Coursecode: wb2410
Coursename: Control Engineering: Recent Developments

DUT creditpoints: 2
ECTS creditpoints: 3

Subfaculty of Mechanical Engineering and Marine Technology

Lecturer(s): Bosgra, prof.ir. O.H.

Tel.: 015-2785610

Catalog data:
See detailed description

Courseyear: 3,4
Semester: 2/2/0/0
Hours p/w: 2
Other hours: --
Assessment: oral
Assessm.period(s): by app.
(see academic calendar)

Prerequisites: basic and advanced courses in control engineering

Follow up: no follow up

Detailed description of topics:
Recent developments in the field of control engineering. The role of robustness in stability theory and in performance assessment of control systems. Model uncertainty, uncertainty modelling in control theory considered from the points of view of physical system modelling and system identification. Model based control, predictive control, relationships with classical LQ and LQG approaches. The role of an observer (state estimating filter) in predictive control and in Internal Model Control (IMC). Developments in process control applications. The desire in model predictive control to handle nonlinear process models for prediction and control computations. The fundamental role of feedback versus feedforward control and trajectory design.
The design of control systems with two and with three degrees of freedom. Control along a prescribed trajectory, time-dependent process models. Control of batch processes.
Implementation environments and structures for control algorithms: PLC, DCS-system, advanced control, optimal process operation, safety and alarming systems. Distinction of goals, tasks, opportunities. Interconnection of continuous-time systems, switching systems, and discrete event systems. Nonlinear control, status of the formal theory of feedback linearization. Role of nonlinear nonminimum phase behaviour. Achievements of nonlinear control system design versus approaches from approximation theory (neural networks) and heuristics (fuzzy control). High-gain feedback in mechanical servomechanisms, sliding mode control. Suppression of chatter and limitations in steady state behaviour. Learning and repetitive approaches.

Course material:
Recent journal papers and additional course notes.

References from literature:

  • [1] ISBN: [0-13-006305-3] Lin,Ching-Fang, Advanced Control Systems Design, Prentice Hall, Inc., Englewood Cliffs, NJ, 1994.

  • [2] ISBN: [0-19-509119-1] Ogunnaike,B.A. Ray,W.H., Process Dynamics, Modeling, and Control, Oxford University Press, Inc., New York, NY, USA 1994.

  • [3] ISBN: [0-13-280645-2] Dahleh,M.A. Diaz-Bobillo,I.J., Control of Uncertain Systems. A Linear Programming Approach Prentice Hall, Inc., Englewood Cliffs, NJ, 1995.

  • [4] ISBN: [4-431-70109-5] Hirota,K. (Ed.), Industrial Applications of Fuzzy Technology, Springer Verlag, Tokyo, Japan 1993.

  • [5] ISBN: [3-486-22287-2] Lunze,J., Kuenstliche Intelligenz fuer Ingenieure Bd.I: Methodische Grundlagen und Softwaretechnologie R.Oldenbourg Verlag, München, BRD, 1994.

  • [6] ISBN: [3-540-19707-9] Moore,K.L., Iterative Learning Control for Deterministic Systems, Springer Verlag, London, UK, 1993.

Remarks (specific information about assesment, entry requirements, etc.):

Goals:
To present a broad survey of the achievements in the subject area during the past decade. The lectures address the reasons for successes and failures of the various main contributions in the field. The course serves to present an overview rather than technical issues.

Computer use:
The computer will be used regularly in demos and examples.

Laboratory project(s):

Design content:
The goal is control system design. Design and implementation aspects are addressed throughout the course.

Percentage of design: 65%