{"title":"Simplifying the implementation of remote laboratories in educational environments using industrial hardware","authors":"M. Kalúz, Ľ. Čirka, M. Fikar","doi":"10.1109/PC.2013.6581464","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PC.2013.6581464","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper we propose an unconventional approach of remote laboratory development based on industrial hardware. We show that it can significantly reduce implementation effort required for deployment of online labs in control education environment. The hardware architecture of laboratory is based on two devices: a programmable logic controller and an industrial router device, which provide the communication and management capabilities between users and experiments. Using these, we were able to develop operationally effective on-line laboratory for remote control of educational experimental plant in the different way that can be seen in traditional approaches based on standard server computers. On this architecture, we have developed the instance of remote laboratory with highly versatile user interface, based on common Web technologies and powered by optimized JavaScript logic. To prove the architecture suitability, we show the practical case of remote laboratory implementation for control education purposes. In section II, we describe the hardware architecture. In section III, the principles of communication between clients and experiment are given. Overview of laboratory is shown in Section IV and security issues are discussed in section V. An example of experimental usage from student's point of view is given in the last section of paper.","PeriodicalId":232418,"journal":{"name":"2013 International Conference on Process Control (PC)","volume":"55 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-06-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133691729","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Model of mechatronic system's undercarriage created on the basis of its dynamics","authors":"Ľ. Miková, F. Trebuna, Miloslav Čurilla","doi":"10.1109/PC.2013.6581414","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PC.2013.6581414","url":null,"abstract":"Current changes to the terms of advanced mechatronic systems (currently in robotic systems) and current intensity of demands on them in practice require new insights into the processes and techniques of designing and verification of the project designs. Experience confirms that one of the techniques that support interactive design is also modeling and simulation.","PeriodicalId":232418,"journal":{"name":"2013 International Conference on Process Control (PC)","volume":"26 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-06-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121073543","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
K. Ondrejkovic, P. Noga, L. Tkác, G. Hulkó, P. Bucek
{"title":"Control of billet temperature field by the secondary cooling in continuous casting of steel","authors":"K. Ondrejkovic, P. Noga, L. Tkác, G. Hulkó, P. Bucek","doi":"10.1109/PC.2013.6581408","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PC.2013.6581408","url":null,"abstract":"The paper presents simulation study on control of temperature field of steel billet during continuous casting. The cooling of steel billet is controlled with secondary cooling zone - a set of water jets divided into independent subzones. The temperature field evolution in time and space is described by non-linear partial differential equation. The solution of this equation is obtained numerically, using specialized finite element software ProCAST. Lumped-input and distributed-parameter-output system (LDS) is introduced, with the inputs being cooling water flow rates and the temperature field being the system's distributed output. Control synthesis in the system's feedback is solved in space and time direction. To represent the temperature field during setpoint changes a co-simulation interface was added to the DPS Blockset (Third-Party software product of The MathWorks). The interface block enables you to couple a finite element simulation in ProCAST and control scheme in Simulink. This feature brings you the full power of Simulink to extend the capabilities of finite element simulation.","PeriodicalId":232418,"journal":{"name":"2013 International Conference on Process Control (PC)","volume":"88 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-06-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131342396","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Frequency domain gain scheduled controller design for SISO systems","authors":"V. Veselý, Adrian Ilka, A. Kozáková","doi":"10.1109/PC.2013.6581450","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PC.2013.6581450","url":null,"abstract":"The paper deals with a promising frequency domain approach to the design of a gain scheduled controller for SISO plants. Stability conditions are derived for a family of LPV-like systems and corresponding design procedures are developed Obtained results have been verified on an example from literature as well as on a maglev laboratory plant.","PeriodicalId":232418,"journal":{"name":"2013 International Conference on Process Control (PC)","volume":"39 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-06-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131614451","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Equalization of intervehicular distances in platoons on a circular track","authors":"Ivo Herman, Dan Martinec, Z. Hurák, M. Šebek","doi":"10.1109/PC.2013.6581381","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PC.2013.6581381","url":null,"abstract":"We consider a circular track and a platoon of vehicles driving on it. Our goal is to design a distributed (onboard) control system that will keep uniform spacing between any car and its predecessor without knowing the length of the track. Quite naturally the distributed control problem is posed as a double consensus task, wherein individual cars have to agree on the cruising velocity and the gaps between two consecutive cars. We study the feasibility of the consensus and its convergence properties. We prove that the cars will converge to equal distances and the resulting velocity will be the average of the velocity references of individual cars. We also consider the stability of this circularly connected system.","PeriodicalId":232418,"journal":{"name":"2013 International Conference on Process Control (PC)","volume":"21 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-06-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115271593","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Pointwise observation of the state given by the parabolic system with the Neumann boundary condition","authors":"A. Kowalewski","doi":"10.1109/PC.2013.6581390","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PC.2013.6581390","url":null,"abstract":"Various optimization problems for linear parabolic systems with multiple constant time delays are considered. In this paper, we consider an optimal distributed control problem for a linear parabolic system in which multiple constant time delays appear in the state equation. Sufficient conditions for the existence of a unique solution of the parabolic time delay equation with the Neumann boundary condition are proved. The time horizon T is fixed. Making use of the Lions scheme [10], necessary and sufficient conditions of optimality for the Neumann problem with the quadratic performance functional with pointwise observation of the state and constrained control are derived. The example of application is also presented.","PeriodicalId":232418,"journal":{"name":"2013 International Conference on Process Control (PC)","volume":"50 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-06-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116183986","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Monika Zuscikova, Milan Lokšík, Vladímir Villaverde Huertas, C. Belavý
{"title":"Adaptive control design for vehicle suspension","authors":"Monika Zuscikova, Milan Lokšík, Vladímir Villaverde Huertas, C. Belavý","doi":"10.1109/PC.2013.6581415","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PC.2013.6581415","url":null,"abstract":"This paper addresses the adaptive control design of a semi-active suspension system. The control system is focused on the driving comfort criteria. For this purpose, it is necessary to emphasize on modeling and connection between vehicle suspension system components. On the other hand, we will compare the obtained results using the designed adaptive control system with the optimal control design applying soft and hard suspension. Moreover, a hydro-pulse will be used for road vibration simulation purposes. In this case, the analysis has been performed over the frequency bandwidth 4-20 Hz considering a constant vehicle speed 80 km/h.","PeriodicalId":232418,"journal":{"name":"2013 International Conference on Process Control (PC)","volume":"34 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-06-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125705967","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Synthesis of simple explicit MPC optimizers by function approximation","authors":"Juraj Holaza, B. Takács, M. Kvasnica","doi":"10.1109/PC.2013.6581440","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PC.2013.6581440","url":null,"abstract":"Explicit Model Predictive Control (MPC) is an attractive control strategy, especially when one aims at a fast, computationally less demanding implementation of MPC. However the major obstacle that prevents a successful application of explicit MPC controllers lies in the increased memory occupancy. This is a major limitation of the approach when aiming at implementing MPC in control hardware that has restricted amount of memory storage. Therefore in this paper we propose to obtain a much more simpler representation of explicit MPC solutions that occupy less memory. We propose to achieve this goal by constructing a simpler, albeit suboptimal, representation of the explicit MPC optimizer. This task is accomplished by first synthesizing a simpler explicit optimizer as a piecewise affine function that maps state measurements onto the predicted sequence of control inputs. Subsequently, parameters of such a function are refined as to achieve better performance. We show that such a function approximation problem is always feasible. Efficacy of the proposed procedure is demonstrated on several examples.","PeriodicalId":232418,"journal":{"name":"2013 International Conference on Process Control (PC)","volume":"48 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-06-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115543035","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Nonlinear system H∞ fuzzy control within Takagi-Sugeno framework","authors":"A. Filasová, V. Hladký, D. Krokavec","doi":"10.1109/PC.2013.6581375","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PC.2013.6581375","url":null,"abstract":"The paper deals with the problem of constrained H∞ fuzzy control for a class of continuous-time nonlinear systems, represented by Takagi-Sugeno models. On the basis of the Lyapunov stability criterion and H∞ norm performances, the sufficient conditions of stabilization are outlined and adjusted for systems operating in a forced mode. Numerical simulation is given to illustrate the design procedure and to validate the performances of the proposed approach.","PeriodicalId":232418,"journal":{"name":"2013 International Conference on Process Control (PC)","volume":"13 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-06-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127571346","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Computation of anisotropic norm for descriptor systems using convex optimization","authors":"A. Belov, O. Andrianova","doi":"10.1109/PC.2013.6581404","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PC.2013.6581404","url":null,"abstract":"For linear discrete-time descriptor systems anisotropy-based bounded real lemma in terms LMI was formulated and proved. The algorithm of anisotropic norm computation using convex optimization is given. A numerical example is considered.","PeriodicalId":232418,"journal":{"name":"2013 International Conference on Process Control (PC)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-06-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129849856","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}