Description du projet
Apprendre à contrôler grâce à des techniques très innovantes
De nombreux processus – réseaux intelligents, voitures autonomes ou encore industrie 4.0. – font appel aux systèmes automatisés. Ils prêtent assistance au contrôle dynamique de ces systèmes qui évoluent au fil du temps. Apporter de meilleures solutions économiques, robustes et efficaces pour ces questions en évolution permanente du monde réel constitue un défi constant. La complexité de ces systèmes les rend difficiles à contrôler, en particulier dans les domaines les plus critiques soumis à des contraintes essentielles en matière de sécurité. Un moyen prometteur de contrôler ces systèmes complexes consiste à discrétiser les différentes variables et à transformer le modèle en un simple problème de nature combinatoire sur un automate avec un nombre fini d’états. Cette approche n’est cependant pas encore acceptée par les scientifiques. Le projet L2C, financé par l’UE, est un projet multidisciplinaire à l’intersection entre l’ingénierie de la régulation, l’informatique et les mathématiques appliquées, qui vise à interconnecter des techniques hautement innovantes dans le but de transformer l’idée susmentionnée en une approche de contrôle à la pointe de la technologie destinée aux systèmes complexes de demain.
Objectif
The engineered systems surrounding us are increasingly hard to control. Not only the complicated interaction of the physical processes with the machines that control them, but also specifications (cyber-security, safety, privacy, resilience, resource-efficiency, decentralization) are more and more complex, and critical. Last but not least, in an increasing number of situations, no model of the system is available (or the model is too complex), and one needs to ‘learn’ the optimal way of controlling the system by the mere observation of data. Our technological world is living a paradigm shift, which is often coined as the Cyber-Physical Revolution, or the Industry 4.0.
In view of these specificities, the only sensible way of controlling these complex systems is often by discretizing the different variables, thus transforming the model into a simple combinatorial problem on a finite-state automaton, called an abstraction of this system. Until now, this approach has not been proved useful beyond academic, small examples, as it scales very poorly.
The goal of L2C is to transform this approach into an effective, scalable, cutting-edge technology that will address the CPS challenges and unlock their potential. This ambitious goal will be achieved by leveraging powerful tools from Mathematical Engineering. Out of this research, a state-of-the-art software platform will promote our results and translate them into directly usable solutions for the scientific and industrial communities.
L2C is a pluridisciplinary project at the frontier between Control Engineering, Computer Science and Applied Mathematics. It bridges the gap between rich innovative techniques and emerging challenges in Control. It impacts both fundamental Science and Engineering, as the theoretical research is driven and fostered by cutting edge technological challenges.
Champ scientifique
- natural sciencescomputer and information sciencessoftware
- social sciencespolitical sciencespolitical transitionsrevolutions
- natural sciencesmathematics
- natural sciencescomputer and information sciencescomputer security
- engineering and technologyelectrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineeringelectronic engineeringcontrol engineering
Programme(s)
Régime de financement
ERC-COG - Consolidator GrantInstitution d’accueil
1348 Louvain La Neuve
Belgique