Welcome to the web page of European Research Network System Identification (ERNSI)!
Modelling of dynamical systems is fundamental in almost all disciplines of science and engineering, ranging from life science to plant-wide process control. Engineering uses models for the design and analysis of complex technical systems. System identification concerns the construction, estimation and validation of mathematical models of dynamical physical or engineering phenomena from experimental data.
European Research Network System Identification (ERNSI) was launched in 1992 by the European Commission as a SCIENCE project. The network is currently coordinated by
Bo Wahlberg
Automatic Control, KTH
SE 100 44 Stockholm, SWEDEN
bo.wahlberg@ee.kth.se
http://www.ee.kth.se
The main event is the annual ERNSI workshop.
The 2010 ERNSI WS System Identification will be held at Pembroke College in Cambridge UK, from Monday 27 to Wednesday 29 September 2010.
The local organizer is Jan Maciejowski
Summary of 2009 ERNSI WS at Stift Vorau, Austria.
The eighteenth ERNSI Workshop in System Identification was held September 30 - October 2, 2009 at the Stift Vorau in Austria. The workshop had 41 participants.
The program consisted of 3 invited lectures:
8 oral presentations and 15 poster presentations. The organizers was Manfred Deistler and Wolfgang Scherrer. Further information can be found at www.eos.tuwien.ac.at/ERNSI09.
Summary of 2008 ERNSI WS in Sigtuna, Sweden.
The seventeenth ERNSI Workshop in System Identification was held October 1-3 2008 in Sigtuna at the Sigtuna Foundation. The workshop is sponsored by the VR Linnaeus Research Center ACCESS (Autonomic Complex Communication nEtworks Signals and Systems) at KTH, www.access.ee.kth.se, the Center for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, CIAM at KTH and Uppsala University. The 2008 workshop had 63 participants. The program is a single track, with longer presentations including three invited guest presentations
Timo Koski, KTH, Sweden - On learning of structures for Bayesian networks
Peter Grundwald, CWI, The Netherlands - The Catch-Up Phenomenon in Model Selection and Prediction
There was also a poster session. The program is available at http://www.ernsi.org/ERNSIWS08.htm
A special session on a roadmap for System Identification was held. The presentation is available at ERNSI White Paper Project.pdf
Summary of 2007 ERNSI WS in San Servolo, Italy.
The sixteenth ERNSI Workshop in System Identification was held in the island of San Servolo in the Venetian lagoon, October 1-3, 2007. European Research Network System Identification (ERNSI) was launched in 1992 by the European Commission as a SCIENCE project. The 2007 workshop had 65 participants. The program is a single track, with longer presentations including three invited guest presentations,
Torhu Katayama, University of Doshisha University, Japan - Closed loop subspace identification of industrial plants
There was also a poster session. The program is available at http://control.dei.unipd.it/ERNSI07
The conclusion of the workshop is that data-driven modeling of dynamical systems is a very exciting and vital field of research with strong connections to a lot of other areas, including signal processing and machine learning. The advances in control of complex systems, e.g. using model predictive control and networked control, and a multitude of important industrial applications are all based on the availability of reliable models. System identification is about combining physical and engineering modeling with experimental information, and is thus of fundamental importance in taking advantage of the progress in the whole field of information and control systems.
Contents of this page
| Acronym | Team leader |
| KTH | Anders Lindquist |
| INRIA | Laurent Baratchart |
| SZTAKI | György Michaletzky |
| TUD | Paul Van den Hof |
| TUW | Manfred Deistler |
| UCAM-DENG | Jan Maciejowski |
| UCL | Michel Gevers |
| ULIN | Lennart Ljung |
| UNIPD | Giorgio Picci |
| CTU | Michael Sebek |
Contact information are obtained by following the links.
The objectives of ERNSI are:
1. To carry out joint research on selected topics of system identification as specified below under research objectives
2. To advance modelling and identification procedures and theory to selected cases of the application areas.
3. To jointly train early-stage researchers and post-docs in modelling and identification. Special attention will be paid to new structures in higher education in Europe influenced by the Bologna process.
4. To increase trans-national cooperation between research teams. The cooperation between ERNSI research teams has turned out to be extremely valuable for research and for applications. We will now open up for new partners in order to overcome fragmentation.
5. To collaborate with industrial and commercial organisations, as well as governmental laboratories on system identification problems, to exchange experiences between the teams on these problems, and, when appropriate, for teams to jointly carry out applied research with such entities. Much of this will be done within existing national and EU projects.
6. To address important issues such as career development, experience of industrial projects, researcher mobility and gender balance.
The aims of the workshops are:
Last update 14 October, 2009.
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