Section: Overall Objectives

Overall Objectives

Research fields

The project-team is particularly active in the following areas:

• classical theory of dynamical systems

• optimal deterministic, stochastic and robust control

• failure detection in dynamical systems (both passive and active)

• network control and monitoring for transportation systems

• hybrid systems, in particular the development of Scicos

• maxplus linear systems: applications to transportation systems

• numerical matrix algebra and its implementation in ScicosLab

• numerical algorithms.

Objectives

The objectives of the project-team are the design, analysis and development of new methods and algorithms for detection, identification, simulation and control of dynamical systems and their software implementations.

These methods and algorithms are implemented in Scilab and ScicosLab which are a scientific software packages originally developed in the project-team.

The project-team is actively involved in the development of control, signal processing, optimization and simulation tools, in particular Scicos, a modeler and simulator for dynamical systems developed based on research on hybrid systems. Encouraged by the interest in Scicos, expressed both by the academia and industry, developing a robust user-friendly Scicos has become an important objective of the project-team. A lot of effort is put into the development of Scicos within the project-team.

As theory and applications enrich mutually, many of the objectives of the project-team can be seen through the applications:

• modeling and simulation of physical systems (mechanical, electrical, fluids, thermodynamics,...) based on the theory of implicit systems

• modeling, simulation and code generation of control systems based on the theory of hybrid systems

• modeling, analysis and control of transportation systems using the maxplus algebra

• using robust control theory, and finite element models for identification purposes in the framework of failure detection and default localization for space systems, civil structures and other dynamical systems.