PhD thesis and reports

Bart De Schutter


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PhD thesis
  1. B. De Schutter, Max-Algebraic System Theory for Discrete Event Systems. PhD thesis, Faculty of Applied Sciences, K.U.Leuven, Leuven, Belgium, ISBN 90-5682-016-8, 331 pp., Feb. 1996.  (abstract,  bibtex,  text (pdf))

  2. B. De Schutter, Errata for the PhD thesis of Bart De Schutter "Max-Algebraic System Theory for Discrete Event Systems". Last update: November 30, 2008.  (text (pdf))


Project reports
  1. D. Westwick, G. Nijsse, B. De Schutter, and M. Verhaegen, "Simplification of multichannel active noise control systems: Midterm progress report," Tech. rep. TUD/ITS/ET/SCE:1999.01, Control Systems Engineering, Fac. of Information Technology and Systems, Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands, 30 pp., Mar. 1999. Midterm progress report for the TNO-TPD project on active noise control. Confidential.  (bibtex)

  2. G. Nijsse, D. Westwick, B. De Schutter, and M. Verhaegen, "Simplification of multichannel active noise control systems: A feasibility study," Tech. rep. TUD/ITS/ET/SCE:1999.05, Control Systems Engineering, Fac. of Information Technology and Systems, Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands, 46 pp., June 1999. Final report for the TNO-TPD project on active noise control. Confidential.  (bibtex)

  3. S.P. Hoogendoorn, H.J. van Zuylen, B. De Schutter, and A. Hegyi, "Functioneel ontwerp fuzzy decision support systeem," Tech. rep. VK 2000.008, Transportation Planning and Traffic Engineering Section, Faculty of Civil Engineering and Geosciences, Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands, 31 pp., Aug. 2000. Report for the AVV project Fuzzy Decision Support System. In Dutch. Confidential.  (bibtex)

  4. S.P. Hoogendoorn, B. De Schutter, A. Hegyi, H.J. van Zuylen, and R. Babuska, "Verkenning fuzzy decision support systeem - Eindrapport," Tech. rep., Transport Research Centre (AVV), Ministry of Transport, Public Works and Water Management, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, 69 pp., Sept. 2000. Final report for the AVV project Fuzzy Decision Support System. In Dutch. Confidential.  (bibtex)

  5. S.P. Hoogendoorn and B. De Schutter, "BOSS scenario evaluatie," Tech. rep., Transport Research Centre (AVV), Ministry of Transport, Public Works and Water Management, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, 65 pp., Dec. 2002. Final report for the AVV project BOSS Scenario Evaluation. In Dutch. Confidential.  (bibtex)

  6. A. Hegyi, B. De Schutter, J. Hellendoorn, and R.T. van Katwijk, "Testbed selection for the Transumo/ATMA sub-project Integrated Model Predictive Control (IMPreC)," Tech. rep., Delft Center for Systems and Control, Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands, 11 pp., Feb. 2007. Report for the BSIK-TRANSUMO ATMA project.  (bibtex)


Technical reports
  1. B. De Schutter and B. De Moor, "Minimal state space realization of SISO systems in the max algebra," Tech. rep. 93-57, ESAT-SISTA, K.U.Leuven, Leuven, Belgium, 31 pp., Oct. 1993.  (abstract,  bibtex,  report (pdf))

  2. B. De Schutter and B. De Moor, "Minimal realization in the max algebra is an extended linear complementarity problem," Tech. rep. 93-70, ESAT-SISTA, K.U.Leuven, Leuven, Belgium, 18 pp., Dec. 1993.  (abstract,  bibtex,  report (pdf))

  3. B. De Schutter and B. De Moor, "Minimal realization in the max algebra," Tech. rep. 94-29, ESAT-SISTA, K.U.Leuven, Leuven, Belgium, 29 pp., May 1994.  (abstract,  bibtex,  report (pdf))

  4. B. De Schutter and B. De Moor, "The extended linear complementarity problem," Tech. rep. 94-48, ESAT-SISTA, K.U.Leuven, Leuven, Belgium, 11 pp., Aug. 1994. Presented at the 6th International Congress on Computational and Applied Mathematics (ICCAM 94), Leuven, Belgium, July 1994.  (abstract,  bibtex,  report (pdf))

  5. B. De Schutter and B. De Moor, "The singular value decomposition and the QR decomposition in the extended max algebra," Tech. rep. 95-06, ESAT-SISTA, K.U.Leuven, Leuven, Belgium, 27 pp., Mar. 1995.  (abstract,  bibtex,  report (pdf))

  6. B. De Schutter and B. De Moor, "The singular value decomposition in the extended max algebra is an extended linear complementarity problem," Tech. rep. 95-07, ESAT-SISTA, K.U.Leuven, Leuven, Belgium, 27 pp., Mar. 1995.  (abstract,  bibtex,  report (pdf))

  7. B. De Schutter and B. De Moor, "On state space realizations of impulse responses of max-linear systems," Tech. rep. 95-13, ESAT-SISTA, K.U.Leuven, Leuven, Belgium, 16 pp., Mar. 1995.  (abstract,  bibtex,  report (pdf))

  8. T. Van Gestel, K. De Cock, R. Jans, B. De Schutter, Z. Degraeve, and B. De Moor, "Discrete stochastic modelling of ATM-traffic with circulant transition matrices: A time domain approach," Tech. rep. 97-108, ESAT-SISTA, K.U.Leuven, Leuven, Belgium, 15 pp., Nov. 1997.  (abstract,  bibtex,  report (pdf))

  9. B. De Schutter, V. Blondel, R. de Vries, and B. De Moor, "On the boolean minimal realization problem in the max-plus algebra: Addendum," Tech. rep. 97-68a, ESAT-SISTA, K.U.Leuven, Leuven, Belgium, 5 pp., Dec. 1997.  (abstract,  bibtex,  report (pdf))

  10. R. de Vries, B. De Schutter, and B. De Moor, "Minimal realizations and state space transformations in the symmetrized max-algebra," Tech. rep. 97-84, ESAT-SISTA, K.U.Leuven, Leuven, Belgium, 21 pp., Dec. 1997.  (abstract,  bibtex,  report (pdf))

  11. B. De Schutter, R. de Vries, and G.J. Olsder, "The minimal realization problem in the max-plus algebra: An overview," Tech. rep. 97-107, ESAT-SISTA, K.U.Leuven, Leuven, Belgium, 7 pp., Dec. 1997.  (abstract,  bibtex,  report (pdf))

  12. B. De Schutter and B. De Moor, "Optimal traffic light control for a single intersection: Addendum," Tech. rep. 96-90a, ESAT-SISTA, K.U.Leuven, Leuven, Belgium, 19 pp., Jan. 1998.  (abstract,  bibtex,  report (pdf))

  13. B. De Schutter, "Upper bounds for the index of cyclicity of a matrix," Tech. rep. 98-32, ESAT-SISTA, K.U.Leuven, Leuven, Belgium, 16 pp., July 1999. Revised version.  (abstract,  bibtex,  report (pdf))

  14. B. De Schutter, "Optimal control of a class of linear hybrid systems with saturation: Addendum," Tech. rep. bds:99-03a, Control Systems Engineering, Fac. of Information Technology and Systems, Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands, 8 pp., Oct. 1999.  (abstract,  bibtex,  report (pdf))

  15. B. De Schutter and T. van den Boom, "On model predictive control for max-min-plus-scaling discrete event systems," Tech. rep. bds:00-04, Control Systems Engineering, Fac. of Information Technology and Systems, Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands, 19 pp., June 2000.  (abstract,  bibtex,  report (pdf))

  16. B. De Schutter and T. van den Boom, "Model predictive control for max-plus-linear discrete-event systems: Extended report & Addendum," Tech. rep. bds:99-10a, Control Systems Engineering, Fac. of Information Technology and Systems, Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands, 27 pp., Nov. 2000. A short version of this report has been published in Automatica, vol. 37, no. 7, pp. 1049-1056, July 2001.  (abstract,  bibtex,  report (pdf))

  17. A. Hegyi, B. De Schutter, and J. Hellendoorn, "Optimal coordination of variable speed limits to suppress shock waves - Addendum," Tech. rep. CSE02-015a, Control Systems Engineering, Fac. of Information Technology and Systems, Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands, 4 pp., Mar. 2003.  (abstract,  bibtex,  report (pdf))

  18. B. De Schutter and T.J.J. van den Boom, "Model predictive control for discrete-event and hybrid systems," Tech. rep. 03-012, Delft Center for Systems and Control, Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands, 16 pp., Aug. 2003. Paper for the Workshop on Nonlinear Predictive Control (Workshop S-5) at the 42nd IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Maui, Hawaii, Dec. 2003.  (abstract,  bibtex,  report (pdf))

  19. B. De Schutter and T.J.J. van den Boom, "MPC for continuous piecewise-affine systems - Addendum," Tech. rep. CSE02-004a, Control Systems Engineering, Fac. of Information Technology and Systems, Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands, 9 pp., Oct. 2003.  (abstract,  bibtex,  report (pdf))

  20. I. Necoara, B. De Schutter, W.P.M.H. Heemels, S. Weiland, M. Lazar, and T.J.J. van den Boom, "Control of PWA systems using a stable receding horizon method: Extended report," Tech. rep. 04-019a, Delft Center for Systems and Control, Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands, 26 pp., Oct. 2004. A short version of this report has been published in the Proceedings of the 16th IFAC World Congress, Prague, Czech Republic, July 2005. Paper 2794/Tu-E21-TO/2.  (abstract,  bibtex,  report (pdf))

  21. R.R. Negenborn, B. De Schutter, and J. Hellendoorn, "Multi-agent model predictive control: A survey," Tech. rep. 04-010, Delft Center for Systems and Control, Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands, 23 pp., Dec. 2004.  (abstract,  bibtex,  report (pdf))

  22. I. Necoara, B. De Schutter, T.J.J. van den Boom, and J. Hellendoorn, "Robustly stabilizing MPC for perturbed PWL systems: Extended report," Tech. rep. 05-004a, Delft Center for Systems and Control, Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands, 6 pp., Feb. 2005. A short version of this paper has been published in the Proceedings of the 44th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, and the European Control Conference 2005 (CDC-ECC'05), Seville, Spain, pp. 3759-3764, Dec. 2005.  (abstract,  bibtex,  report (pdf))

  23. L. Busoniu, B. De Schutter, and R. Babuska, "Learning and coordination in dynamic multiagent systems," Tech. rep. 05-019, Delft Center for Systems and Control, Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands, 98 pp., Oct. 2005.  (abstract,  bibtex,  report (pdf))

  24. Zs. Lendek, R. Babuska, and B. De Schutter, "State estimation under uncertainty: A survey," Tech. rep. 06-004, Delft Center for Systems and Control, Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands, 65 pp., Feb. 2006.  (abstract,  bibtex,  report (pdf))

  25. I. Necoara, T.J.J. van den Boom, B. De Schutter, and J. Hellendoorn, "Stabilization of max-plus-linear systems using receding horizon control: The unconstrained case - Extended report," Tech. rep. 06-007a, Delft Center for Systems and Control, Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands, 16 pp., Apr. 2006. A short version of this report has been published in the Proceedings of the 2nd IFAC Conference on Analysis and Design of Hybrid Systems (ADHS'06), Alghero, Italy, pp. 148-153, June 2006.  (abstract,  bibtex,  report (pdf))

  26. R. Babuska, L. Busoniu, and B. De Schutter, "Reinforcement learning for multi-agent systems," Tech. rep. 06-041, Delft Center for Systems and Control, Delft University of Technology, 7 pp., July 2006. Paper for a keynote presentation at the 11th IEEE International Conference on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation (ETFA 2006), Prague, Czech Republic, Sept. 2006.  (abstract,  bibtex,  report (pdf))

  27. L.D. Baskar, B. De Schutter, H. Hellendoorn, Z. Papp, and T. van den Boom, "Hierarchical traffic control and management with intelligent vehicles: A survey," Tech. rep. 06-040, Delft Center for Systems and Control, Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands, Dec. 2006.  (bibtex)

  28. T.J.J. van den Boom, B. Heidergott, and B. De Schutter, "Complexity reduction in MPC for stochastic max-plus-linear discrete event systems by variability expansion: Extended report," Tech. rep. CSE02-016a, Control Systems Engineering, Fac. of Information Technology and Systems, Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands, 18 pp., Dec. 2006. A short version of this report has been published in Automatica, vol. 43, no. 6, pp. 1058-1063, June 2007.  (abstract,  bibtex,  report (pdf))

  29. A. Tarau, B. De Schutter, and J. Hellendoorn, "Multi-agent control of large-scale transportation systems: A survey," Tech. rep. 07-016, Delft Center for Systems and Control, Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands, 51 pp., Apr. 2007.  (bibtex)

  30. J. van Ast, R. Babuska, and B. De Schutter, "Self-organizing moving agents: A survey," Tech. rep. 07-021, Delft Center for Systems and Control, Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands, 42 pp., May 2007.  (bibtex)

  31. M. van den Berg, B. De Schutter, A. Hegyi, and H. Hellendoorn, "Day-to-day route choice control in traffic networks with time-varying demand profiles," Tech. rep. 08-029, Delft Center for Systems and Control, Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands, 6 pp., Oct. 2008. Submitted to a conference.  (bibtex)


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