Associate Professor Libor Pekař 

Faculty of Applied Informatics, Tomas Bata University in Zlín, Czech Republic

&Department of Technical Studies, College of Polytechnics Jihlava, Czech Republic

pekar@utb.cz

Libor Pekař received the B.S. degree in automation and informatics, the M.S. degree in automation and control engineering in consumption industries, and the Ph.D. degree in technical cybernetics from Tomas Bata University in Zlín, Czech Republic, in 2002, 2005, and 2013, respectively. From 2006 to 2013, he worked at the university as a Junior Lecturer, where he became a Senior Lecturer, in 2013, and was appointed as an Associate Professor, in 2018. He is currently an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Applied Informatics, Tomas Bata University in Zlín. He is the author of one book and eight book chapters, more than 45 journal articles, and 70 conference papers. His research interests include analysis, modeling, identification, and control of time-delay systems, algebraic control methods, autotuning, and optimization techniques. Dr. Pekař received the Laureate of the ASR Seminary Instrumentation and Control in 2007 and 2009, and the Rectors’ Award for the Best Ph.D. Thesis in the Faculty of Applied Informatics, Tomas Bata University, in 2013. He served as the Lead Guest Editor for special issues in Advances in Mechanical Engineering journal and Mathematics journal, and as the Guest Editor for a special collection in Frontiers in Energy Research journal. He has been an Editor of Mathematical Problems in Engineering, since 2018, and AppliedMath journal, since 2022. He has served as a Reviewer for contributions to many highly regarded SCIE journals

Title: On the identification and robust control of a delayed heat-exchanger process.

Abstract: This contribution presents possible techniques to identify and control a simple heat-exchanger process with delays. An air-liquid heat exchanger is included in the system. Two approaches to determining a model are given to the reader. Namely, an analytic-numerical anisochronic modeling principle and a relay-feedback identification test. Although the delay-free dynamics of the process is very simple, the inclusion of internal delays makes the full dynamics much more complex and tricky, since an infinite-dimensional model is eventually obtained. Such systems are challenging to be controlled. Hence, an algebraic robust controller design is proposed herein, and its performance is verified by simulations and laboratory measurements.