Speaker: Academician Marios Polycarpou
Title: Smart Interactive Buildings
Time: 14:30-15:30, May 18th, 2023 (Thursday)
Website: Teams Link
Abstract:
Modern buildings are complex systems of structures and technology aimed at providing a safe and comfortable environment for the occupants. Recent advances in information and communication technologies have generated significant interest in developing smart buildings, which provide much greater capabilities in terms of energy efficiency, safety, security, interactivity, as well as in terms of mitigating environmental impact. New components for smart buildings, such as sensors, actuators, controllers, embedded systems and wireless communications, are becoming readily available. Moreover, the Internet-of-Things (IoT) technology is already having a significant impact on developments related to smart interactive buildings. The objective of this presentation is to provide an overview of current advances in smart buildings and to present some results on monitoring, control and fault tolerance of Heating, Ventilation and Air-Conditioning (HVAC) systems, which are crucial components of smart buildings. Various estimation, learning and feedback control algorithms will be presented and illustrated, and directions for future research will be discussed.
Personal Introduction:
Marios Polycarpou is a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and the Director of the KIOS Research and Innovation Center of Excellence at the University of Cyprus. He is a Founding Member of the Cyprus Academy of Sciences, Letters, and Arts; a Member of Academia Europaea; and an Honorary Professor of Imperial College London. He is also a Fellow of IEEE and IFAC. He received the B.A degree in Computer Science and the B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering, both from Rice University, USA in 1987, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from the University of Southern California, in 1989 and 1992 respectively. His teaching and research interests are in intelligent systems and networks, adaptive and learning control systems, fault diagnosis, machine learning, and critical infrastructure systems. Dr. Polycarpou has published more than 400 articles in refereed journals, edited books and refereed conference proceedings, and co-authored 7 books. He is also the holder of 6 patents. Prof. Polycarpou received the 2016 IEEE Neural Networks Pioneer Award. He served as the President of the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society (2012-2013), as the President of the European Control Association (2017-2019), and as the Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems (2004-2010). Prof. Polycarpou currently serves on the Editorial Boards of the Proceedings of the IEEE, the Annual Reviews in Control, and the Foundations and Trends in Systems and Control. His research work has been funded by several agencies and industry in Europe and the United States, including the prestigious European Research Council (ERC) Advanced Grant, the ERC Synergy Grant and the EU Teaming program. Prof. Polycarpou is the recipient of the 2023 IEEE Frank Rosenblatt Technical Field Award.
[Editor:Xiaohan Liu]