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“Our Inherent Desire for Control”: a Case Study of Automation’s Impact on the Perception of Comfort
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Data-driven Methods for Control: from Linear to Lifting
The progress towards intelligent systems and digitalization relies heavily on the use of automation technology. However, the growing diversity of control objects presents significant challenges for traditional control approaches, as they are highly depende ...
EPFL2023Data-driven and Safe Networked Control with Applications to Microgrids
Today, automatic control is integrated into a wide spectrum of real-world systems such as electrical grids and transportation networks. Many of these systems comprise numerous interconnected agents, perform safety-critical operations, or generate large amo ...
EPFL2022Resource-Aware Stochastic Self-Triggered Model Predictive Control
Colin Neil Jones, Yuning Jiang, Yingzhao Lian
This letter considers the control of uncertain systems operated under limited resource factors, such as battery life or hardware longevity. We consider here resource-aware self-triggered control techniques that schedule system operation non-uniformly in ti ...
2021Jamming joints for stiffness and posture control with an anthropomorphic hand
Josephine Anna Eleanor Hughes, Kieran Daniel Gilday
Stiffness control is critical in human manipulation. The ability to transition between a low stiffness state, allowing for compliant interactions with the environment, through to rigid states, where it is possible to exert high forces, enables much functio ...
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.2021Developments on actuator management, plasma state reconstruction, and control on ASDEX Upgrade
Olivier Sauter, Federico Alberto Alfredo Felici, Mengdi Kong, Simon Van Mulders, Bernhard Sieglin
In present day tokamaks, the role of the control research is to support the physics experiments and to prepare technologies for future devices such as ITER and DEMO. This paper presents the developments done under the MST1 program collaboration on ASDEX Up ...
ELSEVIER SCIENCE SA2021Additives: Their Influence on the Humidity- and Pressure-Induced Crystallization of Amorphous CaCO3
Esther Amstad, Camelia Borca, Huachuan Du, Mathias Steinacher, Alan Böhlen, Clémence Courrégelongue
Nature possesses a unique control over the formation of CaCO3 crystals that imparts fascinating mechanical properties to many CaCO3-based biomaterials. This high level of control is, at least in part, achieved through the use of certain soluble additives t ...
AMER CHEMICAL SOC2020New Tools for MOOC/MOOL to Sustain Continuity of Experimentation in Control
Denis Gillet, Christophe Salzmann, Yves Henri Philippe Piguet
The use of interactive tools combined with remote laboratories has shown to be very useful for students when offered in a MOOC. The EPFL hands-on Control MOOC enables students to switch back and forth between control and observation on a remote laboratory, ...
Elsevier2019Input-Constrained Path Following for Autonomous Marine Vehicles with a Global Region of Attraction
Francisco Fernandes Castro Rego
This paper presents a solution to the problem of path following control for autonomous marine vehicles (AMVs) subject to input constraints and constant ocean current disturbances. We propose two nonlinear control strategies: the first is obtained by using ...
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV2018Frequency-Domain Control Design in Power Systems
The scope of this thesis encompasses two main subjects: fixed-structure data-driven control design on one side, and control design in power systems on the other. The overall goal is to identify challenging and relevant problems in power systems, to express ...
EPFL2018Predictive Control of Buildings for Demand Response and Ancillary Services Provision
This thesis develops optimization based techniques for the control of building heating, ventilation, and air-conditioning (HVAC) systems for the provision of demand response and ancillary services to the electric grid. The first part of the thesis focuses ...
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