Women in Control

This lunch session is sponsored by EUCA, University Politehnica of Bucharest, IEEE Women in Engineering and IEEE Control Systems Society.
Scheduling: Wednesday June 14th, 2023.  Location: Library. Room: L.2.1. Time: 12:40-13:20.
Organizers: Ionela Prodan, Daniela Lupu
Abstract: A women networking opportunity, whose aim is to give new perspectives about the current role of engineering, science and industry women with personal stories, gender reports, programs and opportunities.
Speakers: TBA

Siemens Lunch Session

Scheduling: Wednesday June 14th, 2023.  Location: Library. Room: L.4.1. Time: 12:40-13:20.
Organizer: Constantin Suciu
Abstract: TBA

Industry Panel Session

Title: The interplay between applications and theory: Opportunities and challenges for control and process optimization in the current data-driven era.
Scheduling: Thursday June 15th, 2023.  Location: Aula. Room: ACH. Time: 11:20-12:40.
Organizers: Maria Prandini, Silviu Iulian Niculescu
Abstract: New applications enabled by technological advancements typically lead to intriguing theoretical problems, while in turn theoretical discoveries can foster previously unforeseen applications. The goal of this panel session is to discuss such an interplay with a focus on the current era, where smart sensing and actuation systems allow to collect real-time data and use them not only for monitoring and prediction purposes but also for control and optimization of dynamical processes. To this aim, both researchers from industry and academics collaborating with industry have been invited  to provide some insight into the opportunities and challenges offered to our control community by this data-driven era, with a special emphasis on the European Union priorities, namely, the energy, health, mobility, and industry sectors.
Speakers:
– Frank Allgower (U. Stuttgart)
– Riccardo Scattolini (Polini)
– Constantin Suciu (Siemens)
– Patrick Panciatici (RTR France)
– Raduinea Catalin- Florentin (Thales)
– Chris Andreotes (Mathworks)

MathWorks Lunch Session

Title: REIMAGINE Lab: Scaling Control Labs with Digital Twins and Extended Reality Technologies
Scheduling: Friday June 16th, 2023.  Location: Library. Room: L.2.1 Time: 11:30-12:30.
Speaker: Professor Aleksei Tepljakov, TalTech University
Abstract: Control systems are crucial in various industries, but poorly tuned controllers can lead to decreased performance and wasted energy. Many real-world control systems suffer from this issue due to the complex plants and processes involved in manufacturing and production, as well as a lack of scalable and sustainable hands-on training for control engineers. Enter ReImagine Lab, a novel approach to delivering control engineering education that combines various control lab modes, including virtual, remote, and hands-on experiments. ReImagine can be an effective tool for engineering education in both higher education and vocational schools, as well as for company personnel training. ReImagine is powered by Digital Twins created with MathWorks products and Extended Reality environments built with Unreal Engine 4/5. ReImagine Lab has already had a trial run in TalTech University. The students appreciated the possibility to directly interact with digital twins, and not just with mathematical models, and as a result, the understanding of related control concepts was easier to transfer as part of experiments designed using the ReImagine platform. In this talk, we shall discuss the ReImagine approach to control system education. The participants will learn:
– About the ReImagine framework, its origins and overall design;
– How MATLAB/Simulink can be used for implementing digital twins from the perspective of mathematical modeling and system identification, as well as control design;
– How the Unreal Engine 4/5 side of digital twins is implemented and connected with MATLAB/Simulink;
– How Extended Reality contributes to enhancing the learning processes with Unreal Engine and various VR and AR headsets.

Siemens Industry Lunch Session

Title: Executable Digital Twin. From simulations to reality.
Scheduling: Friday June 16th, 2023.  Location: Library. Room: L.3.1. Time: 11:30-12:30.
Speaker: Raluca Raia
Abstract: While simulation models are still the basis of modern product design engineering, executable digital twin (xDT) expands the usefulness of a traditional digital replica through the product life-time cycle. This feature allows to run real-time simulations and to make real-time predictions, as the system state of health, increasing the reliability of industrial systems by early fault diagnosis. xDT is a physics-based virtual model and uses only a few data coming from sensors to determine the system real-time performance and then to predict the whole behavior of the system at given virtual sensors locations. It evolves and updates to reflect any change in the real system, becoming smart and self-adaptive by including Kalman filters to estimate the states or the parameters of the system. All approaches must be carefully chosen so that the used algorithms fit the requirements of high-fidelity nonlinear models of industrial complexity. Join us on a journey that takes you from modelling a high-fidelity digital replica of an industrial system to its interaction with the real physical one. We will show you how to:
– Use Simcenter Amesim within the framework proposed by IMOCO4.E
(https://www.imoco4e.eu/) to build a high-fidelity virtual model of an industrial system.
– Improve the physics-based model and used algorithms to match reality by using XiL (Model and Software in the Loop).
– Augment the xDT with new data using Kalman filters
– Perform predictive maintenance, discover effects early and push the device to the limit to make sure it is safe and reliable.
– Install the developed xDT on the edge, in the cloud.

Thales Lunch Session

Title: TBA
Scheduling: Friday June 16th, 2023.  Location: Library. Room: L.4.1. Time: 11:30-12:30.
Speaker: TBA
Abstract: TBA