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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
Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
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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 in fresh water stressed deltas
Goswami, D., Voeten, J. P. M., Verheijen, P. C. N., Lazar, M., de Mol-Regels, M., van der Hagen, D. & Haghi, M.
15/09/21 → 31/08/25
Project: Research direct
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AquaConnect, Key technologies for safeguarding regional water provision
Lazar, M., van der Hagen, D. & Verheijen, P. C. N.
1/09/21 → 31/08/25
Project: Research direct
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PGN Mechatronics: Physics-guided neural controllers for compensating parasitic forces in high-precision mechatronics
Lazar, M., Bolderman, M., Nawijn, H. & Hendrix, W. H. A.
1/09/20 → 31/08/24
Project: Research direct
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NEON: New Energy Outlooks for the Netherlands
Lazar, M., Reyes Dreke, V., Nawijn, H. & Hendrix, W. H. A.
1/05/20 → 1/10/26
Project: Research direct
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LONGRUN: Development of efficient and environmental friendlyLONG distance powertrain for heavy dUty trucks aNd coaches
Lazar, M., Donkers, M. C. F., Heuts, Y. J. J., Nawijn, H., Hendrix, W. H. A., Lazar, M. & Donkers, M. C. F.
1/01/20 → 30/12/23
Project: Research direct
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A MATLAB toolbox for training and implementing physics-guided neural network-based feedforward controllers
Bolderman, M., Lazar, M. & Butler, H., 2023, In: IFAC-PapersOnLine. 56, 2, p. 4068-4073Research output: Contribution to journal › Conference article › peer-review
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Generalized Data–Driven Predictive Control: Merging Subspace and Hankel Predictors
Lazar, M. & Verheijen, P. C. N., May 2023, In: Mathematics. 11, 9, 17 p., 2216.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Academic › peer-review
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Offset–free data–driven predictive control
Lazar, M. & Verheijen, P. C. N., 10 Jan 2023, 2022 IEEE 61st Conference on Decision and Control (CDC). Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, p. 1099-1104 6 p. 9992453Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › Academic › peer-review
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On a canonical distributed controller in the behavioral framework
Steentjes, T. R. V., Lazar, M. & Van den Hof, P. M. J., Sept 2023, In: Systems and Control Letters. 179, 8 p., 105581.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Academic › peer-review
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Physics–Guided Neural Networks for Feedforward Control: From Consistent Identification to Feedforward Controller Design
Bolderman, M., Lazar, M. & Butler, H., 10 Jan 2023, 2022 IEEE 61st Conference on Decision and Control, CDC 2022. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, p. 1497-1502 6 p. 9992852Research 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, Max (Recipient), Fan, Daiwei (Recipient), Lazar, Mircea (Recipient) & Butler, Hans (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
Mircea Lazar (Speaker)
14 Jun 2023Activity: Talk or presentation types › Plenary talk › Scientific
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Oncology
Fons van der Sommen (Researcher), Mircea Lazar (Researcher), Reinoud Lavrijsen (Researcher), Noortje A.M. Bax (Content manager), Daniëlle van der Hagen (Content manager) & Rianne Sanders (Content manager)
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