The University of Newcastle, Researcher report.

Researcher: Dr Maria Seron
School: School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Commenced with Institution: 01-APR-1998
Personal URL:

Funded Projects

Please note, only grants administered through the University of Newcastle Research Office are recorded here. For a more complete picture of the researcher's grant history a Personal URL may be supplied, above.

Research Team Initial Year Duration (Years) Funding Body/Client Award Type Title of Project Collaborating Partners Total Cash $ Total Inkind $
Laureate Pr Graham Goodwin;Dr Juan Aguero;Dr Jose De Dona;Dr Maria Seron;Dr Linda Brus (Ext);Dr Torbjorn Wigren (Ext);Dr Stephen Craig 3 Australian Research Council Collaborative - Linkage Projects Power Control and Scheduling for Cellular Communications   370000  
Dr Jose De Dona;Dr Maria Seron 2008 3 Australian Research Council Project - Discovery Projects Fault tolerant multisensor feedback control   135000  
Laureate Pr Graham Goodwin;Professor Minyue Fu;Professor Seyed Moheimani;Dr Julio Braslavsky;Dr Gregory Adams;Dr Jose De Dona;Dr Maria Seron;Dr James Welsh;Dr Andrew Fleming;Dr Damian Marelli;Assoc. Prof Brailey Sims;Conjoint Pr Kerrie Mengersen;Professor A Pettitt;Dr R Reeves;Professor I Turner;Dr S Crisafulli;Dr M Downey;Mr J Lee;Mr P Stone 2008 3 Australian Research Council Centre - Centres of Excellence Centre for Complex Dynamic Systems and Control   5400000  
Laureate Pr Graham Goodwin;Professor Minyue Fu;Professor Seyed Moheimani;Dr Julio Braslavsky;Dr Gregory Adams;Dr Jose De Dona;Dr Maria Seron;Dr James Welsh;Dr Andrew Fleming;Dr Damian Marelli;Assoc. Prof Brailey Sims;Conjoint Pr Kerrie Mengersen;Professor A Pettitt;Dr R Reeves;Professor I Turner;Dr S Crisafulli;Dr M Downey;Mr J Lee;Mr P Stone 2007 3 NSW Department of State and Regional Development Centre - Centres of Excellence Centre for Complex Dynamic Systems and Control   323084  
Dr Jose De Dona;Dr Maria Seron 2007 1 University of Newcastle Project - Near Miss Fault tolerant multisensor strategies in feedback control systems   20000  
Dr Jose De Dona;Dr Jacqueline Ramagge;Dr Maria Seron 2006 1 University of Newcastle Project - Pilot Grant The implications of differential algebraic concepts for the structure of nonlinear control systems   17000  
Professor Richard Middleton;Laureate Pr Graham Goodwin;Professor Minyue Fu;Conjoint Pr Kerrie Mengersen;Professor Iain Raeburn;Professor Seyed Moheimani;Dr William Heath;Dr Julio Braslavsky;Dr Jose De Dona;Dr Richard Gerlach;Dr Maria Seron;Assoc. Prof Brailey Sims 2003 5 Australian Research Council Centre - Centres of Excellence Centre for Complex Dynamic Systems and Control.   6929432  
Dr Maria Seron;Laureate Pr Graham Goodwin 2002 2 Australian Research Council Project - Discovery Projects Constrained Receding Horizon Control of Nonlinear Systems   210000  

Research Higher Degree Supervision

For a more complete picture of the researcher's supervision history a Personal URL may be supplied at the top of this page.

Current Student Supervision

Program Supervision Level Research Topic
PhD (Electrical&Computer Eng) Co-Supervisor Non Linear Model Predictive Control
M Philosophy(Elec Engineering) Principal Supervisor Fault Tolerant Model Predictive Control
PhD (Computer Science) Co-Supervisor Learning and Control in Robotics

Total Equivalent Full-time Student Units (EFTSU):

Supervision Level EFTSU
Masters 0.800
PhD 0.300

Student Completions

NB - the completions shown here are only those for the University of Newcastle obtained since 2001.

Program Year Research Topic
PhD (Electrical&Computer Eng) 2006 Quantisation Issues in Feedback Control
M Engineering (Elec & Comp)[R] 2007 Novel Strategies for Implementing Stochastic Ore Price Models in Open Cut Mine Planning
PhD (Electrical&Computer Eng) 2008 Dissipativity, Optimality and Robustness of Model Predictive Control Policies
PhD (Electrical&Computer Eng) 2008 Maximal Controllability via Reduced Complexity Model Predictive Control

Research Publications

Please note, the publications listed here:
(1) relate to the researcher's position at the University of Newcastle only
(2) are for selected categories of publications, and
(3) relate to publication year 1998, onwards.
For a more complete picture of the researcher's publication history a Personal URL may be supplied at the top of this page.

Journal Article

Kofman Ernesto, Seron Maria Marta, Haimovich Hernan, ’Control design with guaranteed ultimate bound for perturbed systems’, Automatica, 44 1815-1821 (2008) [C1]

Seron Maria Marta, Zhuo Xiang Wei, De Dona Jose Adrian, Martinez John J, ’Multisensor switching control strategy with fault tolerance guarantees’, Automatica, 44 88-97 (2008) [C1]

Haimovich Hernan, Seron Maria Marta, ’Multivariable quadratically-stabilizing quantizers with finite density’, Automatica, 44 1880-1885 (2008) [C1]

Lovaas Christian, Seron Maria Marta, Goodwin Graham Clifford, ’Robust output-feedback model predictive control for systems with unstructured uncertainty’, Automatica, 44 1933-1943 (2008) [C1]

Haimovich H, Seron Maria Marta, ’A state-space approach to quantization coarseness for quadratic stabilization of single-input systems’, Asian Journal of Control, 9 133-143 (2007) [C1]

Haimovich H, Kofman E, Seron Maria Marta, ’Systematic ultimate bound computation for sampled-data systems with quantization’, Automatica, 43 1117-1123 (2007) [C1]

Haimovich Hernan, Seron Maria Marta, Goodwin Graham Clifford, ’Geometric characterization of multivariable quadratically stabilizing quantizers’, International Journal of Control, 79 845-857 (2006) [C1]

Goodwin Graham Clifford, Seron Maria Marta, Middleton Richard Hume, Zhang Mei Mei, Hennessy Bryan F, Stone P M, Menabde M, ’Receding horizon control applied to optimal mine planning’, Automatica, 42 1337-1342 (2006) [C1]

Goodwin Graham Clifford, De Dona Jose Adrian, Seron Maria Marta, Zhuo Xiang Wei, ’Lagrangian duality between constrained estimation and control’, Automatica, 41 935-944 (2005) [C1]

Mayne D Q, Seron Maria Marta, Rakovic S V, ’Robust model predictive control of constrained linear systems with bounded disturbances’, Automatica, 41 219-224 (2005) [C1]

Rojas Norman Osvaldo Javier, Goodwin Graham Clifford, Seron Maria Marta, Arie Feuer, ’An svd based strategy for receding horizon control of input constrained linear systems’, International Journal of Robust and Nonlinear Control, 1207-1226 (2004) [C1]

Seron Maria Marta, Goodwin Graham Clifford, De Dona Jose Adrian, ’Characterisation of Receding Horizon Control for Constrained Linear Systems’, Asian Journal of Control, 5 271-286 (2003) [C1]

Perez Tristan, Goodwin Graham Clifford, Seron Maria Marta, ’Performance Degradation in Feedback Control Due to Constraints’, Special Section Technical Notes and Correspondence. IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 48 1381-1385 (2003) [C1]

De Dona Jose Adrian, Seron Maria Marta, Mayne D Q, Goodwin Graham Clifford, ’Enlarged terminal sets guaranteeing stability of receding horizon control’, Systems & Control Letters, 47 57-63 (2002) [C1]

Book

Goodwin Graham Clifford, Seron Maria Marta, De Dona Jose Adrian, Constrained control and estimation an optimisational approach, Springer-Verlag, London, 411 (2004) [A1]

Chapter in Book

Rojas Cristian Ricardo, Goodwin Graham Clifford, Seron Maria Marta, Zhang Mei Mei, ’Open-cut mine planning via closed-loop receding-horizon optimal control’, Identification and Control: The Gap Between Theory and Practice, Springer, Berlin, 43-62 (2007) [B1]

Conference Publication

L?Vaas Christian, Seron Maria Marta, Goodwin Graham Clifford, ’A dissipativity approach to robustness in constrained model predictive control’, Proceedings of the 46th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, New Orleans (2007) [E1]

Goodwin Graham Clifford, Seron Maria Marta, Mayne David Q, ’Optimisation: A key tool for advanced design in scheduling, estimation and control (Invited Paper)’, IFAC MMM'07. 12th IFAC Symposium on Automation in Mining, Mineral and Metal Processing. Proceedings, Quebec (2007) [E1]

L?Vaas Christian, Seron Maria Marta, Goodwin Graham Clifford, ’Robust model predictive control of input-constrained stable systems with unstructured uncertainty’, Proceedings of the European Control Conference 2007, Kos, Greece (2007) [E1]

Seron Maria Marta, Kyung Sang Yoo, Goodwin Graham Clifford, ’Backlash Compensation Using Receding Horizon Control’, Proceedings of 16th IFAC World Congress, Prague, Czech Republic (2006) [E1]

Hennessy Bryan F, Goodwin Graham Clifford, Seron Maria Marta, ’Closed Loop Stochastic Control Strategies for Optimal Mine Planning’, APC 2006 Advanced Process Control Applications for Industry Workshop, Vancouver, Canada (2006) [E2]

Zhuo Xiang Wei, De Dona Jose Adrian, Seron Maria Marta, ’Explicit Output-Feedback Receding-Horizon Control with Constraints’, Proceedings of the 2006 American Control Conference, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA (2006) [E1]

Zhuo Xiang Wei, De Dona Jose Adrian, Seron Maria Marta, ’Explicit Solution To Constrained Linear Estimation’, Proceedings of 16th IFAC World Congress, Prague, Czech Republic (2006) [E1]

L?Vaas Christian, Seron Maria Marta, Goodwin Graham Clifford, ’Inverse Minimax Optimality of Model Predictive Control Policies’, Proceedings of the 45th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, San Diego, CA, USA (2006) [E1]

Martinez John J, Zhuo Xiang Wei, De Dona Jose Adrian, Seron Maria Marta, ’Multi-sensor switching strategy for automotive longitudinal control’, Proceedings of the 2006 American Control Conference, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA (2006) [E1]

L?Vaas Christian, Goodwin Graham Clifford, Seron Maria Marta, ’Non-parametric Linear Quadratic Optimal Control in the Frequency Domain’, Proceedings of the 2006 American Control Conference, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA (2006) [E1]

Medioli Adrian Mark, Seron Maria Marta, Middleton Richard Hume, ’Best Possible Region of Attraction for a Class of Unstable Systems Using Short Horizon MPC Concepts’, Proceedings of 44th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Seville, Spain (2005) [E1]

Haimovich Hernan, Seron Maria Marta, ’On Infimum Quantization Density for Multiple-input Systems’, Proceedings of 44th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Seville, Spain (2005) [E1]

Goodwin Graham Clifford, De Dona Jose Adrian, Seron Maria Marta, Zhuo Xiang Wei, ’On the duality of constrained estimation and control’, CD ROM, Boston (2004) [E1]

Rohman Arief Syaichu, Middleton Richard Hume, Seron Maria Marta, ’A Multivariable Nonlinear Algebraic Loop as a QP with Applications to MPC’, Proceedings for ECC 2003, Cambridge, England (2003) [E1]

Haimovich Hernan, Seron Maria Marta, Goodwin Graham Clifford, Aguero Juan Carlos, ’A Neural Approximation to the Explicit Solution of Constrained Linear MPC’, Proceedings for ECC 2003, Cambridge, England (2003) [E1]

Rojas Norman Osvaldo Javier, Goodwin Graham Clifford, Arie Feuer, Seron Maria Marta, ’A sub-optimal receding horizon control strategy for constrained linear systems’, Proceedings for the 2003 ACC, The Adams Mark Hotel, Denver, Colorado (2003) [E1]

Rojas Norman Osvaldo Javier, Seron Maria Marta, Goodwin Graham Clifford, ’SVD based receding horizon control for constrained linear systems: stability results’, Proceedings for CDC 2003 (CD ROM), Maui, Hawaii, USA (2003) [E1]

De Dona Jose Adrian, Goodwin Graham Clifford, Seron Maria Marta, ’Connections between Model Predictive Control and Anti-Windup strategies for Dealing with Saturating Actuators’, European Control Conference ECC'99 - Conference Proceedings, Karlsruhe, Germany (1999) [E1]

Goodwin Graham Clifford, Seron Maria Marta, Salgado M E, ’H(subscript)2 Design of Decentralized Controllers’, Proceedings of the American Control Conference, San Diego, California, USA (1999) [E1]

Woodyatt Andrew Richard, Seron Maria Marta, Freudenberg J S, Middleton Richard Hume, ’Cheap Control Tracking Performance for Non-Right-Invertible Systems’, Proceedings of the 37th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Tampa, Florida, USA (1998) [E1]

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