Systems and Control Centre

Background: The Systems and Control Centre was created in 2001 by drawing together staff from Control, Systems, Statistics, and Management. This Centre is an evolution of earlier activities in Systems Science at City (in the 1960s) and the current unit builds upon a well-established research base in the Control and Systems field, dating from the late 1970s. The Control activities were expanded in the Systems area with new activities in Statistical Modelling, Reliability, Risk, Systems Engineering and Power Systems and more recently by activities in Machine Vision, Intelligent Systems and Communication Networks. The S&C activities address the challenge of complexity in engineering and general processes and aim to extend the control and systems approaches to challenging problems in the Design, Operations, Risk and Management of Industrial Processes, as well as new fields of applications such as Energy, Environment, Security and Medical Applications. Applications are supported by basic research in Mathematical Systems and Control Theory, Applied Probability and Computations.

 Vision: The Design for Management of Complexity is viewed as the great challenge to technological progress. The complexity of emerging applications from diverse fields necessitates holistic and innovative solutions founded on the multi-disciplinary systems approach. This has to be based by development of the fundamentals in Systems, Control, Measurement, Information, Modelling, Mathematical Methods and Computations, supported by enabling technologies and motivated by the challenges of emerging applications.