The IASTED International Conference on
Modelling, Identification, and Control
MIC 2006
February 6 – 8, 2006
Lanzarote, Spain
TUTORIAL SESSION
Challenges in QFT Deisgn for MIMO Systems
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Dr. Igor Egaña is Principal Investigator of the Control Engineering Department at Ideko, a Research & Development centre specializing in Machine Tools. His research interests include robust control and applications, machining processes, and wind energy. He worked for the Public University of Navarra, where he got his PhD degree on the topic of MIMO QFT-design, taking part in several research projects that received public and private funding. He also worked for M. Torres, designing control systems of wind turbines by QFT techniques, among other responsibilities. He is the author of several papers on Control Engineering, and has participated in the last four Symposia on QFT over a total of seven editions. He is an IEEE Member and was member of the Editorial Committee and the Organization Committee of the 5th Symposium on QFT.
Dr. Mario García-Sanz is Professor T.U. of Control Engineering at the Public University of Navarra, Spain, where he leads the Control Engineering Group and the Renewable Energy Group. His research activity is in the field of systems, robust control theory in the frequency domain and industrial applications. He was awarded the 1995 Heaviside Prize for his work on robust adaptive control and the 2001 BBVA Researcher Prize for his research and applications. During 1995, 1996 and 2004, he was a Visiting Research Scientist at UMIST (Manchester, UK), Oxford University (Oxford, UK), and JPL-NASA (California, USA) respectively. He is author of more than 100 research international papers and holds 10 industrial patents.
Dr. García-Sanz has been responsible for many research projects with industry, including wind turbine design (M. Torres), wastewater treatment plant control design (CEIT, AMVISA), control of formation flying spacefraft (NASA-JPL), robotics and parallel kinematic machines (CICYT), control of heating systems (Giroa, Siflexa), paper machinery (M. Torres), aerospace machinery (Northrop-Grumman), control of satellites with large flexible appendages (European Space Agency ESA/ESTEC), control of power electronic systems (Iberdrola, REE), etc.
He is also author of 3 books, one about Quantitative Feedback Theory with C.H. Houpis and S. Rasmussen (US Air Force, AFIT), published by Marcel Dekker Inc. (2005). He is Editor of the International Journal of Robust and Nonlinear Control (Wiley), Senior Member of IEEE, NATO/RTO Lecturer (2003, 2005), and member of IFAC. He has served as Associate Editor of the ECC, CDC and RIAI, and as Chair of the International Committee of the 5th International Symposium on QFT in 2001.
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