Magdeburg Lectures on Optimization and Control: Computation and uncertainty — The past, present and future of control
Magdeburg Lectures on Optimization and Control: Computation and uncertainty — The past, present and future of control
- Datum: 18.10.2016
- Uhrzeit: 17:00 - 18:00
- Vortragende(r): Prof. Dr. Manfred Morari, Distinguished Faculty Fellow, University of Pennsylvania, USA
- Ort: Lukasklause (Otto-von-Guericke-Zentrum) Magdeburg
- Raum: Historischer Raum
Abstract
Reflecting on our work over the last 40
years I found that it was dominated by two themes: computation and
uncertainty. I will describe how the rapidly increasing computational
resources have affected our approaches to deal with uncertainty in
feedback control. The talk will be illustrated by examples from process
control and other application areas like automotive and power systems.
CV
Manfred Morari was head of the Department of
Information Technology and Electrical Engineering at ETH Zurich from
2009 to 2012 and head of the Automatic Control Laboratory from 1994 to
2008. Before that he was the McCollum-Corcoran Professor of Chemical
Engineering and Executive Officer for Control and Dynamical Systems at
the California Institute of Technology. From 1977 to 1983 he was on the
faculty of the University of Wisconsin. He obtained the diploma from
ETH Zurich and the Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota, both in
chemical engineering. His interests are in constrained and robust
control. Morari’s research is internationally recognized. The analysis
techniques and software developed in his group are used in universities
and industry throughout the world. He has received numerous awards,
including the Eckman Award, Ragazzini Award and Bellman Control Heritage
Award from the American Automatic Control Council; the Colbu
rn Award, Professional Progress Award and CAST Division Award from the
American Institute of Chemical Engineers; the Control Systems Technical
Field Award and the Bode Lecture Prize from IEEE. He is a Fellow of
IEEE, AIChE and IFAC. In 1993 he was elected to the U.S. National
Academy of Engineering and to the UK Royal Academy of Engineering in
2015. He served on the technical advisory boards of several major
corporations.