This work focuses on the temperature control of a semi-batch chemical reactor used for flue chemicals production. Such reactor is equipped with a heating/cooling system composed of different thermal fluids. In order to ensure the tracking performance of the desired temperature profile, an...

This paper aims at improving control systems for hydro-power production, by combining model predictive control techniques with decomposition–coordination methods for a global optimization over a whole hydro-power valley. It first recalls the model predictive control formulation for a...

The main objective of this work consists of obtaining a new robust and stable Model Predictive Control (MPC). One widely used technique for improving robustness in MPC consists of the Min–Max optimization, where an analogy can be established with the Bounded Data Uncertainties (BDU) method....

Most complex scheduling problems are combinatorial problems and difficult to solve. That is why, several methods focus on the optimization according to a single criterion such as makespan, workloads of machines, waiting times, etc. In this paper, the Choquet integral is introduced as a general...

In this paper we describe briefly a set of procedures for the optimal design of full mission aerospace systems. This involves multi-physics simulations at various fidelity levels, surrogates, distributed computing and multi-objective optimization. Low-fidelity analysis is used to populate a...

Most scheduling problems are complex combinatorial problems and very difficult to solve [Manage. Sci. 35 (1989) 164; F.S. Hillier, G.J. Lieberman, Introduction to Operations Research, Holden-Day, San Francisco, CA, 1967]. That is why, lots of methods focus on the optimization according to a single...

In the conventional H∞ optimal output feedback control design, the order of the controller is higher than that of the plant. Thus, it is not easy to implement H∞ optimal control in real world engineering problems. This paper tries to bridge the gap between the theoretical H∞ control and...