Abstract

This talk will outline a novel approach to Control Education based on emulated industrial experiments. Several examples will be used as illustrations, including Cross Directional Control in Paper Machines, Continuous Casting Machines, Audio Compression, and Wind power Generation. The talk will be based on a forthcoming book, “Practical Control System Design: Real World Designs Implemented on Emulated Industrial Systems” by Medioli and Goodwin, John Wiley, and sons, to appear.


Speaker Bio

Graham Goodwin is an Emeritus Laureate Professor of Electrical Engineering at the University of Newcastle in Australia. His education includes B.Sc., B.E., and Ph.D. from the University of New South Wales. In 2010 he was awarded the IEEE Control Systems Field Award, in 2011 the ACA Wook Hyuan Kwon Education Award, and in 2013 he received the Rufus T. Oldenburger Medal from the American Society of Mechanical Engineers. He was twice awarded the International Federation of Automatic Control triennial Best Engineering Textbook Prize. In 2021 he was awarded the American Control Council John Ragazzini Education Award. He is a Fellow of IEEE; an Honorary Fellow of the Institute of Engineers, Australia; a Fellow of the International Federation of Automatic Control, a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science; a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Technology, Science and Engineering; a Member of the International Statistical Institute; a Fellow of the Royal Society, London and a Foreign Member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. In 2021 he was recognized by the Australian Government by becoming an Officer in the General Division of the Order of Australia. He holds Honorary Doctorates from Lund Institute of Technology, Sweden and the Technion Israel. He is the co-author of eleven books, four edited books, and five hundred papers. He holds 16 International Patents covering rolling mill technology, telecommunications, mine planning, and mineral exploration. His current research interests include power electronics, boiler control systems, and management of type 1 diabetes.