Located at the University of Udine Lab Village, is the first private laboratory set up in a university with the purpose of improving the relationship by sharing metals industry market and technical requirements.

The laboratory is a multi-disciplinary research center that operates in the field of process control, artificial intelligence, advanced automation, robotics and power electronics. It relies on the continuous presence of highly-specialized company R&D personnel to assist professors, researchers, doctoral candidates and students. Moreover, it introduces a new operating tool, the applications, meant to formulate an entire problem or a part of it, whose solution is beneficial to the metals manufacturing process.

Here below you can find an excerpt of possible applications:

> PROCESS CONTROL

• Computational metallurgy applications, both online and offline, with particular focus on microstructure prediction models.
• Optimization of consumption and environmental sustainability.
• Sensors for contactless in-line identification of intermediate/finished products.
• Sensors for in-line evaluation of size-related defects.
• Sensors and techniques for powder detection in moulds.

> ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

• Data-driven algorithms for in-line quality and sustainability assessment.
• Raw material automatic identification and classification.
• Prediction of unwanted process events, such as cobbles and breakouts.
• Applications of IIOT and big data technologies in support of data-driven models.
• Search algorithms for distributed and undistributed process data.
• Study and application of efficient compression algorithms.

> ADVANCED AUTOMATION

• Advanced plant management systems with Augmented Reality and Alert Detection techniques.
• Shape control systems in rolling mills for long products.
• Advanced control of hydraulic actuators.
• Spatial alignment algorithms for data coming from laser scanners.
• Cybersecurity enhancements in IT/OT fields.

> ROBOTICS

• Human-robot workspace sharing.
• Application of obstacle-avoidance algorithms and trajectory replanning for robots operating in dynamic unstructured environments.
• Systems for automatic sampling for quality inspections.
• Drone applications.

> POWER ELECTRONICS

• Development of digital control techniques for modulators, for rotating and non-rotating loads.
• Management and balancing of power grids, with integration of renewable energy sources.
• Design and programming of control boards based on DSP, FPGA and SoC.

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