GENERAL INFORMATION
Welcome to LHMNC 2021, October 11-13, 2021, Berlin, Germany
Background and Scope
Advances in technology and the progress in digitalization and automation require to account for diverse nonlinear phenomena in the design of increasingly complex control systems that are connected via digital communication networks and process increasing amounts of acquired data (such as for digital twins or Industry 4.0). Very efficient and robust approaches for modeling, numerical approximation, order reduction, simulation, and control design are based on Lagrangian and Hamiltonian system formulations. For example, the port-Hamiltonian framework has made significant progress in methodology and applications to cope with heterogeneous networks of different types, coupled multi-physical and thermodynamic systems. Such energy-based formulations allow to combine the powerful design methods of passivity-based control with the specific properties of the differential-geometric structures of Lagrangian and Hamiltonian systems. Recent developments have shown the power of the Hamiltonian and Lagrangian framework for distributed parameter systems, in combination with adapted numerical schemes, with many examples in fluid dynamics, acoustics, fluid-structure interaction, quantum mechanics and irreversible thermodynamics. Application areas of Lagrangian and Hamiltonian methods in nonlinear control include, among others, robotics, telemanipulation, multi-carrier power and transportation systems, chemical engineering, biological processes and smart materials.
Goals
The 7th IFAC Workshop on Lagrangian and Hamiltonian Methods for Nonlinear Control (LHMNC21) at the Technical University of Berlin wants to bring together control experts from different areas to exchange on physical structures as the foundation of versatile design methods, to discuss new approaches for modeling, analysis and control design, and to present state-of-the-art results on applications to complex dynamical engineering systems. With the first paper on port-Hamiltonian systems appeared in 1992, the workshop is also an ideal occasion to celebrate in special sessions the (almost) 30th anniversary of this successful framework.
Main IFAC sponsoring Technical Committee
- TC 2.3. Non-Linear Control Systems
IFAC Co-sponsoring Technical Committees
- TC 2.1. Control Design
- TC 2.6. Distributed Parameter Systems
Other scientific bodies co-sponsoring technically the conference
- IEEE CSS Technical Commitee on Distributed Parameter Systems
National Organizing Committee
NOC Chair
Volker Mehrmann, Technical University of Berlin, Germany)
NOC Co-Chair
Paul Kotyczka,Technical University of Munich, Germany
Editor
Alessandro Macchelli, University of Bologna, Italy
International Program Committee
IPC Chair
Yann Le Gorrec, UBFT FEMTO Besançon, France)
IPC Co-Chairs
Bernhard Maschke, University of Lyon, France
Arjan van der Schaft, University of Groningen, The Netherlands
IPC Members
Alessandro Astolfi, UK
Ravi Banavar, India
Christopher Beattie, USA
Anthony Bloch, USA
María de Diego Antón, Spain
Alejandro Donaire, Australia
Herbert Egger, Germany
Gerardo Espinosa-Pérez, Mexico
Timm Faulwasser, Germany
Kenji Fujimoto, Japan
François Gay-Balmaz, France
Sören Hohmann, Germany
Nicolas Hudon, Canada
Birgit Jacob, Germany
Bayu Jayawardhana, The Netherlands
Dimitri Jeltsema, The Netherlands
Laurent Lefèvre, France
Robert Mahony, Australia
Lorenzo Marconi, Italy
Sonia Martinez, USA
Denis Matignon, France
Thomas Meurer, Germany
Romeo Ortega. Mexico
Christophe Prieur, France
Hector Ramírez, Chile
Witold Respondek, France
Pierre Rouchon, France
Joachim Rudolph, Germany
Oliver Sawodny, Germany
Daniel Sbarbaro, Chile
Jacquelien Scherpen, The Netherlands
Markus Schöberl, Austria
Rodolphe Sepulchre, UK
Rafal Wisniewski, Denmark
Hiroaki Yoshimura, Japan
Hans Zwart, The Netherlands
Sponsors
Berlin Mathematics Research Center MATH+ [link]
Collaborative Research Center 910: Control of self-organizing nonlinear systems: Theoretical methods and concepts of application [link]
Hosting Institution
Technical University of Berlin [link]
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