Research Areas

Area of ​​Concentration: Control, Automation and Systems (single area)

Research area: Control

System Modeling, Simulation, and Identification; Control of Continuous, Discrete-Event, and Hybrid Dynamic Systems; Measurement and Instrumentation for Control and Automation.


Research area: Automation and Mechatronic Systems 

Manipulator Robots, Mobile Robotics, Computer Vision Systems, Urban Traffic Control, Virtual Enterprises and Collaborative Networks, Actuators.

Research Area: Computational Systems

Real-Time, Fault Tolerance and Safety, Distributed Systems and Networks, Software Engineering, Artificial Intelligence, and Industrial Informatics.

Research area: Automation, control, optimization, and instrumentation of energy systems, with a focus on oil, gas, and renewable sources.

Regulatory and advanced process control for the oil & gas and renewable energy industries; predictive control and real-time optimization of oil fields and renewable energy production plants; instrumentation for energy industry processes; automation of oil and gas production platforms; automation of solar power plants.