MSc Program Systems and Control

Introduction

As of September 2003 Delft University of Technology has installed a new two-year MSc programma in Systems and Control. The start of this MSc programma is strongly related to the establishment in 2003 of the Delft Center for Systems and Control (DCSC), a merging of three former systems and control groups of the departments of Electrical Engineering (EWI), Mechanical Engineering (3mE) and Applied Physics (TNW). This center is housed at the Faculty of Mechanical, Maritime and Materials Engineering (3mE). The program is part of the 3TU MSc program in Systems and Control within the joint 3TU Graduate School

• The study guide is available in pdf-format.
• TU Delft Study Guides (on-line)
• The course schedule is on-line available .

MSc program, first year:

In order to enter the MSc-programme the student should set up an individual study program using the following ingredients: compulsory courses, the current ideas about the theme of the thesis work, the specialization courses that bridge the gap between the compulsory courses and the thesis project, and the use of the free elective space. This list of should be approved by the MSc coordinator at the earliest convenience, but certainly before the end of the first semester. .

Profiles

To facilitate the choice of elective courses the following tables provide guidelines to choose elective Systems and Control Courses as well as other technical courses.

A. Systems and Control Electives

The following table indicates how some of the S&C electives courses are related to the following main subjects

1. Systems and Control Theory
2. Mechatronics Systems
3. Process Control and Optimisation
4. Information Technology and Control

Courses in profile a place a particular emphasis on the fundamentals in systems and control, with an explicit orientation towards research. Courses in b and c are suited to the development of expertise concerning control systems in conceptually different application domains, and courses in profile d focus on the relationship between control and information technology. This profile distribution is only meant to provide an idea of how an individual course programme may be compiled and in now way imposes any formal restrictions.

B.  Specialisation profiles

The following tables give an overview of courses that relate to specific research/application domains

• Mechanical Systems covers subject as engineering dynamics, multibody dynamics, mechatronics, measurements and design.
• Processes focuses on complex chemical or industrial processes (such as energy systems or power plants).
• Automotive aims at tackling environmental, economical and safety issues, developing technologies based on the interplay between vehicle dynamics, sensing and control. Global chassis control, fault tolerant drive-by-wire systems and smart energy management systems are the main areas of research.
• Robotics covers nonlinear model-based control, adaptive control, machine learning, and other techniques for manipulators, mobile legged and wheeled robots and distributed robotic systems.
• Wind Energy is devoted to the design of feedback controllers for wind turbines and wind farms. Moreover, control-oriented modelling of these large-scale mechanical systems is considered.
• Transportation Networks deals with intelligent transportation systems, railway operations, traffic flow modeling, and urban and freeway traffic management.
• Smart Physical Systems. Control engineering is playing an increasingly important role in the development of new and/or improved instruments and materials to study/influence physical phenomena. E.g. to improve the resolution of images taken with high performance microscopes, the image formation should be treated as a feedback control problem in stead of a filtering problem alone, as is classically done. Studying and mastering the new developments in this exciting field of research is the goal in this specialisation
• Systems Biology explores the development of models to be interfaced with laboratory data drawn from biological experiments, the analysis of such models to be used as 'synthetic experiments', and the control of these systems to achieve optimization and enhancement of biological functions and entities.

MSc program, second year:

The MSc students of DCSC are cordially invited to participate in the MSc colloquia.

Some more information can be found on this page and on the official education site of the faculty 3mE. You may also contact the MSc coordinator Ton van den Boom.

The time-schedule for the academic calendar can be found here.

MSc students of DCSC can join Out of Control, a group for students and by students.

Thesis project within other MSc programs

For students in other MSc programs there is a possibility to do the final MSc project in the field of systems and control engineering.

• Information for Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering or Media & Knowledge Engineering.
• Information for Applied Physics.
• Information for Mechanical Engineering.