Dr Yi Cao
Senior Lecturer
Location: Building 52
E: y.cao@cranfield.ac.uk
T: +44 (0) 1234 750 111 ext 5650
Department of Offshore and Process Engineering
Background
Yi Cao is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Process and Systems Engineering. He obtained his MEng in Control Engineering from Zhejiang University in P. R. China in 1985 and his PhD in Engineering from the University of Exeter in 1996. His research interests are in process modelling, optimisation and control, in particular, control structure selection and process controllability analysis, and nonlinear model predictive control. He has published one monograph in Optimal Control Theory and Applications and over 70 refereed journal and conference research papers. One of these papers has been awarded as the best industrial application paper at the conference Control’96 by the journal of Control Engineering Practice in 1996.
Supported research
- DTI Optimal slug Control project (£200k, 12/2006 – 12/2008)
- TMF4 sub-project 6, Multiphase Slug Flow Control (£90k, 12/2007 – 12/2010)
Teaching
- Advanced Control System for MSc Process Systems Engineering
- Control Engineering for Preliminary Year.
Selected publications
- Y. Cao , W. J. Yan, "Multi-objective optimisation of restricted complexity controllers", European Journal of Control, Vol. 9, No. 1, 2003, pp. 61—65.
- Y. Cao, Z. J. Yang, "Muiltobjective process controllability analysis", Computers and Chemical Engineering, Vol. 28, No.1—2, pp.83—90, 2004.
- Y. Cao , "Direct and Indirect Gradient Control for Static Optimisation", International Journal of Automation and Computing, Vol. 2, No. 1, pp. 60 -- 66, 2005.
- Y. Cao and P. Saha, "Improved branch and bound method for control structure screening", Chemical Engineering Science, Vol. 60., pp. 1555-1564, 2005.
- Y. Cao, "A Formulation of Nonlinear Model Predictive Control using Automatic Differentiation", Journal of Process Control, Vol. 15, No. 8, pp. 851-858, 2005
- Al Seyab, R.K., Cao, Y. and Yang, S.H, "Predictive control for the ALSTOM gasifier problem IEE Proceedings: Control Theory and Applications", 153 (3) pp. 293-301, 2006
- R.K. Al Seyab, and Y. Cao, "Nonlinear model predictive control for the ALSTOM gasifier", Journal of Process Control, Vol. 16, No. 8, pp. 795-808, 2006.
