DECADE
Development of Efficient and Robust Controllers for Advanced Energy Systems
| Coordinatore | PANEPISTIMIO DYTIKIS MAKEDONIAS (UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN MACEDONIA)
Organization address
address: PARKO AGIOU DIMITRIOU 1 contact info |
| Nazionalità Coordinatore | Greece [EL] |
| Totale costo | 759˙025 € |
| EC contributo | 759˙025 € |
| Programma | FP7-PEOPLE
Specific programme "People" implementing the Seventh Framework Programme of the European Community for research, technological development and demonstration activities (2007 to 2013) |
| Code Call | FP7-PEOPLE-IAPP-2008 |
| Funding Scheme | MC-IAPP |
| Anno di inizio | 2009 |
| Periodo (anno-mese-giorno) | 2009-04-01 - 2013-03-31 |
Partecipanti
| # | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |
PANEPISTIMIO DYTIKIS MAKEDONIAS (UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN MACEDONIA)
Organization address
address: PARKO AGIOU DIMITRIOU 1 contact info |
EL (KOZANI) | coordinator | 215˙349.00 |
| 2 |
Parametric Optimization Solutions Limited
Organization address
address: "GREAT CAMBRIDGE ROAD, 758" contact info |
UK (London) | participant | 265˙704.00 |
| 3 |
ESTIA CONSULTING & ENGINEERING S.A.
Organization address
address: 1st Km THERMI-MAKEDONIA AIRPORT 1 contact info |
EL ("THESSALONIKI, MACEDONIA") | participant | 139˙770.00 |
| 4 |
Pannon Egyetem
Organization address
address: EGYETEM U 10 contact info |
HU (VESZPREM) | participant | 138˙202.00 |
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Obiettivo del progetto (Objective)
'The main objective of the DECADE proposal is to promote a significant increase in the range of energy control problems to which advanced optimisation-based control can be reliably applied. This will be achieved through the development of an electronic look-up function tailor-made for the specific energy systems. It can retrofit onto existing control hardware, or on new hardware. The above objectives will be achieved by promoting and implementing a well structured ToK programme between (i) academic partners (University of Western Macedonia (UOWM, Greece), and University of Pannonia (UNIPAN, Hungary)), with distinguished research activities in the areas of process and energy modelling, simulation and optimisation techniques including pilot plant demonstrations, (ii) one high-tech SME (Parametric Optimization Solutions, ParOS, UK) providing advanced control solutions to the energy, process and automation industries and (iii) one engineering SME (ESTIA, Greece) providing energy saving solutions (Combined Heat and Power, Fuel Cells, etc) and related instrumentation facilities in the process, energy and power industries.'
Introduzione (Teaser)
EU-funded scientists developed advanced control algorithms and tools suitable for a broad range of energy systems that face significant operational difficulties and limitations.
Descrizione progetto (Article)
Electronic control is a pervasive technology that affects quality of modern life. Model predictive control (MPC) repeatedly and efficiently solves an optimisation problem online to determine the optimal control action. Unfortunately, this method is expensive and time consuming to install.
The 'Development of efficient and robust controllers for advanced energy systems' (DECADE) project developed an advanced control technology to monitor a system or process without requiring expensive tools. The technology involves an electronic look-up function tailor-made for specific energy systems. It can be retrofitted on to existing or new control hardware. Fast and accurate control can be achieved without the need of a computer.
The output is identical to what would be achieved using MPC approaches, but without the computational overhead. The original MPC problem is recast as a multi-parametric optimisation problem, in which sensor measurements act as parameters. Solving this offline using the developed tools yields the full explicit control law in the space of these parameters.
A transfer-of-knowledge programme between academic partners and small- and medium-sized enterprises enabled the achievement of project objectives.
By taking the computational burden offline, DECADE addresses applications that were previously off limits for model-based control, opening up exciting new markets.