Aktuality

The Department of Instrumentation and Control Engineering, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, CTU in Prague, invites all students and employees to a lecture by Prof. Dr. Hitay Özbay on "A Tutorial on Robust Control of Distributed Parameter Systems", which will take place on Tuesday, June 10, 2025, at 2.00 pm, in lecture room D1-366, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, CTU in Prague.
 
The lecture will be held in English, admission is free.

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Abstract:

We review some robust control problems for distributed parameter systems, emphasizing systems with time delays. The structure of the H-infinity optimal controller is analyzed; computational and implementation aspects are discussed. Strongly stabilizing controllers are obtained from classical interpolation methods and a small gain approach. We also demonstrate a new family of robust controllers for unstable distributed parameter systems and derive finite-dimensional controllers from this structure. Related open problems are discussed.
 

Biography:

Hitay Özbay is a Professor of Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey.  He received the B.Sc., M.Eng., and PhD degrees from Middle East Technical University (1985), McGill University (1987), and the University of Minnesota (1989), respectively. His prior academic affiliations include the University of Rhode Island (1989-1990) and The Ohio State University (1991-2006), where he was a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering before joining Bilkent University. He also held visiting professor positions at INRIA, France (2009-2010) and at the University of California, Davis (2024-2025).  Professor Özbay was a member of the Board of Governors of the IEEE Control Systems Society (2017-2019) and a general assembly member of the European Control Association (EUCA), representing Turkey (2013-2019). He served as Associate Editor for many journals, including IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization, and Automatica. He also served as Vice-Chair of IFAC Technical Committees on Networked Control Systems (2005-2011) and Linear Control Systems (2017-2023). He is a Fellow of IEEE.