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The Engineering Conference Southern Norway 2011
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Date: 12 May 2011, kl 08:00-19:00
Place: Grimstad, Faculty of Engineering and Science, Jon Lilletuns Veg 9. Auditorium A2-135.
Registration: External participants use this link or contakt NFA, Phone: +47 90 90 92 94
NOK 400 for external participants. Students/employees from UiA have free entrance, but registration is required. (Note: the number of seats for UiA participants is limited).
Collaborating Partners: IEEE Control Systems Society (Chapter Norway), NFA, NITO, Tekna.
Research Session with Topics: Systems, Modelling, Control and Robotics
Session Chair: Hamid Reza Karimi, Professor UiA.
08:00 - 08:20 Registration
08:20 - 08:30 Opening of the session and welcome by Professor Hamid Reza Karimi
08:30 - 09:00 Presentation 1: Professor Michael Basin, Autonomous University of Nuevo Leon, Mexico. Title: New Trends in State Filtering and Parameter Estimation for Polynomial and Time-Delay Systems
09:00 - 09:30 Presentation 2: Dr. Thomas Jagalski, University of Bremen. Title: Autonomous Control of a Shop Floor Based on the Nest Construction Behavior of Wasps
09:30 - 10:00 Presentation 3: Professor Rafael Wisniewski, Aalborg Universitet. Title: Verification of Control Systems by Timed Automata
10:00 - 10:30 Coffee Break
10:30 - 11:00 Presentation 4: Professor Michael Basin, Autonomous University of Nuevo Leon, Mexico. Title: Optimal Sliding Mode Algorithms for Dynamic Systems
11:00 - 11:30 Presentation 5: Professor Josep M. Rossell, BarcelonaTech, Spain, Tittel: Semi-decentralized strategies in structural vibration control.
11:30 - 12:00 Presentation 6: Professor Mogens Blanke, Technical University of Denmark. Title: Fault-tolerant systems - concepts and design methods
12:00 - 13:00 Lunch Break
Industry Session with Topic: Visualisation in Automated Operations
Session Chair: Lars Annfinn Ekornsæter, Director NFA.
13:00 - 13:45 Registration
13:50 - 14:00 Opening of the session by Lars Annfinn Ekornsæter, NFA
14:00 - 14:30 Presentation 1: Elkem, Trygve Hanssen and Åslaug Grøvlen. Title: 'Information Technology and Furnaces'
14:30 - 15:00 Presentation 2: ConocoPhillips, Ole Klingsheim. Title: Integrated Operations.
15:00 - 15:30 Coffee Break 1
15:30 - 16:00 Presentation 3: National Oilwell Varco, Tore Berg. Title: "Drilling Simulator".
16:00 - 16:30 Presentation 4: Marine Cybernetics, Jan-Egil Wagnild. Title: "3rd party testing of drilling systems".
16:30 - 17:00 Coffee Break 2
17:00 - 17:30 Presentation 5: Agder Energy, Kyle Brennan. Title: Fjeldskår Open Wind park - Making scada and wind measurements available online for research.
17:30 - 18:00 Presentation 6: GE Healthcare Lindesnes Fabrikker, Brit Sterud. Title: Change of information needs when centralising operations in pharmaceutical industry.
18:00 - 18:10 Summary and conclusion of the conference
18:10 - 19:00 Food and drinks in the canteen
Visitors coming from west (Kristiansand) by bus 5: By arrival Grimstad the bus will pass through two roundabouts (the first by Statoil). In the last roundabout, press the stop button. The bus passes underneath a pedestrian bridge by Ericsson. The UiA campus Grimstad has address Jon Lilletun Veg 9 (200m walk to the right relative to the direction of the bus).
Visitors coming from east (Arendal) by bus 5: Third bus-stop after Grimstad main bus station. The UiA campus Grimstad has address Jon Lilletun Veg 9 (200m walk to the left relative to the direction of the bus).
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