Section: Contracts and Grants with Industry

ANR project EBONSI: Extended Block-Oriented Nonlinear System Identification

Participants : Pierre-Alexandre Bliman, Michel Sorine, Qinghua Zhang.

The main idea of block-oriented nonlinear system identification is to model a complex system with interconnected simple blocks. Such models can cover a large number of industrial applications, and are yet simple enough for theoretic studies. The objectives of the EBONSI project are to extend block-oriented nonlinear models with hysteresis blocks and bilinear blocks, and to relax some traditional restrictions on nonlinearity structures and on experimental conditions. The two extensions with hysteresis blocks and bilinear blocks have been motivated by their importance in process control. Through these extensions, it is expected to considerably increase the applicability of block-oriented nonlinear system identification to industrial systems. This is an international project jointly funded by the French Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR) and the Chinese National Natural Science Foundation (NSFC). Its duration is 3 years starting from March 2011. The project partners are the SISYPHE project-team of INRIA (project leader), the Centre de Recherche en Automatique de Nancy (CRAN), and the Laboratory of Industrial Process Monitoring and Optimization of Peking University.