Jan Maciejowski
Fault-tolerant control using Gaussian processes and model predictive control
Prof. Jan Maciejowski
Dep. of Engineering
University of Cambridge
UK
Time & Place
The presentation on January 27, 2015 will be given in the Senatssaal (building 05, room 205) and starts at 5.00 p.m.
Abstract
Essential ingredients for fault-tolerant control are the ability to represent system behaviour following the occurrence of a fault, and the ability to exploit this representation for deciding control actions. Gaussian processes seem to be very promising candidates for the first of these, and model predictive control has a proven capability for the second. We therefore propose to use the two together to obtain fault-tolerant control functionality. Our proposal is illustrated by several reasonably realistic examples drawn from flight control. Some remarks will be made about the use of a Bayesian framework for studying fault-tolerant control.
Short CV
Jan Maciejowski graduated from Sussex University in 1971 with a B.Sc degree in Automatic Control, and from Cambridge University in 1978 with a Ph.D degree in Control Engineering. From 1971 to 1974 he was a Systems Engineer with Marconi Space and Defence Systems Ltd, working mostly on attitude control of spacecraft and high-altitude balloon platforms.
He is a Professor of Control Engineering and a member of the Control Group. He is also the President and a Fellow of Pembroke College, Cambridge. From 2009 to 2014 he was the Head of the Information Engineering Division. He was the President of the European Union Control Association from 2003 to 2005, and was President of the Institute of Measurement and Control for 2002. He is a Chartered Engineer and a Fellow of the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET), the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE), the Institute of Measurement and Control (InstMC), and of the International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC). He was a Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE Control Systems Society from 2001 to 2007. He was a member of the IET's Policy Panel for Innovation and Emerging Technologies until 2011.