Proactive fault-tolerant economic MPC

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Date 23.11.2015
Hour 15:0016:00
Speaker Brage Rugstad Knudsen
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Category Conferences - Seminars
Abstract:
Fault tolerance in model predictive control (MPC) of dynamic systems is important for both safety and economic optimality of operations. Among possible fault scenarios, a partial or full loss of actuation may be detrimental on the control performance or in worst case destabilize the system. In this talk, I will present a proactive approach for accommodating incipient actuator faults in linear control systems operated with economic MPC, by means of invariant safety sets and L1 exact penalty functions. I will further present an extension of the scheme to nonlinear control systems and discuss related challenges, as well as connections between the proposed approach and minimum-time control.

Bio:
Brage Rugstad Knudsen is a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Engineering Cybernetics, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, working on fault-tolerant model predictive control. He received a PhD from the same department in 2014. His main research interests are optimization, receding horizon control, and mixed integer programming with applications to natural gas and energy systems.