The Seventeenth Yale Workshop

The Seventeenth Yale Workshop on Adaptive and Learning Systems

Center for Systems Science Dunham Laboratory, Yale University New Haven, Connecticut

Program June 24 - 26, 2015 Wednesday -- June 24, 2015

7:45-8:15 am Coffee and Registration

8:15-8:30 Welcoming Remarks: Kumpati S. Narendra (Yale University)

Neuroscience Chairperson: Justus Verhagen

8:30 Gordon M. Shepherd (Yale University) Building and Navigating the Brain Connectome: Significance for Adaptive Behavior

8:55 David A. McCormick (Yale University) Neural Mechanisms of Optimal State for Signal Detection

9:20 Michael N. Nitabach (Yale University) Neural Control of Economic Decision Making

9:45 Justus Verhagen (Yale University) Assessment of the Detectability of Neural Dynamics in Smell

10:10-10:40 Coffee Break

Human Motor Control Chairperson: N. Peter Reeves

10:40 Stephen H. Scott (Queen’s University, Canada) Using principles of optimal feedback control to explore voluntary movements

11:05 John G. Milton, T. Insperger (The Claremont Colleges) Sensory uncertainty and time delay in neural feedback control

11:30 N. Peter Reeves, L.E. Cofre Lizama, J.H. vanDieen (Michigan State University) Lateral balance control in elderly

Noon-1:30pm Lunch

Chairperson: Kumpati S. Narendra 1:30 Lea A. Deleris (IBM Research, Ireland) Cognitive Decision Making : Bridging the Theory Practice Divide

Bio-Engineering Chairperson: Aniruddha Datta 1:55 Aniruddha Datta (Texas A&M University) Modeling and Inference of the MAP Kinase Cascade in Plant-Pathogen Interaction

2:20 Xiaoning Qian (Texas A&M University) Bi-level Optimization for Optimal Gene Knockouts for Targeted Overproduction under Phenotypic Constraints

2:45 Silvia Ferrari (Cornell University) Spike-based Learning and Neurocontrol

Social Interaction Chairperson: Joᾶo B. D. Cabrera

3:40 Peter Marbach (University of Toronto, Canada) Mathematical Modeling of Social Networks

4:05 Mathias J. Feiler (LGT Capital, Switzerland) An Agent Model of Conversation

4:30 Kumpati S. Narendra and P. Harshangi (Yale University) Adaptation Without a Reference Model: or How do we Learn from Each Other?.

6:00 Reception – Peabody Museum Thursday -- June 25, 2015

7:45-8:30 am Coffee

Adaptive Control Chairperson: Anuradha M. Annaswamy

8:30 Eugene Lavretsky (Boeing) Robust and Adaptive Control Technologies for Flight Critical Systems

8:55 S. Yang, K. Hashemi, and Maruthi R. Akella (UT, Austin) Dynamic Scaling Based Adaptive Controllers for Aeroelastic Systems

9:20 Gang Tao (University of Virginia and NUAA) and Y. Zhang Adaptive Approximation-Based Control of Non-Canonical Nonlinear Systems

9:45 Y. Yang, Cheng Xiang and T. H. Lee (National University of Singapore) Data-driven Identification and Control of Nonlinear Systems Using Multiple NARMA-L2 Models

Adaptation and Dynamic Programming Chairperson: Maruthi Akella

10:40 T. Gibson and Anuradha M. Annaswamy (MIT) Transient Performance, Synchronization, and Learning in Adaptive Systems

11:05 V. Narayanan, A. Sahoo and Jagannathan Sarangapani (Missouri University of Science and Technology) Adaptive Optimal Regulation of Uncertain Linear Discrete-time Systems using Event Sampled Q-Learning and Adaptive Dynamic Programming

11:30 Derong Liu ( University of Illinois at Chicago) New Development of Adaptive Dynamic Programming for Intelligent Control

Noon-1:30pm Lunch

Chairperson: Kumpati S. Narendra

1:30 Dimitris Gerogiannis (Aegean Airlines) Mundane Optimization Problems from the Professional life of a Yale Graduate

Networks Chairperson: Robert N. Shorten

1:55 Sekhar Tatikonda and P. Rebeschini (Yale University) Locality in Network Optimization

2:20 Roy D. Yates (Rutgers University) Real-Time Status: How Often Should One Update?

2:45 K. Poularakis, Leandros Tassiulas (Yale University) In-network caching schemes for effective information delivery

Optimization Chairperson: Manuel A. Duarte-Mermoud

3:40 O. Cihan and Mehmet Akar (Boğaziçi University, Turkey) Mixing Rate Optimization of Markov Chains with Degree Proportional Stationary Distributions

4:05 Sergiy Zhuk (IBM Research, Ireland) Parked Cars and the Ricatti Equation

Chairperson : Kumpati S. Narendra

4:30 John L. Junkins (Texas A&M University) Question: How Can Computational Methods from Dynamical Systems Help Overcome Hazards Posed by 20,000 Pieces of Space Junk Orbiting the Earth?

6:00 Reception Friday -- June 26, 2015

7:45-8:30 am Coffee

Optimization, Switching and Adaptation Chairperson: Richard Longman

8:30 Joᾶo B. D. Cabrera (BAE Systems) Three Problems in Sensor Switching and Adaptation

8:55 K. Koshy George and V. Ravi (PES University, India) Tracking Rapidly Moving Signal Sources Using an Array of Sensors

9:20 Robert Shorten (IBM Research, Ireland) Cyberphysics and smart cities: Smart Procurement of Naturally Generated Energy (SPONGE) for Plug-in Vehicles

9:45 Manuel A. Duarte-Mermoud and N. Águila-Camacho (University of Chile) Some Advances on the Stability of Fractional Order Adaptive Control

Learning Chairperson: Mathias J. Feiler

10:40 Snehasis Mukhopadhyay (IUPUI), K. S. Narendra, Y. Wang and L. Brink Reinforcement Learning using Multiple Models

11:05 Richard W. Longman (Columbia University) Characterizing the Learning Compromise Needed in Repetitive Control for High Frequency Error Harmonics

11:30 Raman K. Mehra, A. Gandhe and Ssu-hsin Yu (Scientific Systems Co, Inc) Nonparametric Bayesian Machine Learning for Heterogeneous BigData using CrossCat with Applications

Noon-1:30pm Lunch

Chairperson : Kumpati S. Narendra

1:30 Jose C. Principe (University of Florida) Dynamical Systems for Space-Time Structure Discovery

Robotics I Chairperson: Stefan Schaal

1:55 C. J. McFarland and Louis L. Whitcomb (Johns Hopkins University) Experimental Evaluation of Adaptive Model-Based Control for Underwater Vehicles in the Presence of Unmodeled Actuator Dynamics

2:20 Aaron M. Dollar (Yale University), Model-free Object Classification with Adaptive Hands

2:45 Toshio Fukuda (Nagoya University, Japan) Usage of a Cane for Multi-Locomotion Robot

Robotics II Chairperson: Louis L. Whitcomb

3:40 Stefan Schaal (University of Southern California) Towards Associative Skill Memories

4:05 Matthew T. Mason (Carnegie Mellon University) Learning to Manipulate

4:30 Alfred Rizzi (Boston Dynamics) Using Hybrid Control to Program Complex Behavior

6:00 Reception