Projects
SInCACI
Intelligent Systems for Industrial Control, Acquisition and Communication
01/04/2009 - 31/03/2013
Research Area
Robotics and Artificial Intelligent Systems (RAIS)

The objectives and scope of the project are performing R&D on intelligent control and decision methods; Development of a general-purpose Fuzzy Control System (FCS); On-line process control and monitoring; Controller specification and implementation; Visualization of the process state; Devices/process failure reports; Direct application to industry problems; Research computational intelligence techniques for the development of soft sensors for industrial application; R&D on industrial communication and processing modules: industrial distributed real-time communication fieldbus protocols: ControlNet, Ethernet/IP, DeviceNet; ProfiNet. Relevant properties to industrial fieldbuses: Real-time operation, Reliability, Deterministic, Error-proof, Easy to extend and maintain. Direct application to industry problems; Selling on market.
Reference
SInCACI/3120/2009
Funding entity
Agência Nacional de Inovação (ANI)
Role of ISR
Other
Other participating institutions
Universidade de Coimbra



