Presidential Young Investigators Award

该奖项是为了在国家科学基金会的总统青年研究员奖(PYIA)计划下向Manousiouthakis博士提供研究支持。PYIA计划的目标是为国家最杰出和最有前途的年轻科学和工程教师提供支持。这些奖项旨在提高美国学术机构应对学术和工业研究和教学对高素质科学和工程人才的需求的能力。Manousiouthakis博士的研究领域是工业过程控制。许多工业过程运行在动态模式下，表现出非线性动态行为，建模不充分，可能有许多无法测量的过程变量。PI研究的中心主题是为考虑到上述特征的线性和非线性控制系统的设计开发一个概念性框架。整个任务的重要组成部分是选择过程模型、测量、操作、控制结构和控制指示的过程修改，统一控制方案，设计保持稳定性和性能并考虑不确定性和安全性的线性和非线性控制器，最后验证所提出的控制策略。PI正计划对干法刻蚀反应器、反渗透组件和蒸馏塔的理论结果进行实验验证。

This award is to provide research support to Dr. Manousiouthakis under the National Science Foundation's Presidential Young Investigator Awards (PYIA) Program. The objectives of the PYIA Program are to provide support to the Nation's most outstanding and promising young science and engineering faculty. The awards are intended to improve the capability of U.S. academic institutions to respond to the demand for highly-qualified science and engineering personnel for academic and industrial research and teaching. Dr. Manousiouthakis' field of research is control of industrial processes. Many industrial processes are operated in a dynamic mode, exhibit nonlinear dynamic behavior, are inadequately modeled and may have many process variables that cannot be measured. The central theme of the PI's research is the development of a conceptual framework for the design of linear and nonlinear control systems that account for the above characteristics. Important components of the overall task are the selection of process models, measurements, manipulations, control structures and control-dictated process modifications, the unification of control schemes, the design of linear and nonlinear controllers that maintain stability and performance and account for uncertainty and safety and finally the verification of the proposed control policies. The PI is planning to experimentally verify his theoretical results for dry-etching reactors, reverse-osmosis modules and distillation columns.