Haitham Hindi Member of Research Staff Embedded Reasoning Area (ERA) Intelligent Systems Lab (ISL) Palo Alto Research Center PARC

Contact

Palo Alto Research Center (PARC)
3333 Coyote Hill Drive, Palo Alto, CA 94304
Tel: 650-812-4310
E-mail: hhindi@parc.com
URL: http://www2.parc.com/isl/members/hhindi

Education

• Ph.D. Electrical Engineering, Stanford University, 2000
  Advisors: Stephen Boyd , John Fox
• M.S. Electrical Engineering, Stanford University, 1992
• B.Sc. Physics, Imperial College, 1990
• Resume / CV

Research Interests

• Optimization: convex, multiobjective, robust, and dynamic; convex relaxations; decomposition methods; interior point algorithms; planning and scheduling;
• Control: robust, distributed, optimal, networked, multivariable, nonlinear; subspace methods; system identification; uncertainty models; model reduction;
• Networks: routing and scheduling; flexible reconfigurable manufacturing systems; distributed control algorithms; congestion control;
• Sensors: active and distributed sensing, and Markov Chain models
• Signal Processing: Kalman filtering; subspace methods for system identification and control; clustering algorithms
• Industry Applications: Distributed, networked control systems for material handling; flexible manufacturing systems; control of high speed systems (particle accelerators, computer hard-disk drives, nanodevices); physical modeling; identification; uncertainty modeling; robust, optimal, multivariable control; time-optimal control; embedded control software;

Papers on Control and Optimization

• Decompose Document Image Using Integer Linear Programming
  Int. Conf. on Document Analysis and Recognition, September 2007. (Talk)
• Optimal Routing and Scheduling in Flexible Manufacturing Systems using Integer Programming
  IEEE Conf. on Decision & Control 2007. (Talk)
• Network Flow Modeling for Flexible Manufacturing Systems with Re-entrant Lines
  IEEE Conf. on Decision & Control 2006. (Talk)
• A Tutorial on Convex Optimization II: Duality and Interior Point Methods
  American Contr. Conf. 2006. (Talk)
• A Tutorial on Convex Optimization
  American Contr. Conf. 2004. (Talk)
• Optimal Tracking with Feedback-Feedforward Control Separation Over a Network
  American Contr. Conf. 2006.
• Synchronization of State Based Control Processes with Delayed and Asynchronous Measurements
  IEEE Conf. on Decision & Control 2005. (Talk)
• Coordinated Control for Highly Reconfigurable Systems
  Hybrid Syst. Contr. Conf. 2005. (Talk)
• Distributed Active Sensing in the MVE Framework
  DARPA research done at Stanford.
• Joint Optimization of Communication Rates and Linear Systems
  IEEE Trans. Aut. Contr. 2003, Jan 2003. (Talk)
• Computation of Tight Uncertainty Models from Frequency Domain Data
  IEEE Conf. on Decision & Control 2002. (Talk)
• DQIT: mu-Synthesis without D-Scale Fitting
  IEEE Trans. Aut. Contr. 2004.
• Log-Det Heuristic for Matrix Rank Minization with Applications to Hankel and Euclidean Distance Matrices
  American Contr. Conf. 2003. (Talk)
• A Rank Minimization Heuristic with Application to Minimum Order System Approximation
  American Contr. Conf. 2001. (Talk)
• Local Control Design for Systems with Saturating Actuators using the Popov Criteria
  American Contr. Conf. 1999 (Talk)
• Analysis of Linear Systems with Saturation Using Convex Optimization
  IEEE Conf. on Decision & Control 1998 (see Ph.D. Thesis below). (Talk)
• Multiobjective H_2/H_infinity-Optimal Control via Finite Dimensional Q-Parametrization and Linear Matrix Inequalities
  American Contr. Conf. 1998. (Talk)
• Robust Solutions to l_1, l_2, and l_infinity Uncertain Linear Approximation Problems using Convex Optimization
  American Contr. Conf. 1998. (Talk)

Papers on Control of Disk Drives

• Rejecting Oscillatory, Non-Synchronous Mechanical Disturbances in Hard Disk Drives
  IEEE Trans. on Magnetics, March 2001
• Identification of Power Spectra from Frequency Domain Data and Disturbance Models in Control Systems
  Technical report, March 2000

Papers on Control of Particle Accelerators

• Multibunch Longitudinal Dynamics and Diagnostics via a Digital Feedback System at PEP-II, DAPHNE, ALS and SPEAR
  SLAC-PUB-8128, Jun 1998. 8pp. Presented at 6th European Particle Accelerator Conference (EPAC 98), Stockholm, Sweden, 22-26 Jun 1998.
• A Matrix Formalism for Landau Damping
  SLAC-PUB-7978, Oct 1998. 7pp. Talk given at 14th Advanced ICFA Beam Dynamics Workshop: Beam Dynamics Issues for e+ e- Factories (ICFA 97), Frascati, Italy, 20-26 Oct 1997.
• Design and Verification of Controllers for Longitudinal Oscillations using Optimal Control Theory and Numerical Simulation: Predictions for PEP-II
  SLAC-PUB-7716, SLAC-PEP-II-AP-NOTE-97-20, Dec 1997. 4pp. Poster presented at 17th IEEE Particle Accelerator Conference (PAC 97): Accelerator Science, Technology and Applications, Vancouver, Canada, 12-16 May 1997.
• Operation and Performance of the PEP-II Prototype Longitudinal Damping System at the ALS
  SLAC-PUB-6879, SLAC-PUB-95-6879, LBL-37210, May 1995. 3pp. Presented at the 16th IEEE Particle Accelerator Conference (PAC 95) and International Conference on High Enenrgy Accelerators, Dallas, Texas, 1-5 May 1995.
• A Formal Approach to the Design of Multibunch Feedback Systems: LQG Controllers
  SLAC-PUB-6503, Jun 1994. 3pp. Presented at 4th European Particle Accelerator Conference (EPAC 94), London, England, 27 Jun - 1 Jul 1994.
• Measurement of Multibunch Transfer Functions Using Time Domain Data and Fourier Analysis
  SLAC-PUB-6364, Dec 1993. 11pp. Presented at Workshop on Beam Instrumentation, Santa Fe, NM, 20-23 Oct 1993.
• Analysis of DSP Based Longitudinal Feedback System: Trails at SPEAR and ALS
  SLAC-PUB-6151, Apr 1993. 3pp. Presented at 1993 IEEE Particle Accelerator Conference (PAC 93), Washington, DC, 17-20 May 1993.
• PEP-II: RF and Feedback R & D
  SLAC-PUB-5979, LBL-33525, Nov 1992. 4pp. Presented at Particles & Fields 92: 7th Meeting of the Division of Particles Fields of the APS (DPF 92), Batavia, IL, 10-14 Nov 1992.
• Downsampled Signal Processing for a B-Factory Bunch-By-Bunch Feedback System
  In Proceedings, EPAC92, vol. 2* 1067-1069. Presented at 3rd European Particle Conf., Berlin, Germany, Mar 24-28, 1992.
• Noise Driven Synchrotron Oscillations in the Presence of Longitudinal Feedback at ALS and PEP-II
  Technical Report, SLAC-PEP-II-AP-NOTE-95-48, Aug 1995.
• Clustering using a Pairwise Nearest Neighbor (PNN) Algorithm
  Technical Report, SLAC-PEP-II-AP-NOTE-96-26, Jun 1996.

Ph.D. Thesis

• Local Analysis of Perturbed Linear Systems with Application to Saturating Control Systems
  PhD Thesis, Stanford University, EE Dept., March 2000.
  The goal of this thesis was to develop a set of tools for computing guaranteed regions of attraction, bounds on L_2 disturbance rejection and on L_2 gain, for linear systems perturbed by sector bounded nonlinearities, in particular, saturation nonlinearities. This allows more daring and better specified designs. Efficient Linear Matrix Inequality (LMI) global analysis techniques were extended to the problem of local stability and performance analysis. The issue of computing optimal Lyapunov functions for local analysis was addressed and used to point out the advantages and limitations of the new techniques. The result is a set of tools that are: computationally efficient, simple to implement, easy to understand, not overly conservative, able to handle multiple saturation nonlinearities and both continuous- and discrete-time systems. Two applications for the tools are presented: control systems with saturation, and distortion analysis in power amplifiers with saturation.