"Feedback Control and Information"

Abstract:

There has been much recent interest in the relationship between Feedback Control and Information content. In this talk I will present this from a feedback control perspective, and look at some of the motivations for this, together with some of the results currently available.

Bio:

Richard H. Middleton (S’84–M’86–SM’94–F’99) was born in 1961 in Newcastle, Australia. He received the Ph.D. degree in 1987 from the University of Newcastle. He is currently a Research Professor with the The Hamilton Institute National University of Ireland Maynooth Co Kildare, Ireland He is also a Senior Research Associate with the ARC Centre for Complex Dynamic Systems and Control. He is a Fellow of IEEE, has served as an associate editor of the IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, and on Control System Technology; and Automatica, and is currently Vice President (Conference Activities) of the IEEE Control System Society. His research interests include a broad range of Control Systems Theory and Applications.

Wednesday, November 7

3:30-4:30

2315 GG Brown