Control model

Created Thứ năm 06 Tháng mười một 2014

Prof. Bernhard Lampe, Uni of Rostock, Germany:
- Mechanical systems are often suitable for control concept demo: the behaviours are easy to see and understand, the cost and time for restarting the system is cheap (for process systems: need long time to wait, and cost for moving the liquids back to the initial condition).
- Students make control models -> sell at cheaper prices than from companies like Quanser
- They often make systems that have multiple degrees of freedom, then when some DOFs are fixed, the problem becomes simplified -> students can do experiments with different complicated levels (example: anchored helicopter)
- They have rear-wheel steerd bicycle, giving a prize of 50 Euros for students who can ride it within 3 meters -> teach them that the intuitive thinking of human is indeed not clever for control

  1. Zhu, “Multivariable System Identification for Process Control,” 1st ed., Elsevier, 2001, pp. 199 – 216.:
... the implementation of MPC on industrial processes, where modeling typically takes up to 80% of project time
cited in:
Cigler, J., Gyalistras, D., Siroky, J., Tiet, V.-N., Ferkl, L. (2013).
Beyond theory: the challenge of implementing Model Predictive Control in buildings.
In: Proceedings of the 11th REHVA World Congress Clima 2013, Prague, Czech Republic, June 16-19, 2013.
http://www.opticontrol.ethz.ch/Lit/Cigl_13_Proc-Clima2013.pdf