Marcos Orchard

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• Gonzalez, G.D., Orchard, M., Cerda, J.L., Casali, A., and Vallebuona, G., "Local models for soft-sensors in a rougher flotation bank," Minerals Engineering, vol. 16, no.5, pp. 441-453, 2003.

• Dixon, J., Del Valle, Y., Orchard, M., Ortúzar, M., Morán, L., and Maffrand, C., "A Full Compensating System for General Loads, Based on a Combination of Thyristor Binary Compensator, and a PWM-IGBT Active Power Filter," IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, vol. 50, no. 5, pp 982-989, 2003.

• "A Particle Filtering-based Framework for On-line Fault Diagnosis and Failure Prognosis," Georgia Institute of Technology, approved on October 2006.

• Orchard, M., and Vachtsevanos G., "A Particle Filtering-based Framework for Real-time Fault Diagnosis and Failure Prognosis in a Turbine Engine," 26th American Control Conference, ACC2007, New York, USA, 2007 (submitted).

• Orchard, M., Wu, B., and Vachtsevanos, G., "A Particle Filter Framework for Failure Prognosis," Proceedings of WTC2005 World Tribology Congress III. Washington D.C., USA, September 12-16, 2005.

• Yacher, L., and Orchard, M., "Statistical Multivariate Analysis and Dynamics Monitoring for Plant Supervision Improvement," Copper International Conference 2003. November 2003, Santiago, Chile.

• Romero F., and Orchard M., "Statistical Multivariable Analysis for Improved Plant Control," 2003 SME Annual Meeting & Exhibit, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA, February 2003.

• Lisounkin, A., Schreck, G., Paiuk, J., Muratori, F., Viale, M., Vigliocco, A., Cipriano, A.Z., Orchard, M., Kuchen, B., Lage, A., Rossomando, F., Schmidt, H.W., Galán, R., and Jimenez, A., "Advanced Model Based Process Supervision in Hot Steel Milling," 15th Triennial World Congress of the International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC). Barcelona, Spain, July 21-26, 2002.

• Del Valle, Y., Orchard, M., Dixon, J., and Morán, L., "Control system for a Thyristor Binary Compensator (TBC)," XV Chilean Congress in Automatic Control, ACCA 2002. Chilean Association of Automatic Control, Santiago, Chile, 2002.

• Orchard, M., Flores, A., Muñoz, C., and Cipriano, A., "Model based predictive control with fuzzy characterization of goals and constraints, applied to the dynamic optimization of grinding plants," Proceedings of the 10th IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems FUZZ-IEEE 2001. Melbourne, Australia, December 2-5, 2001, pp. 916 – 919, 2001.

• Dixon, J., Del Valle, Y., Orchard, M., Ortúzar, M., Morán, L., and Maffrand, C., "A Full Compensating System for General Loads, based on a Combination of Thyristor Binary Compensator, and a PWM-IGBT Active Power Filter," Industrial Electronics Conference IECON'01. Denver, Colorado, USA, November 29th to December 2nd, 2001.

• Orchard, M., Muñoz, C., and Cipriano, A., "Predictive Control with Fuzzy Characterization of Percentage of solids, particle size and power demand for grinding sections," 2001 CCA/ISIC Conference. Mexico City, September 5-7, 2001.

• Orchard, M., Cipriano, A.M., Cipriano, A.Z., Viale, M., and Vigliocco, A., "A model based fault detection and diagnosis system for rolling mill equipments," European Control Conference ECC 2001. Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto. Instituto de Sistemas e Robótica. Porto, Portugal. September 4-7, 2001, pp. 20-25.

• Orchard, M., Cipriano, A.M., Cipriano, A.Z., Viale M., and Vigliocco, A., "Design of a model based fault detection and diagnosis system for rolling mill equipment," XIV Chilean Conference of Automatic Control. Universidad del Bío Bío, Concepción, Chile, October 2000.

• Dixon, J., Del Valle, Y., Orchard, M., Maffrand, C., and Morán L., "New Topology of harmonic free VAR compensator using unidirectional switches," XIII Chilean Conference of Electrical Engineering. Universidad de Santiago de Chile, November 1999.

• Yacher L. and Orchard M. "Pattern analysis for process deviations early alert and cause-effect relationships evaluation," 2003 OSISoft Users Conference. San Francisco, California, USA, May 2003.

• INCO-DC: PROQUS (Advanced Model Based Process and Quality Supervision in Steel Production). Final Report, Chapter 8: "Fault Detection and Diagnosis," Berlin, Germany, August 2001.