Publications

Conference articles

  1. S. Lam and E. J. Davison. Real controllability radius of higher-order, descriptor, and time-delay LTI systems. In 18th International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC) World Congress, Milano, Italy, August 28 - September 2, 2011, pp. 3354-3359. [ Abstract ]

  2. E. J. Davison and S. Lam. Performance limitations of the servomechanism problem when the number of tracking/disturbance poles increases. In 49th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Atlanta, GA, USA, December 15-17, 2010, pp. 6577-6583. [ Abstract ]

  3. S. Lam and E. J. Davison. Restricted real perturbation values with applications to the structured real controllability radius of LTI systems. In 48th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Shanghai, China, December 16-18, 2009, pp. 1145-1150. [ Abstract ]

  4. E. J. Davison, D. E. Davison, and S. Lam. Multivariable three-term optimal controller design for large-scale systems. In 48th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Shanghai, China, December 16-18, 2009, pp. 940-945. [ Abstract ]

  5. S. Lam and E. J. Davison. Generalized real perturbation values with applications to the structured real controllability radius of LTI systems. In 2009 American Control Conference, St. Louis, MO, USA, June 10-12, 2009, pp. 2439-2444. [ Abstract ]

  6. S. Lam and E. J. Davison. A fast algorithm to compute the controllability, decentralized fixed-mode, and minimum-phase radius of LTI systems. In 47th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Cancun, Mexico, December 9-11, 2008, pp. 508-513. [ Abstract ]

  7. S. Lam and E. J. Davison. An efficient algorithm to compute the real perturbation values of a matrix. In 18th International Symposium on Mathematical Theory of Networks and Systems (MTNS 2008), Blacksburg, VA, USA, July 28 - August 1, 2008. [ Abstract ]

  8. S. Lam and E. J. Davison. The transmission zero at s radius and the minimum phase radius of LTI systems. In 17th International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC) World Congress, Seoul, Korea, July 6-11, 2008, pp. 6371-6376. [ Abstract ]

  9. S. Lam and E. J. Davison. The real DFM radius and minimum norm plant perturbation for general control information flow constraints. In 17th International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC) World Congress, Seoul, Korea, July 6-11, 2008, pp. 6365-6370. [ Abstract ]

  10. S. Lam and E. J. Davison. The real decentralized fixed mode radius of LTI systems. In 46th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, New Orleans, LA, USA, December 12-14, 2007, pp. 3036-3041. [ Abstract ]

  11. S. Lam and E. J. Davison. Control of plants with changing dynamics using switching model predictive control. In 9th IASTED International Conference - Control and Applications, Montreal, QC, Canada, May 30 - June 1, 2007, pp. 134-140. [ Abstract ]

  12. S. Lam and E. J. Davison. The real stabilizability radius of the multi-link inverted pendulum. In 2006 American Control Conference, Minneapolis, MN, USA, June 14-16, 2006, pp. 1814-1819. [ Abstract ]

Technical reports

  1. S. Lam and E. J. Davison. Real stability and stabilizability radii of the multi-link inverted pendulum system. Systems Control Group, University of Toronto, Technical Report 0502. 2005. Available electronically here.

Theses

  1. S. Lam. Real robustness radii and performance limitations of LTI control systems. Doctorate thesis, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada, December 2010. Supervisor: Prof. Edward J. Davison.

  2. S. Lam. The real stability and stabilizability radii of the multi-link inverted pendulum system. Master's thesis, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada, August 2005. Supervisor: Prof. Edward J. Davison.

  3. S. Lam. The effects of limited scope on the coordination of autonomous multiple agent systems using local rules. Undergraduate thesis, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada, 2002. Supervisor: Prof. Bruce A. Francis.