Scope

IFAC TC ON OPTIMAL CONTROL

Membership roster 2005-2008

Chair: Prof. Anatolii F. Kleimenov
Vice chair: Prof. Sandor Molnar

Austria

Prof. Gustav Feichtinger
Technical University Vienna
Institute of Econometrics, OR & Systems Theory
Argentinierstrasse 8
A-1040 Vienna, Austria
Phone: +43 1 588 01-11927
Fax: +43 1 588 01-11999
e-mail: or@e119ws1.tuwien.ac.at
Keywords: Optimal control theory and differential games applied to economics.
Nonlinear dynamical systems.

Univ. Prof. Dr. Inge Troch
Institute for Analysis
and Scientific Computing
Vienna University of Technology
Wiedner Hauptstrasse 8-10
A-1040 Vienna, Austria
Phone: +43 1 588 01-11451
Fax: +43 1 588 01-11499
e-mail: inge.troch@tuwien.ac.at
Keywords: Optimal control, modelling especially for control and optimisation, simulation, stability, applications of optimisation in robotics, systems theory.

Belarus

Prof. Faina M. Kirillova
Institute of Mathematics of Academy of Sciences of Belarus
Surganov Str. 11.
220072, Minsk, Belarus
Phone: (0172) 39-57-92
Fax: (0172) 393-192
e-mail: kirill@nsys.minsk.by
Keywords: Optimal control, extremal problems, real-time optimisation, stabilization, damping, robust and noise-resistant feedback.

Canada

Prof. El-Kebir Boukas
Mechanical Engineering Department
Ecole Polytechnique of Montreal
P.O.Box 6079, Station "centre-ville"
Montreal, Quebec, H3C 3A7, Canada
Phone: (514) 340-4711 ext. 4007
Fax: (514) 340-5867
e-mail: El-Kebir.Boukas@polymtl.ca
http://www.meca.polymtl.ca/boukas
Keywords: Stochastic optimisation, numerical algorithms, robust control.

Czech Republik

Prof. Bedrich Janecek
Department of Control Engineering
Faculty of Mechatronics and Interdisciplinary Engineering Studies
Technical University of Liberec
Halkova 6
CZ - 461 17 Liberec 1, Czech Republic
Phone: +420-48-5353492
Fax +420-48-5353112
e-mail: bedrich.janecek@vslib.cz
http://www.fm.vslib.cz
Keywords: Optimal control, applications in control system design, process modelling,
system identification.

Dr. Michal Kocvara
Institute of Information Theory and Automation
Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic
Pod vodarenskou vezi 4
18208 Praha 8
Czech Republic
Phone:+420-266052370
Fax: +420-286890378
e-mail: kocvara@utia.cas.cz
http://www.utia.cas.cz/kocvara
Keywords: nonlinear optimization, numerical optimization, structural
optimization, linear matrix inequalities, bilinear matrix inequalities,
semidefinite programming.

Prof. Jan Stecha
Czech Technical University in Prague
Faculty of Electrical Engineering
Department of Control Engineering
Karlovo Namesti 13121 35 Prague 2
Czech Republik
Phone: + 420-2-2435 7238
Fax: + 420-2-290 159
e-mail: stecha@control.felk.cvut.cz
website: http://dce.felk.cvut.cz/stecha/
Keywords: Stochastic optimal control and parameter estimation, optimal decision and control.

France

Prof. Hisham Abou-Kandil
Ecole Normale Superieure de Cachan
Laboratoire S.A.T.I.E (UMR CNRS 8029)
61 Avenue du President Wilson
94230 Cachan, France
Phone: +33 (0)1 47 40 27 51 / 53 71, +33(0)6 63 72 45 33
Fax: +33 (0)1 47 40 21 99 / 28 88
e-mail: Hisham.Abou-Kandil@satie.ens-cachan.fr
Keywords: Optimal control, game theory, robust control, coupled and non symmetric Riccati equations.

Dr. Frederic Bonnans
Projet INRIA-Rocquencourt, B.P. 105,
78153 Le Chesnay, France
Phone: 33 1 39 63 55 57
Fax: 33 1 39 63 57 86
e-mail: Frederic.Bonnans@inria.fr
http://www-rocq.inria.fr/~bonnans
Keywords: Deterministic and stochastic optimal control, numerical methods,
large scale optimization, networks, optimization with uncertainty.

Prof. Patrick Siarry
Université Paris 12 (LISSI)
61 avenue du Général de Gaulle,
94010 Créteil, FRANCE
Phone : +33.1.45.17.15.67,
Fax : +33.1.45.17.14.92
e-mail: siarry@univ-paris12.fr
http://www.univ-paris12.fr/leriss/Siarry/
Keywords: optimization, metaheuristics, continuous optimization, identification,
fuzzy rule base, neural network.

Hong Kong

Prof. Wallace K.S. Tang
Department of Electronic Engineering
City University of Hong Kong
83 Tat Chee Avenue, Kowloon, Hong Kong
Phone: 852-2788-7783
Fax: 852-2788-7791
e-mail: kstang@ee.cityu.edu.hk
Keywords: Genetic algorithms, chaos control and synchronization, chaotic circuits

Hungary

Dr. Ruth Bars
Budapest University of Technology and Economics,
Department of Automation and Applied Informatics
H-1521 Budapest, Hungary
Phone: +361-463-2885, +361-463-2870
Fax: +361-463-2871
e-mail: bars@aut.bme.hu
Keywords: Control engineering, control algorithms, predictive control of linear and nonlinear systems, control education.

Dr. Éva Gyurkovics
Budapest University of Technology and Economics,
School of Mathematics
H-1521 Budapest, Hungary
Phone: +361-463-2509
Fax: +361-463-1291
e-mail: gye@math.bme.hu
Keywords: Stabilization theory, model predictive control, robust control, optimization under uncertainties, decentralised stabilization, receding horizon control, Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellmann equations, applications in economics.

Prof. Béla Lantos
Budapest University of Technology and Economics,
Control Engineering and Information Technology Department
Magyar Tudosok krt. 2.
H-1117, Budapest, Hungary
Phone: +361-463-2058
Fax: +361-463-2204
e-mail: lantos@iit.bme.hu
Keywords: Control engineering, robotics, soft computing in control and
image processing.

Prof. Sándor Molnár Vice-chair
Department of Informatics
Szent Istvan University
Prater Karoly u. 1
Godollo 2111, Hungary
Phone:+361-250 5078, +3628-522051
Fax +361-250-1713
e-mail: smol@sysexpert.com
Keywords: Game theory and applications, control applications of
optimization, system theory, multiobjective optimization, decision
science.

Israel

Prof. Daniel R. Lewin
Director, PSE Research Group
Department of Chemical Engineering
Technion, Israel Institute of Technology
Haifa 32000, Israel
Phone:+ 972-4-8292006
Fax: +972-4-8295672
e-mail: dlewin@techunix.technion.ac.il
http://pse.technion.ac.il
Keywords: Process modelling, control/design integration, multivariate statistics, evolutionary algorithms.

Prof. Josef Shinar
Faculty of Aerospace Engineering,
Technion, Israel Institute of Technology
Haifa, 32000, Israel
Phone: 972-4-8293-191
Fax: 972-4-829-2030
e-mail: aer4301@aerodyne.technion.ac.il
Keywords: Pursuit-evasion games, singular surfaces in differential games, discrete dynamic games, imperfect information dynamic games, singular perturbations applied to feedback control, application of dynamic game models to missile guidance, integration of estimation and control design for terminal guidance.

Italy

Prof. Gianni Di Pillo
Dept. of Computer and Systems Science
University of Roma "La Sapienza"
Via Buonarroti 12
00185, Roma, Italy
Phone:+39-6-48299232
Fax: +39-6-47825618
e-mail: dipillo@dis.uniroma1.it
Keywords: Nonlinear progamming and related numerical methods, among these methods for the numerical solution of optimal control problems.

Prof. Paolo Bolzern
Dipartimento di Elettronica e Informazione
Politecnico di Milano
Piazza Leonardo da Vinci 32
I-20133 Milano, Italy
Phone: 39-02-2399-3598
Fax: 39-02-2399-3412
e-mail: bolzern@elet.polimi.it
Keywords: Robust control and filtering, Recursive identification, Control of nonholonomic vehicles, Switching systems.

Japan

Prof. Tomomichi Hagiwara
Department of Electrical Engineering,
Kyoto University
Kyotodaigaku-Katsura, Nishikyo-ku,
Kyoto 615-8510, Japan
Phone: +81-75-383-2250
Fax: +81-75-383-2251
e-mail: hagiwara@kuee.kyoto-u.ac.jp
http://www-lab22.kuee.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~hagiwara
Keywords: digital/sampled-data control, two-degree-of-freedom control systems,
operator-theoretic approach.

Poland

Prof. Henryk Gorecki
Akademia Gorniczo-Hutnicza
Institute of Automatics
University of Mining and Metallurgy
Al. A. Mickiewicza 30
PL-30-059 Krakow, Poland
Phone: +48-(0)12-634 1568
Fax: +48-(0)12-634 1568
e-mail: head@ia.agh.edu.pl
Keywords: Control applications of optimisation.

Prof. Krzysztof Malinowski
Warsaw University of Technology
Faculty of Electronics and Information
Institute of Control and Computation Engineering
ul. Nowowiejska 15/19
PL-00-665 Warsaw, Poland
Phone: 4826-607397
Phone/Fax: 4822-8251984
e-mail:K.Malinowski@ia.pw.edu.pl
Keywords: New optimisation techniques for large scale systems with applications
not necessarily limited to control systems.

Prof. Andrzej Turnau
AGH University of Science and Technology
Institute of Automatic Control
Krakow, 30-059 Poland
Phone: (+4812) 617 20 96
Fax: (+4812) 634 15 68
e-mail: atu@ia.agh.edu.pl
http://ia.agh.edu.pl
Keywords: optimal control, real-time systems, mechatronics

Portugal

Prof. Agostinho Rosa
Instituto de Sistemas e Robotica
Instituto Superior Technico
Av. Rovisco Pais, 1 Torre Norte 6.21
1049-001 Lisbon, Portugal
Phone: +351-21-8418276/7
Fax: +351-21-8418291
e-mail: acrosa@isr.ist.utl.pt
Keywords: Evolutionary Control and Tuning.

Prof. Fernando Lobo Pereira
Decision and Control Engineering Group,
Institute for Systems and Robotics
Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto
Rua Dr. Roberto Frias, 4200-465 Porto, Portugal
Phone: +351 22 508 1857
Fax: +351 22 508 1443
e-mail: flp@fe.up.pt
Keywords: Dynamic optimization, control theory and applications, hybrid systems

Dr. Carlos Fonseca
Faculty of Science and Technology,
University of Algarve
8005-139 FARO
Portugal
Phone: +351-289-800045
Fax: +351-289-800046
e-mail: cmfonsec@ualg.pt
http://w3.ualg.pt/~cmfonsec
Keywords: Evolutionary algorithms, multiobjective optimization decision making.
Applications in control system design, system identification, scheduling.

Romania

Prof. Dr. Mihail Voicu
Faculty of Automatic Control and Computer Engineering
Technical University of Iasi
Blvd D. Mangeron 53A
RO-700050, Iasi, Romania
Phone: +40 232 231343, +40 232 230751
Fax: +40 232 231343, +40 232 230751
e-mail: mvoicu@delta.ac.tuiasi.ro
http://www.tuiuasi.ro
Keywords: Optimization methods, stabilization theory, optimization under uncertainties, control applications of optimization.

Prof. Neculai Andrei
Research Institute for Informatics - ICI
8-10, Maresal Alexandru Averescu Avenue
RO-71316 Bucharest 1, Romania
Phone: +40-1-092-777748
Fax: +40-1-312-8539
e-mail: nandrei@u3.ici.ro
Keywords: Large-scale optimisation, mathematical programming interior-point methods, applications of optimisation.

Prof. Ioan Dumitrache
Department of Automatic Control and Systems Engineering
Politehnica University of Bucharest
Splaiul Independentei 313,
RO-77206 Bucharest, Romania
Phone: +40-1-411-9918
Fax: +40-1-411-9918
e-mail: idumitrache@ics.pub.ro
Keywords:

Russian Federation

Dr. Sergei M. Aseev
Steklov Institute of Mathematics
Russian Academy of Sciences
Gubkina 8
119991 Moscow, Russia
Phone:+7-495-135-2490
Fax: +7-495-135-0555
e-mail: aseev@mi.ras.ru, aseev@iiasa.ac.at
http://www.mi.ras.ru , http://www.iiasa.ac.at
Keywords: optimal control, nonsmooth analysis, methods of optimal control
in economics

Prof. Anatolii F. Kleimenov Chair-person
Department of Dynamical Systems
Institute of Mathematics and Mechanics
Ural Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences
Kovalevskaya 16,
620066, Ekaterinburg, Russia
Phone: +7-3432-742535
Fax: +7-3432-742581
e-mail: kleimenov@imm.uran.ru
Keywords: differential games (particularly nonantagonistic ones), evolutionary games,
stability in games.

Dr. Nikolai Lukoyanov
Department of Dynamical Systems
Institute of Mathematics and Mechanics
Ural Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences
Kovalevskaya 16,
620066, Ekaterinburg, Russia
Phone: +7-3432-744013
Fax: +7-3432-742581
e-mail: nyul@imm.uran.ru
Keywords: Optimal control and differential game theory, Hamilton–Jacobi–Bellman–Isaacs type equations, hereditary dynamical systems.

Slovakia

Prof. Jan Mikles
Department of Process Control FCHPT
Slovak University of Technology
Radlinskeho 9
812 37 Bratislava, Slovakia
Phone: ++421 2 52495269
Fax:++421 2 52496469
e-mail: jan.mikles@stuba.sk
http://www.kirp.chtf.stuba.sk/~mikles
Keywords: Optimal Control, Process Control

Turkey

Dr. Tayfun Çimen
Turkish Naval Research Center Command
Ankara Caddesi, No: 252 34890 Pendik
Istanbul – TURKEY
Phone: +90 538 3161356
E-mail: tayfun.c@sheffield.ac.uk
Keywords: Optimal control, Continuous-time (deterministic and stochastic)
nonlinear non-affine control systems; Stabilization; Regulation; Tracking;
Time-varying systems; Necessary and sufficient optimality conditions; Maximum /
minimum principle of Pontryagin; Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman equation;
Approximation theory; Global convergence; Riccati equation; Mathematical
modeling; Autopilots; Aircraft and flight control systems; Guided missiles;
Maneuvering; Marine systems; Ship control systems; Ship steering

Prof. M. Kemal Leblebicioğlu
Dept. of Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Middle East Technical University
06531, Ankara, Turkey
e-mail: kleb@metu.edu.tr
Keywords: Control, optimization, autopilot design and guidance algorithms, legged robots, system identification, multi agent systems.

United Kingdom

Prof. Andrew J. Chipperfield
School of Engineering Sciences (CEDG)
University of Southampton
Highfield, Southampton SO17 1BJ England
Phone: +44 (0)23 8059 8344
Fax: +44 (0)23 8059 7082
e-mail: A.J.Chipperfield@soton.ac.uk
Keywords: Computer aided control system design (CACSD), evolutionary algorithms,
systems integration, optimisation, aerospace.

Prof. Victor M. Becerra
Department of Cybernetics
The University of Reading
Reading, RG6 6AY, UK
Phone: +44 (0) 118 378 6703
Fax: +44 (0) 118 378 8220
e-mail: v.m.becerra@reading.ac.uk
http://www.rdg.ac.uk/~shs99vmb
Keywords: Optimal control, predictive control, nonlinear control, system identification, adaptive control, robotics, neural networks, power system control, process control.

Dr. Ian Griffin
Research Associate,
Rolls-Royce UTC,
Control & Systems Engineering,
Sheffield University,
Dept of AC&SE
Mappin Street,
Sheffield,S1 3JD, United Kingdom
Tel: +44 (0)114 222 5682
Fax: +44 (0)114 222 5138
e-mail: i.griffin@sheffield.ac.uk
Keywords: Genetic Algorithms, Multiobjective Optimization,
Multicriteria Decision Making, Robust Control, Gas Turbine Control

USA

Prof. Eugene M. Cliff
Emeritus Professor
Aerospace and Ocean Engineering and
Interdisciplinary Center for Applied Mathematics
Virginia Tech
Blacksburg, VA 24061-0531, USA
Phone: (540)-231-7667
Fax: (540)-231-7079
e-mail: ecliff@vt.edu
Keywords: distributed parameter systems