Control and Automation

Legacy electrical infrastructure is failing to provide the reliability and the resiliency towards faults expected by the modern energy intensive society. Implementation of smarter microgrids, are proving to be part of the solution for this. Development of such systems requires distributed intelligence capabilities absent in legacy control systems. This research focuses on proposing a dual layered, multi agent based control system for distributed control of a microgridaimed at

New algorithm based on fuzzy evolutionary hybrid techniques is being introduced to obtain optimal design and control of boiler systems.Detailed energy flow and lifecycle cost model was introduced in order to support the optimization. Optimization algorithm was tested for two different load curves and obtained results were discussed.

Improving the function of prosthetic arms remains a challenge because access to the neural-control information of the arm is lost with the amputation. In order to assist the both lower limb and upper limb amputees, several robotics prosthetic limbs have being developed. However, the existing prosthetic limbs do not meet the requirements of similar human motion generation in accordance with human motion intention. Therefore, there is a necessity of developing a proper control method for a robotic prosthetic limb. In this research, biological signals(EMG/EEG)  and the sensory signals are fused to use for the controlling of a trans-humeral prosthetic arm. 

Even though a human is involved in riding, because of the unstable relationships between displacements of points and bodies, it's not an easy task to control a bicycle. Due to its non-holomonic nature, it has been a challenge to develop a motorcycle which got the ability of balancing itself without any human interaction whiles its operation. This is a successful overcome of the drastic non-linear behavior, which enables the rider to be safe, comfortable and invigorate even in a tiresome distant journey. The Robot that we introduce here is the prototype which is inspired by the humanlike self balancing ability