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 Registration8:15-8:30 / 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
3:10-3:40 / Coffee Break
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
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
10:10-10:40 / Coffee Break
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-TimeStatus: How Often Should One Update?
2:45 / K. Poularakis, Leandros Tassiulas (Yale University)
In-network caching schemes for effective information delivery
3:10-3:40 / Coffee Break
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 SystemsHelp Overcome Hazards Posedby 20,000 Pieces of Space Junk Orbiting the Earth?
6:00 / Reception
Friday -- June 26, 2015
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
10:10-10:40 / Coffee Break
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
3:10-3:40 / Coffee Break
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