Prof. Del Re seminar
Seminar Announcement
September 27Th, 2017
DIEF – P2.1 class – 11am
Prof. L. Del RE
Director of the Institute for Design and Control of Mechatronical Systems
Johannes Kepler University, Linz, Austria.
https://desreg.jku.at/concrete5/index.php/staff/head-department/delreprofile
Joint design of model and control for automotive control
Automotive controls usually are based on very complex maps-based structures (a modern Diesel Engine Control Unit includes up to 40.000 labels, which can be scalar variables or maps) and are very difficult to tune. Against this background, very powerful on-line optimization tools like CAMEO have been developed, which automatize but not avoid the tuning effort. In recent years, an increasing trend in direction of model based control with reduced tuning effort has appeared, which still does not encompass the majority of the control function, but potentially could change the whole picture. At the JKU in cooperation with several partners, methods have been developed to approach the problem from a different perspective. Instead of fixing a control structure and tuning the parameters by some optimization method, a combination of a recursive nonlinear system identification and a nonlinear receding horizon optimal control approach which can directly use the parameters of the model has been fixed. The nonlinear identification is based on polynomial NARX models, and uses a combination of DOE based input design, parameter estimation and pruning to produce. The control part is based on a modification of the C/GMRES algorithm by T. Ohtsuka, which has been rewritten for input/output, time discrete nonlinear system and can thus use directly the result of the estimation. The method has been applied to several engines, in this presentation experimental results on a BMW 2.0 L engine will be shown in comparison with the production values and alternatives with other methods.
#Automatica.it 2017
L'innovazione protagonista il secondo giorno di Automatica.it al @polimi per cogliere la sfida di #Industria40 pic.twitter.com/Nrz4sSPFQX
— Fondazione PoliMi (@FondaPoliMi) September 12, 2017
Cane 2.0
Let me cite two press articles recently appeared.
They present the prototype solution developed by Prof Rus at CSAIL mit and shown at ICRA in Singapore. I am a coauthor of the paper.
The work was partially supported by ABF.
The First is on The Economist
http://www.economist.com/news/science-and-technology/21723097-new-way-assist-those-poor-eyesight-helping-blind-people-navigate
The second is on the MIT News
http://news.mit.edu/2017/wearable-visually-impaired-users-navigate-0531
Wearable system @MIT
Today the group of Professor Rus will present at ICRA in Singapore the following result
http://news.mit.edu/2017/wearable-visually-impaired-users-navigate-0531
Seminar
On Friday February 17th, ’17
Room P 1.4 (ex FA-1-D)
Engineering Department ‘Enzo Ferrari’
University of Modena and Reggio Emilia
LAURA GIARRE’ will give a seminar entitled
Past, Present and Future Research and Interests
Abstract
Past: Starting from some of my recent lines of research and projects (identification, dynamical networks, smart grid, IOT, assistive technologies), I frame them in an unique picture: a Smart City offering new services based on pervasive technologies. Present: I focus my attention to two recent projects for the visually impaired people I am involved into: Arianna Project – a Smartphone-based Navigation System and 5th sense Project – Situational Awareness using spatial navigation and object identification. Future: Possible integration of my competences and international networks with Department research lines.
BIO
Prof. Laura Giarré is an engineer and a professor, working at the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Department of Engineering, Modena, Italy. Her research interests are primarily in Identification and Networked Systems. Laura Giarré received the Laurea degree in Electronic Engineering from the Università di Firenze, Florence, Italy and the Ph.D. degree in System Engineering from the Università di Bologna, Bologna, Italy, in 1986 and 1992, respectively. She has held visiting positions in the University of California at Santa Barbara (1999 and 2006) and CSAIL, MIT (2015). She was Assistant Professor at Politecnico di Torino, Turin, Italy (1993-1998) and Associate Professor at the Università di Palermo, Palermo, Italy (1998-2016). She has served as Associate Editor of Systems and Control Letters, (1999-2012) and IEEE Transaction on Automatic Control (2012-2015). In 2010 she was vice-chair of SING6, chair of the Challenges ABF MIT Workshop in 2012.2013 e 2015 and General Char of MED’14, in 2014. She is member of the Advisory Board of the Andrea Bocelli Foundation . Since 2011, she has developed a strong interest in assistive technology. She is the co-founder of In.sight, srl.
glass ceiling
I have reported on an excel file the number of professor (FP), associate professor (AP) and researcher (E) in Italy, divided by gender.
I have taken as example three macro sector of engineering (9G:Control+biomedical), (9H:telecommunications and electromagnetism) (9F: Computer Science)
One macro sector of Mathematics (1A) and one macro sector of Biology (5B)
Clearly in biology and mathematics the number of graduated male and female is almost the same, while in engineering is around the 20%, but in all cases, you can see that the number of male in higher position is incredibly higher.
I reported the percentage of female with respect to the total number.
here the data:
| FPm | FPF | APM | APF | RM | RF | |
| Telecomm/electromagnetism | 131 | 6 | 154 | 29 | 114 | 29 |
| % | 4.379562 | 15.84699 | 20.27972 | |||
| control/biomed | 121 | 18 | 144 | 41 | 74 | 29 |
| % | 12.94964 | 22.16216 | 28.15534 | |||
| Computer | 155 | 27 | 251 | 42 | 148 | 26 |
| % | 14.83516 | 14.33447 | 14.94253 | |||
| Math | 493 | 110 | 495 | 325 | 286 | 289 |
| % | 18.24212 | 39.63415 | 50.26087 | |||
| Biology | 48 | 26 | 87 | 81 | 70 | 100 |
| % | 35.13514 | 48.21429 | 58.82353 |
Consiglio Direttivo
Ti alzi una mattina pensando ai musei vaticani, e ti ritrovi eletta nel consiglio direttivo del SIDRA..
pero’ anche i musei vaticani sono belli..
