Control and Optimization with Differential-Algebraic Constraints (10w5029)

Objectives

Our proposal is for this essential workshop. It would bring together researchers from a variety of areas including mathematics, applied mathematics, chemical engineering, aeronautics, and mechanical and electrical engineering. Both senior and young scientists from academia and industry would be invited. They would be able to share the state of the art in their respective areas and to indicate new and fruitful directions of enquiry. New collaborations would be established and new directions of research initiated.

In particular, the workshop should cover the following closely intertwined topics in the analysis, control, and application of DAEs: optimal control of DAEs, maximum principles for DAEs, direct transcription methods, feedback control for DAEs (stabilization, regularization), perturbation theory and distance to the nearest singular/high index problem, control of delay DAEs, control of hybrid and switched DAEs, analysis of descriptor systems, numerical methods for DAE control problems, model reduction for large scale descriptor systems, model predictive control for DAEs, DAE control applications in chemical engineering, DAE control applications in circuits, and DAE control applications in mechanics.