Teaching Learning-Based Control with Interactive Curriculum Material
Overview
In this session, Dr. Cescon from the University of Houston will discuss the educational materials developed for a graduate-level engineering course in learning-based control, using MATLAB Live Scripts for interactive learning, Simulink and Simscape for dynamic modeling and simulation, and MATLAB Onramps for self-paced online learning. The course provides foundational theory and methodological approaches for developing models and designing control laws directly from input-output data measured from a system during operation, integrating system identification, machine learning and adaptive control.
Feedback from students, collected through questionnaires, will be presented to investigate the impact of the educational activities on students’ experiences, engagement, and content knowledge. This session attempts to provide educators with up-to-date resources to increase their teaching impact on topics related to learning-based control.
Who Should Attend
Faculty and students interested in topics such as learning-based control and adaptive control.
About the Presenter
Marzia Cescon is the David C. Zimmerman Assistant Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at the University of Houston, TX. At UH, she is also the founder and director of the Advanced Learning, Artificial Intelligence and Control laboratory, a multidisciplinary effort for learning-based decision making and control of complex and potentially unknown dynamical systems. Dr. Cescon is also an adjunct faculty member in the Civil & Environmental Engineering Department and an affiliate of the UH Advanced Manufacturing Institute. Her research focuses on the integration of learning and control with applications to personalized health and aerial, space and ground vehicle autonomy. Dr. Cescon earned a BS in Information Engineering and a MS in Control Systems Engineering from the University of Padua, Italy, and a Ph.D. in Automatic Control from Lund University, Sweden. She has held several research positions including at the University of California, Santa Barbara, the Melbourne School of Engineering at the University of Melbourne, and the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences at Harvard University. Dr. Cescon is also the recipient of the NSF Career Award (2024).
