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Advances in The Theory of Control Signals and Systems With Physical Modeling Lecture Notes in Control and Information Sciences 407
Advances in The Theory of Control Signals and Systems With Physical Modeling Lecture Notes in Control and Information Sciences 407
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Editors
Jean Lvine
CAS, Unit Mathmatiques et Systmes
MINES-ParisTech
35, rue Saint-Honor
77300 Fontainebleau
France
E-mail: jean.levine@mines-paristech.fr
Philippe Mllhaupt
Laboratoire dAutomatique
Facult des Sciences
de lIngnieur
Station 9
CH-1015 Lausanne
Switzerland
E-mail: philippe.muellhaupt@epfl.ch
ISBN 978-3-642-16134-6
e-ISBN 978-3-642-16135-3
DOI 10.1007/978-3-642-16135-3
Lecture Notes in Control and Information Sciences
ISSN 0170-8643
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1 Introduction
This book gathers articles that have been invited for presentation in the framework
of a Bernoulli Programme, held at the Bernoulli Center in Lausanne (Switzerland)
from January to June 2009.
This Programme mainly consisted of three workshops aiming at reviewing the
advances in the theory of control, signals, and systems, with a particular emphasis
on their relationship to physical modeling.
More precisely, the aim of this series of three workshops was to
bring together knowledge and know-how from the communities of control, signals and systems,
focus on the theoretical advances in these areas and examine the possibilities of
new convergences between them,
contribute to the enhancement of the dialogue between theoretical laboratories
and more practically oriented units and industries.
In the 60s, control, signals and systems had a common linear algebraic background and, according to their evolution, their respective backgrounds have now
dramatically differed. Recovering such a common background, especially in the
nonlinear context, is currently a fully open question.
In most contributions, emphasis has been put on physical modeling, which serves
as an Ariadnes thread between the diverse fields of interest. This idea is not new,
however. As an example, mechanical system modeling, which heavily relies on analytical mechanics and in particular its conservation laws, has greatly inspired control
theory. As another example, control of chemical processes also gained in the use of
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sophisticated modeling software tools based on theories of mass balance conservation and entropy laws. Hence one purpose of this program was to force the interaction of probably uncorrelated disciplines thanks to these theoretical modeling
aspects.
Another important aspect of the conferences was to present and develop new
applications of the above approaches, and contribute to the enhancement of the dialogue between theoretical laboratories and more practically oriented research units
and industries, in both classical areas and emerging fields of research.
The first workshop, entitled Electrical and Mechatronical Systems Workshop
looked at various applications stemming from Mechatronics, Electrical and Mechanical Engineering, such as MEMS, eletrical machines, robots and car suspension.
From the modeling and methodological side, finite dimensional systems (described
by ordinary differential equations or difference equations) and infinite dimensional
systems (delayed systems, distributed systems, PDEs, non-integer derivations)
were approached for control and signal processing, as well as model-free techniques Indeed, the influence of physical modeling contributed to outline some convergences. In particular, a unifying Lagrangian formalism has been sketched so as
to integrate electrical, electronical, magnetic and mechanical aspects of systems,
potentially leading to significant simplifications in the analysis of control systems.
Both finite dimensional and infinite dimensional models are shown to ease some estimation, adaptative control and observation problems. New applications in emerging fields of mechatronic systems, such as MEMS, or new suspension technologies,
have been presented, showing that Mechanics, Mechatronics and Electronics remain
a major source of inspiration for control and system theorists.
The aim of the second workshop, entitled Mathematical Tools Workshop, was to
serve as a think tank for mathematical paradigms in the fields of Control, Signals
and Systems. Again, both finite dimensional and infinite dimensional models have
been explored. Various approaches, in the framework of differential geometry and
algebra have been examined. Group theory and Riemannian Geometry appeared in
many presentations with, in particular, robotics, mechanical systems or quantum
control as background applications. Recent advances, in the fields of hamiltonian,
lagrangian, quantum, energy-based and flat or non flat control systems have also
been presented.
Finally, the third and last workshop, entitled Chemical and Life Science Workshop, concerned new approaches in the analysis of biomedical, biomechanical and
reaction systems, possibly coupled with fluid dynamics, with many challenging applications such as cancer treatment and diagnosis. Important results concerning unifying approaches to deal with complex chemical and biochemical reactions have
been presented taking into account the network structure of the reactions while ensuring robustness with respect to various unknown parameters and perturbations.
The influence of noisy data in the biological and chemical reaction systems has also
been approached. Time-scales, transients and bifurcations in ecological systems,
population dynamics and biological systems have also received a great attention
and their control theoretical perspectives have been envisaged.
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The reader will find in the present volume key contributions and surveys, giving a
precise account of the above topics. The book is organized in three parts, according
to the three aforementioned workshops. In each part, the articles follow the alphabetic order of the first author. This order has been prefered to a more sophisticated,
but often artificial, clustering by sub-themes. We hope that these readings will be
most inspiring and informative to PhD students and researchers in Mathematics,
Electrical, Mechanical, Chemical or Bio Engineering, and more generally to every
people of both the academic and industrial spheres curious of the recent developments in control, signals and systems.
We are very grateful both to the Swiss National Science Foundation for funding
such an endeavor and to the Centre Bernoulli for providing the required infrastructure. In particular, we thank Mrs. Christiane De Paola, Talya Van Woerden, Sabrina
Martone, and Rana Gherzeddine for the important administrative and organisational
work and Mr. Marc Perraudin for maintaining the internet server. Last, but not least,
we are deeply indebted to Prof. Tudor Ratiu for his constant encouragements to
organize the above program.
Jean Levine and Philippe Mullhaupt
Mines-ParisTech and EPFL
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