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Plenary Sessions

Speaker Speaker
Kevin Wise Miroslav Krstic
Boeing University of California, San Diego

“PRoGRESS In AuTonoMouS SYSTEMS AnD ADAPTIVE ConTRol In “NyquIST LecTure - exTreMuM SeekINg aNd ITS appLIcaTIoNS”
AERoSPACE AnD oIl AnD GAS” Thursday, october 29, 2015
Wednesday, october 28, 2015 George Bellows Ballroom C&D 8:30am–9:30am
George Bellows Ballroom C&D 8:30am–9:30am
Abstract
Abstract
Applications Extremum seeking (ES) is a method for solving optimization
This talk will present an historical overview, recent progress, and open problems without the knowledge of the operating map, using only the
challenges in developing autonomous aircraft systems and adaptive flight measurements of the output of the map. Tackling similar problems as
controls, and how these technologies are transitioning into the oil and gas evolutionary/genetic algorithms, ES was invented half a century earlier,
industry. and even predates the Nyquist criterion by a decade. ES was developed
within the early dynamic systems and control community and is well suited
Biography for real-time implementation on plants with significant dynamics. Modern
ES algorithms, developed since 2000, are capable of guaranteeing
Kevin A. Wise is a Senior Technical Fellow, Advanced Flight Controls, in
the Boeing Phantom Works, is President and CEO of Innovative Control stability, and even prescribed rates of convergence in spite of the plant
Technologies, LLC, and is a Chief Advisor at Kelda Drilling Controls in model and the performance index function being unknown. I will overview
Norway. He received his BS, MS, and Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering recent ES developments, including deterministic and ES algorithms, ES for
from the University of Illinois in 1980, 82, and 87, respectively. Since non-cooperative games, and extensions of ES from gradient to Newton
joining Boeing in 1982, he has developed vehicle management systems, based updates. Many hundreds of applications of ES have emerged since
flight control systems, and control system design tools and processes for 2000. I will highlight source seeking for autonomous vehicles in GPS-
advanced manned and unmanned aircraft systems. Some recent denied environments, maximizing aircraft endurance with the help of
programs include Dominator, Phantom Eye Hydrogen Powered UAS, atmospheric turbulence, MPPT for solar and wind energy sources, liquid
QF-16 Full Scale Aerial Target, and X-45 J-UCAS. His research interests tin droplet targeting by lasers in semiconductor photolithography, and a
include intelligent autonomy and battle mgmt, aircraft dynamics and Mars Rover application.
control, robust adaptive control, optimal control, and robustness theory. Biography
He has authored more than 90 technical articles, has published a text
book on robust and adaptive control theory, and teaches control theory at Miroslav Krstic is the Alspach endowed chair, Distinguished Professor, and
Washington University in St. Louis. He is an IEEE Fellow, and Fellow of the founding director of the Cymer Center for Control Systems and Dynamics
AIAA. at UC San Diego. He also serves as Associate Vice Chancellor for
Research at UCSD. Krstic has coauthored ten books and well over 200
journal articles on adaptive, nonlinear, and stochastic control, extremum
seeking, control of PDE systems including turbulent flows, and control of
delay systems. As a graduate student, Krstic was the recipient of the UC
Santa Barbara best dissertation award, a runner up for the national best
dissertation award, and won student best paper awards at CDC and ACC.
Krstic is a Fellow of ASME, IEEE, SIAM, IFAC, and IET (UK), and a
Distinguished Visiting Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering. He
has received the PECASE, NSF Career, and ONR Young Investigator
awards, the Axelby and Schuck paper prizes, the Chestnut textbook prize,
and the first UCSD Research Award given to an engineer. Krstic has held
the Springer Visiting Professorship at UC Berkeley. He serves as Senior
Editor in Automatica and IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, as editor
of two Springer book series, and has served as Vice President for
Technical Activities of the IEEE Control Systems Society and as chair of
the IEEE CSS Fellow Committee. Krstic has served ASME DSCD as
Program Chair of the 2013 DSCC and as a member of the Honors and
Awards Committee.

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