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The workshop is a meeting of those interested in applying Advanced Process Control technology and Advanced Data Analysis technology to improve performance of the process industries. Practical installation experiences and results are presented for discussion.
Plant operations today are faced with ever-increasing pressure to improve efficiency, quality and productivity. Without making fundamental changes to their production processes, improvement can usually be made with the application of advanced control technology. Using modern computer hardware, software and innovative techniques, application engineers are able to collect real time and historical data on their processes. Data analysis, modeling and simulation provide a better understanding of the dynamics of process behavior. Once the process characteristics are accurately identified, the options for applying suitable control methodology are no longer limited to conventional control techniques.
We are pleased to announce that this coming year's featured tutorial speaker will be Dr. Jan Maciejowski. He is an IEEE Senior Member and is the Head of the Control Group in the Department of Engineering at the University of Cambridge, England. He will be presenting a full-day tutorial at the workshop entitled: "Model Predictive Control: from basics to recent advances".
The second day of this coming year's conference will include half-day tutorials given by featured speakers Dr. Graham Goodwin on "The Control of Contrained Systems", and by Dr. Lennart Ljung on "From Data to Model: A status report on System Identification".
Last year's workshop included a full-day tutorial presented by IEEE Distinguished Speaker Dr. Ioan Landau of Laboratoire d'Automatique de Grenoble (CNRS/INPG) of the Institut National Polytechnique de Grenoble. The tutorial discussed robust digital controller design, system identification in open and closed loop, and the application of these techniques to the design of an adaptive controller. It was an excellent tutorial and provided a good overview of new stability analysis techniques for robust controller design.
The second day of the workshop featured tutorials by Dr. Brent Young of the University of Calgary on "The Use of Dynamic Simulation in the Design and Testing of a Model Predictive Control Scheme" and by Dr. Tariq Samad of Honeywell on "Technologies for Enterprise Optimization".
Topics of Papers that have been presented at the workshop include:
- Multivariable Controller Design and Performance
- Multivariable Constrained Control
- Minimum Variance Optimal PI Controller Tuning for Averaging Level Control
- Model Predictive Adaptive Control
- Dynamics Process Simulation and Application to Advanced Controller Design
- Real Time Expert System in Metals Refining Industry
- Equipment Health Monitoring and Fault Diagnosis using Multivariate Modeling
- Powerhouse Energy Management System
- Infrastructure and Organizational Issues for the Deployment of Advanced Control Systems
- Sensor Fault Detection and Validation
SUBMISSION OF PAPERS
Abstracts (200 words) should be received by November 30, 2002. Include a statement in your covering letter confirming that if the paper is accepted, one of the authors will attend the conference to present it. Please give the full name, affiliation, full address, telephone and fax numbers, and e-mail address of the corresponding author.
Notification of acceptance and author kits will be sent by December 15, 2002. The final manuscripts and registration payment for authors are due by February 15, 2003. Papers received by this date will be published in the workshop proceedings.
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SEND ABSTRACTS AND MANUSCRIPTS TO: (prefer via e-mail in MS Word and PDF format) Technical Program Chair APC2003 |
