Towards Automatic Model Based Controller Design for Reconfigurable Plants

TL;DR: The objective of the paper is to highlight some of the challenges that the control community is facing, if the advanced methods should be made applicable to a wider range of applications, in particular those that can be described as live systems for which sensors and actuators are added or removed, and likewise, for which subsystems are addition or remove from time to time.

TL;DR: Control engineering is in many ways a mature technology that has found its way into almost every industrial sector with an almost countless number of successful applications, Nevertheless, there still remains significant challenges to overcome that prevent the technology from further spread.

TL;DR: The paper demonstrates how new sensor information can be fused with existing sensor information and fed to the existing control system, either based on knowledge of the existing plant or in an entirely data-driven fashion.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a method for introducing new control components in a smooth manner, providing stability guarantees during the transition phase, and retaining the original control structure intact, illustrated on an example of an actual industrial control system: a livestock stable climate control system.

TL;DR: In this paper, the three principal control effects found in present controllers are examined and practical names and units of measurement are proposed for each effect and corresponding units for a classification of industrial processes in terms of two principal characteristics affecting their controllability.

TL;DR: In this paper, the three principal control effects found in present controllers are examined and practical names and units of measurement are proposed for each effect.

TL;DR: A survey of the literature on flexibility in manufacturing can be found in this article, where several kinds of flexibilities in manufacturing are defined carefully along with their purposes, the means to obtain them, and some suggested measurements and valuations.

TL;DR: A survey of the literature on flexibility in manufacturing can be found in this article, where several kinds of flexibilities in manufacturing are defined carefully along with their purposes, the means to obtain them, and some suggested measurements and valuations.