On Tuesday at 1 pm Leonid Mirkin will give a talk about „Control in a World where Computation is Cheap and Communication is Expensive ". It will take place in the ITR seminar room, Barer Str. 21, 4th floor.

Abstract: Sampled-data control under intermittent and event-based sampling mechanisms has become an active research area during the last decade, which is motivated by the trend to distribute information processing. Although these activities have produced a number of exciting results, many aspects are still not well understood. In particular, the field is dominated by the state-feedback setting, many results are plagued by excessive conservatism and a lack of transparency, non-conservative performance analyses are few and often limited to simple dynamics. The purpose of this talk is to demonstrate that some démodé sampled-data control ideas can remedy many of these problems and produce analytic / computationally simple / implementable / transparent solutions to stabilization and H2 and Hinf design problems for rather arbitrary sampling patterns.

Bio: Leonid Mirkin is a native of Frunze, Kirghiz SSR, USSR (now Bishkek, Kyrgyz Republic). He received the Electrical Engineer degree from Frunze Polytechnic Institute and the PhD (candidate of sciences) degree in automatic control from the Institute of Automation, Academy of Sciences of Kyrgyz Republic, in 1989 and 1992, respectively. From 1989 to 1993 he was with the Institute of Automation, Academy of Sciences of Kyrgyz Republic. In 1994 he joined the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering at the Technion|Israel Institute of Technology, first as a postdoc and then as a faculty. His research interests include systems theory, control and estimation of sampled-data systems, dead-time compensation, systems with preview, and distributed~control.