Nonlinear Control and Geometry

Talks

  • John Baillieul: Topological Aspects of Optimal Information Acquisition in Robotic Exploration and Multimodal Sensor Fusion
  • Maria Barbero-Linan: Geometric description of controllability of hybrid control systems
  • Ali Belabbas: Geometry of optimal sensor/actuator placement
  • Bernard Bonnard: Geometric optimal control: The Copepod swimmer vs Purcell three links swimmer
  • Ugo Boscain: Geodesics, Laplacians and random walks in sub-Riemannian geometries
  • Roger Brockett: Infimizing Sequences of Spirals and the Optimization of First Bracket Controllable Systems
  • Thomas Chambrion: Averaging methods for the control of closed quantum systems
  • Domenico d'Alessandro: Mathematical methods and problems in the control of quantum mechanical systems
  • David Martin de Diego: Geometric integration for optimal control problems
  • R. El Assoudi-Baikari: Two-step nilpotent sub-Riemannian Lie algebras in dimension 5 and 6
  • Willem Esterhuzen: On barriers in nonlinear control systems with mixed constraints
  • Marek Grochowski: TBA
  • Dmitry Gromov: On the Geometric Structure of Thermodynamics
  • Jan Gutt: Some conjectures on the geometry of a long snake
  • Uwe Helmke: Controllability of Ensembles of Linear Systems
  • Philippe Jouan: Almost-Riemannian geometry on Lie Groups
  • Michał Jóźwikowski: A contact covariant approach to the Pontryagin Maximum Principle
  • Matthias Kawski: Combinatorial Hopf Algebras in Nonlinear Control
  • Wojciech Kryński: Curvature invariants of sub-Riemannian and sub-Lorentzian structures on contact manifolds.
  • Andrew Lewis: Tautological control systems
  • Lev Lokutsievskiy: On new phenomenon of chaotic behaviour of extremals in problems ane on control
  • Piotr Mormul: Local SR minimizers for Goursat distributions have no corners
  • Steven Morse: Problems in Distributed Consensus and Formation Control
  • Florentina Nicolau: Multi-input Control-affine Systems Linearizable via One-fold Prolongation and their Flatness
  • Paweł Nurowski: Rolling without slipping or twisting: from old to new
  • Dariusz Pazderski and Krzysztof Kozłowski: Application of transverse functions in control of nonholonomic systems in robotics
  • Jean-Baptiste Pomet: On avaraging techniques in control, Finsler geometry and low thrust orbital transfer
  • Jérémy Rouot: Averaging techniques in the time minimal transfer using low propulsion
  • Yuri Sachkov: Sub-Riemannian minimizers, spheres and cut loci
  • Andrei Sarychev: Ensemble Controllability by Lie algebraic methods
  • Adam Sawicki: Universality of beamsplitters and control theory
  • Mario Sigalotti: Sub-Finsler geometry from the viewpoint of optimal control: low-dimensional examples
  • Hector Sussmann: A regularity theorem for minimizers of real-analytic subriemannian metrics
  • Alexander Zuyev: Exponential stabilization of nonholonomic systems by using time-varying feedback controls

Abstracts can be found here.