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INDUSTRIES AND APPLICATIONS

pulp & paper, mining, steel production, district heating, railway (infrastructure and rolling stock), military air fleets, hauling vehicles, HVAC systems, NDT ultrasonic testing, cybersecurity.

ENGINEERING FIELDS

control engineering, signal processing, thermodynamics, mathematics, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, optimization, Digital Twins.

MODELING & SIMULATION

State Machines, Petri Nets, game theory, Markov Chains, statistical modelss, ML/AI models,

ASSETS AND INFRASTRUCTURE

Railway: Rolling stock, off-road trucks, catenary infrastructure (doppers, masts, …), track, railway crossings

Pulp & paper: pulp refiners, stock preparation plant, bark boiler, secondary heating systems

Mining: rotary air heat exchangers for ventilation, mining drill rigs, support systems such as rockbolts, aerial drones

Health: HVAC systems for hospitals

Military: aircrats

MACHINE LEARNING & AI

Explainable Learning, Expert Systems, algorithms, big data, data-driven decission making, data analytics, Natural Language Processing (NLP), model performance/quality evaluation, baselines, human-machine interaction, Predictive Analytics.

EXTENDED REALITY (XR)

Augmented Reality (AR), Virtual Reality (VR)

EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN

factorial design, experimental design for (non)linear multivariate dynamic systems (white noise, steps, impulse, multisine, ..)

UNSUPERVISED LEARNING

Clustering, Density-based clustering, DBSCAN, Spetral Clustering

SUPERVISED LEARNING

regression, neural networks, support vector machines

NEURAL NETWORKS

deep learning, multi-layer perceptron, transfer learning, convolutional neural networks (CNN), neural encoders-decoders, dataset augmentation, data morphing, query by context,

SIGNAL PROCESSING

time domain analysis, frequency domain analysis (wavelets, fourier, …), stochastic signals, estimation theory, data mining, big data, sensor fusion, data quality assesment, slicing and dicing

INFORMATION SOURCES

LIDAR, Ultrasounds, GPS, time-series, imagery, streey level imagery, text logs,

MATHEMATICS

differential equations, partial differential equations (PDE), linearization, Volterra Series, statistical analysis, differential geometry,

PROGRAMMING LANGUATES, EDITORS AND FRAMEWORKS

Python, TensorFlow, keras, PyTorch, SQL, html, MATLAB, Simulink, Octave, C++, C#, Atom, Latex, Visual Studio Code, Unity

OPTIMIZATION

Convex Optimization, Assignment Problems, Integer Programmin, Large-scale Optimization Problems, Linear Programming (Simplex, Hungarian algorithm, Push-Pull, …), Mixed-Integer (Linear) Programming, genetic algorithms, cvx, yalmip

CONTROL ENGINEERING

LTI systems, PID, Input-Output Selection, Control Structure Selection, Control Configuration Selection, Multivariable Control, Non-linear Control, Kalman Filtering, System Identification in Time Domain, System Identification in Frequency Domain, Non-linear System Identification, Large-scale processes, Robust Control, Non-linear Control.

PHYSICS

Heat and mass balances,

COMPUTER VISION

Object Boundary Tracing (e.g. Moore Neighborhood), Background/object separation (e.g. Otsu Thresholding), Convolutional Neural Networks, Image Dataset Augmentation, Image Classification, Object Detection, Image Segmentation, Hough Transform, one-shot learning, Automatic Feature Extraction, feature engineering, Vanishing Point Estimation, Context-based Image Retrieval.

MAINTENANCE

Diagnostics, Prognostics and Health Management (PHM), Remaining Useful Life (RUL) prediction, Asset Management, eMaintenance, Prescriptive Analytics.

INDUSTRIAL PROCESSES

Stock Preparation Plant, Pulp Refining, Secondary Heating Systems, HVAC systems, walking beam furnace, bark boiler.

OTHER

autonomous aerial vehicles, mobile robots, path planning, tactical matchng