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Control Engineering Laboratory is both nationally and internationally known as the unit of high level teaching and application research. This results in publications and doctoral degrees, but also in active international researcher and student exchange.

Teaching

Control Engineering Laboratory takes care of teaching at the graduate level in

-basics of control and instrumentation
-modelling
-simulation 
-optimisation
-intelligent methods
-applications in paper, metallurgical and biotechnical processes

 
For post graduate students, intelligent methods (fuzzy logic, neural networks, genetic algorithms, expert systems) is the main area.

Research Areas

Research is directed to industrial applications of intelligent methods covering a large area from paper and metallurgical industries to biotechnology and also electronics production and telecommunications. Applications consist of:

-soft sensors
-advanced control and diagnostics (lime kiln, pulp cooking, bleaching, TMP-refiner, paper machine, blast furnace, converter plant, continuous casting, solar power plant, waste water processes, bioprocesses, fluidised bed granulator)
-electronics production (testing, diagnostics, process analysis and simulation)
-rotary drying (pilot-scale process, measurements, and control test bench, distributed simulation over the web)

Graduate Schools

Laboratory participates in the Graduate School International Ph.D. Programme in Pulp and Paper Science and Technology (PAPSAT) and Graduate School in Chemical Engineering (GSCE)

International co-operation

Laboratory participated in EUNITE, European Network of Excellence, and held the position as its Scientific Director and as the Chairman of its Steering Committee. It is member in CA Network on Nature-Inspired Information systems and participes also in COST E36 project on Modelling and Simulation in Pulp and Paper Industry. It is a partner in ITEA/ESNA-project "European Sensor Network Architecture".

Student and researcher exchange goes on with several universities:

-University of Palermo and University of Calabria (Italy)
-Loughborough University and University of Cranfield (UK)
-University of Leuven (Belgium) and
-IFMA (France)

Contacts

University of Oulu, Control Engineering Laboratory

Box 4300- FIN 90014 UNIVERSITY OF OULU

tel +358 8 5531011