Titre : Neuromorphic control through the eyes of hybrid systems
Résumé : Neuromorphic engineering is an emerging research domain that aims to realize important implementation advantages that brain-inspired technologies can offer over classical digital technologies, including energy efficiency, adaptability, low latency, and robustness. Also, for future control systems neuromorphic engineering offers potential advantages, although systematic methods for the design of neuromorphic controllers are currently lacking. In this talk, we discuss ideas towards such design method for classes of neuromorphic controllers taking inspiration from event-based control and hybrid systems tools. We also discuss a control problem in nuclear fusion, where one of our neuromorphic control designs turns out to be of high potential.
Biographie : Maurice Heemels received M.Sc. (mathematics) and Ph.D. (EE, control theory) degrees (summa cum laude) from the Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e) in 1995 and 1999, respectively. From 2000 to 2004, he was with the Electrical Engineering Department, TU/e, as an assistant professor, and from 2004 to 2006 with TNO-Embedded Systems Institute as a Research Fellow. Since 2006, he has been with the Department of Mechanical Engineering, TU/e, where he is currently a Full Professor and Vice-Dean. He held visiting professor positions at ETH, Switzerland (2001), UCSB, USA (2008) and University of Lorraine, France (2020). He is a Fellow of IEEE and IFAC, and was the chair of the IFAC Technical Committee on Networked Systems (2017-2023). He served/s on the editorial boards of Automatica, Nonlinear Analysis: Hybrid Systems (NAHS), Annual Reviews in Control, and IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, and is the Editor-in-Chief of NAHS as of 2023. He was a recipient of a personal VICI grant awarded by NWO (Dutch Research Council) and an ERC Advanced Grant. He was the recipient of the 2019 IEEE L-CSS Outstanding Paper Award and the Automatica Paper Prize 2020-2022. He was elected for the IEEE-CSS Board of Governors (2021-2023) and will be the IPC chair for the IFAC World Congress 2029 in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. His current research includes hybrid and cyber-physical systems, networked, event-triggered and neuromorphic control systems and model predictive control and their applications.
