Antoneta Iuliana BRATCU

Associate professor
Ph.D.: Automatique et Informatique - "Détermination systématique des graphes de précédence et équilibrage des
lignes d'assemblage" (Université de Franche-Comté, Besançon, France, 2001)

MScEng: Power Electronics and Advanced Control Systems for Electromechanical Energy Conversion

Processes (1996)

BEng: Automatic Control and Industrial Informatics (1995)

Bachelor Economist: International Transactions (1998)

Email:
         Antoneta.Bratcu@ugal.ro
Telephone:
        +40 36 460182
Fax:
        +40 36 460182
Office:
        Room 508, Y

Teaching

Fundamentals of Automatic Control, Numerical Methods, Modeling and Simulation, Dynamic Systems Theory.

Research Interests

Discrete and continuous optimization, hybrid dynamical systems, nonlinear systems.

Relevant Publications

Books

E. Ceangă, I. Munteanu, A. Bratcu, M. Culea – “ Signal, Circuits and Systems - Part.I Signal Analysis” (Romanian), Academica Galaţi, ISBN 973-8316-16-2.

A.I. Bratcu, A. Filipescu – Numerical methods used in system analysis – applications (in Romanian), MatrixRom, Bucharest, 2004, ISBN 973-685-828-6, 142 pages.

Research Reports

A. Bratcu et A.Dolgui – État de l’art de la problématique des lignes de production auto-equilibrées (“bucket brigades”), Research Report LOSI-2003-01, Université de Technologie de Troyes, Laboratoire d’Optimisation des Systèmes Industriels, first version 07/11/2002.

A.I. Bratcu, D. Dulman, I. Munteanu, C. Chiculiţă – Optimal control strategies for hybrid dynamic systems – application to cooperative robots systems (in Romanian), Research report, Advanced Control Systems Research Center, “Dunărea de Jos” University of Galaţi, Galaţi, 2004.

A.I. Bratcu, A. Dolgui et V. Mînzu – Optimisation du coût de l’équipement des lignes de transfert reconfigurables avec opérations en parallèle, Rapport de recherche, Université « Dunărea de Jos » de Galaţi, 2005.

Papers in ISI journals

B. Rekiek, A. Dolgui, A. Delchambre and A. Bratcu – State of art of optimization methods for assembly line design, Annual Reviews in Control (Elsevier), Vol. 26/2, 2002, pp. 163-174.

I. Munteanu, N.A. Cutululis, A.I. Bratcu and E. Ceangă – Optimization of variable speed wind power systems based on a LQG approach, Control Engineering Practice, 13(7), Elsevier, 2005, pp. 903-912.

A. Bratcu and A. Dolgui – A survey of the self-balancing production lines (“bucket brigades”), Journal of Intelligent Manufacturing (ISSN: 0956-5515), Springer, Special Issue: International Conference on Production Systems Design, Supply Chain Management and Logistics (SCM ’02), Vol. 16, no. 2, April 2005, pp. 139-158.

Papers in other international journals and books

J.M. Henrioud, A. Bratcu – Algorithm for generating the precedence graphs in assembly systems. In: Software and Hardware Engineering for the 21st Century, World Scientific Engineering Society (Editor Nikos E. Mastorakis), 1999, ISBN 960-8052-06-8, pp. 44-49.

V. Mînzu, A. Bratcu – Precedence graphs generation using assembly sequences. In: Software and Hardware Engineering for the 21st Century, World Scientific Engineering Society (Editor Nikos E. Mastorakis), 1999, ISBN 960-8052-06-8, pp. 122-127.

A. I. Bratcu et A. Dolgui – Lignes auto-équilibrées: nouveau concept, analyse et modélisation, Revue des Systèmes (Hermès), hors série/4^ième Colloque Francophone sur la Modélisation des Systèmes Réactifs – MSR 2003, pp. 195-209.

Papers in national journals

A. Bratcu and I. Bivol – A control algorithm for an asynchronous machine imposing speed evolution, The Annals of “Dunărea de Jos” University of Galaţi, Fascicle III – “Electrotechnics, Electronics, Automatic Control, Informatics”, 1996, ISSN 1221-454X, pp. 23-27.

V. Mînzu, D. Cernega and A. Bratcu – A stochastic algorithm for treating the precedence constraints in discrete optimization problems, The Annals of “Dunărea de Jos” University of Galaţi, Fasc.III, 1998, pp. 46-51.

V. Mînzu and A. Bratcu – Some Results on the Modelling of TSS Manufacturing Lines, The Annals of “Dunărea de Jos” University of Galaţi, Fascicle III – “Electrotechnics, Electronics, Automatic Control, Informatics”, 2000, pp. 40-47.

A. Bratcu, V. Mînzu – Self-balancing manufacturing systems regarded as hybrid dynamical systems. Control Engineering and Applied Informatics – Romanian Society of Control Engineering and Technical Informatics, Vol. 3, no. 3, pp. 11-16, 2001.

Papers at international conferences

D.Cernega, A.Bratcu – A Supervisory Technique to Control an One Level Assembly System, A&Q ’98 International Conference on Automation and Quality Control, Cluj-Napoca, ROMANIA, May 28-29, 1998, ISBN 973-9358-15-2, pp. A264-A269.

D.Cernega, A.Bratcu – Design of a Discrete Event Based Supervisor for Continuous Processes, Preprints of the 8th IFAC Symposium “Large Scale Systems: Theory & Applications” – LSS ’98, Patras, GREECE, July 15-17 1998, pp. 59-64.

V. Mînzu, A. Bratcu, J.M. Henrioud – Construction of the precedence graphs equivalent to a given set of assembly sequences, Proceedings of the 1999 IEEE International Symposium on Assembly and Task Planning, ISATP ’99, July 21-24, 1999, Porto, PORTUGAL, ISBN 0-7803-5704-3, pp. 14-19.

A. Bratcu, V. Mînzu – A Simulation Study of Self-balancing Production Lines, Proceedings of the 1999 IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Engineering Systems , INES ’99, November 1-3, 1999, Stará Lesná, SLOVAKIA, ISSN 1562-5850, ISBN 80-88964-25-3, pp. 165-170.

A. Bratcu – Nonlinear Modelling of a Self-balancing Production Line, Proceedings of the 11th European Simulation Symposium – ESS ’99, October 26-28, 1999, Erlangen, GERMANY, ISBN 1-56555-177-x, pp. 481-483.

A. Bratcu, J.-M. Henrioud, V. Mînzu – A Look at Self-Balancing Manufacturing Lines through Theory of Hybrid Dynamical Systems, Proceedings of the 2001 IEEE International Symposium on Assembly and Task Planning – ISATP 2001, May 28-29, 2001, Fukuoka, JAPAN, ISBN 0-7803-7004-X, pp. 375-380.

A. Bratcu – On the modelling of bucket brigades, Preprints of the 15th Triennial IFAC World Congress (CD-ROM, Editors: E.F. Camacho, L. Basañez and J.A. de la Puente), July 21-26, 2002, Barcelona, Spain.

B. Rekiek, A. Delchambre, A. Dolgui and A. Bratcu – Assembly Line Design: A Survey, Plenary Papers, Survey Papers and Milestones of the 15th Triennial IFAC World Congress (Editors: E.F. Camacho, L. Basañez and J.A. de la Puente), July 21-26, 2002, Barcelona, Spain, pp. 131-142.

A. Bratcu et A. Dolgui – Une relaxation du Modèle Normatif des lignes de production auto-équilibrées (« bucket brigades »), Actes de la 4ème Conférence Francophone de Modélisation et Simulation MOSIM 03, Toulouse, France, 23-25 avril 2003, Y. Dallery, J.-C. Hennet, P. Lopez (Eds.), SCS European Publishing House, 2003, p.262-269.

I. Munteanu, E. Ceangă, N.A. Cutululis and A. Bratcu – Linear Quadratic Optimization of Variable Speed Wind Power Systems, Preprints of the IFAC Workshop on Control Application of Optimisation – CAO ’03, June 30 – July 2 2003, Visegrád, Hungary, pp. 162-167.

A. I. Bratcu, L. Makdessian and A. Dolgui – Minimisation of Equipment Cost for Transfer Lines with Blocks of Parallel Tasks, Proceedings of the 5^th IEEE International Symposium on Assembly and Task Planning – ISATP ‘03, July 9-11 2003, Besançon, FRANCE, pp. 109-114.

A. I. Bratcu and A. Dolgui – Synergy, Collaboration and Self-Balancing in Production Systems – The Bucket Brigades, Preprints of the IFAC Workshop Intelligent Assembly and Disassembly – IAD 2003, Bucharest, Romania, October 9-11 2003, pp. 78-83.

I. Munteanu, N.A. Cutululis, A. Bratcu and E. Ceangă – Using a nonlinear controller to optimize a variable speed wind power system, Proceedings of the 9^th International Conference on Optimization of Electrical and Electronic Equipments (IEEE sponsored) – OPTIM 2004, May 20-23 2004, Braşov, ROMANIA, pp. 303-311.

A.I. Bratcu – A Heuristic to Minimize the Equipment Cost for Large Transfer Lines with Operations Parallelization, Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Intelligent Engineering Systems – INES 2004, September 19-21 2004, Cluj-Napoca, ROMANIA, pp. 579-583.

D.C. Cernega and A.I. Bratcu – Communication Protocol Conversion Solved by Discrete Event Supervision, Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Intelligent Engineering Systems – INES 2004, September 19-21 2004, Cluj-Napoca, ROMANIA, , pp. 339-343.

I. Munteanu, A.I. Bratcu and L. Frangu – Nonlinear control for stationary optimization of wind power systems, Preprints of the IFAC Workshop on Automatic Systems for Building the Infrastructure in the Developing Countries – DECOM 2004, Bansko, Bulgaria, October 3-5 2004, pp. 195-200.

A.I. Bratcu, D. Dulman, I. Munteanu and A. Dolgui – Optimal motion planning of cooperative mobile robots in 2D environments, The 3rd IFAC Conference on Management and Control of Production and Logistics – MCPL 2004, November 3-5 2004, Santiago, CHILE, pp. 223-228.

I. Munteanu, A.Bratcu, N.A. Cutululis, E. Ceangă – A two loop optimal control of flexible drive train variable speed wind power systems, Preprints of the 16th IFAC World Congress (CD-ROM), Prague, July 4-8 2005.

Hobbies

Music and dancing, movies and cinema history, traveling, psychology and philosophy, literature.

This information provided by A.Bratcu; January 2004.