DISC
Summer School on
Modeling and Control of Hybrid Systems
June 23 to 26, 2003
Koningshof, Veldhoven, The Netherlands
Co-sponsored by the IEEE Control
Systems Society and by the Dutch
Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO)
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Hybrid systems
Recent technological innovations have caused a considerable interest
in the study of dynamical processes of a mixed continuous and discrete
nature. Such processes are called hybrid systems and are characterized
by the interaction of time-continuous models (governed by differential
or difference equations) on the one hand, and logic rules and
discrete-event systems (described by, e.g., automata, finite state
machines, etc.) on the other. In practice a hybrid system arises,
e.g., when continuous physical processes are controlled via embedded
software that intrinsically has a finite number of states only (such
as on/off control).
Objectives of the summer school
This school offered a general overview of the field of hybrid
systems ranging from modeling, over analysis and simulation, to
verification and control. The school not only targeted PhD
students already working in the field of hybrid systems but also a
more general postgraduate level audience.
The number of registered participants reached the pre-set target level
of 74 (which yields a total of 85 participants if the lecturers and
the organizers are also included). Furthermore,
we also had a good number
of foreign participants coming from 8 different countries.
Speakers
For the keynote
lectures we invited 4 renowned experts in the field who also have
excellent educational skills:
In addition, several advanced
topics speakers gave shorter lectures on specific topics and
applications:
The school was organized by
B. De Schutter,
W.M.P.H.
Heemels, in close
cooperation with A. Bemporad
(chair IEEE Technical
Committee Hybrid Systems)
This page is maintained by Bart De
Schutter.
Last update: July 28, 2003.