Uncovering disturbance observer and ultra-local plant models in series PI controllers

M Huba, Z Gao - Symmetry, 2022 - mdpi.com
The paper settles two major liabilities and asymmetries of the theory of automatic control to
the design of simple system controllers. It shows the most frequently used series …

A survey of international views on a first course in systems and control for engineering undergraduates

A Rossiter, A Serbezov, A Visioli, K Žáková… - IFAC Journal of Systems …, 2020 - Elsevier
This paper summarises the results of an international survey of academics and industrialists
on what should be prioritised in the first, and often only, control course taken by engineering …

Dead-time compensation for the first-order dead-time processes: towards a broader overview

M Huba, P Bistak, D Vrancic, K Zakova - Mathematics, 2021 - mdpi.com
The article reviews the results of a number of recent papers dealing with the revision of the
simplest approaches to the control of first-order time-delayed systems. The concise …

Swarm-based design of proportional integral and derivative controllers using a compromise cost function: An arduino temperature laboratory case study

PB de Moura Oliveira, JD Hedengren, EJ Solteiro Pires - Algorithms, 2020 - mdpi.com
Simple and easy to use methods are of great practical demand in the design of Proportional,
Integral, and Derivative (PID) controllers. Controller design criteria are to achieve a good set …

Introduction to fractional-order control: A practical laboratory approach

D Thomson, F Padula - IFAC-PapersOnLine, 2022 - Elsevier
In this paper we propose the use of a temperature control problem as a method to introduce
fractional modeling and control to students. The control problem is based on a simple …

Open access resources to support the first course in feedback, dynamics and control

A Serbezov, K Zakova, A Visioli, JA Rossiter… - IFAC-PapersOnLine, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract The Technical Committees for Control Education of IFAC and IEEE have started a
collaborative initiative to collect, curate, and disseminate high quality freely available …

Open access resources to support learning of control engineering

JA Rossiter, A Visioli, A Serbezov… - 2022 European …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In recent years the IFAC technical committee has been looking closely at what constitutes an
ideal first course in control [16]. Having completed stage 1 of this study, the community is …

On the border between automatic control and artificial intelligence

M Huba, P Bisták - 2023 21st International Conference on …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The contribution deals with the discussion of points of contact and historical differences
between automatic control and artificial intelligence. It shows that many problems …

Another Step Towards the Renaissance of Automatic Reset Based Control

M Huba, P Bistak, D Vrancic - IFAC-PapersOnLine, 2024 - Elsevier
This work extends list of recently published constrained automatic reset based controllers by
optimizing one particular “problematic” solutions with the 4th-order output derivative …

Control and Automation Education and UN SDGs: Alignment of TC 9.4-Current Status and Future Directions

A Visioli, L Stapleton - IFAC-PapersOnLine, 2024 - Elsevier
This paper describes and reviews the activities of the IFAC Technical Committee on Control
Education and their relationship with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals …