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Mircea Lazar is an Associate Professor in the Control Systems group of the Electrical Engineering Faculty at the Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e). His main areas of expertise include measurement and control engineering.
Mircea’s research interests include stability analysis and control of complex interconnected systems, such as power systems, water networks, communication networks, vehicles platoons and biological networks. His research deals with all aspects of constrained control and model predictive control, control of nonlinear and hybrid systems using control Lyapunov functions and set-theoretic methods. He has worked on several application domains, including high-precision mechatronics, automotive control systems, biomedical systems, smart grids and smart buildings temperature and illumination control, power converters and amplifiers. He has been collaborating with several companies, including ASML, DAF, TENNET, Oce, Prodrive, Philips Research, IBS Precision Engineering, Ford Research Lab USA, UTRC USA.
Academic background
Mircea received both his Dipl. Ing. degree (2001) and MSc (2002) in Control Engineering from the Faculty of Automatic Control and Computer Engineering at the ‘Gh. Asachi’ Technical University of Iasi. He received the Ph.D. degree in control systems from Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, The Netherlands, in 2006. For this thesis he received the EECI PhD Award for the best thesis in Europe on Control of Complex and Heterogeneous Systems 2006 – 2007.
He has become a tenure-track Assistant Professor in 2008, he was tenured in 2011 and he was appointed as a tenured Associate Professor in 2017 in the Electrical Engineering Department of the Eindhoven University of Technology. He has received a VENI personal grant for excellence in research from the Dutch Science Foundation (NWO) in 2008. He was a visiting professor at the Boston University in 2011, within the Hybrid & Networked Systems LAB. He has been an active researcher in the hybrid and nonlinear systems community and has served as the Chair of the IEEE CSS Technical Committee on Hybrid Systems from 2011 until 2016. He was the main Chair and organizer of the 4th IFAC International Conference on Nonlinear Model Predictive Control, Nordwijkerhout, The Netherlands, 2012. He is one of the internationally recognized researchers in the area of stability theory, Lyapunov methods, model predictive control and hybrid systems, delivering 14 invited talks at conferences (IEEE ISTCC 2012, IFAC NMPC 2015) and universities worldwide (ETH Zurich, University of Stuttgart, Boston University, University of Oxford). He has supervised 9 graduated PhD students (out of which 2 received the distinction Cum laude) and 3 PostDocs. He has published more than 50 journal papers.
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My current research focuses on stability and control of complex interconnected systems motivated by the interconnection of smart engineering systems via the Internet of Things
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Collaborations and top research areas from the last five years
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AquaConnect, Key technologies for safeguarding regional water provision
van der Hagen, D. (Project communication officer), Lazar, M. (Project Manager), Verheijen, P. C. N. (Project member) & van Aken, S. A. J. (Project member)
1/09/21 → 8/11/25
Project: Second tier
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NEON: New Energy Outlooks for the Netherlands
Nawijn, H. (Project communication officer), Hendrix, W. H. A. (Project communication officer), Lazar, M. (Project Manager) & Reyes Dreke, V. (Project member)
1/05/20 → 1/10/26
Project: Second tier
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PGN Mechatronics: Physics-guided neural controllers for compensating parasitic forces in high-precision mechatronics
Nawijn, H. (Project communication officer), Hendrix, W. H. A. (Project communication officer), Lazar, M. (Project Manager), Bolderman, M. (Project member) & Vacancy PD (Project member)
1/03/20 → 31/12/24
Project: Second tier
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LONGRUN: Development of efficient and environmental friendlyLONG distance powertrain for heavy dUty trucks aNd coaches
Lazar, M. (Project Manager), Donkers, M. C. F. (Project member), Heuts, Y. J. J. (Project member), Nawijn, H. (Project communication officer), Hendrix, W. H. A. (Project communication officer), Lazar, M. (Project member) & Donkers, M. C. F. (Project Manager)
1/01/20 → 30/12/23
Project: Research direct
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SYSDYNET: Data-Driven Modeling in Dynamic Networks
Van den Hof, P. M. J. (Project Manager), Haesaert, S. (Project member), Kivits, E. M. M. (Project member), Weiland, S. (Project member), Lazar, M. (Project member), Donkers, M. C. F. (Project member), Tóth, R. (Project member), Steentjes, T. R. V. (Project member), Ramaswamy, K. (Project member), Ludlage, J. H. A. (Project member), Dreef, H. J. (Project member), Cheng, X. (Project member), Nawijn, H. (Project communication officer), van der Hagen, D. (Project communication officer), Fonken, S. J. M. (Project member) & Shi, S. (Project member)
1/09/16 → 31/08/22
Project: Research direct
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Abstracting Linear Stochastic Systems via Knowledge Filtering
Engelaar, M. H. W., Romao, L., Gao, Y., Lazar, M., Abate, A. & Haesaert, S., 19 Jan 2024, 2023 62nd IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, CDC 2023. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, p. 3049-3054 6 p. 10383450Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › Academic › peer-review
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Data-driven feedforward control design for nonlinear systems: A control-oriented system identification approach
Bolderman, M., Lazar, M. & Butler, H., 19 Jan 2024, 2023 IEEE 62nd Conference on Decision and Control, CDC 2023. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, p. 4530-4535 6 p. 10383648Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › Academic › peer-review
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Koopman Data-Driven Predictive Control with Robust Stability and Recursive Feasibility Guarantees
de Jong, T., Breschi, V., Schoukens, M. & Lazar, M., 2 May 2024, arXiv.org, 9 p.Research output: Working paper › Preprint › Academic
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Multivariable control of ac/ac modular multilevel converters under square wave operation using Fourier expansion
Reyes Dreke, V., Pereira Marca, Y., Pouresmaeil, K., Roes, M. G. L. & Lazar, M., 25 Oct 2024, 2024 IEEE 21st International Power Electronics and Motion Control Conference, PEMC 2024. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 7 p. 10726407Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › Academic › peer-review
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Nonlinear Data-Driven Predictive Control Using Deep Subspace Prediction Networks
Lazar, M., Popescu, M. S. & Schoukens, M., 19 Jan 2024, 2023 62nd IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, CDC 2023. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, p. 3770-3775 6 p. 10384143Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › Academic › peer-review
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Prizes
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Best Student Paper Award IFAC CAO 2022
Bolderman, M. (Recipient), Fan, D. (Recipient), Lazar, M. (Recipient) & Butler, H. (Recipient), 2022
Prize: Other › Career, activity or publication related prizes (lifetime, best paper, poster etc.) › Scientific
Activities
- 1 Plenary talk
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Physics-based Neural Networks for Precision Motion Control
Lazar, M. (Speaker)
14 Jun 2023Activity: Talk or presentation types › Plenary talk › Scientific
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Research areas
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Oncology
van der Sommen, F. (Researcher), Lazar, M. (Researcher), Lavrijsen, R. (Researcher), Bax, N. A. M. (Content manager), (Content manager) & (Content manager)
Impact: Research Topic/Theme (at group level)