Automatic Control

The research in automatic control has a wide variation and includes both pure theory, and some various applications.

The research projects are/were supported by the Swedish Research Council, MISTRA, Jernkontoret, and Volvo.

Senior researchers

Bengt Carlsson, Alexander Medvedev, Torsten Söderström, Torbjörn Wigren

PhD students

Tatiana Chistiakova

Projects

• Fundamental low frequency limitations in networked control
• Networked control with saturation and delay
• Control of smart structures
• Modelling and control of wastewater treatment plant

Past projects

• Pole placement design
• Parameter and state estimation in the steel converter process
• Echo cancellation without silent channel detection
• Identification and control of non-linear solar collector plants with long and varying delays
• Linearizing control of non-linear Wiener systems
• Active vibration and noise control
• Functional monitoring and fault-tolerant control of jet engine

Some achievements

• Graduated PhD's in automatic control include Linda Brus, Mats Ekman, Magnus Evestedt, Björn Halvarsson, Peter Nauclér, Claes Olsson, Pär Samuelsson, Maria Werlefors.
• Previous group members in automatic control include Kjell Nordström (senior lecturer), Carl-Fredrik Lindberg (PhD exam), Anders Malmgren (PhD exam), Niclas Björsell (lic exam).
• A textbook has been written, and is well recieved: T. Söderström: Discrete-time Stochastic Systems. First edition: Prentice-Hall International, Hemel Hempstead, UK, 1994. Second edition: Springer-Verlag, London, 2002.