Naval Postgraduate School

Second Workshop on Computational

Issues in Nonlinear Control

Supported by AFOSR and NSF

Location: Monterey, CA Dates: November 7–8, 2011

Organizers:

W. Kang,Naval Postgraduate School
A.J. Krener, Naval Postgraduate School
W.M.McEneaney, UC San Diego

Day One

Session 1: Single-Track Grab-Bag

Time

Speaker

Title

8:30

Fariba Fahroo

Overview

9:00

Maurizio Falcone

Recent results on the approximation of optimal control problems and games

9:30

Stephane Gaubert

Tropical methods in dynamic programming

10:00

Coffee

10:30

Steve Paris

Trajectory Optimization Using Implicit Integration of 2nd Order

Dynamical Systems and Non-linear Programin

11:00

I. Michael Ross

On Commutative Operations in Optimal Control

11:30

Michael Demetriou

Estimationof the concentration fieldgenerated by a movinggaseous source

12:00

Break for Lunch

Session 2: Trajectory Optimization and Hamilton-Jacobi Equations

Time

Speaker

Title

1:30

Qi Gong

Some Hidden Propertiesin Pseudospectral Computational Optimal Control

2:00

John Hauser

Trajectory Optimization withBarrier Functionals

2:30

Morgan Baldwin

Optimal Deorbit Guidance

3:00

Coffee

3:30

Mark Karpenko

Flight Demonstration of Pseudospectral Optimal Control for

Shortest-Time Maneuvering

4:00

Johannes Royset

Optimal Continuous Timeand Space Search for Moving Targets

Using Consistent Approximations

4:30

Jerome Darbon

TBD

5:00

Break for Dinner

Session 3: Max-Plus Methods and Hamilton-Jacobi Equations

Time

Speaker

Title

1:30

Ben Fitzpatrick

Nonlinear Tracking and Max-Plus Control

2:00

Srinivas Sridharan

Idempotent analysis and reduced dimensionality methods in quantum control

and risk-sensitive deception games

2:30

Qu Zheng

Curse of dimensionality reduction in max-plus based approximation methods:

theoretical estimates and improved pruning algorithms

3:00

Coffee

3:30

Olivier Bokanowski

Hamilton-Jacobi approach for solvingstate-constrained control problems

lacking controllability assumptions, and applications

4:00

Draguna Vrable

Approximate DynamicProgramming algorithm to solve online the

Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman equation

4:30

Yongtao Zhang

Fast sweeping methods basedon WENO and DG local solvers

5:00

Break for Dinner

Workshop Dinner Session: Larger Issues

Time	Speaker	Title
6:30	Arthur Krener	An Overviewof the Field
6:50	Andrzej Banaszuk	TVD
7:10	Open Discussion	Future Directions and Difficulties

Day Two

Session 4: Single-Track Grab-Bag

Time	Speaker	Title
8:30	William McEneaney	Idempotent Algebra Based Methods and Solution Complexity
9:00	Chi-Wang Shu	Survey on Numerical Solutions of Hamilton-Jacobi Equations
9:30	Kirsten Morris	Optimal actuator location
10:00	Coffee
10:30	Wei Kang	The Consistency of Partial Observability for PDEs
11:00	David Mayne	The Role of Model Predictive Control
11:30	James Rawlings	Optimizing Economic Performance using Model Predictive Control
12:00	Break for Lunch

Session 5: Hamilton-Jacobi Equations

Time

Speaker

Title

1:30

Francis Giraldo

Issues in Simulating Multi-scale phenomena: a scientific computing

and numerical methods perspective

2:00

Fengyan Li

Discontinuous Galerkin Methods for Hamilton-Jacobi Equations

2:30

Cesar Aguilar

High-order numerical solutions to the dynamic programming equations of optimal control

3:00

Coffee

3:30

Alexander Vladimirsky

AlgorithmicChallenges in Solving Hamilton-Jacobi Equations

4:00

Carmeliza Navasca

Numerical method for hybrid optimalcontrol

4:30

Thomas Hunt

A higher order patchy method for solving the infinite horizon

Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman equation

5:00

Break for Dinner

Session 6: Distributed Parameter Systems

Time

Speaker

Title

1:30

Michael Hintermueller

Optimal control of ellipticvariational inequalities:

stationarit-y/-ies and numerical realization

2:00

Kazufumi Ito

Nonsmooth method for Optimal Control Problems

2:30

Peter Dower

A max-plus approach to solving a class of infinitedimensional Riccati

equation

3:00

Coffee

3:30

Chunming Wang

Strategic Sampling Approach for Implementationof Extended KalmanFilter

4:00

Ralph Smith

Real-Time Optimal Control Designs for Hysteretic Smart MaterialSystems

4:30

Gary Rosen

On the Computation and Analysis of the Adjoint in Distributed Parameter

Optimization

5:00

Break for Dinner