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    • Contribution to reliable control of dynamic systems 

      Salazar Cortés, Jean Carlo (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2018-05-30)
      Doctoral thesis
      Open Access
      This thesis presents sorne contributions to the field of Health-Aware Control (HAC) of dynamic systems. In the first part of this thesis, a review of the concepts and methodologies related to reliability versus degradation ...
    • Control of a quadruple tank process using a mixed economic and standard MPC 

      Soldevila, Adrià; Cayero Becerra, Julián Francisco; Salazar Cortés, Jean Carlo; Rotondo, Damiano; Puig Cayuela, Vicenç (2014)
      Conference report
      Restricted access - publisher's policy
      This work presents a controller for a non-linear four-tank process as a solution of the CIC 2014 contest organized by the Comité Español de Automàtica. Along the paper we derive a Model Predictive control law that ...
    • Diseño e implementación de un sensor de fuerza de 6 grados de libertad 

      Salazar Cortés, Jean Carlo (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2011-09)
      Master thesis
      Open Access
      El objetivo del presente proyecto final de máster es el diseño e implementación de un sensor de fuerza y par, capaz de medir los tres componentes de fuerza y los tres componentes de par, con alta velocidad de procesamiento ...
    • Health-aware control of an octorotor UAV system based on actuator reliability 

      Salazar Cortés, Jean Carlo; Sanjuan Gómez, Adrián; Nejjari Akhi-Elarab, Fatiha; Sarrate Estruch, Ramon (2017)
      Conference report
      Open Access
      A major goal in modern flight control systems is the need of improving the reliability. This work presents a reliable control approach of an octorotor UAV that allows distributing the control effort among the actuators ...
    • MPC design based on a DBN reliability model: Application to drinking water networks 

      Salazar Cortés, Jean Carlo; Weber, Philipe; Sarrate Estruch, Ramon; Theilliol, Didier; Nejjari Akhi-Elarab, Fatiha (International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC), 2015)
      Conference report
      Restricted access - publisher's policy
      This paper presents a Model Predictive Control (MPC) strategy taking into account system and component reliability for drinking water networks. The objective is to deal from an availability point of view with a closed-loop ...
    • MPC framework for system reliability optimization 

      Salazar Cortés, Jean Carlo; Weber, Philipe; Nejjari Akhi-Elarab, Fatiha; Theilliol, Didier; Sarrate Estruch, Ramon (Springer, 2016-01-01)
      Part of book or chapter of book
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      This book is devoted to the demands of research and industrial centers for diagnostics, monitoring and decision making systems that result from the increasing complexity of automation and systems, the need to ensure the ...
    • Reliability computation within an MPC health-aware framework 

      Salazar Cortés, Jean Carlo; Sarrate Estruch, Ramon; Nejjari Akhi-Elarab, Fatiha; Weber, Philipe; Theilliol, Didier (2017-07-01)
      Article
      Open Access
      This paper presents a comparison between two different approaches for reliability consideration within a Health-Aware Control framework which takes into account system and component reliability by means of reliability ...
    • Reliability importance measures for a health-aware control of drinking water networks 

      Salazar Cortés, Jean Carlo; Nejjari Akhi-Elarab, Fatiha; Sarrate Estruch, Ramon; Weber, Philipe; Theilliol, Didier (IEEE Press, 2016)
      Conference report
      Open Access
      This work focuses on a health-aware Model Predictive Control (MPC) scheme, which aims at enhancing the availability of the system. The objective is to extend the uptime of the system by delaying, as much as possible the ...
    • Reliable control of a twin rotor MIMO system using actuator health monitoring 

      Salazar Cortés, Jean Carlo; Nejjari Akhi-Elarab, Fatiha; Sarrate Estruch, Ramon (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2014)
      Conference report
      Restricted access - publisher's policy
      This paper presents a Model Predictive Control (MPC) approach that permits distributing the control effort among actuators using health actuator information and exploiting some relations between control effort and actuator ...
    • System reliability aware model predictive control framework 

      Salazar Cortés, Jean Carlo; Weber, Philipe; Nejjari Akhi-Elarab, Fatiha; Sarrate Estruch, Ramon; Theilliol, Didier (2017-11-01)
      Article
      Open Access
      This paper presents a Model Predictive Control (MPC) framework taking into account the usage of the actuators to preserve system reliability while maximizing control performance. Two approaches are proposed to preserve ...