Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP180101717

Funded Activity Summary

Distributed nonlinear control based on differential dissipativity. This project aims to investigate the process control methodologies crucial to smart manufacturing It aims to develop a distributed optimisation-based nonlinear control approach for plant-wide flexible manufacturing, which can achieve time-varying operational targets including production rates and product specifications to meet dynamic market demands. This includes a contraction-based nonlinear distributed control framework that ensures plant-wide stability at any feasible set-points or references and a distributed economic model predictive control approach that coordinates autonomous controllers to achieve plant-wide economic objectives in a self-organising manner. The outcomes of this project are expected to form a process control framework for next-generation smart plants.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 01-01-2018

End Date: 31-12-2020

Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects

Funding Amount: $382,834.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Calculus of Variations, Systems Theory and Control Theory | Chemical Engineering | Process Control and Simulation | Control Systems, Robotics and Automation

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Industrial Chemicals and Related Products not elsewhere classified | Expanding Knowledge in Engineering | Manufacturing not elsewhere classified |

Other Keywords

Calculus of Variations, Systems Theory and Control Theory | Chemical Engineering | Control Systems, Robotics and Automation | Expanding Knowledge in Engineering | Industrial Chemicals and Related Products not elsewhere classified | Manufacturing not elsewhere classified | Process Control and Simulation

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