NSF Summer School on Model Predictive Control

这笔赠款将为四名美国领先的研究人员/讲师和40名美国研究生提供旅费，让他们参加模型预测控制(MPC)暑期班。MPC既已成为先进控制的领先工业技术，也成为研究生水平研究的学术学科。在工业应用方面，在过去的30年里，该技术的范围从最初的过程控制稳步扩大到涵盖许多工业部门，包括：航空航天、能源系统、汽车、机器人系统等。在同一时期，MPC的研究范围也大大扩大，包括理论和计算组件。暑期班的目的是将研究人员和实践者聚集在一起，就最新的MPC研究和应用提供最先进的概述和教程。由于它在实时应用中的使用，许多形式的MPC公式的计算方面一直是密集的研究工作的焦点，导致在线和离线版本的MPC算法的改进。暑期班将涵盖的主题包括经典的MPC(监管、估计和扰动模型)、稳健的MPC、随机MPC、经济MPC、采样数据系统的MPC、MPC的在线优化以及MPC的工业应用。在MPC，暑期学校的研究生教育方式有几个显著的优势。为期一周的时间投入相对较少，使该课程适用于数量多得多的美国研究生。通过聘请不同MPC主题的顶尖专家，研究生将接触到比单一教师提供的一学期大学课程更多的专业知识。通过用最先进的和免费可用的软件说明MPC的概念，与会者可以将在具有挑战性的应用程序中实施MPC所需的计算工具带回家。最终目标是提高美国制造和各种行业运营的技术标准。

This grant is to provide travel support for four leading US-based researchers/instructors and forty US-based graduate students to attend the summer school on Model Predictive Control (MPC). MPC has emerged as both a leading industrial technology for advanced control, as well as an academic discipline for graduate level research. On the industrial applications side, the scope of the technology has increased steadily during the last 30 years from its roots in process control to encompassing many industrial sectors including: aerospace, energy systems, automotive, robotic systems, etc. During the same time period, the scope of MPC research has also widened considerably and includes both theoretical and computational components. The purpose of the summer school is to bring researchers and practitioners together to provide state-of-the-art overviews and tutorials on the latest MPC research and applications. Because of its use in real time applications, the computational aspects of the many forms of MPC formulations have been the focus of intense research efforts resulting in improvements in both online and offline versions of MPC algorithms. The topics that will be covered in the summer school include classical MPC (regulation, estimation, and disturbance models), robust MPC, stochastic MPC, economic MPC, MPC for sampled-data systems, online optimization for MPC, and industrial applications of MPC. The summer school approach to graduate-level education in MPC offers several significant advantages. The one-week time investment is relatively modest, making the class available to a much larger numbers of US-based graduate students. By engaging leading experts in the different MPC topics, the graduate students will be exposed to more expertise than is available in a single semester university course offered by a single instructor. By illustrating the MPC concepts with state-of-the-art and freely available software, the attendees can take home with them the computational tools required for implementation of MPC on challenging applications. The ultimate objective is to raise the technology standard of American manufacturing and operations in a variety of industries.