Nikolaos Bekiaris-Liberis
Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
University of California at San Diego
San Diego, CA, USA
Email: [email protected]
Abstract
State-dependent delays are ubiquitous in applications, such as, for example, 3D printing and oil drilling. I will formulate the problem of the control of nonlinear systems with state-dependent delays on the input. I will suggest a solution to this problem by designing a “nonlinear predictor feedback” law that compensates the input delay. I will introduce the concept of nonlinear predictor feedback starting from nonlinear systems with constant delays all the way through to predictor feedback for nonlinear systems with state-dependent delays.
Biography
Nikolaos Bekiaris-Liberis received his PhD degree in Aerospace Engineering from the University of California, San Diego in June 2013. He has coauthored the upcoming SIAM book “Nonlinear Control under Nonconstant Delays.” Bekiaris-Liberis taught tutorials on control of nonlinear delay systems at the 2012 IEEE Conference on Decision and Control and within the European Embedded Control Institute in 2013. Bekiaris-Liberis was finalist for the student best paper award at the 2010 ASME Dynamic Systems and Control Conference. His interests are in distributed parameter systems, nonlinear control, and applications in automotive engines and catalysts, additive manufacturing and manufacturing processes, oil drilling and production, networks, traffic systems, robotics, biological systems, and energy systems.
