Gain-Scheduling and Distributed Control with Reduced Conservatism
Event details
| Date | 03.05.2013 |
| Hour | 10:15 › 11:00 |
| Speaker |
Carsten Scherer Bio: Carsten W. Scherer received the Ph.D. degree in mathematics from the University of Würzburg (Germany) in 1991. After six months of research at the University of Groningen (The Netherlands), the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor) and Washington University (St. Louis) respectively, Dr. Scherer joined Delft University of Technology (The Netherlands) in 1993 where he held positions as an assistant and associate professor. In fall 1999 he spent a three months sabbatical as a visiting professor at the Automatic Control Laboratory of ETH Zurich. From December 2001 until February 2010 he was a full professor within the Delft Center for Systems and Control at Delft University of Technology. Since March 2010 he holds the SRC SimTech Chair Mathematical Systems Theory in the Department of Mathematics at the University of Stuttgart in Germany. His main research interests cover various topics in applying optimization techniques for developing new advanced controller design algorithms and their application to mechatronics and aerospace systems. Dr. Scherer acted as the chair of the IFAC technical committee on Robust Control (2002-2008), and he has served as an associated editor for IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control (1997-1999), Automatica (2000-2006) and Systems and Control Letters; he is currently active on the editorial board of the European Journal of Control and various control conferences. |
| Location |
ME C2 405
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| Category | Conferences - Seminars |
In this talk we review gain-scheduling controller synthesis by convex op- timization and sketch various applications of this design framework. Fur- thermore, we present novel algorithms that allow to systematically reduce conservatism by relying on frequency-dependent stability multipliers. These are based on new techniques for manipulating linear matrix inequalities that are of independent interest and will be surveyed briefly. In the final part of the talk we reveal how the design framework allows the design of distributed controllers for spatially interconnected systems with reduced conservatism.
Practical information
- General public
- Free
Organizer
- Colin Jones
Contact
- colin.jones@epfl.ch