Classic Lectures
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An understanding of fundamental limitations is an essential element in all engineering. Shannon’s early results on channel capacity have always had center court in signal processing. Strangely, the early results of Bode were not accorded the same attention in control. It was therefore highly appropriate...
Inaugural Bode Prize Lecture, Tampa, Florida, December 1989
Featured Lectures
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It is widely recognized that many of the most important challenges faced by control engineers involve the development of methods to design and analyze systems having components most naturally described by differential equations interacting with components best modeled using sequential logic....
48th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Shanghai, China, Dec. 2009 -
Individual mobility is closely linked to the welfare of any society. Not surprisingly, the number of automobiles has been inexorably increasing and is likely to double in the next twenty years. Clearly, this development creates many benefits and economic opportunities, but also many problems,...
3rd IEEE Multi-Conference On Systems and Control, Saint Petersburg, Russia, July 2009 -
Vehicular traffic congestion remains one of the major world-wide sources of productivity and efficiency loss, wasteful energy consumption, and avoidable air pollution. For example it is estimated that in 2007, congestion caused urban Americans to travel an additional 4.2 billion hours and to...
3rd IEEE Multi-Conference On Systems and Control, Saint Petersburg, Russia, July 2009