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- 2Shah, Sirish L. (Chemical and Materials Engineering)
- 1Jing, Yindi (Electrical and Computer Engineering)
- 1Lynch, Alan (Electrical and Computer Engineering)
- 1Shah, Sirish (Chemical and Materials Engineering)
- 1Shu, Zhan (Electrical and Computer Engineering)
- 1Adnan, Naseeb A
- 1Ahmed, Salman
- 1Alinezhad, Haniyeh Seyed
- 1Amin, Md Shahedul
- 1Amini, Iman
- 1Cheng, Ziyi
- 2Alarm Management
- 2Causality analysis
- 2Control systems
- 2Event-Triggered Control
- 2Model predictive control
- 2Root cause analysis
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Fall 2014
This thesis focuses on event-based state estimation problems in the context of cyber-physical systems (CPSs), targeting at low-complexity event-based state estimators that are optimal in a certain sense. The motivation stems from the resource limitations in the applications of CPSs (e.g.,...
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Fall 2023
Model predictive control (MPC) is one of the most popular control strategies in modern control systems and has been used in a variety of applications due to its ability to handle hard constraints. As a significant branch of MPC, robust MPC is an effective strategy to deal with external...
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Spring 2012
The main focus of this thesis is on developing parsimonious models using measured process data and subsequent use of these models in the design of controllers for chemical engineering processes, in particular, for processes with large dead times. The application case studies presented and...
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Fall 2013
This thesis is concerned with identification of switched linear systems (SLSs), which is an important part in model-based control. There are a large number of physical systems that can be represented or approximated by SLSs. Therefore, the study of SLSs has attracted much attention over the past...
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Spring 2014
Detection and diagnosis of plant-wide abnormalities and disturbances are major problems in large-scale complex systems. To determine the root cause(s) of specific abnormalities, it is important to capture the process connectivity and investigate the fault propagation pathways, in which causality...
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Networked Implementation of Continuous-Time Distributed Algorithms: A Hybrid System Approach
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With the advancements in functional capabilities of computing and communication devices, there has been a widespread interest in research and implementation of distributed (control and optimization) algorithms. These algorithms frequently find themselves in applications such as distributed...
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Fall 2022
Cyber-physical systems (CPSs) integrate the cyber world and physical entities via seamless combinations of sensing, communication, and control. One typical feature of CPSs is that massive data packets are transmitted through unreliable wireless networks, which can be intercepted or manipulated by...
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Fall 2018
This thesis focuses on state estimation problems of cyber-physical systems to overcome the challenges brought by their features, e.g, resource limitations in sensor networks and model uncertainties due to the changes in interconnections of components. To achieve smart allocation of the scarce...
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Fall 2013
In process plants, alarms are configured to notify operators of any abnormalities or faults. However, in practice a majority of raised alarms are false or nuisance and create problems for operators as they face an increasing number of alarms to handle. In the past, many catastrophic incidents...
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Spring 2017
Paper-making processes are large-scale two-dimensional systems. For these systems, the performance along both the machine direction (MD) and cross direction (CD) needs to be ensured for successful paper production. This thesis studies the robust tuning problem of MD and CD Model Predictive...