Financing: European Funding (EU Funding)

Project reference Nr.: 248940
Start: 2010-01-15
End: 2012-01-14

Description:

There is enormous economic potential for the application of embedded optimizationtechnologies in embedded systems design. Recent advances in the performance of embeddedhardware platforms, in combination with fundamental improvements in optimization theory andalgorithms, have opened the door to widespread applications over the next decade. Embeddedoptimization will enable huge energy and resource savings, increased safety, and improvedfault detection across a wide a range of industrial applications in the mechatronic,automotive, process control and aerospace sectors. In order to realize the full potentialof optimization in embedded systems, their design must also be supported by a focussed setof tools enabling the rapid transfer of novel high-performance algorithms to practicalapplications.The EMBOCON consortium will enable widespread application of real-time optimization inembedded systems through:: Tailoring of customized numerical algorithms to increase their robustness andefficiency on embedded systems: Enabling real-time optimization on cheap industry-standard hardware platforms: Defining a common user interface for optimization technologies to facilitatetechnology transfer to industry, and: Performing challenging case studies in cooperation with industrial partners todemonstrate technological maturity.The EMBOCON consortium will strengthen a network of world-leading academic and industrialpartners with complementary expertise in control, optimization and embedded systems in arange of industrial applications. Particular emphasis is placed on close collaborationbetween mathematical algorithm developers, control theorists, hardware specialists andindustrial application engineers. The network will consolidate and extend Europe's positionas the world research leader in these areas and foster strong collaborative links betweenEuropean academia and industry.

SMC people involved in the project:

• Moritz Diehl (Co-promoter)
• Jan Swevers (Co-promoter)
• Paul James Goulart (Promoter)