Research Areas
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Advanced Process Control
The advanced process control involves the use of modern techniques to achieve better control in the process industry. The research group within this line works in:
- Hybrid Control
- Inteligent Control
- Multivariable Predictive Control
- Robust Control
- PID Tuning
- Distributed Control Systems
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Teaching Automatica through Internet
This research area is focused on using new information technologies (IT) for improving learning in subjects from System Engineering and Automatic Control field. This includes the development of teaching resources, interactive applications, remote labs, etc.
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Process Supervision
Process supervision uses techniques that automatically allows to obtain information of the state of the process and using this information to improve performance. This includes techniques for:
- Fault Diagnostic and Detection
- Process Optimization
- Automatic supervision of controllers
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Industrial Informatics
Industrial informatics involves the use of informatics technologies (usually at low level) for obtaining a better performance in industry. Our goals are real time communication, standards like OPC (Ole for Process Control), etc.
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Process Modelling and Simulation
This is one of the main research areas of the Group, with wide experience specifically in sugar processes, petrochemical processes and renewable energies. Main topics are:
- Real-Time Process Simulators (for training technical staff)
- Distributed simulation
- Development of process libraries in EcosimPro
- Languages for automatic modelling
- System Identification
- Integrated Design