Second Workshop on Computational Issues in Nonlinear Control

研究人员正在组织第二届非线性控制计算问题研讨会，该研讨会将于2011年11月上半月在加州蒙特雷举行。本次研讨会将汇集非线性控制数值方法领域以及相关计算方法领域的顶尖研究人员。这将包括来自美国、欧洲和澳大利亚的研究人员。此外，研讨会参与者的很大一部分将包括研究生，博士后研究员和初级教师。来自美国西南部不太知名机构的研究人员，特别是加州州立大学系统的成员也将被邀请。除了PI， W. McEneaney教授（加州大学圣地亚哥分校），组织者还包括W. McEneaney教授。海军研究生院的W. Kang和A.J. Krener。会议的网址是http://www.nps.edu/Academics/Schools/GSEAS/Departments/Math/pdf_sources/MWCINC2.pdf。非线性控制理论的主要发展大约发生在半个世纪以前。当然，从那以后，这一理论得到了进一步的发展。然而，在过去的几十年里，由于缺乏足够快速和鲁棒的相关数值方法，这一理论的应用严重滞后。一个特别令人烦恼的问题是所谓的“维数诅咒”（curse of dimensionality），从广义上讲，指的是这些问题的标准数值方法使得计算需求随着问题复杂性呈指数级增长。事实上，控制方面的许多进步在一定程度上是为了避免这种数字瓶颈。近年来，许多引人注目的新方法已经开发出来，以解决基本的计算困难。在本次研讨会上，我们将分享正在进行的发展，以加快这一进程。

The investigators are organizing the Second Workshop on Computational Issues in Nonlinear Control, which will be held in Monterey, California during the first half of November, 2011. This workshop will bring together top researchers in the areas of numerical methods for nonlinear control as well as related areas of computational methods. This will include researchers from the US, Europe and Australia. Further, a significant portion of the workshop attendees will include graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, and junior faculty. Researchers from lesser-known institutions within the southwestern US, specifically including members of the CalState system will be invited as well. In addition to the PI, Prof. W. McEneaney (UC San Diego), the organizers include Profs. W. Kang and A.J. Krener of the Naval Postgraduate School. The website of the conference is http://www.nps.edu/Academics/Schools/GSEAS/Departments/Math/pdf_sources/MWCINC2.pdf .Major developments in the theory of nonlinear control began taking place roughly a half-century ago. Of course, further advances in the theory have been made since. However, over the intervening decades, application of this theory has seriously lagged due to the lack of sufficiently fast and robust associated numerical methods. A particularly vexing problem has been the so-called curse-of-dimensionality, which loosely speaking, refers to the fact that standard numerical methods for these problems have been such that the computational requirements grow exponentially with problem complexity. In fact, numerous advances in control were partly motivated as means for avoiding this numerical bottleneck. In recent years, a number of remarkable new approaches have been developed to combat the fundamental computational difficulties. At this workshop, we will share ongoing developments in order to accelerate this progress.