To complete the technical program during the lunch break slots, three exciting lunch lectures are offered. Two of them, on Wednesday and Friday, focus on the Industrial Pathway of academics in the industry and on experiences during sabbaticals for senior academics in the industry. The third lunch lecture is a tutorial organized by Mathworks introducing dynamic modeling and control design.
Please be informed that the lunch vouchers included in the conference fee are valid in the Ch@t café, which is located close to HS7 and offers snacks and beverages “to-go”.
Description: In this talk, two early-career researchers will discuss their experience at IBM Research. Examples of IBM Research projects will be provided, highlighting the balance between business and research contributions.
Sergiy Zhuk joined IBM Research after his postdoc.
Randy Cogill joined IBM Research after being a Professor in the US.
Description: In this tutorial we will show how to create a dynamic model of mechanical components of a robot arm by automatically importing CAD assembly from SolidWorks into Simulink. We will then explain how to model and calibrate DC motor actuators and how to combine electrical and mechanical components into the overall plant model. We will next demonstrate different control design methods including automatic tuning of individual PID controllers, as well as simultaneous, automatic tuning of the overall multi-loop decentralized control architecture. Finally, we will discuss different options for controller deployment, including deployment to dedicated target computers as well as low-cost hardware targets such as Arduino.
Description: Fabian Wirth joined IBM Research for a one year sabbatical. He can say describe the benefits of industry from the perspective of a very established Professor who is interested in the opportunity to apply systems engineering ideas to new problems, and using new problems to motivate new research in systems theory (the fuel in the tank).
