2018年10月30日上午，故障診斷與容錯控制領域國際權威學者Ron Patton教授應邀在将軍路校區ag真人百家家乐平台1号樓403會議室做題為“Fault-tolerant Individual Pitch Control using Adaptive Sliding Mode Observer”的學術報告，會議由ag真人百家家乐平台院長姜斌教授主持，ag真人百家家乐平台部分師生參加了報告會。

Patton教授以風力發電機為背景，為我們講述其在發生執行器及傳感器故障，并受到未知幹擾情況下的控制問題。風力發電機的總體控制目标就是獲取最大的風能以轉化為電能，這個目标可以通過三個控制通道來實現，分别為：

1. 俯仰控制（通常是集體的但有時是單個的）以防渦輪在設計的速度範圍之外工作；

2. 偏航控制使塔台指向風向以獲得最高效率；

3. 發電機轉矩控制以提供更好的電力調節。

Patton教授強調，每一個控制通道對于最高效的能源轉換都是至關重要的。另外，Patton教授還指出了風力發電機控制與飛行控制的相似之處，這對我們航空航天為背景的科學研究非常具有借鑒意義。

最後，Patton教授與到場的師生進行了交流互動，耐心解答了師生們所提出的學術問題。講座結束後，Patton教授與到會師生代表合影留念。

報告人簡介：

Ron J. Patton graduated at Sheffield University with Beng, Meng, PhD degrees in Electrical & Electronic Engineering and Control Systems. He holds the Chair in Control & Intelligent Systems Engineering at Hull University and has made a substantial contribution during 35 years to the field of modeling and robust methods for FDI/FDD (fault detection and isolation/fault detection and diagnosis) and Fault-Tolerant Control (FTC) in dynamic systems. He has Hirsch Index h_58 and is author of 428 papers, including 138 journal papers and 5 books.  Ron serves on the Editorial Board of the International Journal of Applied Mathematics and Computer Science and is Subject Editor in System Supervision: Fault-tolerant Control & Diagnosis for the Wiley Journal of Adaptive Control & Signal Processing. He has served on editorial boards of several other Journals in control engineering.  Ron chaired the International Program Committees for IFAC Safeprocess’97, UKACC Control’98 and Med’08. He chaired the IFAC Technical Committee on Safety & Supervision of Technical Processes [1996-2002] and served as vice-chair of the IFAC Policy Committee [2008-2011]. For the EC he was rapporteur in 1995 for the committee reporting on the need for European research on Control in Embedded Systems. Ron coordinated the EU research projects IQ2FD [1997-2000] and DAMADICS -2000-2004] and contributed to FP6 NeCST [2004-2007] and FP7 ADDSAFE [2010-2013]. His work has been supported in the UK by 13 research grants. Current research interests are: Robust multiple-model and de-centralized strategies for FDI/FDD & FTC and Renewable Energy including load mitigation control for offshore wind turbines and wave to wire control of wave energy conversion. He is Life Fellow of IEEE, Senior Member of AIAA and Fellow of the Institute of Measurement and Control.