Research Projects

The CSSIP Core Research Program comprises two groups and five inter-linked research projects:

Tracking & Data Fusion

1. Fundamental Tracking
2. Tracking and Data Fusion Laboratory (TDFL)
3. Situation Awareness
4. Multisensor Integration

Hybrid Systems

Research Projects

• System Identification
  In order to design a control system for an irrigation channel, a mathematical model of the channel is required, and system identification deals with the problem of building mathematical models of dynamical systems based on observed data.
   
• Decentralised PI control
  The two objectives of always being able to supply water on demand and minimising the losses are conflicting and subject to constraints of environmental, economical and political nature. Often irrigation channels are operated on the conservative side with relatively large flows and high water levels. Under such operating conditions, demand can be met most of the time but the wastage of water tends to be large.

Available Postgraduate Projects

Control projects

• Large scale issues
• Hierarchical controllers
• Control under communication constraints

Fault detection and performance monitoring

• Fault detection and isolation
• Performance monitoring

System identification

• System identification of irrigation channels with siphons
• Approximation of the St. Venant equations