Conferencias Magistrales

Estabilidad de sistemas con retardos y sus aplicaciones

Planning, Control and Estimation of Autonomous Vehicles using LPV Approach

How to Make Unmanned Systems Smarter, Safer, More Reliable and More Resilient?

Estabilidad de sistemas con retardos y sus aplicaciones

Dra. Sabine Mondié

Departamento de Control Automático del CINVESTAV-IPN.

Resumen:

La teoría de control se basa en el famoso principio de retroalimentación. Este consiste en medir la salida de un sistema, compararla con el objetivo deseado, y calcular una acción correctiva llamada control que se aplica al sistema. Para un buen desempeño del sistema en lazo cerrado, es bien sabido que son necesarios, un buen conocimiento del proceso y una medición exacta de las variables de interés. Sin embargo, también es crucial contar con información actualizada de las variables, así como aplicar de manera expedita las acciones de control calculadas. Los retardos que se presentan con frecuencia en sistemas del ámbito cotidiano, de la tecnología, de la biología y de la industria deterioran sustancialmente el desempeño de estos sistemas por lo que son un reto para los ingenieros en control.

Ponente:

Sabine Mondié es ingeniera industrial y de sistemas del ITESM, México (1981), maestra en ciencias en la especialidad de Control automático del CINVESTAV, México (1983), y doctora en ciencias del CINVESTAV, México y del IRCyN, Nantes, Francia (1996). Pertenece al Sistema Nacional de Investigadores, en el Nivel 3.

Es profesor-investigador del Departamento de control Automático, CINVESTAV, México desde 1996, donde ha dirigido/codirigido más de 15 tesis doctorales y 25 de maestría. Es autor/co-autor de más de 80 artículos en revista y 125 congresos internacionales.

Ha sido chair para educación del comité técnico “Sistemas Lineales” de la Federación Internacional de Control Automático (IFAC) y es actualmente vice-chair de este comité.

Ha sido editor asociado de varias revistas del área de control, en particular Systems & Control Letters y European Journal of Control. Es actualmente editor asociado de IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control.

Su trabajo de investigación se enfoca a los sistemas con retardos, su estabilidad y propiedades de robustez. Emplea en sus desarrollos los enfoques temporales, frecuencial y gráfico. Se interesa en aplicaciones de los ámbitos de la tecnología, de la biología y de la industria que involucran retardos.

Planning, Control and Estimation of Autonomous Vehicles using LPV Approach

Dr. Vicenç Puig Cayuela

Institut de Robòtica i Informàtica Industrial, Universidad Politécnica de Cataluña.

Resumen:

This talk will present some recent results regarding the application of the LPV approach to the planning, control and estimation of autonomous vehicles. In particular, the talk will show how by means of the LPV approach the modelling of autonomous vehicles (including both kinematic and dynamic equations) can be addressed both from a physical perspective and by using data-based learning techniques. Then, using the LPV representation of the vehicle, efficient planning and control implementation based on MPC and LMIs will be presented. The problem of state estimation for control and SLAM will also be addressed using Kalman LPV filters designed in the LMI framework. The inclusion of uncertainty in the modelling using sets (zonotopes) will also be illustrated. Finally, the extension of the proposed approaches to deal with learning-based algorithms that allow to estimate the vehicle model (dynamic part) from data is presented. The algorithms will be illustrated using high-fidelity simulators and small scale/real size vehicles.

Ponente:
Vicenç Puig received the telecommunications engineering degree in 1993 and the Ph.D. degree in Automatic Control, Vision, and Robotics in 1999, both from Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC). He is Full Professor of the Automatic Control Department and a Researcher at the Institut de Robòtica i Informàtica Industrial, both from the UPC. He is currently the Director of the Automatic Control Department and Head of the Research Group in Advanced Control Systems at UPC. He has developed important scientific contributions in the areas of fault diagnosis and fault tolerant control using interval and linear-parameter-varying models using set-based approaches. He has participated/leaded more than 20 European and national research projects in the last decade. He has also led many private contracts with several companies and has published more than 120 journal articles and more than 450 in international conference/ workshop proceedings. He has supervised over 20 Ph.D. dissertations and over 40 master’s theses/final projects. He is currently the chair of the IFAC Safeprocess TC Committee 6.4 (2020-until now) and was the vice chair (2014–2017). He has been the general chair of the Third IEEE Conference on Control and Fault-Tolerant Systems (Systol 2016 and 2021) and the IPC chair of the IFAC Safeprocess 2018.

Modos Deslizantes del Siglo XXI

Dr. Leonid Fridman

Departamento de Ingeniería de Control y Robótica División de Ingeniería Eléctrica Facultad de Ingeniería UNAM.

Resumen:
Se presenta una panorámica del desarrollo de los métodos básicos de análisis y diseño de controladores y observadores por modos deslizantes. Inicialmente se describen los controladores por retroalimentación de estados con una ley de control discontinua, que generan un modo deslizante. Posteriormente se presenta una nueva clase de algoritmos por modos deslizantes de orden superior, que consisten en una retroalimentación de estados continua y una acción de control integral discontinua. Se describen también observadores por modos deslizantes, que estiman los estados del sistema en tiempo finito, y que permiten obtener un controlador por retroalimentación de la salida.

Ponente:
Leonid M. Fridman received an M.S. degree in mathematics from Kuibyshev (Samara) State University, Samara, Russia, in 1976, a Ph.D. degree in applied mathematics from the Institute of Control Science, Moscow, Russia, in 1988, and a Dr.Sc. degree in control science from Moscow State University of Mathematics and Electronics, Moscow. In 2002 hejoined the Department of Control Engineering and Robotics, Division of Electrical Engineering of Engineering Faculty at National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), Mexico in 2002. His research interest includes variable structure systems. He is a co-author and co-editor of 11 books and 19 special issues of different journals devoted to the sliding mode control. In 2014–2018 he served as a Chair of TC on Variable Structure and Sliding Mode Control of IEEE Control Systems Society. He is the recipient of the Harold Chestnut Control Engineering Textbook Prize of IFAC for his co-authored textbook ’’Sliding Mode Control and Observation’’, winner of the National University Prize at UNAM in 2019 and Scopus prize for the best cited Mexican Scientists in Mathematics and Engineering 2010. He was working as an invited Professor in more than 20 universities and research laboratories of Argentina, Australia, Austria, China, France, Germany, Italy, Israel, and Spain. Currently, Professor Fridman is also an International Chair of INRIA, France, and a High-Level Foreign Expert of Ministry of Education of China.

How to Make Unmanned Systems Smarter, Safer, More Reliable and More Resilient?

Professor Youmin Zhang

Professor, Mechanical, Industrial and Aerospace Engineering Concordia Institute of Aerospace Design & Innovation, Concordia University, Canada.

Resumen:

Although the concepts and developments on Fault Detection and Diagnosis (FDD) and Fault-Tolerant Control (FTC) have been progressively and extensively investigated worldwide since the 1970’s and 1980’s, respectively, the two recent catastrophic accidents induced by the crashes of two Boeing 737 MAX8 airplanes have highlighted again the necessity and urgency for FDD and FTC research & development and their industrial applications.

On the other hand, benefited from technical advances in new materials, mechatronics, communication, computation, control, sensors, actuators and new/smart designs, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), Autonomous Cars (AVs), and other transportation vehicles on the land, on/under the water are gaining more and more attention and rapid development during the last a few years due to their relatively easy and cost-effective uses in various application tasks such as surveillance, sensing, search and rescue, agriculture, forest, environment, pipelines, powerlines, military and security applications.

In this talk, brief overall view on the challenges and latest developments on making these unmanned systems smarter, safer, more reliable and more resilient in terms of Guidance, Navigation, and Control (GNC) of UAVs integrating with Remote Sensing (RS) techniques for autonomous, efficient and reliable applications to forest and environment monitoring and fires/damages/risks detection will be presented first, then some of new developments and current research works being carried out at our group will be introduced as the second part of the presentation. In particular, new developments on autonomous control, FDD, FTC, and Fault-Tolerant Cooperative Control (FTCC) techniques towards autonomous, safe and secure operation and applications of unmanned systems (UAVs, UGVs, USVs) to the forest fire monitoring tasks, and safe and secure operation of smart grids in the presence of physical- faults/damages and cyber-attacks will be presented.

Ponente:

Dr. Youmin Zhang is currently a Professor at the Department of Mechanical, Industrial and Aerospace Engineering and the Concordia Institute of Aerospace Design and Innovation (CIADI) at Concordia University, Canada.

Dr. Zhang received his B.Sc., M.Sc., and Ph.D. degrees in Automatic Control Department of Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi’an, China, in 1983, 1986, and 1995, respectively. His main research interests and experience are in the areas of condition monitoring, health management, fault diagnosis and fault-tolerant control systems; cooperative guidance, navigation and control of unmanned aerial/space/ground/marine vehicles with applications to forest fires, pipelines, power lines, wind farms, solar panels arrays, environment, natural resources and natural disasters monitoring, detection, and protection by combining with remote sensing techniques; dynamic systems modeling, estimation, identification and advanced control techniques; and advanced signal processing techniques for diagnosis, prognosis, fault-tolerant and health management of safety-critical systems with application to renewable and hybrid energy systems and smart grids, and smart cities under the framework of cyber-physical systems. He has published 8 books, over 550 journal and conference papers, and book chapters. He was awarded as a Concordia University Research Fellow in the Strategic Research Cluster 'Technology, Industry and the Environment' in 2018 in recognition of his outstanding research works and contributions. His research works on developments of unmanned systems with applications to forest fires detection and autonomous transportation have been reported by public media in national (CTV News, Radio-Canada International, Canadian Science Publishing), citywide (La Presse, Ville.Montreal), and organizational (Concordia News, Quanser Inc., Amtek Company) levels for several times.

Dr. Zhang is a Fellow of Canadian Society of Mechanical Engineering (CSME), a Senior Member of AIAA and IEEE, President of International Society of Intelligent Unmanned Systems (ISIUS), Executive Committee Member of International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems (ICUAS), Steering Committee Member of International Symposium on Autonomous Systems (ISAS), and a member of the Technical Committee for several international and national scientific societies. He has been an Editor-in-Chief, an Editor-at-Large, an Editorial Board Member, and Associate Editor of several international journals, including as a Board Member of Governors and Regional Representative (North America) for "Journal of Intelligent & Robotic Systems", an Editorial Advisory Board Member for "International Journal of Intelligent Unmanned Systems", Associate Editor for "IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks & Learning Systems", "IET Cyber-systems and Robotics", "Unmanned Systems", "Journal of Systems Science and Complexity", "Chinese Journal of Aeronautics", "Security and Safety", Deputy Editor-in-Chief for "Guidance, Navigation and Control" etc. He has served as General Chair, Program Chair of several unmanned systems and renewable energy relevant international conferences, including as a General Chair of 2022 Int. Conf. on Unmanned Aircraft Systems (ICUAS), Dubrovnik, Croatia during June 21-24, 2022 the 5th Int. Symp. on Autonomous Systems (ISAS), Hangzhou, April 8-11, 2022, and Program Chair of the IEEE 5th Int. Conf. on Renewable Energy and Power Engineering (REPE), Beijing, Sept. 28-30, 2022.

References

Croatia during June 21-24, 2022: http://www.uasconferences.com
5th Int. Symp. on Autonomous Systems (ISAS), Hangzhou, April 8-11, 2022: http://www.isas-conference.com
Program Chair of the IEEE 5th Int. Conf. on Renewable Energy and Power Engineering (REPE), Beijing, Sept. 28-30, 2022: http://www.repe.net/.
More detailed information can be found at http://users.encs.concordia.ca/~ymzhang/.