Piecewise Smooth Dynamical Systems: Analysis, Numerics and Applications

University of Bristol, 13th-16th September 2004

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Programme

Note that the meeting overlapped with the third general meeting of SICONOS (Simulation and Control of NonSmooth Systems), a Framework V EU Project, and that sessions on Wednesday afternoon and Thursday morning were shared; see also the programme for the SICONOS meeting.

Monday 13th September 2004

12:00 Arrival and registration.
12:30 Lunch
14:00 James Yorke (University of Maryland, USA)
Border collisions and other weird situations that frequently occur
SJH
15:00 Chris Budd (University of Bath, UK)
Simple and complex impact oscillators and their bifurcations
SJH
16:00 Coffee & tea
16:30 Lawrence Virgin (Duke University, USA)
Piecewise smooth systems: Interrogating the robustness of behavior using perturbations
ARC

Tuesday 14th September 2004

9.00 Yuri Kuznetsov (Utrecht University, Netherlands)
Continuation of sliding bifurcations in SlideCont 2.0
PK
9.45 Arne Nordmark (KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden)
Grazing bifurcations of non-hyperbolic limit cycles in impacting systems
PK
10.30 Coffee & tea
11.00 Fabio Dercole (Politecnico di Milano, Italy)
Border collision bifurcations in the evolution of mutualistic interactions
MdB
11.45 Soumitro Banerjee (Indian Institute of Technology)
Different types of border collision bifurcations in piecewise smooth maps
MdB
12.30 Lunch
14.00 Ian Hiskens (University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA)
Shooting Methods for Locating Grazing Phenomena in Hybrid Systems
MEH
14.45 Karl Johansson (KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden)
Dynamical properties of hybrid automata
MEH
15.30 Coffee & tea
16.00 Posters

Wednesday 15th September 2004

9.00 Vladimir Babitsky (Loughborough University, UK)
Excitation and control of micro-vibro-impact mode of ill defined time-varying nonlinear dynamical structure for ultrasonic applications
PP
9.45 Harry Dankowicz (Virginia Tech, USA)
Discontinuity-driven design and control of an impact microactuator
PP
10.30 Coffee & tea
11.00 Enric Fossas (Technical University of Catalonia, Spain)
SMC applications in Power Electronics
MEH
11.45 Mikael Johansson (KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden)
Computational Analysis of Piecewise Linear Systems
MEH
12.30 Lunch
14.00 Zhanybai Zhusubalyiev (Kursk State Technical University, Russia)
Torus Birth Bifurcations in Piecewice-Smooth Dynamical Systems
MdB
14:45 Marian Wiercigroch (University of Aberdeen, UK)
Piecewise-Smooth Models in Engineering Dynamics
MdB
15.30 Coffee & tea
16.00 Manfred Morari (Institute of Automatics, ETH Zürich, Switzerland)
Hybrid Systems - A Control Engineering Perspective
MdB
19:00 Banquet (Goldney Orangery)

Thursday 16th September 2004

9.00 Karl Popp (Universität Hannover, Germany)
Modelling and Control of Friction Induced Vibrations
SJH
10.00 Bernard Brogliato (INRIA, Grenoble)
Analysis of nonsmooth systems (Introduction to SICONOS WP1)
SJH
10.45 Coffee & tea
11.15 Pierre Alart (Montpelier) & Vincent Acary (INRIA, Grenoble)
Numerical algorithms and software platform (SICONOS WP2)
ARC
12.00 Kanat Camlibel (Tilburg University, Netherlands)
Control of nonsmooth systems (SICONOS WP5)
ARC
12.45 Lunch & SICONOS poster session
14.30 Meeting closes