Göran Gustafsson award to Cristian Rojas
The Göran Gustafsson Foundation has named Cristian Rojas as one of this year's recipients of the Göran Gustafsson awards. The prize is given to young researchers and is worth half a million SEK.
The Göran Gustafsson awards are some of the most coveted honors for young researchers in Sweden. Cristian Rojas, Associate Professor at the department of Automatic Control, is one of this year's winners.
"My research is focused on re-designing the current frameworks for data-based modeling", Rojas says. "Data-based modelling is an essential, but expensive component in the process of designing, commissioning and re-tuning of controllers in industrial practice."
With the award, Rojas will be carrying out research that targets some well known problems with modelling for control.
"Model Predictive Control (MPC) is one of the world's most popular industrial control strategies, in particular within the petrochemical, automotive, aerospace, food processing and mechatronics sectors. The modelling step in the design of MPC controllers is in general very expensive in terms of cost and time, and can reach up to 90% of the total budget for the control design. Improvements in this step can thus be expected to result in substantial reductions in costs", says Rojas.
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