{"title":"Adaptive Robust MPC: Combining Robustness with Online Performance Enhancement","authors":"Xiaonan Lu, M. Cannon","doi":"10.1109/CONTROL.2018.8516719","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CONTROL.2018.8516719","url":null,"abstract":"Model Predictive Control (MPC) is a well-known control technique, which uses a system model to perform an explicit numerical optimization of future performance subject to constraints on system states and control inputs. In this context an inaccurate model can result in unreliable predictions and controller performance that is far from optimal, and consequently up to 80% of the overall effort of implementing MPC is spent on obtaining an adequate model [8]. Moreover, although model uncertainty can be accounted for using robust MPC techniques, the degree of uncertainty in the system model and unknown disturbances crucially affect the bounds on the achievable performance of a MPC strategy [3].","PeriodicalId":266112,"journal":{"name":"2018 UKACC 12th International Conference on Control (CONTROL)","volume":"11 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":"127221171","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":"Dynamic Modelling of Overhead Power Lines for Electric Trains","authors":"John W. Martin","doi":"10.1109/CONTROL.2018.8516878","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CONTROL.2018.8516878","url":null,"abstract":"The pantograph-catenary interaction has been modelled for high-speed electric trains using spectral analysis, also known as a Galerkin approach, to efficiently solve the time-varying, linear index-three differential-algebraic equation. The time solution of the Euler-Bernoulli beam equation for the overhead wires has been found by decomposing the overall solution into its spatial frequencies and using eigenvector decomposition to diagonalise the system. The algebraic constraints have been removed using elimination of variables, leading to a solvable ordinary differential equation. For optimal time efficiency, a Simulink model has been used to solve this ODE. The results have been tested against the British Standard BS:EN 50318:2002 and have proven to be sufficiently accurate. The simulation runs approximately one order of magnitude faster than competing FEM software. The main use of this software is to help design more robust overhead line equipment that will be safe at higher speeds.","PeriodicalId":266112,"journal":{"name":"2018 UKACC 12th International Conference on Control (CONTROL)","volume":"45 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":"121216631","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":"Automated Project-Based Assessment in a Predictive Control Course","authors":"Ian McInerney, E. Kerrigan","doi":"10.1109/CONTROL.2018.8516728","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CONTROL.2018.8516728","url":null,"abstract":"Written assessments, such as book problems and exams, have customarily been used in control courses to measure student progress, but usually only gauge their knowledge of the theoretical concepts. More complicated control methods, such as predictive control, benefit from gauging student progress through implementation projects. We present a set of automatically marked project-based assessments that test student knowledge on concepts ranging from the derivation of physics models to the creation of a closed-loop predictive controller. We present a simulation framework that allows for the students to utilize any predictive control concepts that they decide to use in their implementation. The framework then automatically tests the student solutions against multiple constraint sets and conditions to provide quantitative data for marking the assessment.","PeriodicalId":266112,"journal":{"name":"2018 UKACC 12th International Conference on Control (CONTROL)","volume":"48 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":"126665759","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":"Observer-Based Speed Controller for the Suppression of Rotational Harmonic Oscillations","authors":"P. Kotzyba, C. Bohn","doi":"10.1109/CONTROL.2018.8516754","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CONTROL.2018.8516754","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper a speed controller with an observer-based structure for the suppression of rotational harmonic oscillations is presented. These rotational vibrations can be found in technical applications with cam or crankshaft mechanisms. The rotational vibrations are modeled as harmonic disturbances acting upon a linear plant. The disturbances are described as a polytopic linear parameter-varying (pLPV) System. In the considered speed range the plant is modeled as an LTI system. Experimental results on a test bench with a camshaft drive show the effectiveness of the control. The disturbance suppression is used as an addition to an existing control.","PeriodicalId":266112,"journal":{"name":"2018 UKACC 12th International Conference on Control (CONTROL)","volume":"31 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":"116162078","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":"Dynamic Surface Control for the Reduction of Torsional Vibrations in a Scaled Experimental Drillstring Setup","authors":"F. Ullah, C. Bohn","doi":"10.1109/CONTROL.2018.8516736","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CONTROL.2018.8516736","url":null,"abstract":"The Torsional oscillations that occur during drilling are detrimental to the life of the drill string and reduce the rate of penetration of the operation. To study the dynamics of drill string and evaluate the controller performance scaled test rigs for drilling are used to circumvent the problem of accessibility to reliable downhole information in a real drill string. In this work a dynamic sliding surface controller is implemented for a scaled drilling test rig. The experimental results show that the controller is able to reduce both low frequency and high frequency torsional oscillations.","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":"129499658","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":"Hardware Platform Design of Small Energy Storage System Using Second Life Batteries","authors":"Cheng Zhang, J. Marco, Tung Fai Yu","doi":"10.1109/CONTROL.2018.8516871","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CONTROL.2018.8516871","url":null,"abstract":"As the number of electric vehicles (EV) increases rapidly, the reclamation and repurposing of used EV batteries into energy storage systems (ESSs) becomes a promising way to extend battery life and to generate extra revenues. This research project aims to design, build and experimentally verify an ESS that is based on the integration of mixed technology and mixed state of health battery modules, and this paper presents the hardware platform construction process of an ESS using second life battery modules. Details on system design, key components selection and commissioning are described. The developed ESS is compatible with a variety of battery modules and forms the foundation of test data collection and algorithm verification for further research on new battery management algorithms specifically for second life applications.","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":"130726567","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":"Fixed-Time Stabilization of Second-Order Systems with Unknown Nonlinear Inherent Dynamics","authors":"Yang Liu, H. Yue, Wei Wang","doi":"10.1109/CONTROL.2018.8516778","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CONTROL.2018.8516778","url":null,"abstract":"This paper studies the fixed-time stabilization control for a class of second-order systems with unknown nonlinear dynamics and external disturbance. To achieve the fixed-time stability, two polynomial feedbacks, one with fractional exponent and the other with exponent greater than 1, are exploited in the sliding surface design. Then, considering the unknown nonlinear dynamics and the external disturbance, the unit-vector technique, coupled with the upper bounds related to the Lipschitz condition of nonlinear dynamics and the uncertain disturbance, is utilized to the fixed-time stability controller based on the designed sliding surface function. Finally, a forced pendulum system is used as case study example to examine the effectiveness of the developed design framework.","PeriodicalId":266112,"journal":{"name":"2018 UKACC 12th International Conference on Control (CONTROL)","volume":"711 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":"125935481","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":"Distributed Optimisation for Energy Management in Building Networks","authors":"Alec Edwards, Jan-Peter Calliess, Kostas Margellos","doi":"10.1109/CONTROL.2018.8516737","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CONTROL.2018.8516737","url":null,"abstract":"We formulate and solve an energy management problem for a cooperative network of buildings sharing some resource and communicating over a time varying network, each of which desires to maintain its privacy. As the network is time-varying, we are able to accommodate communication constraints or failure between agents. We begin by introducing validated bilinear modelling techniques for individual buildings, and continue by showing how the energy management problem involving a network of buildings can be addressed using a distributed optimisation algorithm recently proposed in the literature, with individual buildings treated as agents. To facilitate these assumptions, we linearise the bilinear models generated, and introduce linear local and coupling constraints to model a shared thermal energy storage device. We formulate a linear objective function to minimise based on the cost of energy used by the agent not taken from the storage. Finally, we demonstrate the efficacy of the distributed algorithm as applied to the energy management problem using an extensive simulation based study.","PeriodicalId":266112,"journal":{"name":"2018 UKACC 12th International Conference on Control (CONTROL)","volume":"50 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":"124782597","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":"Multi-Objective Generalized H2 Control for Optimal Protection from Vibration","authors":"D. Balandin, M. Kogan","doi":"10.1109/CONTROL.2018.8516721","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CONTROL.2018.8516721","url":null,"abstract":"Multi-objective control problems with generalized $H$2-norms as criteria are studied. By using a scalar multiobjective cost function in the form of Germeyer convolution we derive necessary conditions for Pareto optimality and characterize Pareto optimal controllers in terms of LMIs as optimal solutions for this function. Vibration isolation and attenuation problems are then considered in such a novel framework and Pareto optimal isolators and controllers are synthesized for basic models in the problems of optimal protection from vibration. Index Terms-multi-objective optimization, Pareto optimal control, Germeyer convolution, generalized $H$2-norm, vibration isolation and attenuation","PeriodicalId":266112,"journal":{"name":"2018 UKACC 12th International Conference on Control (CONTROL)","volume":"4965 2 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":"123598568","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}
Bo Li, Minyou Chen, Tingli Cheng, Ya Li, Muhammad Arshad Shehzad Hassan, Ruilin Xu, Tao Chen
{"title":"Distributed Control of Energy-Storage Systems for Voltage Regulation in Distribution Network with High PV Penetration","authors":"Bo Li, Minyou Chen, Tingli Cheng, Ya Li, Muhammad Arshad Shehzad Hassan, Ruilin Xu, Tao Chen","doi":"10.1109/CONTROL.2018.8516803","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CONTROL.2018.8516803","url":null,"abstract":"The application of residential photovoltaics (PVs) is useful regarding mitigation of environment and eradication of energy crisis. However, hosting capacity of distribution network (DN) is restricted due to voltage problem caused by high proportion of residential PVs. In this paper, the energy storage systems (ESSs) are used to overcome the issue of voltage rise in peak PV production and voltage drop to attain the load demand. When the voltage cross the limits, the power shortage estimation method based back/forward algorithm is used to calculate the power shortfall. Then, the distributed control algorithm based on consensus algorithm is applied to regulate the voltage within the required limits. Afterward, two consensus algorithms based on limited communication network are used: the first objective is to share the power shortage among ESS, while the second objective is to modify the output reference of ESS to make the state of charge (SOC) of ESS converge closely. The proposed control method is evaluated in distribution networks, and the simulation results validate the effectiveness of this method.","PeriodicalId":266112,"journal":{"name":"2018 UKACC 12th International Conference on Control (CONTROL)","volume":"45 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":"123117719","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}