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RESEARCH FIELDS
- Automatic control systems design including robust, supervisory, adaptive, hybrid, hierarchical, and distributed control approaches, using algebraic methods, nonlinear methods, optimization methods, and artificial intelligence methods.
- System analysis including system modelling, parameter estimation, state estimation, fault diagnosis and system reliability.
- Automation methods in the framework of discrete event systems, state machines and switching systems.
- Applications of all the above, emphasizing on control of industrial and other processes, control of networked systems, control of wheeled / aerial vehicles, traffic systems, economic systems, power systems, agricultural applications, anti-pollution and environmental protection systems as well as sustainable exploitation of natural resources.
- Intelligent devices and sensing, human-machine interaction systems, automation software environments, automatic knowledge management, computer-aided design, computer-aided manufacturing, industrial sensors, motion sensors, optical and other sensing systems, software sensors, integrated sensor systems, machine vision, mechatronics and controlled actuators (electromechanical, hydraulic and pneumatic).
- Analysis and design of cyber-physical industrial and urban systems, design of systems for detection, identification, and tolerance of cyber-physical attacks.
- Robot kinematics, robot dynamics, robot control, robot trajectory planning, robot simulation, intelligent machines and systems, design of manipulators, design of robotic mechanisms, robotic project planning, and computational issues in robotics and automation.
- Robot applications in assembly, load transfer, remote surgeries, remote controlled robots, mobile robots, locomotion through robotic limbs, micro-robots, cellular and collaborative robots.
- Robotics and automation in machining as well as loosely structured environments such as services, heritage management, medical applications, construction, subsea systems, intelligent vehicles and intelligent traffic systems.
- Special topics in robotics, related to computer architecture and software development, advanced programming languages, software environments, databases, and virtual reality.
- Automated design and manufacturing of robots, tools and devices, 3D Printing and Scanning Systems as well as Additive Manufacturing Systems.
- Predictive and Preventive Maintenance
- Educational Robotics