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energy consumption for data transmission and overall a longer lifetime for the set of mobile
clients.
In both cases we consider energy efficient data transmission on the application layer
incorporating also lower layer techniques for even more efficient cross-layer solutions.
Figure 2.: Tackling the increasing energy gap in UMIC
SFB
686
Model­Based
Control
of
Homogenized
Low­Temperature
Combustion
Anca Maria Ivanescu, Christian Beecks, Philipp Kranen
The aim of the SFB 686 is a model-based control of homogenized low-temperature
combustion for efficient and low-emission energy provision. This requires the cooperation of
several fields, in order to build up a thorough understanding of the complex physical
processes, as well as the investigation and breakdown of the whole chain of effects, which
leads from flow and mixture to ignition and then combustion, to finally end up with the
combustion instabilities. To make the gained understanding usable, a description of the
physical effects on the basis of mathematical models follows.
Besides intensive research in core areas of automatic control, the application and development
of computer-science methods have contributed to the advancement of MPC over the past
years. Further synergies between automatic control and data exploration are to be used and
extended on the basis of the experiences made so far.
Project A provides the basics and methods of automatic control for the entire CRC. This
includes the control and stabilization of highly dynamic processes in combustion chambers
and the model-based MIMO control of combustion engines. In the course of research on the
processes in combustion chambers during the first funding period, a stabilization of
combustion could be reached in simulation for both the well-stirred reactor and the surface
burner. The controls' evaluation on the test benches is currently being done. The feasibility of
model predictive control of low-temperature combustion in engines was shown in a
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