Institute for Systems Research  
 


search


ISR     UMD

Search ISR news archives



Spring 2008

Applications of Formal Methods in Model-Based Development of Embedded Control Systems

Reception
Thursday, May 1
4:30 p.m.
1115 Computer Science Instructional Center (CSIC)

Lecture | PDF flyer |
Thursday, May 1
5:00 p.m.
1115 Computer Science Instructional Center (CSIC)

Roundtable discussion
Friday, May 2
10:00 a.m.
1146 AV Williams Building

DLSBruce Krogh
Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Carnegie Mellon University

 

 


Abstract
In many applications, testing accounts for a significant portion of the time and cost to develop and deploy control systems, and projections indicate that the cost of testing will be prohibitive for future systems using current methods for verification and certification. To reduce testing, new methods are needed for guaranteeing the correctness of control system implementations at design time, and these methods need to become an integral part of the system certification process. This talk will review possible ways that formal methods can be used in model-based development to help reduce testing and some recent developments in verification methods for hybrid systems will be presented. The talk will conclude with some observations concerning the use of formal methods for design.

Biography
Bruce H. Krogh is professor of electrical and computer engineering at Carnegie Mellon University. He is a past Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control and Discrete Event Dynamic Systems: Theory and Applications, and founding Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology. Dr. Krogh is a Distinguished Member of the IEEE Control Systems Society and a Fellow of the IEEE. His current research interests include design and verification of embedded control systems, discrete event and hybrid dynamic systems, and information processing in wireless sensor networks.

Previous Distinguished Lecturers

2008

Wednesday, April 16, 2008
4G Wireless Technology Vision
Siavash M. Alamouti
Intel Fellow, Mobility Group
Chief Technology Officer
Mobility Wireless Group
Intel Corporation
| PDF flyer |

2007

Tuesday, Dec. 4, 2007
Microsystems engineering at the interface of physics, biology and chemistry: Where are we now and where are we heading?
Andreas G. Andreou
Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering and Computer Science
Whitaker Biomedical Engineering Institute
Center for Language and Speech Processing
Johns Hopkins University
| video |PDF flyer |

Monday, Oct. 15, 2007
Systems Biology: How Can Control Engineers Help to Understand Biology?
Frank Allgöwer
Director, Institute for Systems Theory and Automatic Control
Professor, Mechanical Engineering Department
University of Stuttgart, Germany
| no video available | PDF flyer |

Monday, March 26, 2007
Feedback Fundamentals: Old and New
Petar V. Kokotovic
Professor, Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering
University of California Santa Barbara
| video | PDF flyer |

Tuesday, February 13
Understanding the Simulation of Mobility Models
Jean-Yves Le Boudec
Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)
Lausanne, Switzerland
| PDF flyer |

2006

Tuesday, November 7, 2006
Listening in a cocktail party with acoustic and electric hearing

Bob Carlyon
Medical Research Council
Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit
University of Cambridge
Cambridge, England
| video | PDF flyer |

Tuesday, September 19      
The Emerging Science of Spontaneous Order

Steven Strogatz
Professor, Theoretical and Applied Mathematics
Cornell University
| video |PDF flyer |

Tuesday, May 2
Control Systems Theory and a Qualitative/Quantitative Approach to Systems Biology
Eduardo Sontag
Department of Mathematics
BioMaPS Institute for Quantitative Biology, Computer Science and Electrical and Computer Engineering Rutgers University
| PDF flyer |

Tuesday, March 7
Hybrid Systems and Control
S. Shankar Sastry
Director, Center for Information Technology in the Interest of Society
NEC Distinguished Professor of EECS and Professor of Bioengineering
University of California, Berkeley
| video | PDF flyer |

2005

Tuesday, November 15
Signal Processing and Wireless Networks
H. Vincent Poor
George Van Ness Lothrop Professor in Engineering
Department of Electrical Engineering, Princeton University
| PDF flyer |

Tuesday, October 11
Robust and Adaptive Optimization:
A Tractable Approach to Optimization under Uncertainty

Dimitris Bertsimas, Ph.D.
Boeing Professor of Operations Research
Sloan School of Management; Operations Research Center
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
| video | PDF flyer |

Tuesday, April 12
The Operational Semantics of Hybrid Systems
Edward A. Lee
Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, University of California at Berkeley
| video | PDF flyer |

Wednesday, March 9
Decoding the Human Genome by Multi-Species Sequence Comparisons
Eric D. Green, M.D., Ph.D.
National Human Genome Research Institute, National Institutes of Health
| video | PDF flyer |

2004

Tuesday and Wednesday, November 16 and 17
Cell Talk
Bhubaneswar “Bud” Mishra
Professor of Computer Science, Mathematics & Cell Biology (Courant Institute & NYU School of Medicine) New York University
| video | PDF flyer |

Wednesday, October 13
A Unified View of Temporal Difference Methods for Neuro-Dynamic Programming
Dimitri P. Bertsekas
McAfee Professor of Engineering, Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
| video | PDF flyer |

Friday, April 16
From Hierarchies to Polyarchies: Visualizing Multiple Relationships
George G. Robertson, ACM Fellow and Senior Researcher, Microsoft Research
| video | PDF flyer |

Friday, Feb. 20
Dynamics in Genetic Networks
Leon Glass, FRSC, Isadore Rosenfeld Chair in Cardiology and Professor of Physiology, McGill University, Montreal, Canada
| video | PDF flyer |

2003

Thursday, Dec. 18
New Perspective on Wolfram’s ‘New Kind of Science’
Leon O. Chua; University of California, Berkeley; Berkeley, Calif.
| video | PDF flyer |

Monday, Oct. 20 and Tuesday, Oct. 21
Automated Synthesis of High-Performance Planners and Schedulers
Douglas Smith, Kestrel Institute, Palo Alto, Calif.
| PDF flyer |

Friday, April 18
Scientific Discovery through Advanced Computing
Alan J. Laub, Office of Science, U.S. Department of Energy
| PDF flyer |

Friday, March 14
Swarm Intelligence
Eric Bonabeau, Icosystem Corp., Cambridge, Mass.
| PDF flyer |

2002

December 6
Algorithmic Aspects of the Internet
Christos Papadimitriou, University of California, Berkeley
| PDF flyer |

October 25
Video Re-Coding
Bede Liu, Princeton University
| PDF flyer |

 

 

   
Back to top      
Clark School Home UMD Home ISR Home