Department of Systems and Control

Jožef Stefan Institute

Competence Centre for Advanced Control Technologies

Principal investigator:

Dr. Zoran Marinšek, INEA

Duration:

2011 – 2013

Funding:

Ministry of Higher Education, Science and Technology, Government of the Republic of Slovenia, co-financed by European Regional Development Fund (ERDF)

Abstract

Competence Centre includes 4 academic partners, 7 engineering companies in the area of automation and informatics of industrial processes, and 5 production companies – end users of control technology from different production sectors.

The goals of the programme are as follows:

• Bring together a critical mass of R&D expertise from industry and academia in the area of advanced process control.
• To foster innovative R&D that will exploit state-of-the-art information and communication technologies for better process control, embedded systems operation and rational exploitation of energy resources.
• To build up a portfolio of new methodologies, tools, building blocks and platforms of mutual benefits for the partners, that will raise the quality and versatility of the overall design cycle, adaptivity to the changing requirements from the market, reliable and efficiency of implementation and maintenance.

The program of the competence centre is performeed along 6 industrial research projects and 1 experimental research project:

1) Development environment and components for implementation of advanced control ,

2) Technologies of web, remote, and distributed control,

3) Model based production control,

4) Optimization and control for rational use of energy and cleaner environment,

5) Automated condition monitoring of process equipment,

6) Novel platform for control of fusion reactors,

7) Development of the technical prototypes and realization of demonstration projects.

Official project webpage:http://www.kcstv.si/