Related papers: Regulation Theory
The paper deals with the modelling and control of a double winded induction generator. The controlled process is an induction generator with distinct excitation winding. At the generator terminal is connected a load (electrical consumer).…
General purpose correct-by-construction synthesis methods are limited to systems with low dimensionality or simple specifications. In this work we consider highly symmetrical counting problems and exploit the symmetry to synthesize provably…
The task of implementing a supervisory controller is non-trivial, even though different theories exist that allow automatic synthesis of these controllers in the form of automata. One of the reasons for this discord is due to the…
This paper presents a survey on quantum control theory and applications from a control systems perspective. Some of the basic concepts and main developments (including open-loop control and closed-loop control) in quantum control theory are…
This paper investigates the control of flow networks, where the control objective is to regulate the measured output (e.g storage levels) towards a desired value. We present a distributed controller that dynamically adjusts the inputs and…
Controller synthesis is a theoretical approach to the systematic design of discrete event systems. It constructs a controller to provide feedback and control to the system, ensuring it meets specified control specifications. Traditional…
As the share of renewable generation in large power systems continues to increase, the operation of power systems becomes increasingly challenging. The constantly shifting mix of renewable and conventional generation leads to largely…
Supervisory control theory provides means to synthesize supervisors for systems with discrete-event behavior from models of the uncontrolled plant and of the control requirements. The applicability of supervisory control theory often fails…
In this paper, we consider a control synthesis problem for a class of polynomial dynamical systems subject to bounded disturbances and with input constraints. More precisely, we aim at synthesizing at the same time a controller and an…
This paper shows how the theory of adaptive observers can be effectively used in the design internal models for nonlinear output regulation. The main result obtained in this way is a new method for the synthesis of adaptive internal models…
Translation is a key step in the synthesis of proteins. Accordingly, cells have evolved an intricate array of control mechanisms to regulate this process. By constructing a multi-component mathematical framework for translation we uncover…
This paper proposes a decentralised secondary voltage control strategy that has several benefits over the existing centralised strategies. For that, a new structure for the control is proposed in terms of an inner and outer loops for each…
The accurate measurement of power converter currents is essential to controlling and delivering stable and repeatable currents to magnets in particle accelerators. This paper reviews the most commonly used devices for the measurement of…
The paper presents a novel method for designing an optimal controller for discrete-time switched linear systems. The problem is formulated as one of computing the discrete mode sequence and the continuous input sequence that jointly…
Genetic circuit design is a well-studied problem in synthetic biology. Ever since the first genetic circuits -- the repressilator and the toggle switch -- were designed and implemented, many advances have been made in this area of research.…
In this paper, we address the problem of coordinating a set of distributed energy resources (DERs) to regulate voltage in power distribution systems to desired levels. To this end, we formulate the voltage control problem as an optimization…
Motivated by the inadequacy of the existing control strategies for power systems affected by time-varying uncontrolled power injections such as loads and the increasingly widespread renewable energy sources, this paper proposes two control…
A closed-loop control of a reaction-diffusion type process is introduced. The control system consist of a finite number of control and measurement devices. The measurement devices collect information about the current state of the process.…
A novel method for control of dynamical systems, proposed in the paper, ensures an output signal belonging to the given set at any time. The method is based on a special change of coordinates such that the initial problem with given…
This paper studies regularity properties of optimization-based controllers, which are obtained by solving optimization problems where the parameter is the system state and the optimization variable is the input to the system. Under a wide…