More about the programme
In particular, the COSY Programme had the goal to study tools which are capable of analysing control systems with the increased complexity and hybrid nature resulting from compatible, consistent use of combined heuristic, quantitative and qualitative information, together with expert knowledge, in a supervised control system architecture.
The scientific work of the Programme focused on the following four r
- Theme 1 : Control of non-linear and uncertain systems
- Theme 2 : Fault-tolerant control systems
- Theme 3 : Learning control systems
- Theme 4 : Integration of complex control systems
To increase co-operation and co-ordination between national research groups involved in the COSY Programme, each theme group has organised one or more workshops per year and supported a small number of visits between European laboratories. In addition, an annual joint workshop, bringing together the four themes, was organised.
Output from the COSY Programme
Many of the participants in the COSY Programme have contributed to a book entitled Control of Complex Systems, published by Springer Verlag (eds Karl Aström, Pedro Albertos, Mogens Blanke, Alberto Isidori, Walter Schaufelberger and Ricardo Sanz, 2000, ISBN 1-95233-324-3).
Also supported by the COSY Programme was the publication of Lecture Notes on Iterative Identification and Control Design, published by the Systems Engineering and Control Department of the Universidad Politécnica de Valencia (eds Pedro Albertos and Antonio Sala, 2000, ISBN 84-7721-895-1). This book was the result of a summer course on Iterative identification and control design held in Valencia in September 1999, sponsored by the COSY Programme and organised by the Department of Systems Engineering and Control of the UPV.
A book of course notes resulting from a school on Fault-tolerant control is also planned, as is a white paper on Automatic Control, edited by Karl Åström and Pedro Albertos.
Programme management
Steering Committee chaired by Professor Karl Aström (Lund Institute of Technology, Lund, Sweden).
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