Distributed and Networked Control Systems

Cooperative Control of Wind Farms for Optimizing the Total Energy Production

Wind energy is becoming widely recognized as one of the most cost-efficient sources of renewable energy. It is currently the fastest-growing energy source of electricity in the world, with worldwide wind-generation capacity tripling in the last five years. However, the projected growth in worldwide capacity is driving the need for advances in wind science and engineering, including advanced control techniques. Read more...

Distributed Control and Energy Management of Biogas Plants

The consumption of renewable energies in Europe is increasing due to economic as well as ecological reasons. The ambitious objective of the European council in which Luxembourg participates is the so-called "three 20 targets" (to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases by 20%, to increase energy efficiency to save 20% of EU energy consumption and to reach 20% of renewable energy in the total energy consumption in the EU by 2020). Read more...

Integrated Security and Safety Engineering for Networked Control Systems

There is a recent trend to connect controlled process to "open" public networks. This causes a big security issue since unauthorized access ("cyber attacks") is now possible in control systems. Consequently, because some of this controlled process are safety-critical, the study and design of secure and safety control system become of high importance. Read more...

Mobile Robotics

Control of a Small Unmanned Aerial Vehicle with flexible Manipulator

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) as a special class of mobile robots have gained increasing interest in recent years because of a wide area of possible applications. While UAVs are so far mainly used for outdoor reconnaissance and surveillance tasks in military scenarios, future commercial applications could be in security-related tasks such as the surveillance of large areas Read more...

Eco-Driver Assistance System for Electric Vehicles

Electric vehicles are expected to become one of the key elements of future sustainable transportation systems. First electric cars are already commercially available but still suffer from problems and constraints that have to be solved before a mass market might be created. Read more...

Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance with Unmanned Aerial Vehicles

The comprehensive nature of ISR missions requires that information sourced by distributed multiple sensors must be fused to an overall picture available to the lowest possible tactical level. Herein, the set of sensors involved can comprise ground based stationary or mobile sensors (e.g. attached to a vehicle) as well as sensors which are integrated in UAVs. Read more...

Model-based Development of Robot Perception Architectures

We are interested in the design and development of adapative Robot Perception Architectures (RPAs) processing sensory input to output which is relevant for the task on hand. We investigate methods, models, and tools enabling the design and development of task-oriented RPAs. Read more...

BEST-RPAS: Robust Emergency Sense-and-Avoid Capability for Small Remotely PilotedAerial Systems

In this CORE-Project we are working in the development of a sensor and control solution for remote piloted aerial systems (RPAS). This system should be aware of the close environment of the UAV during the remote piloting by a human and once it detects a potential collision, the control system will take the control of the UAV and avoid the imminent collision by an evasive manoeuvrings. After the UAV is in safety position the control system give back the control of the UAV to the human-pilot.  Read more...

Software Engineering for Safe Autonomous Mobile Robots

Safe service and personal care robots have become a new exciting research topic over the last years. However, the close interaction of humans and robots also leads to completely new safety problems, that shall be solved for the acceptance in general. Read more...

Observer Design

Glucose Level Control for Type 1 Diabetes Patients Using Unknown Input Observers

Diabetes is a serious disease during which the body's production and use of insulin is impaired, which causes deviations of the glucose concentration level in the bloodstream from normal values. The most common treatment of diabetes type 1 (patients with defects in insulin production) is the measurement of the blood glucose level using suitable measurement devices and to regulate this level with an infusion of insulin. Read more...