Magdeburg Lectures on Optimization and Control: Optimization based planning and feedback control: an on-going journey
Magdeburg Lectures on Optimization and Control: Optimal control, optimization, market mechanisms and physics of smart energy systems
- Date: Mar 19, 2018
- Time: 05:00 PM - 07:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
- Speaker: Gabriele Pannocchia, Associated Professor
- Department of Civil and Industrial Engineering, University of Pisa
- Location: Otto von Guericke University, Building 7
- Room: Room 208
- Host: Jointly organized by: Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology Faculty of Mathematics Max Planck Institute Magdeburg Center for Dynamic Systems: Biosystems Engineering
Abstract
Optimization based strategies for planning and feedback
control represent a general framework of numerical methods in which a
(often deterministic) model of the system under consideration and its
environment are exploited to achieve high-level goals (e.g.,
minimization of energy consumption, emission of pollutants, maximization
of throughput, etc.) as well as more specific tasks (e.g. product
quality control, robotic manipulation), while respecting a number of
constraints arising from physical, safety or performance limits.
In this seminar, I review and analyze the main concepts, successes and ongoing challenges of optimization based methods, with a particular emphasis on how uncertainties can be dealt with effectively and efficiently using disturbance estimation techniques. During the seminar, I present several examples ranging from reaction processes to robotic systems.