Decision and Control in Smart Grids
Smart Grids (SG) are the new paradigm in energy production and management. This new paradigm brings as much opportunities for building an energy efficiency society as it raises technical challenges. In a SG there are a large number of independent agents, from independent power producers to the individual customers. These […]
Control of Multivariable Systems
The productivity of large industrial plants depends strongly on the interaction among the various control loops. Yet, the tuning of the control loops (whether DD or model-based) very seldom is performed taking explicitly into account the multivariable nature of the problem. The power grid and oil refinery facilities are just two classes […]
Motion Control of Multirotors
In this project we are testing and implementing data-driven control techniques in multirotors.
One focus of the project is to design angle and angle rate controllers using the Virtual Reference Feedback Tuning method. The problem is specially complex since the process is multivariable, nonlinear and use noisy sensors. Also the data must […]
Modelling and Identification of Bioreactors
The importance of bioreactors for the human society can hardly be overstated. Controlled biological reactions have been used for production of essential goods since ancestral times, and are nowadays the basic element of several branches of industry: food, pharmaceutic, liquor, to name just a few. In the past decades, bioreactors have even grown […]