Leonid
Mirkin
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DK, 210
Education
- 1989 – M.Sc., Electrical Engineering, Frunze Polytechnic Institute, Frunze, USSR
- 1992 – Ph.D., Control Engineering, Academy of Science of Kyrgyz Republic, Bishkek
Research Interests
- Sampled-data control and signal processing (both time- and event-triggered).
- Time-delay systems (especially, dead-time compensation).
- Preview control and estimation.
- Internal-model control.
- Control of multi-agent systems.
- Classical and modern frequency-domain methods, including design with H₂ and H∞ criteria
Guest Appointments
- Postdoctoral Fellow, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Technion (1994–1997)
- Sabbatical leaves:
- – Universiteit Twente, the Netherlands (2004–05)
- – Lunds universitet, Sweden (2012–13)
- – Politecnico di Milano, Italy (Winter 2020–21)
- – Technische Universiteit Eindhoven, the Netherlands (Winter 2022–23)
Public Professional Activities
- The Israeli Association for Automatic Control, President (since 2021)
- Editorial responsibilities:
- – associate editor for the IEEE Control Systems Letters (2017–21)
- – associate editor for the European Journal of Control (2013–18)
- – associate editor for the IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control (2010–13)
- – member of the editorial board for the IET Control Theory and Applications (2007–13)
Selected Publications
- L. Mirkin, H. Rotstein and Z. J. Palmor, “H² and H∞ Design of Sampled-Data Systems Using Lifting. Part I: General Framework and Solutions. Part II: Properties of Systems in the Lifted Domain,” SIAM J. Control Optim., 38, no. 1, pp. 175–218, 1999
- L. Mirkin and N. Raskin, “Every Stabilizing Dead-Time Controller Has an Observer–Predictor-Based Structure,” Automatica, 39, no. 10, pp. 1747–1754, 2003
- L. Mirkin, “On the extraction of dead-time controllers and estimators from delay-free parametrizations,” IEEE Trans. Automat. Control, 48, no. 4, pp. 543–553, 2003
- G. Tadmor and L. Mirkin, “H∞ Control and Estimation with Preview—Part I: Matrix ARE Solutions in Continuous Time, Part II: Fixed-Size ARE Solutions in Discrete Time,” IEEE Trans. Automat. Control, 50, no. 1, pp. 19–40, 2005
- G. Meinsma and L. Mirkin, “H∞ Control of Systems with Multiple I/O Delays via Decomposition to Adobe Problems,” IEEE Trans. Automat. Control, 50, no. 2, pp. 199–211, 2005
- G. Meinsma and L. Mirkin, “Sampling from a System-Theoretic Viewpoint: Part I—Concepts and Tools, Part II—Noncausal Solutions,” IEEE Trans. Signal Processing, 58, no. 7, pp. 3578–3606, 2010
- M. Kristalny and L. Mirkin, “Input/Output Stabilization in the General Two-Sided Model Matching Setup,” SIAM J. Control Optim., 50, no. 3, pp. 1413–1438, 2012
- Y. Levinson and L. Mirkin, “L² Optimization in Discrete FIR Estimation: Exploiting State-Space Structure,” SIAM J. Control Optim., 51, no. 1, pp. 419–441, 2013
- D. Madjidian and L. Mirkin, “Distributed Control with Low-Rank Coordination,” IEEE Trans. Control of Network Systems, 1, no. 1, pp. 53–63, 2014
- L. Mirkin, “Intermittent Redesign of Analog Controllers via the Youla Parameter,” IEEE Trans. Automat. Control, 62, no. 4, pp. 1838–1851, 2017
- A. Goldenshluger and L. Mirkin, “On Minimum-Variance Event-Triggered Control,” IEEE Control Syst. Lett., 1, no. 1, pp. 32–37, 2017
- M. Braksmayer and L. Mirkin, “Discrete-Time H₂ Optimal Control under Intermittent and Lossy Communications,” Automatica, 103, pp. 180–188, 2019
- L. Mirkin, “On Dead-Time Compensation in Repetitive Control,” IEEE Control Syst. Lett., 4, no. 4, pp. 791–796, 2020
- L. Mi and L. Mirkin, “H∞ Event-Triggered Control with Performance Guarantees Vis-à-vis the Optimal Periodic Solution,” IEEE Trans. Automat. Control, 67, no. 1, pp. 63–74, 2022
- G. Barkai, L. Mirkin, and D. Zelazo, “On the Internal Stability of Diffusively Coupled Multi-Agent Systems and the Dangers of Cancel Culture,” Automatica, 155, pp. 111158, 2023
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Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa
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