Disturbance Rejection Approach to Actuator and Sensor Placement

A Disturbance Rejection Approach to Actuator and Sensor Placement

For various reasons as discussed for instance in [1], the selection of actuator and sensor positions is still ad hoc. This is especially true for exible structures where many candidate con gurations can exist. This study is an attempt to make the selection process more methodical. One approach to actuator and sensor placement is to optimize a closed loop performance metric directly by selecting...

A Disturbance Rejection Approach to Actuator andSensor

Optimization Strategies for Sensor and Actuator Placement

An Optimal Control Approach to Sensor / Actuator Placement for Optimal Control of High Performance Buildings

In this paper we consider the problem of best sensor location for optimal state estimation for real time energy efficient optimal control. Although the basic idea can be applied to the joint sensor / actuator location problem, we focus on the sensor placement because of its immediate application to retrofits where sensors can easily relocated while the location of control inputs (diffusers, ven...

Optimal Actuator and Sensor Placement for Active Sensing

In active sensing, actuators are used to impart user-defined energy into a structure from which resulting sensor responses may be mined for useful information regarding the structure’s health. Optimal actuator-sensor placement works to maximize the observability of this information given two primary constraints: the number of actuators and sensors available for the network and the power availab...