Current research interests
Expressions of interest are invited from prospective graduate students for research supervision in the following areas:
Pole placement with State Feedback
We consider the classic Moore eigenstructure assignment algorithm and adapt it for problems
of optimal pole placement. We introduce an unconstrained
nonlinear optimization algorithm to obtain a gain matrix that
delivers robust pole placement or minimum gain.
Co-workers: Dr Thang Nguyen (University of Melbourne), Amit Pandey ( University of Auckland)
Iterative Methods for solving Sylvester Equations
We consider the convergence performance of several
iterative algorithms for
the solution of coupled matrix equations. A stiffness property
is given to describe equations where these algorithms converge
only very slowly, and a stochastic analysis shows that very
slow convergence is a generic feature of these algorithms.
Lastly we consider ways to improve the convergence speed for such stiff
equations.
Co-workers: Dr Ying Tan (University of Melbourne)
Publications
Publications
Conference Papers
- Schmid, R. T. Nguyen and A. Pandey, Optimal Pole placement with Moore's algorithm,
1st IEEE Australian Control conference, Melbourne, Australia, November 2011.
- Schmid, R. and Y. Tan, Performance analysis of iterative algorithms for Sylvester
equations, 8th IEEE International Conference on Control and Automation, Xiamen, China, June, 2010.