Lecture: Automated and Autonomous Driving: Past, Present and Future

Speaker: Francesco Borrelli

Francesco Borrelli is Professor of Mechanical Engineering  Howard Penn Brown Endowed Chair in Mechanical Engineering at UC Berkeley.  His research expertise and interests include automotive control systems, distributed and robust constrained control, manufacturing control systems, energy efficient buildings, model predictive control.

Professor Borrelli's research lab focuses on the theoretical and real-time implementation aspects of constrained predictive model-based control. We deal with linear, nonlinear and hybrid systems in both small scale and complex large scale applications. Our contributions include the discovery of fundamental theoretical results, the development of novel control algorithms and their experimental validation carried out with the help of coworkers from industries and universities. We deal with a wide range of systems in the automotive field, in the process industries and in robotics, including several full scale industrial problems.

For more information about Professor Borrelli, please visit his faculty page at Berkeley.

4:45 p.m. - Reception
5:15 p.m. - Presentation
6:15 p.m. - Optional Early Bird Dinner