Research activities

The research activity on industrial control systems deals with topics in the area of industrial process control and mechatronics systems.

The fundamental and applied research includes the following main topics:

  • Industrial controllers design techniques

  • Design of additional functionalities for industrial controllers

  • Design of fractional control systems

  • Design of event-based control systems

  • Trajectory planning and motion control techniques for servosystems and robot manipulators

  • Compliance control (force control) techniques for robot manipulators (in particular for contour tracking and deburring applications)

  • Modelling and control methodologies for medical drug delivery systems

  • Modelling and control of smart buildings


Scientific collaborations

  • Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell'Informazione, Università degli Studi di Parma, Italy.

  • Departament de Telecomunicacio i d'Enginyeria de Sistemes, Universidat Autonoma de Barcelona, Spain.

  • Departamento de Automatica, Universidad de Costa Rica, Costa Rica.

  • Departamento de Informatica y Automatica, UNED, Madrid, Spain.

  • Department of Automatic Control, Lund University, Sweden.

  • Departamento de Informática, Universidad de Almeria, Spain.

  • Departamento de Automacao e Sistemas, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Brazil.

  • Department of Electrical and Biomedical Engineering, University of Nevada, Reno, Nevada (USA).

  • Department of Electrical engineering, Systems and Automation, University of Ghent, Belgium.


Industrial collaborations

  • Whirpool Europe

  • Yokogawa Italia

  • SMI SpA

  • SelPro

  • Gefran SpA

  • Cascade Italia srl

  • Turboden srl