Department of Marine Automation consists of highly qualified academic staff with experience in cooperation with the industry.
The staff has expertise in automation and robotics, particularly in the area of advanced automatic control algorithms for different kind of objects and/or processes.
The proposed control design methods and techniques include:
• nonlinear, robust and adaptive control;
• optimal control;
• intelligent systems (neuro and fuzzy techniques);
• observers and state estimation (e.g. Kalman filter)
These techniques can be used to control problems in a wide class of objects or processes (from e.g. electrical engineering to mechanics and robotics).
We are particularly experienced in the design of intelligent automatic ship control systems, e.g. robust and adaptive course-keepig systems and/or trajectory (path) following systems (course and trajectory autopilots). The proposed systems are in fact modern robots able to replace, in an automatic manner, a human operator on the ship bridge.
The expertise offered includes:
- automatic control systems for ships (course and trajectory autopilots);
- mobile robotics and autonomous vehicles;
- sophisticated control algorithms;
- electric motors and actuators;
- power electronics;
Our expertise refers particularly to the design of control algorithms for intelligent steering a ship where different control tasks (course keeping, trajectory following etc.) are considered.
The group is interested in cooperation in:
- joint research projects in the above-mentioned scope with both academic research teams, industrial development laboratories and government agencies.
Thematic area - Cluster in Horizon Europe: 4. Digital, Industry and Space.