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CHAT - Control of Heterogeneus Automation Systems

Researchers: Pontus Giselsson, Erik Johannesson, Mikael Lindberg, José Maestre, Karl Mårtensson, Anders Rantzer, Karl-Erik Årzén in collaboration with project partners from University of Pisa, Siemens AG, University of Trento, University College London, Elsag Datamat, Sofidel and University of Salento .

Duration: September 2008 – August 2011

Funding: EU/IST/FP7

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Scalability, reconfigurability, and security are three aspects of paramount importance in developing efficient, predictable, and safe control architectures for large-scale networked industrial automation. At present, the state of control systems technology is such that the supervision and control of larger and more complex plants cannot be achieved without considerable costs in terms of hard infrastructure and software development.

CHAT is a research project exploring the research and engineering challenges inherent in the development of algorithms, protocols and procedures for next generation distributed control systems, in order to drastically reducing infrastructure, maintenance and reconfiguration costs.

Involvement

The Department of Automatic Control is involved in developing price mechanisms for distributed control as well as consensus and distributed estimation algorithms. Currently the focus is on using such methods for mobile robot task allocation. We have also provided simulation environments, extended to incorporate industrial network standards to our partners (FlexRay and PROFINET in Truetime).

Publications

 

Anders Widd: Physical Modeling and Control of Low Temperature Combustion in Engines. PhD Thesis ISRN LUTFD2/TFRT--1090--SE, Department of Automatic Control, Lund University, Sweden, April 2012.

Erik Johannesson: Control and Communication with Signal-to-Noise Ratio Constraints. PhD Thesis ISRN LUTFD2/TFRT--1087--SE, Department of Automatic Control, Lund University, Sweden, October 2011.

Erik Johannesson: "Reglering och kommunikation med störande brus". October 2011.

Erik Johannesson: "Signal Estimation over Channels with SNR Constraints and Feedback". In 18th IFAC World Congress, Milano, Italy, August 2011.

Karl Mårtensson, Anders Rantzer: "A Scalable Modularized Synthesis Method for Distributed Kalman Filters". In 18th IFAC World Congress, Milano, Italy, August 2011.

Erik Johannesson, Anders Rantzer, Bo Bernhardsson: "Optimal Linear Control for Channels with Signal-to-Noise Ratio Constraints". In 2011 American Control Conference, San Francisco, California, USA, June 2011.

Karl Mårtensson, Vladimeros Vladimerou: "Distributed resource management using iterative gradient update synthesis". In 2011 American Control Conference, San Francisco, California, USA, June 2011.

Pontus Giselsson, Anders Rantzer: "Distributed Model Predictive Control with Suboptimality and Stability Guarantees". In 49th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Atlanta, Georgia, USA, December 2010.

Mikael Lindberg: "A Convex Optimization-Based Approach to Control of Uncertain Execution Platforms". In 49th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Atlanta, Georgia, USA, December 2010.

Mikael Lindberg, Karl-Erik Årzén: "Feedback Control of Cyber-Physical Systems with Multi Resource Dependencies and Model Uncertainties". In 31st IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium, San Diego, California, USA, November 2010.

Mikael Lindberg: "Adaptive Resource Management for Uncertain Execution Platforms". Licentiate Thesis ISRN LUTFD2/TFRT--3249--SE, Department of Automatic Control, Lund University, Sweden, September 2010.

Erik Johannesson, Andrey Ghulchak, Anders Rantzer, Bo Bernhardsson: "MIMO Encoder and Decoder Design for Signal Estimation". In Proc. 19th International Symposium on Mathematical Theory of Networks and Systems, Budapest, Hungary, July 2010.

Karl Mårtensson, Anders Rantzer: "Sub-Optimality Bound on a Gradient Method for Iterative Distributed Control Synthesis". In Proc. 19th International Symposium on Mathematical Theory of Networks and Systems, Budapest, Hungary, July 2010.

Erik Johannesson, Anders Rantzer, Bo Bernhardsson, Andrey Ghulchak: "Encoder and Decoder Design for Signal Estimation". In 2010 American Control Conference, Baltimore, Maryland, USA, June 2010.

Karl Mårtensson, Anders Rantzer: "Gradient methods for iterative distributed control synthesis". In Proceedings of the 48th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Shanghai, China, December 2009.

Anders Rantzer: "Dynamic Dual Decomposition for Distributed Control". In Proceedings of American Control Conference, St. Louis, June 2009.

Peter Alriksson, Anders Rantzer: "Model Based Information Fusion in Sensor Networks". In 17th IFAC World Congress, Seoul, Korea , July 2008.

 
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