Process Control and Optimisation
Programme Leader: Rick Middleton
Deputy Leader: Julio Braslavsky
Programme Goals
The Partnerships between researchers and industry enable reciprocal transfer of knowledge and new ideas of great potential impact on the community and economy. This research programme encompasses four research projects motivated by and in collaboration with industrial partners. The main underlying theme of these projects is the application of advanced control and optimisation techniques to maximise asset utilisation and production in selected industrial processes of significant complexity. The complexity of the dynamics of such processes arise from factors including model errors, unknown disturbances, nonlinearities, distributed parameter systems, elements of Human Machine Interaction and hybrid (Discrete and Continuous State) components. Expected outcomes of the programme include high quality research solutions and human resources tailored to the needs of the Australian industry.
Projects
E.1 Integrated Mine Planning (BHP Billiton)
E.2 Optimisation Based Operator Guidance Schemes (BHP_Billiton Innovation)
E.3 Next Generation Model Based Control Tools (Matrikon)
E.4 Nutating Mill Control (Hicom International Pty. Ltd.)