Saikat Dutra, O. Olaby, T. Harrison, P. Kaijuka, Maria Sarniento-Carnevali, S. Bemment, C. Ward, R. Dixon
{"title":"Development of Controller for REPOINT Light Railway Track Switch","authors":"Saikat Dutra, O. Olaby, T. Harrison, P. Kaijuka, Maria Sarniento-Carnevali, S. Bemment, C. Ward, R. Dixon","doi":"10.1109/CONTROL.2018.8516725","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CONTROL.2018.8516725","url":null,"abstract":"REPOINT Light track switch is a newly devised track switch which is under development. The switch is designed to enhance the reliability of the railway network by implementing closed loop control concept and by introducing actuator redundancy in the switch design. In the present stage of the research, the performance of the designed controller is presented with the experimental data in the laboratory environment. After successful experiments and tests, the full-scale demonstrator of the switch will be deployed to the railway network.","PeriodicalId":266112,"journal":{"name":"2018 UKACC 12th International Conference on Control (CONTROL)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130052039","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-Predictive Control of a Compliant Hydraulic System","authors":"A. Sadowska, L. Steenson, M. Hedlund","doi":"10.1109/CONTROL.2018.8516830","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CONTROL.2018.8516830","url":null,"abstract":"Automatic operation of hydraulic systems poses a challenging control problem. Factors contributing to this include nonlinear system dynamics along with highly nonlinear actuator dynamics. This altogether necessitates the control design to be carefully thought through to achieve a good behaviour and minimise the risk of damaging events, such as a rapid closure of a valve that could create a pressure wave travelling back and forth through the system known as the water hammer effect. A real-life example of a hydraulic system is an oilfield production system in which various pumps and valves are used for control. The aim of the actuation in an oil production system is to produce the oil mixture from the reservoir through the well to the surface subject to operational constraints.","PeriodicalId":266112,"journal":{"name":"2018 UKACC 12th International Conference on Control (CONTROL)","volume":"52 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115619611","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":"Optimal Dispatch of Pumped Storage Hydro Cascade Under Uncertainty","authors":"Fatemeh Najibi, Eduardo Alonso, D. Apostolopoulou","doi":"10.1109/CONTROL.2018.8516823","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CONTROL.2018.8516823","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we propose an optimal dispatch scheme for a pumped storage hydro cascade that maximizes the energy per cubic meter of water in the system taking into account uncertainty in the net load variations. To this end, we introduce a model to describe the behaviour of a pumped storage hydro cascade and formulate its optimal dispatch. We then incorporate forecast scenarios in the optimal dispatch, and define a robust variant of the developed system. The resulting optimization problem is intractable due to the infinite number of constraints. Using tools from robust optimization, we reformulate the resulting problem in a tractable form that is amenable to existing numerical tools and show that the computed dispatch is immunised against uncertainty. The efficacy of the proposed approach is demonstrated by means of a realistic case study based on the Seven Forks system located in Kenya.","PeriodicalId":266112,"journal":{"name":"2018 UKACC 12th International Conference on Control (CONTROL)","volume":"21 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123584463","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}
S. Bertrand, J. Marzat, C. Maniu, M. Makarov, David Filliat, A. Manzanera
{"title":"DroMOOC: A Massive Open Online Course on Drones and Aerial Multi Robot Systems","authors":"S. Bertrand, J. Marzat, C. Maniu, M. Makarov, David Filliat, A. Manzanera","doi":"10.1109/CONTROL.2018.8516765","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CONTROL.2018.8516765","url":null,"abstract":"An important increase of the number of jobs is expected in the next few years on markets related to Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs). Therefore educational curricula in this field of expertise are subject to more and more demands from students. In addition and complement to traditional courses, Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) are also getting a growing interest from students.","PeriodicalId":266112,"journal":{"name":"2018 UKACC 12th International Conference on Control (CONTROL)","volume":"16 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131873297","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":"Externally Positive, Passive and Negative Imaginary Systems","authors":"R. Drummond, S. Duncan","doi":"10.1109/control.2018.8516744","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/control.2018.8516744","url":null,"abstract":"The characterisation of externally positive linear systems is considered. These systems are defined by non-negative impulse responses such that their output is positive for positive inputs. The main result shows that if a linear system is both positive real and negative imaginary, then it is externally positive. An LMI condition for external positivity is also proposed by treating the positivity condition as a power. As an application of these results, the optimality of constant current charging for Ii-ion batteries and supercapacitors is obtained by considering them as externally positive systems.","PeriodicalId":266112,"journal":{"name":"2018 UKACC 12th International Conference on Control (CONTROL)","volume":"70 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127318307","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}
Taki Eddine Korabi, G. Graton, El Mostafa El Adel, M. Ouladsine, J. Pinaton
{"title":"An Industrial Risk-Based Indicator for Dynamic Sampling in Semiconductor Manufacturing","authors":"Taki Eddine Korabi, G. Graton, El Mostafa El Adel, M. Ouladsine, J. Pinaton","doi":"10.1109/CONTROL.2018.8516822","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CONTROL.2018.8516822","url":null,"abstract":"Uniform rate sampling is the easiest and most common sampling strategy used in the semiconductor industry. It consists of measuring every N products and is used for both regulated and unregulated steps. However, it is well-know that the sampling frequency has a direct impact on regulator performances making uniform rate sampling ineffective with the regulated steps. This paper proposes an indicator allowing the adaptation of the sampling frequencies taking into account the performances of the regulator and the industrial risk. The developed method offers better regulation performances, less measured products and leads to yield improvement and cycle time reduction. The approach is tested with real data provided by STMicroelectronics.","PeriodicalId":266112,"journal":{"name":"2018 UKACC 12th International Conference on Control (CONTROL)","volume":"37 15 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125704449","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}
Thaleia Flessa, K. Worrall, D. Firstbrook, E. McGookin, D. Thomson, P. Harkness
{"title":"FDIR for a Biologically Inspired Trenchless Drilling Device","authors":"Thaleia Flessa, K. Worrall, D. Firstbrook, E. McGookin, D. Thomson, P. Harkness","doi":"10.1109/CONTROL.2018.8516893","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CONTROL.2018.8516893","url":null,"abstract":"Failure Detection, Isolation and Recovery (FDIR) of autonomous systems working in hazardous conditions is essential. Methods of detection and recovery without intervention are required. This work describes the failure modes currently identified with an autonomous biologically inspired trenchless drilling robotic system. Inverse Simulation is used for detecting failures and is demonstrated on a simulation model of the robotic system. Results from the experiments, show that Inverse Simulation can be used to detect and identify system failures.","PeriodicalId":266112,"journal":{"name":"2018 UKACC 12th International Conference on Control (CONTROL)","volume":"28 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126998588","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":"An Effective Method for Evaluation of the Nonlinear Output Frequency Response Functions from System Input-Output Data","authors":"S. R. Gunawardena, Z. Lang","doi":"10.1109/CONTROL.2018.8516850","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CONTROL.2018.8516850","url":null,"abstract":"The concept of Nonlinear Output Frequency Response Functions (NOFRFs) was introduced in [1] for the analysis of nonlinear systems in the frequency domain where a least-squares (LS) method was proposed for the evaluation of the NOFRFs using system input-output data. However, this leastsquares (LS) based approach may experience numerical errors due to matrix inversion and consequently cannot produce accurate NOFRFs sometimes. In order to mitigate this problem, in the present study, a modified LS method (M-LS) is proposed to make sure that the information matrix to be inverted for the LS solution is appropriately constructed so as to improve the condition number of the information matrix and reduce the numerical errors. Simulation results have demonstrated the effectiveness of the newly proposed method and indicated that the new method will enable a more accurate evaluation of the NOFRFs and facilitate the frequency analysis of nonlinear systems directly using system input-output data.","PeriodicalId":266112,"journal":{"name":"2018 UKACC 12th International Conference on Control (CONTROL)","volume":"35 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129613545","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":"Stabilization of Continuous-Time Switched Linear Systems Under Arbitrary Switching Via Reduced-Order Switched Observers","authors":"N. Otsuka, Daiki Kakehi","doi":"10.1109/CONTROL.2018.8516855","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CONTROL.2018.8516855","url":null,"abstract":"The switched observer design for linear switched systems have been studied in the literatures [1] and [2]. Recently, stabilization problems for both continuous-time and discrete-time switched linear systems under arbitrary switching via reduced-order switched observers were studied by the present authors[3]. The objective of this paper is to investigate stabilization problem for continuous-time switched linear systems with constant input under arbitrary switching via reduced order switched observers. The main result guarantees the socalled separation theorem in the sense that a feedback gain for stabilization and an observer gain can be designed separately.","PeriodicalId":266112,"journal":{"name":"2018 UKACC 12th International Conference on Control (CONTROL)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125800548","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":"Using MATLAB GUIs to Improve Student Engagement and Understanding","authors":"J. Rossiter","doi":"10.1109/CONTROL.2018.8516810","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CONTROL.2018.8516810","url":null,"abstract":"Laboratories are a core part of any engineering degree, but access to laboratories is typically limited due to a combination of timetable, space and equipment restrictions [1]. In more recent years that has been a significant growth in so-called virtual laboratories (VL), that is laboratory like activities that can be accessed via software or even a web interface, e.g. [2], [3], [5]. The advantage of VL is that the accessibility can potentially be improved to 24/7 and often these may be available on a student's own computing device thus also giving no space restrictions. Improvements in accessibility mean that staff can integrate VL far more easily into the curriculum and student independent study schedule with the consequence that, in principle, students can learn more effectively.","PeriodicalId":266112,"journal":{"name":"2018 UKACC 12th International Conference on Control (CONTROL)","volume":"237 ","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-06-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132914870","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}