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Grant: Canada Research Chairs

University of Alberta

$200,000.00

Intelligent Monitoring And Control

FY 2021-22

Summary
This Canada Research Chair in Intelligent Monitoring and Control focuses on critical modern industrial facilities integrating both cyber and physical processes, e.g., modern pipeline systems, smart grids, wireless automated processes, and distributed robotics. Such cyber-physical systems present tremendous challenges to control engineers because of the interactions among control, computation, and communication components, and the presence of both time- and event-driven data. This research program will develop effective alarm solutions for plant operators monitoring abnormal situations. It will investigate systematic methodologies for better control and estimation, incorporating event triggering mechanism, distributed computing, communication constraints, and cyber security in the study.
Program
Canada Research Chairs
Location
Alberta, Canada
Recipient Type
Academia
Type
Grant
Source
NSERC's Awards Data

As published

Application id
CRC-2017-00317
Name nom
Chen, Tongwen
Department département
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Organization id
9
Institution établissement
University of Alberta
Province en
Alberta
Province fr
Alberta
Country en
CANADA
Country fr
CANADA
Fiscal year exercice financier
2021
Competition year année de concours
2017
Award amount
200000
Program id
CRC
Program name en
Canada Research Chairs
Program name fr
Chaires de recherche du Canada
Group en
Discovery grants programs
Group fr
Programmes de subventions à la découverte
Committee code
9998
Committee name en
Canada Research Chair Selection Committee
Committee name fr
Comité de sélection des Chaires de recherche du Canada
Area of application code
9999
Area of application group en
Not available
Area of application group fr
Non disponible
Area of application en
Not available
Area of application fr
Non disponible
Research subject code
2500
Research subject group en
Electrical and electronic engineering
Research subject group fr
Génie électrique et électronique
Research subject en
Electrical and electronic engineering
Research subject fr
Génie électrique et électronique
Installment
inst:5-1
Partie
1
Nb partie
5
Application title
Intelligent Monitoring And Control
Keyword
NSERC
Application summary
This Canada Research Chair in Intelligent Monitoring and Control focuses on critical modern industrial facilities integrating both cyber and physical processes, e.g., modern pipeline systems, smart grids, wireless automated processes, and distributed robotics. Such cyber-physical systems present tremendous challenges to control engineers because of the interactions among control, computation, and communication components, and the presence of both time- and event-driven data. This research program will develop effective alarm solutions for plant operators monitoring abnormal situations. It will investigate systematic methodologies for better control and estimation, incorporating event triggering mechanism, distributed computing, communication constraints, and cyber security in the study.