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SUMMARY:Plug-and-Play Synthesis and Computation of Predictive Controllers 
 - Dr. Colin Jones\, Assistant Professor\, Automatic Control Laboratory\, E
 cole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL)
DTSTART:20130426T130000Z
DTEND:20130426T141500Z
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CONTACT:Dr Jason Z JIANG
DESCRIPTION:The control of systems composed of complex dynamically interac
 ting sub-systems has received renewed attention recently due to important 
 emerging application areas such as smart grids. Distributing Model Predict
 ive Control (MPC) approaches\, which are ideally suited to tackle constrai
 nts\, is an active area of research with many theoretical and practical ch
 allenges to be overcome. One key element in this area is to manage the tra
 de-off between the benefits of adding coupling between sub-systems in the 
 problem formulation\, as would be done in standard centralised approaches\
 , and the computational downsides that this brings.\n\nThis talk will intr
 oduce a novel approach for synthesizing distributed invariant sets\, resto
 ring some of the benefits of centralized MPC forumaltions\, while maintain
 ing the sparse structure of the distributed optimization problem. The resu
 lting predictive controllers can be synthesized in a distributed fashion\,
  without recourse to any centralized optimization\; an important requireme
 nt if the technique is to scale. We will also introduce conditions under w
 hich new sub-systems can join\, or leave the network without a controller 
 re-design\, i.e.\, in a plug-and-play fashion\, while maintaining stabilit
 y and constraint satisfaction.
LOCATION:Cambridge University Engineering Department\, LR6
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