AGENT: Targeting high efficient energy harvesting via controlling multistability

智能体试图探索应用动力学和控制的前沿研究领域，通过实现一种新的最小能量控制来提高能量收集的性能。工程系统在经历振动和冲击时，对于给定的一组参数，表现出丰富多样的不同的长期行为，这被称为多稳定性或共存吸引子。这位研究员首次提出利用系统的吸引盆地进行最小能量控制，旨在提高能源收集的效率。从长远来看，这一奖学金将是实现能源效率控制的基础，这将为未来影响到几乎所有工业部门的能源收集系统提供安全、可靠和高效的运行，例如能源、建筑和制造业。该奖学金独特的研究方法，是数值研究和实验研究的共同努力，将确保欧盟在数值分析和分段光滑动力系统实验研究方面的全球领先地位。该奖学金将由埃克塞特大学的刘扬教授和罗兹科技大学的借调导师Przemyslaw Perlikowski教授共同主持。该研究员将由系统、动力学和控制中心(CSDC)主办，该中心是联合国教育、科学及文化组织的一个世界领先的多学科研究中心，重点研究复杂系统的建模、动力系统、控制理论及其在工程和物理科学中的应用。拟议的研究和培训将在多个层面上对她未来的职业生涯产生重大影响，而主持人将受益于她在随机动力系统方面的专业知识。此外，该研究员还将在主办大学和借调大学之间传递知识和发展网络，这将促进在非线性动力学和控制的尖端技术方面的长期研究合作。

AGENT seeks to explore a frontier research area in applied dynamics and control to improve the performance of energy harvesting through implementing a novel minimal energy control. Engineering systems experiencing vibrations and impacts exhibit a rich variety of different long-term behaviours coexisting for a given set of parameters, which is termed as multistability or coexisting attractors. The fellow proposes to use for the first time the system's basins of attraction for minimum energy control, aiming to improve the efficiency of energy harvesting. In the long term, this fellowship will be fundamental for the realisation of energy efficient control, which will provide safe, reliable, and efficient operations for future energy harvesting systems impacting on almost every industrial sector, e.g., energy, construction, and manufacturing. The unique research approach of this fellowship, a joint effort of numerical and experimental studies, will secure a leading global position for the EU in numerical analysis and the experimental study of piecewise-smooth dynamical systems. This fellowship will be hosted by Prof. Yang Liu from the University of Exeter (UNEXE) with the secondment supervisor, Prof. Przemyslaw Perlikowski from the Lodz University of Technology (LUT). The fellow will be hosted by the Centre for Systems, Dynamics and Control (CSDC), a world-leading, multidisciplinary research centre at UNEXE, focusing on modelling of complex systems, dynamical systems, control theory and their applications in engineering and physical sciences. The proposed research and training will have a significant impact on her future career at multiple levels, while the host will benefit from her expertise on stochastic dynamical systems. In addition, the fellow will also transfer knowledge and develop networking between the hosting and the secondment universities, which will foster a long-term research collaboration on the cutting-edge techniques of nonlinear dynamics and control.