Fast Integrators for Real-time NMPC, with Application to Wind Energy

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Date 04.12.2015
Hour 10:1511:15
Speaker Sebastien Gros
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Category Conferences - Seminars
Deploying fast Nonlinear Model Predictive Control requires carrying out numerical simulations of the system dynamics at very low computational times, while generating their sensitivities. When the system dynamics are described via implicit Ordinary-Differential Equations, or Differential-Algebraic Equations, the numerical simulations must be carried out via implicit integrators. Computational speed then hinges on exploiting the structure of the DAEs in the linear algebra underlying the integrator. In the first part of this talk, some recent research results on this topic will be summarised, up to the most recent contributions. In the second part, recent research on the deployment of Real-time Economic NMPC on wind turbine control will presented.

Bio: Sébastien Gros has obtained his PhD degree from EPFL in 2008, on the topic of “Neighbouring Extremals for Optimisation and Control”. In 2011, he has joined MLS-Control, a group based at Strathclyde university, UK, under the supervision of Pr. Leithead , delivering industrial R&D for the wind industry. Sébastien has then joined the university of KU Leuven, Belgium, for a post-doc with Pr. M. Diehl, where he worked on various aspects of real-time NMPC. He then joined Chalmers University of Technology in Göteborg, Sweden as an assistant Pr. in 2013. His current main research focus is optimal control for energy-related applications.