RESEARCH

   The Industrial Electronics Department develops several Research & Development projects, privileging close relations to the industry.  The department has facilities both at Braga (Gulbenkian) and at Guimarães (campus of Azurém).  The Department's R&D activity and projects are centered around the following areas:

• Electronics and Instrumentation.
• Control and Automation.
• Power Electronics.
• Industrial Informatics.

   The Industrial Electronics Department disposes of three workshops and several laboratories to support research:

• Printed Circuits Processing Workshop
• Mechanical Workshop
• Electronics Workshop
• Laboratory of Microprocessors and Microcomputers
• Laboratory of Image Processing and Artificial Vision
• Laboratory of Industrial Informatics, Automation and Robotics
• Laboratory of Electronics and Instrumentation

RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS

   Most projects, including PhD work, are being carried out on industry demand. The following is a listing of recently finished or on-going projects:

• Intelligent Load Cells and Electronic Weighting Systems.
• Development of Controllers for Tower Clocks and Bells.
• Grafcet (SFC) Language in Programmable Industrial Controllers.
• Data Acquisition System for Local Public Transportation Vehicles.
• Distributed System for Yarn Evenness Quality Control in Textile Industry.
• Induction Motor Variable Speed Drives.
• Intelligent Building Management.
• Robotics and Computer Vision in Footwear Industry.
• Applications of Artificial Intelligence to Control and Automation.
• Remote Control of Meteorological Stations and Data Retrieval for Agriculture Advise and Forecast.
• Distributed System for Production Control in Labour-intensive Industries.
• Automatic Intelligent Identification Using Transponder Technology.
• Mobile Robot Navigation.
• Representation of Sensorial Data Using Artificial Intelligence Techniques.
• Power Line Conditioners.
• Industrial Communications.
• Computer Networks.
• Speech Recognition.
• Silicium Integrated Micro-instrumentation Systems.
• On-line Seam's Production Control and Optimization.
• Coloured Petri Nets, Formal Logic and VHDL to DevelopDdiscrete Event Controllers.
• Public Vehicle Fleet Management and Control.
• Measurement of Relevant Leather Characteristics and Flexible Material Handling.
• Image Processing for the Analysis of Textured Pictures.
• Wireless Sensorial Station.
• Decision Support Systems for Production and Warehousing.
• Speech Synthesis.