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In the paper the authors briefly describe the aims and content of an international project focused on modernization of tertiary education in the target countries (the Ukraine, Armenia, and Georgia). The quality of teaching technical subjects is assured by providing practically oriented syllabi and modules in the embedded system environment and by creating remote laboratories in the target institutions.
Internet of Things (IoT), Big Data and Data Analytics have become topics of interest in the Industrial Automation world. “Analytics for Industrial Automation” is significantly different from Analytics for Social Media and similar applications which can be generalized as “Analytics for IT”. Of late there are several products and solutions from automation solution providers to address analytic needs...
Modern Industrial automation system are totally software driven. The software that drives the system generates significant amount of data. This data can be used for monitoring of the industrial plants critical parameters to take decisions on time-critical actions and visualization of the plant behavior. These actions could be controlled by the user or automated. The Advent of cloud and mobile computing...
We investigate the operationalization of mental workload (MWL) for adaptive pilot support. Common approaches have proven their benefits either for functional allocation in automation and crew station design, or in statistically grounded human-machine system evaluations. In this article, we argue why many established methods are not viable for a continuous, nonintrusive, context-rich, absolute rating...
Smart grid encompasses a variety of tools, techniques and technologies that will allow energy suppliers to more accurately measure electricity flows and remotely control each point of the transmission and distribution network using two way digital technology. In this paper, determine the optimal level of automation in distribution networks with local remote control switches and VIT switches automation...
The reduction of the effort required for integration of a module into a production plant is the fundamental aim of modular plant architectures. Effective module integration can be achieved, for instance, by shifting engineering efforts from the classical site-engineering to the engineering of plant modules. The basis of this approach is the formal description of various aspects of a module in a module...
The development of the smart grid requires new monitoring systems feasible to support automation functionalities as control of DER. As the key element in the monitoring system, the real time distribution system state estimation (DSSE) integrated with bad data processor is presented in this work. The developed DSSE is suitable for the real time application because it has the benefits of more computational...
This paper addresses the efficient generation of models for cyber-physical systems from large historical data sets. A cyber-physical system (CPS) is a system composed of physical subsystems together with computing and networking. CPS models are required for monitoring and control of the physical processes. Such models are in general hybrid models that take into account both discrete control signals...
Industrial networks represent an important business for automation systems manufacturers that offer proprietary solutions and claim for the payment of license fees. However, automation can be achieved even by exploiting standard protocols in order to avoid or limit the use of proprietary solutions. The considered case study, related to the innovation of an oil refinery, illustrates a viable approach...
Robot Framework is a generic test automation framework based on keyword-driven and has been widely used in the automated testing of server. In this paper, Robot Framework is extended by test libraries to include some features in order to meet the demands of server testing, and the extended framework is used to execute the automated installation testing of server drives and firmware. Finally, analysis...
Online process mining techniques are increasingly used to provide operational support. In this work we describe tools to support distributed business processes which handle sensitive data and require a high level of security together with real-time validation. The techniques presented here have been specifically developed for real-time compliance checking of distributed processes in choreographies...
Nowadays, energy production/distribution moves from the conventional, centralised operational framework towards more distributed/decentralised models. Such a distributed/decentralised framework for future smart energy networks based on the optimal formation of virtual micro-grids (VMGs) has been developed in the context of the VIMSEN (Virtual Microgrids for Smart Energy Networks) research project...
In allusion to the failure data submergence in a circuit breaker burning accident in a conventional substation of a coal mine, and in view of those supervision and control system defects in a conventional substation such as information islands, complication of network nodes and subsystems, nonstandardization of application function, poor expansion of system, and also high charge of operating and maintenance,...
The incessant need of the industry to optimize processes due to market demands derived in a huge investment on information communication technologies implementation during last decades, in the industrial automation domain. This caused the implementation of paradigms as service-oriented or event-driven architectures in factories, used for wide data integration. Moreover, the use of knowledge representation,...
In this paper, a new Distribution Management System (DMS) based on security region is proposed. First, the model and topological characteristics of Distribution System Security Region (DSSR) are both introduced. This new theoretic tool provides a chance to implement real-time security analysis and control for distribution systems. Second, this paper proposes and describes five security states for...
This Paper presents the design of a mechanism for the automation of the Integrated Spacecraft testing. This model executes the pre-defined sub-system test schedules in parallel with the various activities for the performance evaluation, anomaly monitoring and safety-critical operations on the Spacecraft. It guarantees unmanned testing of the complex spacecraft sub systems in a controlled environment...
This paper presents a model for integrating an advanced process control library in a cloud-based environment. The aim is to lower the development times, to reduce maintenance effort and decrease the complexity of process control applications by adopting a modular approach consisting of generic, reusable control strategies following an IEC 61499 representation. The solution uses open cloud technologies...
Energy efficiency of buildings has been identified as a core element in facing the climate change and the scarcity of energy resources. The energy supply system for a building is, especially with view on thermal interrelations, a highly complex and heterogeneous system that emerges jointly with the building construction, the user's behavior, the weather conditions and the surrounding energy and price...
This paper presents an experiment to evaluate the effects of immersive displays in a multi-UAV context in which the operator may need to understand not only the 3D spatial relationships between the UAVs but also where the UAV is with respect to mountains or other obstacles. To this end, a 3D simulator was developed and displays were selected based on their Field-of-Regard (FoR). Participants supervised...
The advent of cloud, big data, and mobile creates fast-growing demand of storage. Cloud service providers and data centers are looking for cost-effective storage solution alternative to traditional high-cost embedded-system based storages to meet the need of newly emerging applications, such as messaging, video streaming, data analytics, etc. In particular, they are facing the challenge of lowering...
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