78860 - Topic Highlight M

Academic Year 2023/2024

  • Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
  • Campus: Bologna
  • Corso: Second cycle degree programme (LM) in Automation Engineering (cod. 8891)

Learning outcomes

In this course the most advanced methodology and technology aspects related to automation systems will be presented by internationally qualified experts in the field. The topic will change every year according to the international trend of the automation field.

Course contents

This course will give the background and main ideas and mathematical tools  to model multi-physical systems and do physically based control. The various topitcs will include

- Mathematical Background

- Linear Spaces

  - Vector, Co-vectors and Duality

  - Linear Maps and Adjoints

  - Tensor Calculus

  - Manifolds and Non-linear systems

  - Lie groups

  - Basic concepts of Exterior calculus

- Ideas and Methods of Port-Based physical modeling

  - Systems decomposition

  - Bond Graphs

  - Port Hamiltonian Systems

  - Extending ports to distributed parameters systems

- Concepts of Port-Based control

  - Control By Interconnection

  - Creation of Oscillation

  - Concepts for Design

Office hours

See the website of Stefano Stramigioli