Plenary Lecture
From Modeling and Simulation to Adaptive Control of Nonlinear Processes
Assistant Professor Jiri Vojtesek
Department of Process Control
Faculty of Applied Informatics
Tomas Bata University in Zlin
Czech Republic
E-mail: vojtesek@fai.utb.cz
Abstract: The lecture will describe the procedure from the modeling and simulation of the static and dynamic behavior to the designing of the adaptive controller applied on the nonlinear system. Knowledge about the static and dynamic properties is a necessary condition for design of a controller. One possibility how to obtain such information about the system is the investigation of the real system. Unfortunately, measurements on the real system are not always feasible. The only way how to obtain static and dynamic behaviour of these systems is the use of simulation, i.e. experiments on their mathematical model. Simulations have several advantages over experiments on the real system. Among them are the lower costs, increased safety and less time consumption. The adaptive approach here is based on external linear model (ELM) of the originally nonlinear system. The parameters of this model are identified recursively and controller parameters are recomputed in each step. Polynomial, pole-placement and Linear-Quadratic (LQ) approaches are employed for controller synthesis. All results come from simulations but they could be easily used for controlling of similar real nonlinear processes.
Brief Biography of the Speaker: Jiri Vojtesek, PhD is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Process Control, Faculty of Applied Informatics, Tomas Bata University in Zlin, Czech Republic. His research areas are modeling, simulation, identification and control of technological processes in which he published 1 monograph, 12 journal papers including impact journals and 70 conference papers. He gave several invited lectures and stayed in Cologne, Germany in 2003 and Milan, Italy in 2004 for long-term study stays. He is member of IASTED International Program Committee in number of conferences and track chair of the “Modelling, Simulation and Control of Technological Processes” track on the European Conference on Modelling and Simulation ECMS.