| EPSRC Reference: |
GR/R05048/01 |
| Title: |
Analysis and Control of Lagrangian Systems |
| Principal Investigator: |
Limebeer, Professor D |
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| Department: |
Electrical and Electronic Engineering |
| Organisation: |
Imperial College London |
| Scheme: |
Standard Research (Pre-FEC) |
| Starts: |
01 May 2001 |
Ends: |
31 March 2003 |
Value (£): |
462,573
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| EPSRC Research Topic Classifications: |
| Control Engineering |
Electric Motor & Drive Systems |
| Power Electronics |
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Communications |
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Energy |
| Transport Systems and Vehicles |
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Lagrangian systems are an important class of non-linear systems that appear in almost every branch of engineering. These systems are often complex and difficult to model, but they are also highly structured from a mathematical perspective and it is our aim to exploit that structure when developing control system design techniques. Many traditional examples of these systems come from mechanical and aeronautical engineering. Examples include a large range of mechanisms such as engines, vehicles, submarines and aircraft. Langrangian models also appear in electrical engineering, chemical engineering and physics. Applications examples of particular interest to us include the dynamics of plasmas in tokamaks, the dynamics of road vehicles and the behaviours of micro-systems that are drive by electro-mechanical and electro-static means. Our overreaching goal is to contribute to knowledge in the general area of Langrangian systems dynamics modelling and control. Our applied work will cover the control of nuclear fusion reactors, the modelling and optimal control of road vehicles and the use of our general theory in the emerging area of micro-electro-statics and electro-magnetics, and a variety of dissipation models associated with friction effects.NB Work on Nuclear Fusion to be dropped
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