Program

Important dates

October 8 Abstract submission deadline
October 28 Decision notification
November 29-30 SECC 2021!

Conference schedule

Day 1 (November 29) -- Skelton Conference Center

Time Event Speaker Affiliation Title
7:30 AM Registration opens
8:00 AM-8:30 AM Welcome
8:30 AM-8:50 AM Oral session 1 Fahmi, Jean-Michel Virginia Tech Port-Hamiltonian Flight Cross-Track Control of a Fixed-Wing Aircraft
8:50 AM-9:10 AM Oral session 1 Jafarpour, Saber Georgia Tech Robust Implicit Neural Networks via Contraction Theory
9:10 AM-9:30 AM Oral session 1 Edwards, Sage U. of Florida A Topologically Inspired Path-Following Method with Intermittent State Feedback
9:30 AM-9:45 AM Coffee break
9:45 AM-10:05 AM Oral session 2 Habibian, Soheil Virginia Tech Leveraging roles in robot teams to encourage human participation
10:05 AM-10:25 AM Oral session 2 Pressgrove, Isaac Virginia Tech Development of a Compact and Easily Packageable Serpentine Robotic Tail System
10:25 AM-10:45 AM Oral session 2 Khattar, Vanshaj Virginia Tech Zeroth-Order Implicit-Reinforcement Learning for Sequential Decision-Making in Distributed Control Systems
10:45 AM-11:00 AM Coffee break
11:00 AM-11:20 AM Oral session 3 Ubl, Matthew U. of Florida Totally Asynchronous Large-Scale Quadratic Programming: Regularization, Convergence Rates, and Parameter Selection
11:20 AM-11:40 AM Oral session 3 Cao, Michael Georgia Tech Estimating High Probability Reachable Sets using Gaussian Processes
Noon-1:00PM Lunch break
1:00 PM-2:15 PM Poster presentations -- Session 1
2:30 PM-3:30 PM Guest speaker's presentation Dr. Carolyn Beck U. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Modeling and Stability Analysis of Epidemic Processes over Networks
4:00 PM-5:15 PM Poster presentations -- Session 2
6:00 PM-8:00 PM Banquet

Day 2 (November 30) -- Skelton Conference Center

Time Event Speaker Affiliation Title
7:30 AM Registration opens
8:00 AM-8:30 AM Welcome and announcements
8:30 AM-8:50 AM Oral session 4 Rajendran, Sunil Kumar George Mason University Design, Modeling, Learning-based Control of Super-Coiled Polymer Actuated Bio-inspired Robots
8:50 AM-9:10 AM Oral session 4 Bhogaraju, Indra Narayana Sandilya Louisiana State University Delay Compensating Chain Predictors for Bilinear Systems with Power Systems Applications
9:10 AM-9:30 AM Oral session 4 Hawkins, Calvin U. of Florida Differentially Private Formation Control: Privacy and Network Co-Design
9:30 AM-9:45 AM Coffee break
9:45 AM-10:05 AM Oral session 5 Tellez-Castro, Duvan Clemson University Data-Driven Stochastic Optimal Control using Linear Transfer Operators
10:05 AM-10:25 AM Oral session 5 Zhang, Boyang Duke University Unified Position-Attitude Control of A Nonlinear Quadrotor Swarm
10:25 AM-10:45 AM Oral session 5 Dutta, Amit Virginia Tech Convergence Rate of Decentralized Gradient Method over Cluster Networks
10:45 AM-11:00 AM Coffee break
11:00 AM-11:20 AM Oral session 6 Jimenez Cortes, Carmen Georgia Tech Task Persistification for Robots with Control-Dependent Energy Dynamics
11:20 AM-11:40 AM Oral session 6 Isaly, Axton U. of Florida On the Feasibility and Continuity of Feedback Controllers Defined by Multiple Control Barrier Functions
11:40 AM-noon Oral session 6 Chen, Zaiwei Georgia Tech A Lyapunov Theory for Finite-Sample Analysis of Reinforcement Learning Algorithms
noon-12:20 PM Oral session 6 Marwen, Zrida North Carolina State University Agent Based Models and Q-learning in Pandemic Mitigation Strategies
12:20 PM-12:30 PM Concluding remarks and final acknowledgments

Poster presentations (November 29) -- Skelton Conference Center

Section 1

Speaker* Affiliation Title
Ansari, Roghaiyeh Virginia Tech Reduced-Order Adaptive Output Predictor for a Class of Uncertain Dynamical Systems
Chen, Ying-Chun Virginia Tech A Practical, Nonlinear Disturbance Observer for Integrator Cascades under a Structural Condition
Hall, Richard Duke University Feasibility of Dual Switched Systems with Unsustainable Modes
Mlinaric, Petar Virginia Tech Model Order Reduction for Parametric Stationary Problems
Morency, Christopher Virginia Tech Evaluating the Benefit of Using Multiple Low-Cost Forward-Looking Sonar Beams for Collision Avoidance in Small AUVs
Nikafrooz, Negin Virginia Tech Grasp Control of a Cable-Driven Robotic Hand Using a PVDF Slip Detection Sensor
Reiter, Sean Virginia Tech On the Tightness of the Balanced Truncation Error Bound, with an Application to Arrowhead Systems
Santoyo, Cesar Georgia Tech Sensitivity of Electric Vehicle Charging Facility Occupancy to Users’ Impatience
Stelmack, Maxwell Virginia Tech Real Time Operating System (RTOS) for Embedded Controls
Zhang, Qiang U. of North Carolina at Chapel Hill & North Carolina State University Towards Surface Electromyography-Ultrasound Imaging-based Human Volitional Effort Prediction for the Assist-as-needed Control of a Cable-Driven Ankle Exoskeleton
Zheng, Yu Florida State University Resilient Cyber-physical System against False Data Injection Attacks

Section 2

Speaker* Affiliation Title
Ameli, Sina Florida State University A Distributed Robust Adaptive Control for a Class of Nonlinearly Coupled Hierarchical Systems with Actuator Faults
Behrendt, Gabriel U. of Florida A Totally Asynchronous Algorithm for Tracking Solutions to Time-Varying Convex Optimization Problems
Beiter, Benjamin Virginia Tech Whole Body Control for Haptic Interaction with VR
Feng, Shumin Virginia Tech A Modular Robotic System with Self-Reconfiguration Strategy
He, Anchi Virginia Tech ForceBot: A Full-body Scale Force and Position Feedback System in Virtual Reality
Lavei Mashhadi, Mohammad Reza Duke University Optimization-Based Simultaneous Controller and Lyapunov Function Design for Constrained Nonlinear Systems Using CPA Functions
Le, Duc (Daniel) U. of Florida Integral Concurrent Learning-Based Accelerated Gradient Adaptive Control of Uncertain Euler-Lagrange Systems
LoCicero, Ethan Duke University Fixed-Order Sparsity Promoting H2-Conic Control
Patil, Omkar Sudhir U. of Florida Lyapunov-Derived Control and Adaptive Update Laws for Inner and Outer Layer Weights of a Deep Neural Network
Samanipour, Pouya U. of Kentucky Stability Analysis and Controller Synthesis for RNNs Using ReLU Neural Networks
Xu, Wenda Virginia Tech Data Driven Calibration and Model-based Backlash Compensation of Compact Series Elastic Actuators for Robotic Exoskeleton Gloves Control
Zeng, Sihan Georgia Tech Two Stochastic Approximation Frameworks with Applications in Control and Reinforcement Learning
(*) Poster presentation speakers are listed in alphabetical order