Luleå University of Technology Lab Fund has granted 1,2 milj SEK to develop LTUs motion labs. A joint application was made by the Health Sciences, HLV, and Computer Science, Electrical and Space Engineering, SRT, Departments.
For further reading, please visit: http://www.ltu.se/org/hlv/Nyheter/Rorelselabb-utvecklar-matningar-och-metoder-1.129981?l=en
I have the honour to act as Vice Program Chair for the 24th Mediterranean Conference on Control and Automation, which is going to be held in June 21-24, 2016 at the Divani Caravel Hotel, in Athens, Greece.
I am participating and leading the robotics activities in the FETopen project CompInnova : An Advanced Methodology for the Inspection and Quantification of Damage in Aerospace Composites and Metals using an Innovative Approach. The project has 5 partners and an overall budget of 2.5M Euros of which 500K Euros are allocated for LTU. The project duration is 42 months starting from September 2015.
CompInnova has been inspired by the innovative need for more efficient and reliable damage inspection, reducing time and cost of aircraft infrastructures, as well as maintenance-especially C and D Checks- without compromising the safety of passengers and goods transported. The CompInnova project is focused upon the development of an innovative inspection methodology, with automated and manual capabilities, for any type of composite and metallic aircraft structures. The novel structural integrity approach is comprised by three parts: a qualified Phased Array (PA) and Infrared Thermography (IRT) method attached to a mobile Vortex robot, a Damage Tolerance (DT) structural integrity assessment technique processed on a computer and an innovative repair system.
Our developments in the ARTEMIS project R5-COP in the area of UGVs and field robotics have been mentioned in the this ARTEMIS news letter. In this project LTU and SSC are building an autonomous UGV based on a Toyota Land Cruiser for the application area of search and rescue.
For further reading:
https://artemis-ia.eu/news/robots-on-the-rise-one-year-into-the-r5-cop-project.html?utm_source=ARTEMIS-IA+Newsletter+Subscribers&utm_campaign=19936dfec9-ARTEMIS_IA_Newsletter_March_20153_18_2015&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_3604c98167-19936dfec9-314929933
and
http://r5-cop.eu/en/
Induction motors from a fraction of kW up to several MWs constitute the driving force of the industry due their low cost, simple construction and robustness. However, no matter how robust the induction motors are, they can still suffer from electrical and mechanical faults that can lead to failures and production shutdowns. Therefore, it is of paramount importance to detect a fault as precisely as possible and as early as possible before culminating to a failure. Due to the fact that the Motor Current Signature Analysis (MCSA) methods, the predominant approaches for fault diagnosis, break down when dealing with non-stationary conditions or very low loading conditions, there is a constant need for new tools and novel approached that can cope with non-stationary conditions.
This special session is intended to attract research papers showing novel methods and approaches to the area of fault diagnosis in electric motors, focusing on non-stationary and variable load conditions.
Topics of interest include, without being limited to:
• Data driven fault diagnosis methods of electric motors/drives
• Model based fault diagnosis methods of electric motors/drives
• Non-stationary variable load condition monitoring of electric motors • Condition monitoring of inverter-fed motors
• Wind turbine condition monitoring
George Georgoulas and George Nikolakopoulos
We are organizing a Special Session on the topic “Robotics in Mining” as part of the 2015 Workshop on Mining, Mineral and Metal Processing, which is going to be held on the 25-27 of August at Oulu, Finland.
http://ifacmmm2015.automaatioseura.fi/
The submission code for this SS is c63pk
Our application to VR entitled "New understanding of motor control and falls by novel postural sway analysis, robotics and mathematical modelling" has been granted.
The research project is a multidisciplinary combination of efforts from the areas of Physiotherapy, Motor Control, Automatic Control Systems and Robotics, with a total duration of 4 years and a total budget of 4.8M SEK. LTU is participating in the project with the Health Sciences (HLV) and Computer Science, Electrical and Space Engineering (SRT) Departments.
In this call in total 180 out of 909 applications have been approved. For further reading:
http://www.vr.se/nyheterpress/nyheter2014/bidragsbeslutmedicinochhalsa2014.5.705e927a1495e3534d65d926.html
Listed No.20 in the Top 25 Hottest Articles from April to June 2014 at Control Engineering Practice, Elsevier - Alexis, K.; Nikolakopoulos, G.; Tzes, A., "Switching model predictive attitude control for a quad rotor helicopter subject to atmospheric disturbances"
http://elsevier.dmdelivery.com/x/?S7Y1_p9ra2H4v8jW0MLS0tL4f46tkakZAAA14
I am co-ordinating the H2020 research proposal AEROWORKS, which has been submitted in the area of ICT and Robotics. The proposal has 10 partners and an overall budget of 5.6 Euros of which 1.0M Euros are dedicated for LTU.
With aging infrastructure in developing-and-developed countries, and with the gradual expansion of distributed installations, the costs of inspection and repair tasks have been growing vastly and incessantly. To address this reality, a major paradigm shift is required, in order to procure the highly automated, efficient, and reliable solutions that will not only reduce costs, but will also minimize risks to personnel and asset safety. AEROWORKS envisions a novel aerial robotic team that possesses the capability to autonomously conduct infrastructure inspection and maintenance tasks, while additionally providing intuitive and user-friendly interfaces to human-operators.
The AEROWORKS robotic team will consist of multiple heterogeneous “collaborative Aerial Robotic Workers”, a new class of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles equipped with dexterous manipulators, novel physical interaction and co-manipulation control strategies, perception systems, and planning intelligence. This new generation of worker-robots will be capable of autonomously executing infrastructure inspection and maintenance works. The AEROWORKS multi-robot team will operate in a decentralized fashion, and will be characterized by unprecedented levels of reconfigurability, mission dependability, mapping fidelity, and manipulation dexterity, integrated in robust and reliable systems that are rapidly deployable and ready- to-use as an integral part of infrastructure service operations.
As the project aims for direct exploitation in the infrastructure services market, its results will be demonstrated and evaluated in realistic and real infrastructure environments, with a clear focus on increased Technology Readiness Levels. The accomplishment of the envisaged scenarios will boost the European infrastructure sector, contribute to the goal of retaining Europe’s competitiveness, and particularly impact our service and industrial robotics sector, drastically changing the landscape of how robots are utilized.
I am co-ordinating the H2020 research proposal DISIRE which has been submitted in the area of NMP and SPIRE Integrated Process Control area. The proposal has 15 partners and an overall budget of 6 Euros of which 1.6M Euros are dedicated for LTU.
The DISIRE project has been inspired by the real existing needs of multiple industrial sectors, including the world leading industrial partners in the non-ferrous, ferrous, chemical and steel industries that are highly connected and already affiliated with the SPIRE PPP and its objectives. The overall clear and measurable objective of the DISIRE project is to evolve the existing industrial processes by advancing the Sustainable Process Industry through an overall Resource and Energy efficiency by the technological breakthroughs and concepts of the DISIRE technological platform in the field of Industrial Process Control (IPC).
With the DISIRE project the properties of the raw materials or product flows will be dramatically integrated by their transformation in a unique inline measuring system that will extend the level of knowledge and awareness of the internal dynamics of the undergoing processes taking place during transformation or integration of raw materials in the next levels of production. In this approach, the Integrated Process Control system, instead of having external experts to tune the overall processes, based on the DISIRE concept will enable the self reconfiguration of all the production lines by the produced products itself.
Specific DISIRE Process Analyzer Technology (PAT) will be able to define quality and performance requirements, that for the first time in the process industry will be able to be directly applied on the physical properties of the developed products and thus enabling the overall online and product specific reconfiguration of the control system. In this way, the whole production can be fully integrated in a holistic approach from the raw materials to the end product, allowing the multiple process reconfigurations and an optimal operation based on the product’s properties that can be generalized in a whole product production cycle being spanned in multiple cross- sectorial processes.
Journal "Model predictive quadrotor control: attitude, altitude and position experimental studies", K. Alexis, G. Nikolakopoulos, A. Tzes, IET Control Theory & Applications, Volume 6, issue 12, August 2012, p. 1812 - 1827.", has received the Premium Award from IET Control Theory and Applications, for recognizing the best research article published during the last two years.
Information about the prize can be located here:
http://digital-library.theiet.org/journals/iet-cta/premium-awards
Access to the full article:
http://digital-library.theiet.org/docserver/fulltext/iet-cta/6/12/20110348.pdf?expires=1411816807&id=id&accname=guest&checksum=1366469F8ACDB3D82E56BBABBC3A71DE
Track co-chair for the “Emerging Control Applications II” regular session at the 53rd IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Los Angeles, California, USA, December 15-17, 2014.
http://control.disp.uniroma2.it/CDC2014/
Track co-chair for the “Quadrotor Control” regular Session at the 2014 IEEE Mutli-conference on Systems and Control, Antibes, France, October 8-10, 2014.
http://www.msc2014.org/
Associate Editor for the 2015 American Control Conference (ACC'15), Chicago, USA, July 1-3, 2015.
http://a2c2.org/conferences/acc2015/
Member of the International Program Committee for the 2014 International conference on Control, Decision and Information Technologies (CODIT'14), November 3-5, 2014, Menz, France.
Listed No.15 in the Top 25 Hottest Articles for 2014 at Control Engineering Practice, Elsevier - Alexis, K.; Nikolakopoulos, G.; Tzes, A., "Switching model predictive attitude control for a quad rotor helicopter subject to atmospheric disturbances"
http://elsevier.dmdelivery.com/x/?S7Y1_p9ra2H4v8jW0MLS0tL4f46tkakZAAA14
Nominated for Wallenberg Academy Fellows 2014 from Luleå University of Technology (LTU). One of the 3 Academic nominees from LTU and out of the 16 in total in the engineering field nominations in Sweden.
Listed in the Top 25 Hottest Articles in Control Engineering Practice - G. Andrikopoulos, G. Nikolakopoulos and S. Manesis, "Pneumatic Artificial Muscles: A switching Model Predictive Control Approach" for the duration October to December 2013.
Editorial Board Member of the International Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks (Hindawi), 2014 http://www.hindawi.com/journals/ijdsn/
Listed in the Top 25Hottest Articles in Control Engineering Practice - Alexis, K., Nikolakopoulos, G.; Tzes, A., Switching model predictive attitude control for a quad rotor helicopter subject to atmospheric disturbances", July to September 2013 (no. 20) http://top25.sciencedirect.com/subject/engineering/12/
The full article can be located in this link:
https://pure.ltu.se/portal/files/33556546/CONENGPRAC_D_10_00198.pdf
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