CCCA'12

Keynote :
Fault tolerance evaluation for component based models

Speaker :
Jean-Michel Dion Directeur de Recherche CNRS GIPSA-Lab, Département d'Automatique INPG - CNRS – UJF http://www.gipsa-lab.grenoble-inp.fr/~jean-michel.dion/

Abstract :
Component based models are very useful for the design of reliable systems since they allow for an easy introduction of components faults. As basic components, sensors and actuators have motivated a huge amount of work. Evaluation issues are important during the system design, for example the usefulness of a component allows to decide its maintenance policy or duplication for redundancy. Few works have dealt with evaluation issues in the control community. In this presentation we develop a comprehensive lattice representation of component based systems models aimed at providing tools for fault tolerance evaluation. This general representation needs no specific asumption on the system. This simple framework allows to propose interesting usefulness measures of components. In this talk we describe the underlying ideas of this new representation and illustrate the results with very simple academic examples.

Biography :

Jean-Michel Dion is a senior researcher at the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) working at GIPSA-lab Grenoble. He was successively director of the Laboratoire d’Automatique de Grenoble, vice president of the National Polytechnic Institute of Grenoble and director of GIPSA-Lab. He held the position of director of the department Physics and Engineering Sciences at the French Ministery of research and education and then as Vice-General director in charge of French universitary research. He is now Senior Scientific Advisor at the Commissariat Général à l'Investissement a Prime Minister Service. He was a visiting professor at the National Polytechnic Institute of Mexico city and is Doctor Honoris Causa of the Polytechnic University of Bucharest.His main research interests are in the fields of linear system theory, time delay systems and application to electromechanical systems.He has published more than 100 technical papers published in refereed journals and 200 international conference papers. Jean-Michel Dion served as associate editor for Automatica, and was chairman of the IFAC technical committee Linear Systems. He was member of the IFAC Council. He received the IFAC outstanding service award and was awarded as a fellow of the IFAC.