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

Egi Hidayat, Hans Norlander, Johannes Nygren, Olov Rosen, Soma Tayamon

Projects

• 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.