European Embedded Control Institute www.eeci-institute.eu, EECI has been created in May 2006, in the framework of the HYCON Network of Excellence (FP6-IST), a funded European Community project (2004-2009). EECI is a "lightweight" association (under the French Association Law 1901), based on volunteer work by its members. EECI offers a legal and perennial structure making the European control community a reality. EECI Management Committee: - Marika Di Benedetto, Univ L Aquila, IT - Sebastian Engell, Univ. Dormund, DE - Eduardo Camacho, Univ. Sevilla, ES Memorandum of Understanding signed with 12 institutions EECI is Member of ARTEMISIA Chamber B Contact: Françoise Lamnabhi-Lagarrigue, lamnabhi@lss.supelec.fr
European Embedded Control Institute www.eeci-institute.eu, 80 Engineers & Researchers 110 PhDs France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Switzerland, Netherlands, Sweden, open EECI administration is located in Supelec, France EECI-NCS Lab is maintained in L Aquila, Italy 2
Modelisation of physical phenomena to understand and predict their dynamic behaviour and the interactions among their components Development of control strategies and algorithms to optimize the behaviour of systems so that they accomplish certain intended functions, satisfy constraints, minimize negative effects, e.g. consumption of resources Implementation of the control strategies by selecting sensing devices, computing elements and actuators and integrating them into a system with maximum performance under cost constraints Validation and verification of the implementation of the control strategies acting so that indeed the physical systems satisfies the constraints and the performance requirements 3
Main idea 1 Research on Highly-Complex and Networked Control Systems has major strategic relevance for the European industry and society and is essential to ensuring a leading position for Europe in numerous key industrial sectors and in the biological and medical word. Main idea 2 The analysis and design of control algorithms is an essential technology for improving robustness, safety, performance, predictability and cost of large-scale networked systems (increasingly distributed & immersed in hostile environments) Main idea 3 The new discipline merging the disciplines of control, computer, communication with physical or biological systems is facing new very interesting challenges. A considerable focused research effort by the best complementary teams is needed.
Five key challenges for future R&D and Innovation Systems & Control Science 1. System-wide coordination and control of large-scale systems 2. Distributed networked dynamic systems 3. Autonomy, cognition and control 4. Model-based systems engineering 5. Human-machine interaction in automated systems HORIZON 2020 5
European Embedded Control Institute www.eeci-institute.eu, Role and mission: to stimulate new collaborative (multi-national and multi-disciplinary) research, to break down the barriers between the traditional disciplines, to disseminate associated methods and tools, to organize the education of students and researchers, to transfer methodologies to industry.
EECI training activities International EECI Graduate School on Control 2012 M1 30/01/2012 03/02/2012 M2 06/02/2012 10/02/2012 M3 13/02/2012 17/02/2012 M4 20/02/2012 24/02/2012 M5 27/02/2012 02/03/2012 M6 05/03/2012 09/03/2012 M7 12/03/2012 16/03/2012 M8 19/03/2012 23/03/2012 M9 26/03/2012 30/03/2012 M12 30/04/2012 04/05/2012 M13 07/05/2012 11/05/2012 M15 21/05/2012 25/05/2012 Istanbul M17 23/04/2012 27/04/2012 L Aquila M18 14/05/2012 18/05/2012 Advanced Control of Physical Systems Arising in Modern Technological Applications Modelling, State Estimation and Vision Based Control of Aerial Robotic Vehicles Randomization in Systems and Control Design - the Scenario Approach Decentralized and Distributed Control Theory of Observers Introduction to Nonlinear Control Backstepping Control of PDEs and Delay Systems Recent Advances of Sliding Mode Control Regulation and Tracking for Nonlinear Systems, with Emphasis on Recent Advances and Open Problems Quantum Control and Quantum Information Processing Hybrid Dynamical Systems: Stability and Control Distributed Control Optimality, Stabilization, and Feedback in Nonlinear Control Specification, Design and Verification of Distributed Control Systems Romeo Ortega Robert Mahony/ Tarek Hamel Marco C. Campi/ Simone Garatti Giancarlo Ferrari-Trecate/ Marcello Farina Laurent Praly Hassan Khalil Miroslav Krstic Vadim I. Utkin Alberto Isidori Roger W. Brockett Andrew Teel A. Stephen Morse Francis Clarke Richard Murray / Ufuk Topcu More than 300 registrations!
International EECI Graduate School on Control 2013 8
2010 Ulrich MUNZ Institute for Systems Theory and Automatic Control, University of Stuttgart Delay Robustness in Cooperative Control 9
2011 Justin RICE Technische Universiteit Delft, Delft Center for Systems and Control Efficient algorithms for distributed control: 10 a structured matrix approach
EECI main current Research and Innovation activities National ANR WINPOWER: Wind energy integration by DC Network, European FP7-ICT EUCLID: Strengthening EU-India collaboration in networked monitoring and control systems technologies, FP7-ICT BALCON: Boosting EU-Western Balkan Countries research collaboration in the Monitoring and Control area, FP7-ICT HYCON2: Highly complex and networked Control Systems, International ÉGIDE - Partenariats Hubert Curien (PHC), Programme IMHOTEP 2011 avec l Egypte, Renewable interconnections to the grid by virtual power plants Industrial with SCHNEIDER: Sensorless control of asynchronous motor