SICL
- System and Identification and Control Laboratory
Latest news
The System Identification
and Control Laboratory (SICL) has recently been moved to room 303, in Engineering
Building II. As part of the move we are updating our list of equipment
and pictures, so this this web page is currently under
construction. and we can only provided limited information at this
time. We will update this website in a couple of days, so please come back
to check again. The System Identification and Control Laboratory (SICL)
is under the direction of Prof. Raymond de Callafon
in the department of Mechanical and
Aerospace Engineering at University
of California, San Diego. The SICL develops and studies identification
techniques for control and system design.
Purpose of SICL
System Identification
is the field of mathematical modeling of dynamic systems from experimental
data. The goal of the SICL is to study and develop techniques for system
identification and experiment based modeling for applications in control
and systems engineering where models are required to perform model based
prediction, uncertainty characterization and control system design. In
particular, we are interested in theory and applications where system identification
techniques are introduced and used to develop (low complexity) models for
linear and non-linear prediction and simulation, fault detection, uncertainty
characterization, active noise control and feedback control design.
Applications and Equipment
Several applications
that require experiment based modeling are present in the SICL. The applications
in the SICL range from high precision servo control in small scale mechanical
systems found in hard disk drives to large scale air ventilation systems
that require active noise control. The common aspect between the applications
is the incomplete knowledge on the dynamical behavior of the process for
which system identification will deliver models.
Location
The laboratory is located
on the third floor in room 303 in Engineering Building Unit II. The
SICL is equipped with state of the art facilities for high performance
data acquisition, feedback control implementation and experimental facilities
for servo design in hard disk drives and active noise and vibration control.
Nearby, we have the servo control laboratory at the Center for Magnetic
Recording Research (CMRR) and the core electronical and fabrication supporting
facilities in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering.
Last update of
this page: March 21, 2004.
Please come back
soon to see the updated webpage of the System Identification and Control
Laboratory!