As design requirements and machining capabilities advance, the demand for the development of improved methods for precision motion control (PMC) continues to increase. The goal of the work proposed for the IREE project was to combine the theory and analysis techniques from the Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e) and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) to produce a novel control method. This report details research that was carried-out at TU/e in the area of Iterative Learning Control (ILC) as a direct result of the NSF travel grant. The research conducted at TU/e included collaboration with the research groups of Professor Maarten Steinbuch and Professor Okko Bosgra. These groups have extensive experience in the theoretical and practical aspects of learning systems. The stability and analysis techniques employed by these groups differ from the analysis techniques used in Professor Andrew Alleyne's group at UIUC. Through collaboration efforts with Prof. Steinbuch, Prof. Bosgra, and a few of their grad students, researchers from the two universities were able to define a new area of research in PMC by combining the TU/e research framework with the UIUC control algorithm.

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Andrew G. Alleyne received his B.S. in Engineering Degree from Princeton University in 1989 in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering. He received his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Mechanical Engineering in 1992 and 1994, respectively, from The University of California at Berkeley. He joined the Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign in 1994 and is also appointed in the Coordinated Science Laboratory of UIUC. He currently holds the Ralph M. and Catherine V. Fisher Professorship in the College of Engineering, was awarded the ASME Dynamics Systems and Control Division's Outstanding Young Investigator Award in 2003, and was a Fulbright Fellow to the Netherlands where he held a Visiting Professorship in Vehicle Mechatronics at TU Delft. He is a Fellow of ASME. His research interests are a mix of theory and implementation with a broad application focus. In addition to research he has a keen interest in education and was recently awarded the UIUC College of Engineering's Teaching Excellence Award for 2008.
Jeroen van de Wijdeven received his M.Sc. degree (cum laude) in Mechanical Engineering at the Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands, in 2004. From 2004 until 2008 he was a research assistant in the Control Systems Technology Group in the department of Mechanical Engineering at the Eindhoven University of Technology. He received his Ph.D. degree from the Eindhoven University of Technology in 2008. His research focused on Iterative Learning Control, with special attention to ILC design for time-windowed and uncertain systems. Since October 2008 he has been working as a mechatronics development engineer at ASML.

Maarten Steinbuch is a full professor in Systems & Control. He received the M.Sc. degree (cum laude) in Mechanical Engineering from Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands, in 1984. From 1984 until 1987 he was a research assistant at Delft University of Technology and KEMA (Power Industry Research Institute), Arnhem, The Netherlands. In 1989 he received the Ph.D. degree from Delft University of Technology. From 1987-1998 he was with Philips Research Labs, Eindhoven as a Member of the Scientific Staff, working on modelling and control of mechatronic applications. From 1998-1999 he was manager of the Dynamics and Control group at Philips Center for Manufacturing Technology. Since 1999 he is full professor of the Control Systems Technology group of the Mechanical Engineering Department of Eindhoven University of Technology. His research interests are modelling, design and control of motion systems and automotive powertrains. He was an associate editor of the IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology, of IFAC Control Engineering Practice, and of IEEE Control Systems Magazine. He was editor-at-large of the European Journal of Control. Since October 1, 2008, he is Editor-in-Chief of IFAC Mechatronics. In 2003 and 2005 he obtained the 'Best-Teacher' award of the Department of Mechanical Engineering, TU/e. Since July 2006 he is also Scientific Director of the Centre of Competence High Tech Systems of the Federation of Dutch Technical Universities.

Okko Bosgra obtained his M.Sc. degree in Mechanical Engineering from Delft University of Technoology, Delft, The Netherlands, in 1968. From 1981-1985 he held a Professorship in the Department of Physics at the Agricultural University of Wageningen, The Netherlands. Since 1986 he has been a Full Professor in Control Engineering, heading the Mechanical Engineering Systems and Control Group of Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands. Since 2003 he has also been a part-time Professor in the Control Systems Technology Group of the Mechanical Engineering Department of Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands. In July 2005 he joined the Control Systems group at the Department of Electrical Engineering as a part-time professor. His current research interests are in the theory of robust identification and control design and their application to industrial problems in the process control field and in the field of mechanical servo motion control. Prof. Bosgra is director of the graduate school Dutch Institute of Systems and Control and co-founder of the Dutch Systems and Control Theory Network.

Researchers should cite this work as follows:

• (2009), "NSEC: Center for Nano-Chemical-Electrical-Mechanical-Manufacturing Systems/Nano-CEMMS," http://globalhub.org/resources/1766.

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