Towards Optimal and Adaptive Control for Large-scale Systems - Professor Anders Rantzer

11th Harry Nicholson Lecture in Control Engineering - Professor Anders Rantzer, Professor in Automatic Control and Head of the Department of Automatic Control at Lund University

Tuesday 20 June 2023 

Abstract

Classical control theory does not scale well for large systems like traffic networks, power networks and chemical reaction networks. To change this situation, new approaches need to be developed, not only for analysis and synthesis of controllers, but also for modelling and verification. In this lecture we will present some classes of networked control problems for which scalable distributed controllers can be optimised efficiently. Moreover, we will discuss how the lack of accurate models can be addressed using new methods for minimax adaptive control with provable robustness bounds for the closed loop system, including the nonlinear learning procedure.