Particular attention was given to:
- Control over communication networks
- Security of CPS
- Resource-aware control
- Formal methods in control of CPS
- Hybrid systems
- Multi-agent systems
- Distributed and decentralized control
- Model predictive control
- Applications
The idea of the school was to initiate young graduate students into the field of CPS, therefore lectures were as much didactic as possible, possibly sacrificing the presentation of the most recent results in favor of a clear and deep exposition of the basic ones. As such, the presentations were in a lecture style (providing explanations, insights and overviews), rather than in a workshop/conference style.
About the school
DISC is the Dutch Institute of Systems and Control that
encompasses all researchers in systems and control in
the Netherlands.
DISC is providing PhD courses for the PhD students in
control in the Netherlands throughout the year, which
are taught by leading scientists in the field, see,
for instance, here.
Next to PhD courses, DISC has also organised a DISC
summer school on various control and control-related
topics for over 20 years. Recently organized summer
schools are: “Modelling and Control of Hybrid Systems”
(2003), “Modelling, Estimation and Optimization of
Complex Physical Systems” (2005), “Identification and
Control of Linear Parameter-varying Systems” (2006),
“Nonlinear Control” (2007), "Cells and Systems" (2008),
"Distributed Control and Estimation" (2009) and
"Dynamics and Control Problems in Medical Robotics"
(2011).
The DISC PhD school on Control for Cyber-Physical
Systems is also the 6th edition of a series of biannual
PhD schools with a focus on hybrid, networked and
large-scale systems, that educated over 450 PhD students
worldwide:
- “0th” DISC PhD School on Hybrid Systems in 2003 (organized by M. Heemels, B. De Schutter, A. Bemporad)
- 1st HYCON PhD School on Hybrid Systems in 2005 (organized by A. Bemporad, M. Heemels)
- 2nd HYCON PhD School on Hybrid Systems in 2007 (organized by A. Bemporad, M. Heemels)
- 3rd WIDE PhD school on Networked Systems in 2009 (organized by A. Bemporad, M. Heemels, M. Johansson)
- 4th HYCON2 PhD school on Control of Networked and Large-Scale Systems in 2011 (organized by A. Bemporad, M. Heemels)
- 5th HYCON2 PhD School on Control of Networked and Large-Scale Systems in 2013 (organized by A. Bemporad, M. Heemels, M. Johansson)
Credits
PhD students can obtain 1.5 credits for the DISC Summer
School.
