Automatic Control - Project Course

Aim

The project shall be carried out using industrial practice, and it shall develop and consolidate competence in the following areas:

• Apply knowledge and methods from previous courses and when necessary new knowledge shall be developed.
• Integrate knowledge from different disciplines, such as automatic control, modeling, signal processing, computer programming, and apply this knowledge in new contexts, such as project work in collaboration with industry or researchers.
• Define requirements for the project based on preliminary specifications, often defined by an external customer, and investigate the conditions under which the project work can be carried out.
• Present the project outcome for the customer and other students, whom are not expected to be experts within the fields of expertise of the students who carried out the work.
• Show the ability to in an independent way manage the project work using a project model and with limited support in terms of supervision.
• Planning, implementation and evaluation of a project.
• Analyzing problems and break down of problems.
• Creative solutions.
• Social competence.
• Modeling, design and implementation of solution.
• Of hight technical quality and be based on state-of-the-art knowledge and methods in automatic control.
• Documented in terms of project plan, project schedule, and technical report.
• Presented orally as well as with a poster.
• Evaluated in a review report.
• When applicable a user-friendly interface should be developed together with a user's manual.
• account for models that describe what it takes for a new venture to have a stable basis for further development and to assess the level of development of ventures using such models; and
• account for the information and analyses needed to evaluate a development project from a business point of view and have the ability to collect and analyze relevant information for the purpose.

Content

The project will be closely related to ongoing research withinautomatic control or to companies working in this area. An example ofa project related to ongoing research is the integration of sensorsignals from external sensors to be used in control of arobot. Another example is a project involving a UAV. Trackingand sensor fusion are possible assignments. Some projects might be conducted in collaboration with other reserach groups. Other projects will be conducted in collaboration with industry. Due to this the contents of the projects will change from year to year.