Dr. Samo Gerkšič
October 1, 2006 - September 30, 2008
EC, 6th FWP, COOP-CT-2006-031638
The main objective of the CONNECT co-operative research project is to achieve a significant
increase in the range of control problems to which advanced optimisation-based controllers
can be reliably applied. This will be achieved through the investigation and development of an
integrated set of advanced control algorithms and software/hardware tools for applications in a
broad range of systems which exhibit significant operational difficulties and limitations
(e.g. industrial systems requiring fast control actions, safety-critical applications as encountered
in automotive control or in chemical reactor control, energy application, wire manufacturing
requiring extremely tight product quality control etc.).
The work in the proposed project includes research activities and novel RTD approaches for:
The activities of the project will make extensive use of a field of mathematics, called parametric optimization,
to shift offline (hence out of the controller) the computational burden traditionally associated with model-based
optimal control techniques. The remarkable feature of the CONNECT advanced controllers is that the control performance is
identical to what would have been achieved with a full on-line optimization approach but without the computational burden
and related software.
The consortium brings together 3 leading research groups in process systems engineering, control,
optimisation, and embedded systems design, 5 SMEs which will carry out software development activities and additionally
provide real-life industrial problems from the polymer, energy generation, chemical, automotive and wire manufacturing
sectors and 2 end-users which will additionally provide realistic industrial problems to apply, validate and assess the
performance of the developed algorithms, methodologies and tools.
Official project page:http://www.cpi.umist.ac.uk/CONNECT/
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