From: 2025-01-23 15:30 to 16:05
Place: Seminar Room M 3170-73 at Dept. of Automatic Control, LTH
Contact: anders [dot] rantzer [at] control [dot] lth [dot] se

Date & Time: January 23, 15:30-16:05
Location: Seminar Room M 3170-73 at Dept. of Automatic Control, LTH
Speaker: Claudio De Persis, University of Groningen
Title: Enforcing contraction via data

Abstract:  In recent years there has been a great deal of interest in designing control policies based on a finite set of data acquired from a dynamical system. Despite the considerable progress, it is not surprising that there is still much work to be done in the design of non-linear control systems. In this talk it will be shown how controllers that make non-linear systems contractive can be obtained by solving data-dependent convex programs. Besides being interesting per se, contractivity is a key property to tackle other problems, such as the data-driven tuning of non-linear integral controllers.

Biography: Claudio De Persis is a professor with the Engineering and Technology Institute, University of Groningen, the Netherlands, since 2011. He received his Ph.D. degree in Engineering from the University of Rome "la Sapienza", Italy, in 2000, after which he was a postdoctoral researcher with Washington University in St. Louis (2000-2001) and Yale University (2002). Before joining the University of Groningen, he was with the University of Rome "la Sapienza" (2003-2009) and Twente University, Enschede, the Netherlands (2009-2011). His current research interest is understanding the role of automatic control in a scientific world dominated by machine learning and artificial  intelligence.