The young scientist was awarded in Italy for her poster: "Numerical and experimental investigation of a discontinuous capsule drive with the use of Fourier series-based method of control optimization."
Sandra Zarychta is studying at IDS in the discipline of Mechanical Engineering. Her main supervisor is Prof. Jerzy Wojewoda, and her assistant supervisor is Marek Balcerzak PhD. Both scientists are from the TUL Department of Dynamics, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering. The results the doctoral student presented at the conference are part of a PRELUDIUM research grant funded by the National Science Center.
What exactly is the awarded PhD student working on at TUL?
The subject of my research is optimal control of mechanical systems with discontinuities, which in mechanics may be caused by, among others, by impacts or dry friction. As part of the PRELUDIUM grant, a new method for estimating optimal control is used, based on Fourier series. Thanks to it, the control function can be described with a number of parameters, which can then be numerically optimized,
- says Sandra Zarychta.
Dynamics Days Europe is a series of major international conferences held since 1980, a European forum on the development of dynamics theory and applications. For more than 40 years, it has brought together scientists from various fields, including physics, mathematics and engineering, who conduct interdisciplinary research in the field of nonlinear sciences.
This year's 13th conference in Naples was attended by approximately 400 participants from 50 countries – students, graduates, PhD students, researchers and academics.