Dr. M. Lazar (Mircea)

Position:

Assistant Professor (UD)

Research interests:

Recent developments:

Lyapunov stability theory, infinity norms as Lyapunov functions, delay difference inclusions, invariance theory, model predictive control, hybrid systems, decentralized control, networked control systems, control of mechatronics and power electronics, event-based control and state estimation, automotive control problems.

IFAC Conference on Nonlinear Model Predictive Control 2012 - Call for Papers (pdf)

Conference website (opens in January 2012): www.nmpc12.tue.nl

Flexible Lyapunov functions (ACC09, HSCC09, CDC10, IFACWC11)

Polyhedral Lyapunov functions for bilinear dynamics via linear programming (CDC10, CDC11)

Brief Curriculum Vitae:

Detailed CV

Mircea Lazar was born in Iasi (Romania) in 1978. He received both his Dipl. Ing. degree (2001) and M.Sc. degree (2002) in Control Engineering from the Faculty of Automatic Control and Computer Engineering at the "Gh. Asachi" Technical University of Iasi, Romania.

1st PhD degree: Awarded by Eindhoven University of Technology (September 2006), Eindhoven, The Netherlands. Promotor: Prof. P.P.J. van den Bosch, Co-promotor: Dr. W.P.M.H. Heemels. Thesis title: Model predictive control of hybrid systems: stability and robustness (2Mb). This thesis received the EECI (European Embedded Control Institute) PhD award for the best PhD thesis in Europe on Networked and Embedded Control, for the period 2006-2007.

2nd PhD degree: Awarded by the "Gh. Asachi" Technical University of Iasi (September 2009), Iasi, Romania. Promotor: Prof. M. Voicu, corresponding member of the Romanian Academy. Thesis title: Predictive control algorithms for nonlinear systems (1.7Mb). The PhD title was received with the distinction Summa cum laude.

PhD supervision:

Dr. Andrej Jokic (thesis title: Priced-based optimal control of electrical power systems (19.4Mb), Eindhoven University of Technology, September 2007)

Dr. Christoph Bohm (thesis title: Predictive control using semi-definite programming, University of Stuttgart, Germany, February 2011, Supervisor: Prof. F. Allgower, title received with the distinction Summa cum laude)

Dr. Joris Sijs (thesis title: State estimation in networked systems, Eindhoven University of Technology, April 2012)

MSc. Veaceslav Spinu (thesis topic: Real-time model predictive control of power electronics, Eindhoven University of Technology, estimated end date: 2014)

MSc. Rob Gielen (thesis topic: Stability and stabilization of delay difference inclusions, Eindhoven University of Technology, estimated end date: 2013)

MSc. Ralph Hermans (thesis topic: Decentralized and distributed MPC of power networks , Eindhoven University of Technology, estimated end date: 2012 - supervised together with Dr. Andrej Jokic)

Personal grants:

VENI grant from the NWO (Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research) and STW (Dutch Science Foundation) for the project "Flexible Lyapunov functions for real-time control"

Van Gogh grant (travel grant) from the frans | nederlandse academie for the project "Predictive control over networks " - joint project with SUPELEC, Gif-sur-Yvette (France), Dr. Sorin Olaru and Dr. Silviu Niculescu

Participation in European research projects: HYCON, HYCON2, E-PRICE, MOBY-DIC

IEEE CSS and IFAC activities:

Member of the Conference Editorial Board of the IEEE Control Systems Society, since July 2009.

Chair of the Technical Committee on Hybrid Systems of the IEEE Control Systems Society, since January 2011.

Member of the IFAC Technical Committee 2.3 Non-linear Control Systems, since January 2012.

Recent Invited Sessions:

Stability and Stabilization of Networked Control Systems - American Control Conference 2010, Baltimore, USA, July 2010 (with I.V. Kolmanovsky and W.P.M.H. Heemels).

Advances in Lyapunov Methods: Stability, Stabilization, Constraints - IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, December 2010, Atlanta, USA, December 2010 (with S.V. Rakovic).

Formal methods for analysis and controller synthesis - American Control Conference, 2012, Montreal, Canada, June 2012 (with X.C. Ding and C. Belta).

Associate Editor for the IFAC affiliated journal Nonlinear Analysis: Hybrid Systems

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Street address

Phone and fax

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Department of Electrical Engineering
Eindhoven University of Technology
P.O. Box 513
5600 MB Eindhoven
The Netherlands

Den Dolech 2
5612 AZ Eindhoven
The Netherlands

Telephone:
+31.40.2473795 (Office)

+31.40.2472300 (Secretariat)
Fax:
+31.40.2434582

Email:
M.Lazar@tue.nl

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International (refereed) journals (27 articles - see the CV link above for latest details on publications)

2012

R.H. Gielen, M. Lazar, I.V. Kolmanovsky (2012). Lyapunov methods for time-invariant delay difference inclusions, SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization, Vol. 50, No. 1, pp. 110-132. (pdf)
R.H. Gielen, M. Lazar, A.R. Teel (2012). Input-to-state stability analysis for interconnected difference equations with delay, Mathematics of Controls, Signals, and Systems, Special issue on Robust Stability and Control of Large-Scale Nonlinear Systems, in press.
J. Sijs, M. Lazar (2012). Event based state estimation with time synchronous updates, IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control , in press.
J. Sijs, M. Lazar (2012). State fusion with unknown correlation: Ellipsoidal intersection, Automatica, in press.

2011

R.H. Gielen, M. Lazar (2011). Stabilization of polytopic delay difference inclusions via the Razumikhin approach, Automatica, Vol. 47, No. 12, pp. 2562-2570. (pdf)

2010

R.H. Gielen, S. Olaru, M. Lazar, W.P.M.H. Heemels, N. van de Wouw and S.-I. Niculescu (2010). On polytopic inclusions as a modeling framework for systems with time-varying delays, Automatica, Vol. 46, No. 3, pp. 615-619. (pdf)
W.P.M.H. Heemels, B. De Schutter, J. Lunze and M. Lazar (2010). Stability analysis and controller synthesis for hybrid dynamical systems, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A , Vol. 368, pp. 4937-4960.

2009

M. Lazar and W.P.M.H. Heemels (2009).Predictive control of hybrid systems: Input-to-state stability results for sub-optimal solutions, Automatica, Vol. 45, No. 1, pp. 180-185 (pdf)
D.M. Raimondo, D. Limon, M. Lazar, L. Magni, E.F. Camacho (2009). Min-max model predictive control of nonlinear systems: A unifying overview on stability, European Journal of Control, Vol. 15, No. 1, pp. 1-17 (pdf)
A. Jokic, M. Lazar, P.P.J. van den Bosch (2009). On constrained steady-state regulation: Dynamic KKT controllers, IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, Vol. 54, No. 9, pp. 2250-2254 (pdf)
A. Jokic, M. Lazar, P.P.J. van den Bosch (2009). Real-time control of power systems using nodal prices, International Journal of Electrical Power & Energy Systems, Vol. 31, pp. 522-530 (pdf)
M. Lazar, W.P.M.H. Heemels and A.R. Teel (2009). Lyapunov functions, stability and input-to-state stability subtleties for discrete-time discontinuous systems, IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, Vol. 54, No. 10, pp. 2421-2425 (pdf)

2008

M. Lazar, D. Muñoz de la Peña, W.P.M.H. Heemels and T. Alamo (2008).On input-to-state stability of min-max nonlinear model predictive control, Systems & Control Letters, Vol. 57, pages 39-48 (pdf)
M. Lazar and W.P.M.H. Heemels (2008).Global input-to-state stability and stabilization of discrete-time piece-wise affine systems,Nonlinear Analysis: Hybrid Systems, Vol. 2, pages 721-734 (pdf)
M. Lazar, B.J.P. Roset, W.P.M.H. Heemels, H. Nijmeijer and P.P.J. van den Bosch (2008).Input-to-state stabilizing sub-optimal nonlinear MPC algorithms with an application to DC-DC converters, International Journal of Robust and Nonlinear Control, Special Issue on Nonlinear MPC of Fast Systems, Vol. 18, Issue 8, pages 890-904.
B.J.P. Roset, W.P.M.H. Heemels, M. Lazar and H. Nijmeijer (2008).A result on ISS to measurement noise, Automatica, Vol. 44, Issue 4, pages 1161-1165.

2007, 2006, 2002

A. Alessio, M. Lazar, A. Bemporad and W.P.M.H. Heemels (2007). Squaring the circle: An algorithm for obtaining polyhedral invariant sets from ellipsoidal ones, Automatica, Vol. 43, Issue 12, pages 2096-2103 (pdf)
M. Lazar, W.P.M.H. Heemels, S. Weiland and A. Bemporad. (2006). Stabilizing model predictive control of hybrid systems, IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, Issue 11, Vol. 51, pages 1813-1818 (pdf)
M. Lazar and O. Pastravanu, (2002).A neural predictive controller for non-linear systems, Mathematics and Computers in Simulation, Vol. 60 (Issue 3-5), pp. 315-324 (pdf)

Contributions to books (12 book chapters)

2012

R.H. Gielen, M. Lazar, S. Olaru (2012). Set-induced stability results for delay difference equations, in Time Delay Systems: Methods, Applications, and New Trends, R. Sipahi et al. (Eds.), Springer series Lecture Notes in Control and Information Sciences, Vol. 423, pages 73-84.

2010

A. Jokic, M. Lazar, P.P.J. van den Bosch (2010). Price-based Control of Electrical Power Systems, in Intelligent Infrastructures, Eds. R.R. Negenborn, Z. Lukszo, H. Hellendorn, Springer series Intelligent Systems, Control and Automation: Science and Engineering, Vol. 42, pages 109-133, (pdf)

2009

M. Lazar, A. Jokic (2009). Synthesis of trajectory-dependent control Lyapunov functions by a single linear program, in Hybrid Systems: Computation and Control, San Francisco, USA. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 5469, pages 237-251, Springer-Verlag (pdf)
J. Sijs, M. Lazar (2009). On event based state estimation, in Hybrid Systems: Computation and Control, San Francisco, USA. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 5469, pages 336-350, Springer-Verlag (pdf)
M. Lazar, W.P.M.H. Heemels, A. Jokic (2009). Self-optimizing Robust Nonlinear Model Predictive Control, in Assessment and Future Directions of Nonlinear Model Predictive Control, Lecture Notes in Control and Information Sciences, vol. 384, pages 27-40, Springer-Verlag (pdf)
M. Lazar, W.P.M.H. Heemels, D. Munoz de la Pena, T. Alamo (2009). Further Results on “Robust MPC using Linear Matrix Inequalities”, in Assessment and Future Directions of Nonlinear Model Predictive Control, Lecture Notes in Control and Information Sciences, vol. 384, pages 89-98, Springer-Verlag (pdf)
R. Gielen, S. Olaru, M. Lazar (2009). On Polytopic Approximations of Systems with Time-varying Input Delays, in Assessment and Future Directions of Nonlinear Model Predictive Control, Lecture Notes in Control and Information Sciences, vol. 384, pages 225-233, Springer-Verlag (pdf)

2008

A. Jokic, M. Lazar, P.P.J. van den Bosch (2008). Complementarity systems in constrained steady-state optimal control, in Hybrid Systems: Computation and Control, Saint Louis, USA. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 4981, pages 273-288, Springer-Verlag (pdf)
S. Di Cairano, M. Lazar, A. Bemporad, W.P.M.H. Heemels (2008). A control Lyapunov approach to predictive control of hybrid systems, in Hybrid Systems: Computation and Control, Saint Louis, USA. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 4981, pages 130-143, Springer-Verlag (pdf)

2007, 2005

M. Lazar, W.P.M.H. Heemels, A. Bemporad, S. Weiland, (2007). Discrete-time Non-smooth Nonlinear MPC: Stability and Robustness, in Assessment and Future Directions of Nonlinear Model Predictive Control, Lecture Notes in Control and Information Sciences, vol. 358, pages 98-103, Springer-Verlag (pdf)
A. Jokic, M. Lazar, P.P.J. van den Bosch (2007). Price-based optimal control of power flow in electrical energy distribution networks, in Hybrid Systems: Computation and Control, Pisa, Italy. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 4416, pages 315-328, Springer-Verlag (pdf)
M. Lazar, W.P.M.H. Heemels, S. Weiland, A. Bemporad, O. Pastravanu (2005). Infinity norms as Lyapunov functions for model predictive control of constrained PWA systems, in Hybrid Systems: Computation and Control, Zürich, Switzerland. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 3414, pages 417-432, Springer-Verlag (pdf)

Invited lectures

Invited lecture (main speaker) at the 3rd International Workshop on Assessment and Future Directions of Nonlinear Model Predictive Control, September 5-9, 2008, Pavia, Italy. Lecture title: Self-optimizing Robust Nonlinear Model Predictive Control (pdf)
Invited lecture at the Optimization and Applications Seminar, Fall 2008, organized jointly by ETH Zurich and University of Zurich, October, 27, Zurich, Switzerland. Lecture title: Flexible Control Lyapunov Functions (pdf)
Invited lecture at the Hybrid systems and Nonlinear MPC joint seminar of the French National Research Group on Control Methods and Algorithms (GDR-MACS), May, 28, 2009, Paris, France. Lecture title: Trajectory-Dependent Control Lyapunov Functions (pdf)
Invited lecture at the Kolloquium Technische Kybernetik winter semester 2009, organized by Institute for Systems Theory and Control and SimTech - Cluster of excellence, November 26, 2009, Stuttgart, Germany. Lecture title: Flexible Control Lyapunov Functions (pdf)
Invited lecture at the Center for Information and Systems Engineering Seminar, organized by CISE, Boston University, May 13, 2011, Boston, USA. Lecture title: Polyhedral Lyapunov functions via proper conic partitions.
Invited lecture at the Seminar organized by the Control Group at Dept. of Engineering Science, University of Oxford, October 24, 2011, Oxford, UK. Lecture title: Polyhedral Lyapunov functions via proper conic partitions.

Conference proceedings (69 papers)

2012

E. Aydin Gol, M. Lazar, C. Belta, (2012). Language-guided controller synthesis for discrete-time linear systems, to appear in Hybrid Systems: Computation and Control, Beijing, April, 2012.

2011

C.F. Caruntu, A. Balau, M. Lazar, P.P.J. van den Bosch, S. Di Cairano (2011). A predictive control solution to driveline oscillation damping, in proceedings of the Hybrid Systems: Computation and Control conference, Chicago, April 2011
V. Spinu, M. Lazar, G. Bitsoris (2011). Constrained stabilization of a two-inputs Buck-Boost DC/DC converter using a set theoretic method, in proceedings of the 30th American Control Conference, San Francisco, July, 2011
R. Hermans, M. Lazar, A. Jokic (2011). Distributed predictive control of the seven-machine CIGRE power system, in proceedings of the 30th American Control Conference, San Francisco, July, 2011
J. Sijs, M. Lazar (2011). A distributed Kalman filter with global covariance, in proceedings of the 30th American Control Conference, San Francisco, July, 2011
W. Lombardi, S. Olaru, M. Lazar, S.-I. Niculescu (2011). On positive invariance for delay difference equations, in proceedings of the 30th American Control Conference, San Francisco, July, 2011
W. Lombardi, S. Olaru, M. Lazar, G. Bitsoris, S.-I. Niculescu (2011). On the polyhedral set-invariance conditions for time-delay systems, in proceedings of the 18th IFAC World Congress, Milano, August, 2011
C.F. Caruntu, M. Lazar, S. Di Cairano, R. H. Gielen, P.P.J. van den Bosch (2011). Horizon-1 predictive control of networked controlled vehicle drivetrains, in proceedings of the 18th IFAC World Congress, Milano, August, 2011
R. Hermans, M. Lazar, A. Jokic, R. H. Gielen (2011). On parameterized stabilization of networked dynamical systems, in proceedings of the 18th IFAC World Congress, Milano, August, 2011
R. H. Gielen, M. Lazar, A. R. Teel (2011). On input-to-state stability of delay difference equations, in proceedings of the 18th IFAC World Congress, Milano, August, 2011
M. Lazar, R. H. Gielen (2011). On parameterized dissipation inequalities and receding horizon robust control, in proceedings of the 18th IFAC World Congress, Milano, August, 2011 (invited paper)
V. Spinu, M. Lazar, P.P.J. van den Bosch, An explicit state-feedback solution to constrained stabilization of DC-DC power converters, in IEEE Conference on Control Applications, Denver, Colorado, September, 2011
R. H. Gielen, M. Lazar, A. R. Teel (2011). Small-gain results for discrete-time networks of systems with delay. Proceedings of the 50th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Orlando, Florida, December 2011
M. Lazar, A. I. Doban (2011). On infinity norms as Lyapunov functions for continuous-time dynamical systems. Proceedings of the 50th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Orlando, Florida, December 2011 (pdf)

2010

M. Lazar, A. Jokic (2010). On infinity norms as Lyapunov functions for piecewise affine systems, in proceedings of the Hybrid Systems: Computation and Control conference, Stockholm, April, 2010, pages 131-141 (pdf)
J. Sijs, M. Lazar, W.P.M.H. Heemels (2010). On integration of event-based estimation and robust MPC in a feedback loop, in proceedings of the Hybrid Systems: Computation and Control conference, Stockholm, April, 2010, pages 31-41, (pdf)
W.P.M.H. Heemels, N. van de Wouw, L. Hetel, M.C.F. Donkers, S. Olaru, M. Lazar, J. Daafouz, and S.-I. Niculescu (2010). Comparison of overapproximation methods for stability analysis of networked control systems, in proceedings of the Hybrid Systems: Computation and Control conference, Stockholm, April, 2010, pages 181-191, (pdf)
R.H. Gielen, M. Lazar, I.V. Kolmanovsky (2010). On Lyapunov theory for delay difference inclusions, in proceedings of the 29th American Control Conference, Baltimore, July, 2010 (invited paper), (pdf)
R.M. Hermans, M. Lazar, A. Jokic (2010). Almost decentralized Lyapunov-based nonlinear model predictive control, in proceedings of the 29th American Control Conference, Baltimore, July, 2010 (invited paper), (pdf)
J. Sijs, M. Lazar, P.P.J. van den Bosch (2010). State fusion with unknown correlation: Ellipsoidal intersection, in proceedings of the 29th American Control Conference, Baltimore, July, 2010, (pdf)
R.M. Hermans, M. Lazar, A. Jokic, P.P.J. van den Bosch (2010). Almost decentralized model predictive control of power networks, to appear in proceedings of the 15th IEEE Mediterranean Electrotechnical Conference, Valletta, Malta, April 2010, (pdf)
A. Bemporad, W.P.M.H. Heemels, M. Lazar (2010). On the synthesis of piecewise affine control laws, in proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, Paris, May-June, 2010, (invited paper) (pdf)
C. Bohm , M. Lazar, F. Allgower (2010). Stability analysis of periodically time-varying systems using periodic Lyapunov functions, in proceedings of the IFAC Workshop on Periodic Control Systems, Antalya, Turkey, August, 2010, (pdf)
R.H. Gielen, M. Lazar (2010). Stabilization of polytopic delay difference inclusions: Time-varying control Lyapunov functions, to appear in proceedings of the 49th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Atlanta, December, 2010 (pdf)
C. Bohm , M. Lazar, F. Allgower (2010). A relaxation of Lyapunov conditions and controller synthesis for discrete-time periodic systems, to appear in proceedings of the 49th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Atlanta, December, 2010, (invited paper) (pdf)
M. Lazar, R.H. Gielen (2010). On Parameterized Lyapunov and Control Lyapunov Functions for Discrete-time Systems, to appear in proceedings of the 49th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Atlanta, December, 2010, (invited paper) (pdf)
M. Lazar, (2010). On Infinity Norms as Lyapunov Functions: Alternative Necessary and Sufficient Conditions, to appear in proceedings of the 49th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Atlanta, December, 2010 (pdf)

2009

M. Lazar (2009). Flexible Control Lyapunov Functions, in proceedings of the 28th American Control Conference, St. Louis, June, 2009 (pdf)
A. Jokic, M. Lazar (2009). On Decentralized Stabilisation of Discrete-time Nonlinear Systems, in proceedings of the 28th American Control Conference, St. Louis, June, 2009 (pdf)
R. Hermans, M. Lazar, S. Di Cairano, I. Kolmanovsky (2009). Low-complexity Model Predictive Control of Electromagnetic Actuators, in proceedings of the IEEE Region 8 EUROCON Conference, Saint Petersburg, Russia, May, 2009 (pdf) - winner of the "Best Student Paper" award -
R. Hermans, M. Lazar, S. Di Cairano, I. Kolmanovsky (2009). Low-complexity Model Predictive Control of Electromagnetic Actuators with a Stability Guarantee, in proceedings of the 28th American Control Conference, St. Louis, June, 2009 (pdf)
R. H. Gielen, M. Lazar (2009). Further Results on Stabilization of Linear Systems with Time-varying Delays, in the proceedings of the 8th IFAC Workshop on Time Delay Systems, Sinaia, Romania, September, 2009 (pdf)
A. Jokic, M. Lazar (2009). On Stabilization of Discrete-time Nonlinear Systems under Arbitrary Information Constraints, in the proceedings of the 1st IFAC Workshop on Estimation and Control of Networked Systems, Venice, Italy, September, 2009 (pdf)
R. H. Gielen, M. Lazar (2009). Stabilization of Networked Control Systems via Non-monotone Control Lyapunov Functions, in the proceedings of the 48th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Shanghai, China, December, 2009 (pdf)

2008

T. Alamo, D. Muñoz de la Peña, M. Lazar, W.P.M.H. Heemels, Design of ISS-Lyapunov functions for discrete-time linear uncertain systems. In: 17th IFAC World Congress, Seoul, Korea, July, 2008.
M. Lazar, W.P.M.H. Heemels, Predictive control of hybrid systems: Stability results for sub-optimal solutions. In: 17th IFAC World Congress, Seoul, Korea, July, 2008.
M. Lazar, W.P.M.H. Heemels, Optimized input-to-state stabilization of discrete-time nonlinear systems with bounded inputs, in Proceedings of the 27th American Control Conference, Seattle, 2008. (pdf)
A.C.R.M. Damoiseaux, A. Jokic, M. Lazar, P.P.J. van den Bosch, I.A. Hiskens, A. Bemporad, Assessment of decentralized model predictive control techniques for power networks, in Proceedings of the 16th Power Systems Computation Conference, 2008. (pdf)
A. Jokic, M. Lazar, P.P.J. van den Bosch, Real-time control of power systems using nodal prices, in Proceedings of the 16th Power Systems Computation Conference, 2008. (pdf)
A. Jokic, M. Lazar, P.P.J. van den Bosch, On constrained steady-state optimal control: Dynamic KKT Controllers, in Proceedings of the 27th American Control Conference, Seattle, 2008.
R. Gielen, S. Olaru, M. Lazar. On polytopic approximations as a modeling framework for networked control systems, in the Proceedings of 3rd International Workshop on Assessment and Future Directions of Nonlinear Model Predictive Control, September 5-9, 2008, Pavia, Italy. (pdf)
M. Lazar, W.P.M.H Heemels, D. Munoz de la Pena, T. Alamo. Further results on “Robust MPC using Linear Matrix Inequalities”, in the Proceedings of 3rd International Workshop on Assessment and Future Directions of Nonlinear Model Predictive Control, September 5-9, 2008, Pavia, Italy. (pdf)
J. Sijs, M. Lazar, P.P.J. van den Bosch, Z. Papp. An overview of non-centralized Kalman filters, in the Proceedings of the 17th IEEE Conference on Control Applications, September 3-5, 2008, San Antonio, Texas. (pdf)
W.P.M.H. Heemels, M. Lazar, N. van de Wouw, A. Pavlov. Observer-based Control of Discrete-time PWA Systems: Exploiting Continuity Twice, in the Proceedings of the 47th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, December 9-11, 2008, Cancun, Mexico. (pdf)

2007

M. Lazar, W.P.M.H. Heemels, A.R. Teel, Subtleties in robust stability of discrete-time PWA systems. In proceedings of the 26th American Control Conference, New York, 2007. (pdf)
M. Lazar, D. Muñoz de la Peña, W.P.M.H. Heemels, T. Alamo, Feedback min-max linear model predictive control: New methods for computing the terminal cost. In proceedings of the 26th American Control Conference, New York, 2007. (pdf)
B.J.P. Roset, M. Lazar, W.P.M.H. Heemels, H. Nijmeijer, Stabilizing Output Feedback Nonlinear Model Predictive Control: An Extended Observer Approach. In proceedings of the European Control Conference, Kos, Greece, 2007.
A.G. Beccuti, M. Lazar, W.P.M.H Heemels, G. Papafotiou, M. Morari, Assessement of nonlinear predictive control techniques for DC-DC converters. In proceedings of the 7th IFAC Symposium on Nonlinear Control Systems, Pretoria, South Africa, 2007.
J. Mare, M. Lazar, J. De Dona, Input-to-state stabilizing nonlinear model predictive control based on QP. In proceedings of the 7th IFAC Symposium on Nonlinear Control Systems, Pretoria, South Africa, 2007. (pdf)
D.M. Raimondo, D. Limon, M. Lazar, L. Magni, E.F. Camacho, Regional input-to-state stability on min-max model predictive control. In proceedings of the 7th IFAC Symposium on Nonlinear Control Systems, Pretoria, South Africa, 2007.
A. Jokic, P.P.J. van den Bosch, M. Lazar, Distributed control of electrical energy distribution networks. In proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Control Applications, Singapore, 2007.

2006

M. Lazar, A. Alessio, A. Bemporad and W.P.M.H. Heemels, Squaring the circle: An algorithm for obtaining polyhedral invariant sets from ellipsoidal ones. In: 25th American Control Conference, Minneapolis, Minnesota, June, 2006. (pdf)
M. Lazar and W.P.M.H. Heemels, Global input-to-state stability and stabilization of discrete-time piece-wise affine systems. In: 2nd IFAC Conference on Analysis and Design of Hybrid Systems, Alghero, Italy, June, 2006. (pdf)
M. Lazar and W.P.M.H. Heemels, A new dual-mode hybrid MPC algorithm with a robust stability guarantee. In: 2nd IFAC Conference on Analysis and Design of Hybrid Systems, Alghero, Italy, June, 2006.
M. Lazar, D. Muñoz de la Peña, W.P.M.H. Heemels, T. Alamo, Min-max nonlinear model predictive control with guaranteed input-to-state stability. In: 17th Symposium on Mathematical Theory for Networks and Systems, Kyoto, Japan, July, 2006. (pdf)
B.P.J. Roset, M. Lazar, H. Nijmeijer, W.P.M.H. Heemels, Stabilizing output feedback nonlinear model predictive control: An extended observer approach. In: 17th Symposium on Mathematical Theory for Networks and Systems, Kyoto, Japan, July, 2006. (pdf)
M. Lazar, B.J.P. Roset, W.P.M.H. Heemels, H. Nijmeijer, P.P.J. van den Bosch. Input-to-state stabilizing sub-optimal nonlinear MPC algorithms with and application to DC-DC converters. In: IFAC Workshop on Nonlinear Model Predictive Control for Fast Systems, Grenoble, France, October, 2006. (pdf)
D. Corona, M. Lazar, B. De Schutter, W.P.M.H. Heemels, A hybrid MPC approach to the design of a Smart adaptive cruise controller. In: IEEE Conference on Control Applications, Munich, Germany, October, 2006. (pdf)
B.J.P. Roset, M. Lazar, H. Nijmeijer, W.P.M.H. Heemels, A stabilizing output based nonlinear model predictive control scheme. In: 45th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, San Diego, California, 2006.
A. Alessio, A. Bemporad, M. Lazar, W.P.M.H. Heemels, An algorithm for the computation of polyhedral invariant sets for closed-loop MPC systems. Invited paper in an interactive session on invariant sets at the 45th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, San Diego, California, 2006. (pdf)

2005

M. Lazar, W.P.M.H. Heemels, S. Weiland and A. Bemporad, On the stability of quadratic forms based model predictive control of constrained PWA systems. In: 24th American Control Conference, Portland, Oregon, June, 2005. (pdf)
I. Necoara, B. De Schutter, W.P.M.H. Heemels, S. Weiland, M. Lazar, T.J.J. van den Boom, Control of PWA systems using a stable receding horizon method. In: 16th IFAC World Congress, Prague, July, 2005. (pdf)
M. Lazar, W.P.M.H. Heemels, A. Bemporad and S. Weiland, On the stability and robustness of non-smooth nonlinear model predictive control. In: 2nd International Workshop on Assessment and Future Directions of Nonlinear Model Predictive Control, Freudenstadt-Lauterbad, Germany, August, 2005. (pdf)

2004

M. Lazar and R. De Keyser,Nonlinear predictive control of a DC-to-DC converter. In: Symposium on Power Electronics, Electrical Drives, Automation & Motion – SPEEDAM, Capri, Italy, June, 2004. (pdf)
M. Lazar, W.P.M.H. Heemels, S. Weiland and A. Bemporad, Stabilizing receding horizon control of PWL systems: An LMI approach. In: 16th Symposium on Mathematical Theory for Networks and Systems, Leuven, Belgium, July, 2004. (pdf)
M. Lazar, W.P.M.H. Heemels, S. Weiland and A. Bemporad, Stabilization conditions for model predictive control of constrained PWA systems. In: 43rd IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Paradise Island, Bahamas, December, 2004. (pdf)

2003

M. Lazar and A. Astolfi,Global predictive regulation of a class of nonlinear cascaded systems. In 4th IFAC Symposium on Robust Control Design, Milan, Italy, June, 2003. (pdf)
M. Lazar and W.P.M.H. Heemels,A semi-explicit MPC set-up for constrained piecewise affine systems. In: European Control Conference, Cambridge, UK, September, 2003.(pdf)

Technical Reports

N. Athanasopoulos, A.I. Doban, M. Lazar (2013). On constrained stabilization of discrete-time linear systems, submitted to a conference, 2013 (pdf)
M. Lazar, S.V. Rakovic, A.I. Doban, N. Athanasopoulos (2012). Non-conservative tools for stability analysis of discrete-time homogeneous dynamics, submitted to a journal, 2013 (pdf)
J. Sijs, M. Lazar. Event based state estimation with time synchronous updates, submitted to a journal, 2009 (pdf)
M. Lazar. Nonlinear Extended Self-Adaptive Predictive Control: Applications to power converters and neural networks, 2001 (pdf)

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