Automation department seminar
You are cordially invited to attend the seminar by Visiting Professor Iury Bessa and post-doc Paulo Sergio Pereira Pessim
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Le 03/10/2025
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10:00 - 12:00
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Seminar
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Mont Houy Campus
Claudin Lejeune Building 1
amphi E2
Title
Reconfiguration blocks and fault concealment: design, applications and challenges
Summary
Reconfiguration blocks are structures that have been successfully used for fault-tolerant control. In this respect, the technique known as fault concealment generally involves inserting reconfiguration blocks between the faulty system and the nominal controller in order to restore system properties without modifying the controller.
In addition to fault concealment, new applications for reconfiguration blocks have recently been proposed, notably for networked control and cybersecurity.
In this presentation, we will discuss the key concepts related to the use of reconfiguration blocks and fault concealment.
In addition, it presents an overview of existing reconfiguration block structures and the main methodologies for designing these blocks for fault concealment.
In addition, it reviews the main applications of reconfiguration blocks, including emerging applications outside the field of fault-tolerant control.
Finally, this presentation also discusses the main challenges and future research directions related to this topic.
Short bio
Iury Bessa received her bachelor's degree in 2014 and her master's degree in 2015, both in electrical engineering, from the Federal University of Amazonas, Brazil.
He earned his PhD in electrical engineering at the D!FCOM laboratory of the Federal University of Minas Gerais.
During his PhD, he was a visiting researcher in the Advanced Control Systems group at the Polytechnic University of Catalonia (UPC), Spain, from February to December 2020.
Since 2015, he has been an assistant professor in the Department of Electricity and heads the e-Controls research group at the Federal University of Amazonas, Brazil.
He was a visiting researcher at the Department of Computer Science at Oxford University, UK, in October 2016, and at the Institute of Information and Communication Technologies, Electronics and Applied Mathematics at the Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium, from April to August 2024.
His research areas include control theory, fault-tolerant control, fault detection, diagnosis and prognosis, formal verification and synthesis, learning-based control, cyber-physical systems and computational intelligence.