Portfolio · Projects

Selected projects

Computational frameworks, control applications, and interactive tools developed around continuous-time optimization and control.

01
Research framework

Continuous-time explicit optimal control

A computational framework that solves Pontryagin’s optimality conditions directly, identifies switching structures, computes switching-time functions, and constructs critical regions without first converting the model to discrete time.

PMP Critical regions Explicit MPC
02
Computational geometry

Certified nonlinear critical-region maps

A framework for discovering all regions, classifying affine, radial, and curved interfaces, tracing curved boundaries with continuation, and assembling one consistent map from the certified boundary graph.

Predictor-corrector continuation Boundary certification Planar subdivision
03
Process-control application

Continuous-time multiparametric MPC within PAROC

Integration of the continuous-time controller-synthesis step with process modeling, surrogate identification, critical-region construction, and closed-loop validation. Current work includes a binary distillation benchmark and preparation for intensified column applications.

PAROC Distillation Disturbance rejection
04
Research communication

Neon Gate Challenge

An interactive website experience that lets visitors feel the effect of timing, constraints, continuous control, and changing initial conditions before introducing the mathematical language behind the problem.

Interactive visualization Optimal control Web communication
Questions or collaboration ideas? lida.lamakani@tamu.edu