CoDAlab

Control, Dynamics and Applications

General description of the activity

CoDAlab is a group of people in the Departament de Matemàtica Aplicada III, one of the departments of the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya.

The group is active in an interdisciplinary intersection of applied mathematics, systems and control theory and engineering. The group covers both theoretical and applied research and has grown through the collaboration with other national and foreign leading research groups.

The group is composed by people with backgrounds in mathematics, physics, control engineering and civil engineering.

Specific areas of research energy field

Automatic control of systems with nonlinear components such as hysteresis, couplings and frictions with modelling uncertainties, undesired excitations. Application to control of wind turbines.

Control of vibrations in flexible structures under dynamic excitations, with applications to the floating offshore wind turbine structures to enhance their stability and reliabilty under wind and sea wave disturbances.

Structural health monitoring and damage identification in smart structures, with application to the floating offshore wind turbine structures to design in line automatic inspection systems robust under uncertain environments and operating conditions.