Control Design & Implementation
SC Solutions provides control design
and implementation services for a wide range of applications, including:
- temperature control,
- pressure control,
- advanced material deposition thickness/composition control,
- motion control.
We have applied our model-based control design approach to several fields, including:
- semiconductor fabrication equipment,
- advanced materials processing equipment,
- medical equipment,
- mechatronics,
- communication satellites.
We are well versed in many controller design methodologies, including:
- linear multivariable optimal control, e.g.:
- Linear Quadratic Gaussian (LQG) control,
- H-infinity/mu-synthesis,
- Quantitative Feedback Control (QFT),
- nonlinear multivariable control,
- PID control,
- adaptive control,
- iterative learning control,
- run-to-run control,
- path planning,
- input shaping for vibration control.
Please see our control design & implementation methodology for more information. We can also supply custom control solutions as turn-key products.
A Selection of Projects
- Closed Loop Quantum Control and Quantum Information Sciences: Concepts and Implementations
- Computational Methods for Feedback Controllers for Aerodynamics Flow Applications
- Fleet-Wide Variability for an Integrated Flight and Propulsion System
- Modeling and Control of MOCVD of Ferroelectric Thin Films
A Selection of Publications
- Active Control in Structures
- Active Control of Flow Over a Backward-Facing Step
- An All-Digital Cantilever Controller for MRFM and Scanned Probe Microscopy using a Combined DSP/FPGA Design
- Command Shaping for MIMO Nonlinear Systems Using Iterative Learning Control with Application to an RTP System
- Control in Semiconductor Wafer Manufacturing
- Control of Sputter Process for Improved Run-to-run Repeatability
- Efficient CFD Modeling of Single Wafer Semiconductor Systems for Closed-Loop Evaluation
- Efficient CFD Modeling of Single Wafer System for Closed-Loop Evaluation
- Feedback Control of Dynamic Systems - Fifth Edition
- Feedback Control of Dynamic Systems - Sixth Edition
- Feedback Control of Morphology During III-V Semiconductor Growth by Molecular Beam Epitaxy
- Iterative Adaptive Control: Windsurfing with Confidence
- Linear Multivariable Servomechanisms Revisited: System Type and Accuracy Trade-offs
- Model-Based Control and Virtual Sensing with Application to a Vertical Furnace
- Model-based control for chemical-mechanical planarization (CMP)
- Model-based control for semiconductor and advanced materials processing: an overview
- Model-Based Control of Fast-Ramp RTP Systems
- Model-based Control of MOCVD Rate, Uniformity and Stoichiometry
- Model-based control of rapid thermal processing for semiconductor wafers
- Modeling and Control of Distributed Thermal Systems
- Multiscale Modeling and Control of RF Diode Sputter Deposition for GMR Thin Films
- On Achieving Reduced Error Propagation Sensitivity in DFE Design via Convex Optimization
- Optimal control of quantum gates and suppression of decoherence in a system of interacting two-level particles
- Optimal Experiment Design for Quantum State and Process Tomography and Hamiltonian Parameter Estimation
- Quantum State Detector Design: Optimal Worst-Case a posteriori Performance
- Reactor-scale Modeling and Control for MOCVD of YBCO High Temperature Superconductors
- Real-Time Model-Based Control Systems Design for Gelcast Drying Process
- Run-to-Run Control of Static Systems
- Tradeoffs in Temperature Control of Fast-Ramp RTO and RTA Systems