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Master projects evaluations
by Kristian Soltesz 08 Oct '24

08 Oct '24

Attached are CEQ reports for master projects at the department, at “our” master program, and at LTH as a whole. /Kristian

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OBS! Enbart en tid per person och slot / Monika
by Monika Rasmusson 07 Oct '24

07 Oct '24

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Teacher's meeting Oct 7
by Pontus Giselsson 07 Oct '24

07 Oct '24

Present: Björn, Richard, Anders, Bo, Kristian, Johan, Karl-Erik, Pontus, Yiannis (online) K-E: * New call from LU for professor of unrepresented gender. Margaret Bauer not interested. If you have a suggestion, let K-E know. * We have an invitation to a meeting in Ukraine. K-E asks if anyone is interested in going. No one is. * Nominate persons to Karriärnämnden, Rekryteringsnämnden, Forskningsnämnden, Forskarutbildningenämnden, etc. We should nominate at least one. Johan volunteers to be nominated for the Research board. * We should continue to go through all courses, as we started to do before summer. Please sign up here if you courses has not been covered yet: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1nYZdQzjazXj61VuWUwJ8kM5lMsF3ylQM8GfFIK5… * Associate professors position has been evaluated externally (by sakkunniga). Jonathan Desmonds and one person from Halmstad have been put on top. Jonathan seems to be considered the stronger candidate. * "Spot is dead." Estimate to fix is 100-200 KSEK. Have instested 1.6 MSEK. There are Chinese alternatives that are much cheaper. Some of them open. Will repair Spot this time, but may look for other alternatives in the future. The zoom link for the teacher's meeting is: https://lu-se.zoom.us/j/68049694707. /Pontus

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Google Dooc links to course presentations
by Karl-Erik Årzén 07 Oct '24

07 Oct '24

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1nYZdQzjazXj61VuWUwJ8kM5lMsF3ylQM8GfFIK5…

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FW: Forskarsamtal inför budget 2025 - boka nu!
by Monika Rasmusson 07 Oct '24

07 Oct '24

Hi, In order to have your input for the next coming 6 months including for the budget 2025, we would like to meet with you for about 20 minutes in October. We will book relevant meeting room/office, or if you prefer on Zoom, please let us know. Please book a slot in the attached doodle - see below. If you do not find a slot that suits you - please let us know and we will make other arrangements. https://doodle.com/meeting/participate/id/ep7mXomd We will ask questions about your projects, funding, current applications, need of staff or purchase for your projects etc, see attached form "forskarsamtal". In the other document you will find your projects sorted per end date of project. Use "kuben" to check the current status - if you need access or where to find information - let us know and we will send an easy to use guide (attached status of today from Kuben). We would also like to know how you communicate your research - channels, websites etc. Those of you that have furher questions - please contact either one of us in the administrative team. Regards Monika, Eva och Cecilia

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[Regler] Course sign-up numbers LP2, 24/25
by Björn Olofsson 06 Oct '24

06 Oct '24

Hi, Earlier this week the course sign-up for LP2, 24/25 closed. The current numbers for our courses are (academic years 23/24, 22/23, and 21/22 within parentheses): FRTF05 Automatic Control, Basic Course for MN 209 (169, 216, 219) FRTN05 Non-Linear Control and Servo Systems 75 (61, 48, 49) FRTF01 Physiological Models and Computations 34 (40, 32, 50) FRTN70 Project in Systems, Control and Learning 43 (47, 48, 42) An increase both in FRTF05 and FRTN05. Sincerely, Björn _______________________________________________ Regler mailing list -- regler(a)list.control.lth.se To unsubscribe send an email to regler-leave(a)list.control.lth.se

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[Regler] Re: Reglerteknik 75
by Anders Rantzer 04 Oct '24

04 Oct '24

Tack till alla er som bidrog till firandet Reglerteknik 75år den 29 juni. Som utlovat spelades presentationerna in och de finns nu tillgängliga på YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLDhpZwN_GioXyHJPJz2WyP24nlm7jlQZU . Gruppfoto bifogas. Enjoy! Anders & Kalle _______________________________________________ Regler mailing list -- regler(a)list.control.lth.se To unsubscribe send an email to regler-leave(a)list.control.lth.se

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[Regler] Help us: do the quiz!
by Frida Heskebeck 04 Oct '24

04 Oct '24

Hello everyone, Who is best at automatic control? Pex and I have made an interactive tool to aid the students in learning automatic control theory. We are planning to write a paper about this and need your participation in the quiz. Go to this page: https://lu-pze.github.io/?p=reglerLTH Then, press the cap in the top right or bottom right corner, and do a complete quiz. Hint: you can do it multiple times, and only the best one counts. Thanks in advance, and enjoy! //Frida and Pex. _______________________________________________ Regler mailing list -- regler(a)list.control.lth.se To unsubscribe send an email to regler-leave(a)list.control.lth.se

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[Regler] October 10 seminars on data driven control
by Anders Rantzer 04 Oct '24

04 Oct '24

Dear all, As previously announced at the information coffee, Olle's dissertation on October 11 will be preceded by a seminar series in the afternoon of October 10. See below. Welcome! /Anders ---------------------------------------------------------------------- October 10 at 13:15-14:00 in the Seminar Room M:3170-73 in the M-building, LTH. Jack Umenberger, Oxford University Title: No such thing as a model-free lunch? Model-free search and reliable decision making. Abstract: Inspired by breakthrough results in the processing of complex data, machine learning is being increasingly applied to problems in decision-making and control. However, to be suitable for deployment in applications, we require learning-based algorithms that come with guarantees of reliability, robustness, and safety. This talk will focus on the reliability of model-free policy search, addressing the question: when do such methods find optimal solutions, and when do they get trapped in poor local minima? Existing work has considered static policies; however, for dynamic policies that remember past observations - necessary for optimal decision making in many applications - these questions have hitherto remained unanswered. Focusing on the classic control-theoretic problem of output estimation, I will present the first model-free policy search algorithm for dynamic policies guaranteed to converge to the optimal solution. Along the way, I’ll also describe my path toward working on this problem, highlighting some of my contributions to model-based approaches for safe and reliable control, including data-driven robust control, system identification, and trajectory optimization. I will offer my perspective on the strengths and weaknesses of model-free and model-based methods, as well as the ways in which they complement each other. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- October 10 at 14:05-14:50 Håkan Hjalmarsson, KTH Title: Data-driven control: A statistical decision theory perspective There are many different methods for deriving a controller from a given data.set but little guidance is provided in the literature in terms of which methods are preferrable from a performance point of view. In this talk we focus on the information aspects of the problem. We use existing results from decision theory to establish necessary and sufficient conditions for a data-driven controller that guarantees that there is no other data-driven controller that uniformly (regardless of the underlying system) can outperform it in terms of average control cost. We discuss issues like direct vs indirect data-driven control from this perspective. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- October 10 at 15:30-16:15 Valentina Breschi, TU Eindhoven Title: Philosophies, promises and challenges of direct data-driven control Abstract: Direct data-driven control (DDC) has become a central focus in control research, advocating the direct use of data to achieve desired control objectives and, eventually, satisfy design constraints. By exploring a selected set of DDC techniques, this talk provides a (personal) take on the philosophy behind data-driven control, highlighting some of the promises that DDC approaches have already fulfilled and spotlighting some of the challenges yet to be faced. Bio: Valentina Breschi received her B.Sc. in Electronic and Telecommunication Engineering and her M.Sc. in Electrical and Automation Engineering from the University of Florence (Italy) in 2011 and 2014, respectively. She received her Ph.D. in Control Systems from IMT School for Advanced Studies Lucca (Italy) in 2018. From January to July 2017, she was a visiting scholar at the Department of Aerospace Engineering, University of Michigan (United States). From 2018 to 2020, she was a post-doctoral researcher at Politecnico di Milano (Italy), where she then held a fixed-term position as a junior Assistant Professor from 2020 to 2023. In 2023, she joined the Department of Electrical Engineering at Eindhoven University of Technology (The Netherlands) as an Assistant Professor. Her main research interests include data-driven control, system identification, with a focus on piecewise affine and switching systems, collaborative learning, and human-centered policy design, focusing on mobility systems. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- October 10 at 16:20-17:05 Babak Hassibi, Caltech Title: Distributionally Robust Control Abstract: Traditional methods in control either assume that the disturbances are random processes with known statistics (stochastic or H_2 control) or that they are adversarial (robust or H_infinity control). Recently, there has been growing interest in a framework, called distributional robustness, that can interpolate between these two extremes. In distributionally robust control one assumes that the disturbances have a distribution that lies in a given uncertainty set and the goal is to design a controller that minimizes the worst case expected control cost over all distributions in this set. A not-very-well-known fact is that, if the uncertainty set is a Kullback-Liebler ball around a nominal Gaussian distribution, then distributionally-optimal controllers are given by central H_infinity controllers. These days Wasserstein-2 balls are mostly considered for distributional robustness because, unlike KL divergence, they do not require the support of all the distributions within the ball to be identical, and because of their connections to optimal transport theory. In this talk we consider the problem of designing distributionally robust optimal (DRO) controllers in the Wasserstien-2 metric. We characterize the optimal control policy and show that, although it lacks a finite-order state-space realization (i.e., it is non-rational), it can be characterized by a finite-dimensional parameter. Leveraging this, we develop an efficient frequency-domain algorithm to compute the optimal control policy and present a convex optimization method to construct a rational state-space controller that best approximates the optimal non-rational controller in the H_infinity norm. This approach leads to efficiently computable control strategies and we demonstrate its advantages over conventional H_2 and H_infinity control through several examples. _______________________________________________ Regler mailing list -- regler(a)list.control.lth.se To unsubscribe send an email to regler-leave(a)list.control.lth.se

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FW: Anmodan att nominera personer till uppdrag inom LTH - Deadline 241031 resp 250301
by Karl-Erik Årzén 04 Oct '24

04 Oct '24

Hi Time to nominate persons to the different LTH boards (recruitment, career, undergraduate education, research education, research) plus program directors for the different education programs. It would be good if we could propose at least one person from our department. Any volunteers? We will discuss this at the Teacher’s Meeting on Monday. /Karl-Erik From: Katarina Celander-Öhrström <katarina.celander-ohrstrom(a)lth.lu.se> Sent: Thursday, 3 October 2024 16:31 To: LTH - prefekter <prefekter(a)lth.lu.se>; LTH - LTHs kansli - LGGU <lths_kansli_-_lggu(a)lth.lu.se>; LTH - Forskarutbildningsnämnden <forskarutbildningsnamnden(a)lth.lu.se>; LTH - Forskningsnämnden <forskningsnamnden(a)lth.lu.se>; LTH - LTHs kansli - studierektorer FU <lths_kansli_-_studierektorer_fu(a)lth.lu.se>; LTH - studierektorer GU <studierektorer_gu(a)lth.lu.se>; LTH - LTHs kansli - programledare <lths_kansli_-_programledare(a)lth.lu.se>; LTH - LTHs kansli - biträdande programledare <lths_kansli_-_bitradande_programledare(a)lth.lu.se>; LTH - LTHs kansli - Masterföreståndare <lths_kansli_-_masterforestandare(a)lth.lu.se>; Mattias Kärrholm <mattias.karrholm(a)abm.lth.se>; Josefin Starkhammar <josefin.starkhammar(a)bme.lth.se>; Elizabeth Blackburn <elizabeth.blackburn(a)sljus.lu.se>; Fredrik Olsson <fredrik.olsson(a)iml.lth.se>; Åsa Håkansson <asa.hakansson(a)ple.lth.se>; Alfredo Mendoza <alfredo.mendoza(a)tg.lth.se>; Ulf Nilsson <ulf.nilsson(a)chem.lu.se>; Maria Kihl <maria.kihl(a)eit.lth.se>; Christelle Prinz <christelle.prinz(a)ftf.lth.se>; Maria Fredriksson <maria.fredriksson(a)byggtek.lth.se>; Jan-Olle Malm <jan-olle.malm(a)chem.lu.se>; Maria Antfolk <maria.antfolk(a)bme.lth.se>; Joakim Pagels <joakim.pagels(a)design.lth.se> Cc: Annika Olsson <annika.olsson(a)lth.lu.se>; Beatrice Nordlöf <beatrice.nordlof(a)lth.lu.se>; Kristofer Modig <kristofer.modig(a)lth.lu.se>; Annika Mårtensson <annika.martensson(a)lth.lu.se>; Margaret Mcnamee <margaret.mcnamee(a)lth.lu.se>; Johan Revstedt <johan.revstedt(a)energy.lth.se>; Veronica Gummesson <veronica.gummesson(a)lth.lu.se>; Andrea Nord <andrea.nord(a)lth.lu.se>; Mirjana Ristevska <mirjana.ristevska(a)lth.lu.se>; Katarina Celander-Öhrström <katarina.celander-ohrstrom(a)lth.lu.se>; Anne Liljendahl <anne.liljendahl(a)lth.lu.se>; Ying Pan <ying.pan(a)lth.lu.se>; Zelda Thunberg <zelda.thunberg(a)lth.lu.se>; Elin Tranberg <elin.tranberg(a)lth.lu.se>; Charlotta Holmgren <charlotta.holmgren(a)lth.lu.se>; Kristin Scott <kristin.scott(a)lth.lu.se> Subject: Anmodan att nominera personer till uppdrag inom LTH - Deadline 241031 resp 250301 Hej, Nedan finner ni en uppmaning om att nominera ledamöter till Rekryteringsnämnden, Karriärnämnden, Ledningsgruppen för grundutbildning (LGGU), Forskarutbildningsnämnden (FUN) och Forskningsnämnden (FN) samt till uppdrag för bemanning av programledningar. Ni inbjuds nu att föreslå personer till: * Rekryteringsnämnden och Karriärnämnden för mandatperioden 2025-01-01-- 2027-12-31. Nuvarande mandatperiod löper ut 2024-12-31 och det är därför dags att rekrytera ledamöter för nästa mandatperiod. Vi är tacksamma om ni vill ge förslag på personer som är intresserade och lämpliga för uppdrag som ledamot i Rekryteringsnämnd och Karriärnämnd. Här behöver vi ert bidrag senast 2024-10-31, gärna tidigare. * Ledningsgruppen för grundutbildning (LGGU), Forskarutbildningsnämnden (FUN) och Forskningsnämnden (FN) samt till uppdrag för bemanning av programledningar för mandatperioden 2025-07-01 – 2028-06-30. Nuvarande mandatperiod löper ut 2025-06-30 och det är därför dags att rekrytera ledamöter för nästa mandatperiod. Vi är tacksamma om ni vill ge förslag på personer som är intresserade och lämpliga för ett eller flera av uppdragen som ledamot i Ledningsgruppen för grundutbildning (LGGU), Forskarutbildningsnämnden (FUN) och Forskningsnämnden (FN) och/eller till uppdrag för bemanning av programledningar Här behöver ert bidrag senast 2025-03-01, gärna tidigare. Bifogat finns: * Bilaga som kortfattat beskriver vad uppdragen innebär samt länk till LTH:s Arbetsordning STYR 2024/24 och Delegationsordning STYR 2024/1727 på LTHin. * Blankett för ”Nominering av person för uppdrag inom LTH:s organisation” som ska fyllas i. Planen är att nya ledamöter till Rekryteringsnämnd och Karriärnämnd ska kunna utses i slutet av november 2024 och till övriga uppdrag i slutet av maj 2025. Till dig som vill nominera en ledamot: Du har möjlighet och kan nominera både dig själv och/eller andra personer. Av bifogad nomineringsblankett framgår att man ska uppge om den person man vill nominera är tillfrågad och kan tänka sig åta sig uppdraget och om prefekt är tillfrågad och har godkänt att den nominerade åtar sig uppdraget. Till dig som är prefekt: Vi ber prefekter inkomma med förslag på de ledamöter som föreslås sitta kvar, men även att nominera nya ledamöter. Vid sidan om dessa processer pågår ytterligare en process om tillsättning av studierektorer för grundutbildning och studierektorer för forskarutbildning vars mandatperiod löper ut 24-12-31. Vid varje institution ska det utses en studierektor för grundutbildning och forskarutbildning LTH:s rektor utser studierektorer. Vi ber därför prefekter inkomma med förslag på studierektorer senast 2024-10-31. LTHs ledning måste ta hänsyn till många parametrar i rekryteringen av nya ledamöter. Vi vill poängtera att en nominering eller önskan om omval inte ger en garanti för att bli utsedd. Vi ser fram emot många förslag! Nomineringar och frågor rörande de olika nämnderna samt uppdrag skickas till: Katarina Celander-Öhrström katarina.celander-ohrstrom(a)lth.lu.se<mailto:katarina.celander-ohrstrom@lth.lu.se> Ha dé gott 😊/ Katarina Katarina Celander-Öhrström Administrativ koordinator Lunds Tekniska Högskola | LTHs Kansli Box 118, 221 00 Lund Besöksadress Kårhuset, John Ericssons väg 3 Telefon +46 46-222 17 78 E-post katarina.celander-ohrstrom(a)lth.lu.se<mailto:katarina.celander-ohrstrom@lth.lu.se> Mobiltelefon +46 72 225 71 88 Hemsida www.lth.se<http://www.lth.se/> [cid:image001.png@01DB14C8.5E854A90] Dina personuppgifter behandlas i enlighet med gällande lagstiftning. Mer om hur personuppgifter behandlas hittar du på Lunds universitets webbplats: www.lu.se/integritet<http://www.lu.se/integritet> Emails to Lund University are processed in accordance with existing legislation. Visit the Lund University website at: https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/about/contact-us/processing-of-personal-da… for more information.

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