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Chapter Officers
Chair: Zoran Gajic
gajic@ece.rutgers.edu
Vice Chair: Patricia D Palena
patricia.d.palena@lmco.com
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Next Meeting
November 17, 2008
Meet the Speaker: 5:00-5:15pm
Talk: 5:15-6:15pm
Place: Princeton University, Friend Center, Room 004
Topic:
Sliding Mode Control with Industrial Applications
Speaker
Professor Wu-Chung Su, National Chung Hsing University, Taiwan
Abstract: Variable structure control is well-known for its unique attribute, called sliding mode,which leads to a superb system performance that includes external disturbances rejection and
parameter variations insensibility. Since its first appearance in IEEE Transactions on Automatic
Control in 1977 as a review paper by V. I. Utkin, the variable structure systems (VSS) theory has
attracted lots of researchers’ attention with a tremendous amount of works devoted to this research area.
It is now believed to be one of the most flourishing research areas in the field of Controls for the past
decades. This talk will start in a tutorial format that covers the fundamental knowledge of VSS with
discontinuous controls, as a transition to the key techniques in formulating a control problem using the
sliding mode control (SMC) method. They include the crucial problems such as the matching condition,
sliding surface design, reaching condition, chattering phenomenon, and so on. The underline
methodologies extend to the advanced research topics on sampled-data control, singular perturbations
and distributed parameter systems. Industrial applications such as switched reluctance motor torque
control, pneumatic cylinder servo, plastic extrusion process temperature control, and wireless network
power control problems will be demonstrated.
Speaker’s Biography: Wu-Chung Su is a professor at Electrical Engineering Department of
National Chung Hsing University, Taiwan. He received a Ph. D. degree from the Ohio-State University
in 1994 and a Masters degree from Rutgers University in 1990, both in Electrical & Computer
Engineering. His research interests are in singular perturbations, weakly coupled systems, sliding mode
control, and power control for wireless communication networks. He has coauthored one book,
Optimal Control of Weakly Coupled Systems and Applications, Francis and Taylor 2008, and published
thirteen journal papers, seven of them in IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control and Automatica. He
was Chairman of EE Department (2004-2006), Chairman of Board of Professor’s Council (2003-2005),
Dean of Office of Research and Development (2001), and Director of Center of Innovation Incubator
(2001) at National Chung Hsing University. Professor Su is currently on sabbatical leave as a Visiting
Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Rutgers University.
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