The Seventeenth Yale Workshop
on Adaptive and Learning Systems
Center for Systems Science
Dunham Laboratory, Yale University
New Haven, Connecticut
Program
June 24 - 26, 2015
Wednesday -- June 24, 2015
7:45-8:15 am
Coffee and Registration
8:15-8:30
Welcoming Remarks: Kumpati S. Narendra (Yale University)
Neuroscience Chairperson: Justus Verhagen
8:30
Gordon M. Shepherd (Yale University)
Building and Navigating the Brain Connectome: Significance for Adaptive
Behavior
8:55
David A. McCormick (Yale University)
Neural Mechanisms of Optimal State for Signal Detection
9:20
Michael N. Nitabach (Yale University)
Neural Control of Economic Decision Making
9:45
Justus Verhagen (Yale University)
Assessment of the Detectability of Neural Dynamics in Smell
10:10-10:40
Coffee Break
Human Motor Control Chairperson: N. Peter Reeves
10:40
Stephen H. Scott (Queen’s University, Canada)
Using principles of optimal feedback control to explore voluntary movements
11:05
John G. Milton, T. Insperger (The Claremont Colleges)
Sensory uncertainty and time delay in neural feedback control
11:30
N. Peter Reeves, L.E. Cofre Lizama, J.H. vanDieen (Michigan State University)
Lateral balance control in elderly
Noon-1:30pm
Lunch
Chairperson: Kumpati S. Narendra
1:30
Lea A. Deleris (IBM Research, Ireland)
Cognitive Decision Making : Bridging the Theory Practice Divide
Bio-Engineering Chairperson: Aniruddha Datta
1:55
Aniruddha Datta (Texas A&M University)
Modeling and Inference of the MAP Kinase Cascade in Plant-Pathogen
Interaction
2:20
Xiaoning Qian (Texas A&M University)
Bi-level Optimization for Optimal Gene Knockouts for Targeted Overproduction
under Phenotypic Constraints
2:45
Silvia Ferrari (Cornell University)
Spike-based Learning and Neurocontrol
3:10-3:40
Coffee Break
Social Interaction Chairperson: Joᾶo B. D. Cabrera
3:40
Peter Marbach (University of Toronto, Canada)
Mathematical Modeling of Social Networks
4:05
Mathias J. Feiler (LGT Capital, Switzerland)
An Agent Model of Conversation
4:30
Kumpati S. Narendra and P. Harshangi (Yale University)
Adaptation Without a Reference Model: or How do we Learn from Each Other?.
6:00
Reception – Peabody Museum
Thursday -- June 25, 2015
7:45-8:30 am
Coffee
Adaptive Control Chairperson: Anuradha M. Annaswamy
8:30
Eugene Lavretsky (Boeing)
Robust and Adaptive Control Technologies for Flight Critical Systems
8:55
S. Yang, K. Hashemi, and Maruthi R. Akella (UT, Austin)
Dynamic Scaling Based Adaptive Controllers for Aeroelastic Systems
9:20
Gang Tao (University of Virginia and NUAA) and Y. Zhang
Adaptive Approximation-Based Control of Non-Canonical Nonlinear Systems
9:45
Y. Yang, Cheng Xiang and T. H. Lee (National University of Singapore)
Data-driven Identification and Control of Nonlinear Systems Using Multiple
NARMA-L2 Models
10:10-10:40
Coffee Break
Adaptation and Dynamic Programming
Chairperson: Maruthi Akella
10:40
T. Gibson and Anuradha M. Annaswamy (MIT)
Transient Performance, Synchronization, and Learning in Adaptive Systems
11:05
V. Narayanan, A. Sahoo and Jagannathan Sarangapani
(Missouri University of Science and Technology)
Adaptive Optimal Regulation of Uncertain Linear Discrete-time Systems using
Event Sampled Q-Learning and Adaptive Dynamic Programming
11:30
Derong Liu ( University of Illinois at Chicago)
New Development of Adaptive Dynamic Programming for Intelligent Control
Noon-1:30pm
Lunch
Chairperson: Kumpati S. Narendra
1:30
Dimitris Gerogiannis (Aegean Airlines)
Mundane Optimization Problems from the Professional life of a Yale Graduate
Networks
Chairperson: Robert N. Shorten
1:55
Sekhar Tatikonda and P. Rebeschini (Yale University)
Locality in Network Optimization
2:20
Roy D. Yates (Rutgers University)
Real-Time Status: How Often Should One Update?
2:45
K. Poularakis, Leandros Tassiulas (Yale University)
In-network caching schemes for effective information delivery
3:10-3:40
Coffee Break
Optimization
Chairperson: Manuel A. Duarte-Mermoud
3:40
O. Cihan and Mehmet Akar (Boğaziçi University, Turkey)
Mixing Rate Optimization of Markov Chains with Degree Proportional
Stationary Distributions
4:05
Sergiy Zhuk (IBM Research, Ireland)
Parked Cars and the Ricatti Equation
Chairperson : Kumpati S. Narendra
4:30
John L. Junkins (Texas A&M University)
Question: How Can Computational Methods from Dynamical Systems Help
Overcome Hazards Posed by 20,000 Pieces of Space Junk Orbiting the Earth?
6:00
Reception
Friday -- June 26, 2015
7:45-8:30 am
Coffee
Optimization, Switching and Adaptation
Chairperson: Richard Longman
8:30
Joᾶo B. D. Cabrera (BAE Systems)
Three Problems in Sensor Switching and Adaptation
8:55
K. Koshy George and V. Ravi (PES University, India)
Tracking Rapidly Moving Signal Sources Using an Array of Sensors
9:20
Robert Shorten (IBM Research, Ireland)
Cyberphysics and smart cities: Smart Procurement of Naturally Generated
Energy (SPONGE) for Plug-in Vehicles
9:45
Manuel A. Duarte-Mermoud and N. Águila-Camacho (University of Chile)
Some Advances on the Stability of Fractional Order Adaptive Control
10:10-10:40
Coffee Break
Learning
Chairperson: Mathias J. Feiler
10:40
Snehasis Mukhopadhyay (IUPUI), K. S. Narendra, Y. Wang and L. Brink
Reinforcement Learning using Multiple Models
11:05
Richard W. Longman (Columbia University)
Characterizing the Learning Compromise Needed in Repetitive Control for High
Frequency Error Harmonics
11:30
Raman K. Mehra, A. Gandhe and Ssu-hsin Yu (Scientific Systems Co, Inc)
Nonparametric Bayesian Machine Learning for Heterogeneous BigData using
CrossCat with Applications
Noon-1:30pm
Lunch
Chairperson : Kumpati S. Narendra
1:30
Jose C. Principe (University of Florida)
Dynamical Systems for Space-Time Structure Discovery
Robotics I
Chairperson: Stefan Schaal
1:55
C. J. McFarland and Louis L. Whitcomb (Johns Hopkins University)
Experimental Evaluation of Adaptive Model-Based Control for Underwater
Vehicles in the Presence of Unmodeled Actuator Dynamics
2:20
Aaron M. Dollar (Yale University),
Model-free Object Classification with Adaptive Hands
2:45
Toshio Fukuda (Nagoya University, Japan)
Usage of a Cane for Multi-Locomotion Robot
3:10-3:40
Coffee Break
Robotics II
Chairperson: Louis L. Whitcomb
3:40
Stefan Schaal (University of Southern California)
Towards Associative Skill Memories
4:05
Matthew T. Mason (Carnegie Mellon University)
Learning to Manipulate
4:30
Alfred Rizzi (Boston Dynamics)
Using Hybrid Control to Program Complex Behavior
6:00
Reception