes of the Invited Tutorial Session are to integrate practice and theory, to increase industrial attendance in the ACC, and to educate attendees on an important technology such as yours. Hence, we would like to emphasize that the contents be presented at the level desired by the tutorial session goals because of the diverse audience we expect at the session. To aid the smooth functioning of the administration of the tutorial publicity and the proceeding arrangements, on behalf of the ACC 2001 Operating Committee, I would like to request with you to give careful attention to the following issues.

• Answer all concerns/criticisms (shown at the end of this letter) by the reviewers. • As required by the session, please send the completed 15 page long tutorial paper and the optional two-

page long short papers in camera-ready form using the 2001 ACC Author Instructions from the Conference website. If you have questions about where to submit, author’s instructions etc., related to the paper submission process, please contact the Publications Chair, Prof. Dawn Tilbury. All materials must reach Omnipress by March 15th, 2001. Any delay will cause difficulties to host your session.

• Quality of the Tutorial Sessions is of primary importance. Your modifications to the session or the paper will not be subjected to another review. Hence, it will be your responsibility to include good material and make a credible impact at the Conference.

• Any handout materials from the presenters would help to make a good impact at the session. If you have any, please work on the contents of the handout materials and pass them at the session.

• Any special requirements on the audio-visual equipment for the presenters should be communicated well in advance of the Conference to the Local Arrangement Chair Prof. Greg Walsh.

Since we selected your proposal as one of the important event at the ACC, we would like you to consider putting in maximum efforts in attracting as many attendees as possible. Attracting non-regular attendees from industry or research organizations would be very useful. A side benefit from a large number of attendees is the potential intangible gain for the organizers/presenters and the Society. Hence I urge you to consider sending out emails to your contacts requesting them to attend the sessions.

Once again I thank you for your interest and enthusiasm to share your knowledge at the ACC. If you have any additional questions please do not hesitate to contact me (lkmestha@crt.xerox.com, Tel# 716 422 5123). Sincerely, ________________________________ L.K. Mestha, PhD Vice-Chair for Industry & Applications, ACC 2001

Reviewer #1: ACC01 Tutorial Session Title: #1 Economic Systems Session Organizer: NECK Tutorial Presenter: NECK Comments for the Presenters: Appeal I found this proposal extremely interesting. Although it is not focusing on industrial applications per se, it assesses the application of dynamics and control approaches to the modeling and analysis of economic systems. This is something that could be interesting to many attendees. Understandable The descriptions of the tutorials and papers are interesting, so I would expect the presentations to be understandable and accessible. Real applications Although the presenters are all academics, they describe applications to real economic systems. Balanced The collection of three case studies provides good balance and perspective on the general observations made in the tutorial. Educational Value I think attendees will feel like they learned some very interesting things. Organization The session is well planned and well organized. Reviewer #2: Team has counseled Gov of Austria. The 4th paper is by Sohbet KARBUZ, affiliated with OECD 332, Paris. Others are presented by Academics. It talks about real world applications. It is a new opportunity to ACC audience. Team is presenting tools developed for decision making in economics; OPTCON & OPTGAME, & their applications. Very good. Reviewer #3: Too “in-bred” – all folks are from same institute. No one from US Federal Reserve Board or similar. Reviewer #4: Do these ideas really work in controlling economies of Germany, Slovania etc. ? \

5. 2001 ACC TUTORIAL INVITED SESSIONS FLYER Tutorial invited sessions are two-hour Invited Sessions arranged with a purpose to integrate practice and theory to educateattendees on an important technology. Each two-hour session starts with an hour-long “teaching” presentation of the leadpaper on a well-developed technology. Either four 15-minute or three 20-minute presentations revealing industrial applications of the technology will follow the tutorial supporting the perspective given in the lead paper. The Tutorial Invited Sessions are held Monday–Wednesday, during the regular schedule of the conference, and can be attended by anyoneregistering for the conference. There is no extra charge or registration required for the Tutorial Invited Sessions.

Monday June 25, 2001 TUTORIAL ON DISK DRIVE CONTROL William C. Messner, Daniel Abramovitch, Alexei Sacks, Matthew White This invited tutorial session will feature disk drive technology, show the relevant control problems, and then discuss some of the approaches that industry has taken to address the problems. MODELING AND CONTROL OF ECONOMIC SYSTEMS Reinhard Neck, Gottfried Haber, Klaus Weyerstrass, Sohbet Karbuz, Doris Behrens In this tutorial session, presenters will explain some merits and shortcomings of control applications to economics in the past and present some tools applied for actual economic policy problems in various countries. OPTIMIZATION-BASED HYBRID CONTROL TOOLS Alberto Bemporad, Francesco Borrelli, Jens Ludemann, Bijan Sayyarrodsari The purpose of the tutorial session is to integrate the novel hybrid theoretical results with the current most advanced optimization-based technologies, showing successful applications and providing an industrial viewpoint on such technologies.

Tuesday, June 26, 2001 FAILURE DIAGNOSIS OF DYNAMIC SYSTEMS USING DISCRETE-EVENT MODELS Stephane Lafortune, Kasim Sinnamohideen, Meera Sampath, Raja Sengupta This tutorial presents an approach for failure diagnosis of dynamic systems based on the use of discrete-event models, as well as the results of applying this methodology in complex technological systems such as document processing systems, heating,ventilation, and air-conditioning (HVAC) units, and automated vehicles and highways. FAULT TOLERANT CONTROL Eva N. Wu, Mogens Blanke, Claus Thybo, Christine Belcastro, Jovan Boskovic, Michael Elgersma The session explains how fault-tolerance can be obtained, handling faults by proper change of control method or structure toreflect the particular faulty condition. CONSTRAINT-BASED SCHEDULING Markus P.J. Fromherz, Jean Jourdan, Stephen F. Smith, Mark Boddy The goal of this tutorial session is to give control researchers and practitioners an overview of the workings and capabilitiesof current constraint-based scheduling techniques as well as several concrete applications.

Wednesday, June 27, 2001 LIFE EXTENDING CONTROL: AN EVOLVING TECHNOLOGY Asok Ray, Ten-Huei Guo, Matthew W. Wiseman, Link C. Jaw, James W. Fuller The main presentation of this session will introduce the concept and theoretical foundation of life extending control with anapplication example. This will be followed by four presentations by experts from research laboratories and industry. PROCESS CONTROL LOOP BENCHMARKING AND REVENUE OPTIMIZATION Damien Uduehi, Nunzio Bonavit, A. Ordys, Van der Molen, M.A. Johnson This tutorial session will review the relationship between economic benchmarks and technical benchmarks and introduce aconcise approach for obtaining the appropriate benchmarks and optimization criteria for individual layers in the process hierarchy. COMMUNICATION AND CONTROL OF DISTRIBUTED HYBRID SYSTEMS Hidayet Tunc Simsek, Pravin Varaiya, Joao Sousa, Marco Zandonadi, Devesh Bhatt, George Pappas, Rajeev Alur, Jie Liu, Xiaojun Liu, Edward A. Lee The objective of this tutorial is to provide an in-depth survey of distributed hybrid system material and tools for simulation, analysis and design.

6. TUTORIAL INVITED SESSION WEB ADVERTISEMENT

Tutorial invited sessions are two-hour Invited Sessions arranged with a purpose to integrate practice and theory to educate attendees on an important technology. Each two-hour session starts with an hour-long “teaching” presentation of the lead paper on a well-developed technology. Either four 15-minute or three 20-minute presentations revealing industrial applications of the technology will follow the tutorial supporting the perspective given in the lead paper. The Tutorial Invited Sessions are held Monday–Wednesday, during the regular schedule of the conference, and can be attended by anyone registering for the conference. There is no extra charge or registration required for the Tutorial Invited Sessions.

TUTORIAL INVITED SESSION MA-30

TUTORIAL ON DISK DRIVE CONTROL

William C. Messner, Daniel Abramovitch, Alexei Sacks, Matthew White

This invited tutorial session will feature disk drive technology, show the relevant control problems, and then discuss some of the approaches that industry has taken to address the problems. The session will show the industry progress and trends followed by a discussion of the fundamental concepts of magnetic recording and the function of the components of a magnetic disk drive. Discussion will be focussed on the control problems of disk drives, sources of disturbances, noise and important dynamics of the servo actuator system and terminologies used in the industry. There will be presentations to discuss the features shared by the magnetic disk drive and optical disk drive technologies, standard methods for generating position error signals and the use of piezoelectrically actuated hinge and silicon-based MEMS devices as secondary actuators.

ACC01-INVT3001 Tutorial Overview of Disk Drive Technology and Control (Messner) ACC01-INVT3002 Magnetic and Optical Disk Control: Parallels and Contrasts (Abramovitch) ACC01-INVT3003 Position Error Signal Generation in Magnetic Disk Drives (Sacks) ACC01-INVT3004 Secondary Actuators for Hard Disk Drives (White)

TUTORIAL INVITED SESSION MM-41

MODELING AND CONTROL OF ECONOMIC SYSTEMS

Reinhard Neck, Gottfried Haber, Klaus Weyerstrass, Sohbet Karbuz, Doris Behrens Engineers and mathematicians have performed an impressive job in developing tools and methods for the control of physical, chemical, biological and other systems, and applications of these tools are abundant. Although applications of control theory to economic problems have been developed since the late sixties, a success story comparable to the one that happened in science has not yet materialized. In this tutorial session, presenters will explain some merits and shortcomings of control applications to economics in the past and present some tools applied for actual economic policy problems in various countries.

ACC01-INVT4101 Modeling and control of national and international economies (Neck) ACC01-INVT4102 Modeling and control of the German economy (Haber) ACC01-INVT4103 Modeling and control of the Slovenian economy (Weyerstrass) ACC01-INVT4104 Modeling and Control of the Austrian Economy (Karbuz) ACC01-INVT4105 Modeling and Control of Economies in the European Monetary Union (Behrens)