EasyEBC - Easy-to-Implement Energy-Based Control Design for Systems of Conservation Laws
is a Marie Skłodowska-Curie project within the Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Framework Programme of the European Commission (project reference 655204). It was executed between 01/09/2015 and 28/02/2017 by Paul Kotyczka under the supervision of Bernhard Maschke at Laboratoire d'Automatique et de Génie des Procédés at Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1.
Summary
Secure, clean and efficient energy as well as resource efficiency are major societal challenges formulated in the EU Horizon 2020 Framework Programme. Many subsystems in energy, production and process industries are systems of conservation laws and their efficient operation relies on precise modelling and feasible control design. The port-Hamiltonian approach, developed in a vibrant European research community with the project supervisor as one of the leading figures, uses energy as the key argument for modelling and control of interconnected, nonlinear multi-physics systems, including systems of conservation laws.
The aim of EasyEBC is to develop easy-to-handle energy-based control design procedures for nonlinear systems of conservation laws in the port-Hamiltonian framework. Linear and nonlinear methods from mathematical control theory of finite- and infinite-dimensional systems will be applied for analysis and control synthesis, e.g. semi-group theory, discretization techniques, and energy shaping. The mathematics will be masked behind a user-friendly frontend that offers transparent tuning criteria for the closed-loop dynamics. Bridging the gap between mathematical complexity and easy applicability of the design tools is the main challenge of the project.
The capacity of the renowned supervisor, the application examples at the secondment partners, such as chemical and thermodynamic processes or energy-efficient building refrigeration, and the fellow's experience in applying nonlinear energy-based control are essential for the scientific success of the project. As a long-term impact, EasyEBC will contribute to making nonlinear model-based control more accessible to engineers beyond academia.
News
- The IFAC WC 2017 pre-congress tutorial Modelling and Control of Flexible Link Multi-Body Systems will take place on Saturday, 8 July 2017 in Toulouse. See https://flexiblelink2017.wordpress.com/ for details.
- On 1 and 2 March 2017, the kickoff meeting of the French-German DFG-ANR project INFIDHEM - Interconnected infinite-dimensional systems for heterogeneous media took place in Lyon. See the project website http://websites.isae.fr/infidhem/.
Recent publications
- P. Kotyczka and B. Maschke. Discrete port-Hamiltonian formulation and numerical approximation for systems of two conservation laws. To appear in: at - Automatisierungstechnik, 2017.
- V. Trenchant, H. Ramirez, Y. Le Gorrec, and P. Kotyczka. Structure preserving spatial discretization of 2D hyperbolic systems using staggered grids finite difference. To be presented at: American Control Conference, Seattle, USA, 2017.
- M. Wang, A. Bestler, and P. Kotyczka. Modeling, discretization and motion control of a flexible beam in the port-Hamiltonian framework. To be presented at: 20th IFAC World Congress, Toulouse, France, 2017.
- P. Kotyczka. Finite volume structure-preserving discretization of 1D distributed-parameter port- Hamiltonian systems. In Proceedings of the 2nd IFAC Workshop on Control of Systems Governed by Partial Differential Equations, Bertinoro, Italy, IFAC-PapersOnline, 49(8):298-303, 2016.
Contact 
Paul KotyczkaLaboratoire d'Automatique et de Génie des Procédés
LAGEP UMR CNRS 5007
Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1
43 Boulevard du 11 Novembre 1918
69622 Villeurbanne, France
kotyczka(at)tum.de