Modeling, Simulation, Control and Optimization in Engineering with Applications

Dear Colleagues,

The level of maturity achieved within the fields of information technologies, advanced programming and computer science has allowed a much-simplified application of modeling, simulation and, especially, optimization techniques. This fact has made modeling, simulation and optimization (MSO) a mandatory stage before any experimental application to solve engineering problems. Furthermore, MSO reveals a special impact on the design of control systems, where the final deploying step becomes even more confident and guarantees a high degree of complement with the expected control system performance. Optimization allows complete approaches to design, including realistic constraints, the use of detailed nonlinear models of the system under control, or considering multiobjective problems, among others. Optimization and modeling constitute also the core components of artificial intelligence and the popular machine learning algorithms. In this framework, this Special Issue on modeling, simulation, control and optimization (MSCO) aims to gather a collection of case studies, examples of application, and new optimization and simulation-based techniques specially oriented to facilitate the controller design task and its success behavior. 

Topics include but are not limited to the following:

• Mathematical modeling of physical systems.
• Simulation and optimization software.
• Computational processes in modeling, simulation and optimization.
• Optimisation approaches for control systems design.
• Optimisation and modeling in artificial intelligence.
• Modeling, simulation and optimization of coupled problems.
• Modeling and simulation-based decision support systems.
• Defining synthetic environments for engineering problems.
• Model predictive control.
• Robust and adaptive control.
• Modeling, simulation, control and optimization of industrial processes, electrical and energy systems, or transport systems.
• Modelling, control, navigation and guidance of unmanned vehicles.

Prof. Dr. Montserrat Gil-Martinez
Prof. Dr. Ramón Vilanova Arbós
Prof. Dr. Marian Barbu
Guest Editors

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