Project Details
Projekt
Coordination Funds
Applicant
Professor Dr.-Ing. Hermann Nirschl
Subject Area
Mechanical Process Engineering
Automation, Mechatronics, Control Systems, Intelligent Technical Systems, Robotics
Automation, Mechatronics, Control Systems, Intelligent Technical Systems, Robotics
Term
since 2022
Project identifier
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 504449793
The aim of Priority Program is the research and testing of methods for autonomous process control in particle technology. The distributed properties of particles often prevent extensive automation and autonomous process control during their processing, which appears necessary for independent adjustment of product properties without external intervention. In the first period, the SPP was divided into three subject areas: the development of controllable models (modeling), measurement systems for the in-situ recording of product properties (measurement technology) and the development of concepts for the model-based control of particle technology processes (process control). The aim was to close the control loop by linking the three topics as a fundamental structural element. In the first phase it was the intention to provide the proposed processes and equip them with appropriate actuators and sensors so that the control technology could intervene directly. In the second phase of the SPP, the focus is on process chains consisting of two or more basic operations. The integration of equipment and information technology into a process chain enables the interactions between the basic operations and their mutual influence to be investigated. An optimum operating point for an individual process step does not guarantee an optimal operation of the entire chain. At this point, extensive research work is conceivable, such as the investigation of the non-linear behavior of a process step in interaction with the other basic operations or with the material return, the behavior of disturbances within a basic operation and their effect on the entire chain or the investigation of the interactions between the digital representation and the real process within a given operating window. After completion of the program, a new type of "scientific toolbox" (methods, algorithms, models, data structures and information architectures) should be available that enables reliable process control, whereby the tool should also be transferable to new particle processes. The SPP brings together the necessary expertise from various research fields in particle technology, control engineering and computer science.
DFG Programme
Priority Programmes
