Today, embedded intelligence is found in a wide variety of contexts: cars, washing machines, televisions and mobile phones are just a few examples of everyday applications involving embedded systems. In addition to these (and an abundance of others), embedded intelligence is also applied in product manufacturing processes: the modern industrial automation is largely based on digital, information and communications technologies. In all these targets, embedded intelligence refers in practice to a control algorithm executed by a microprocessor, a programmable logic or an application-specific ASIC circuit included in the device.
The fields of expertise in the Laboratory of Control Engineering and Digital Systems cover the development and implementation of control algorithms (digitally by DSP processors and FPGA circuits), automation information systems and data transmission in industrial environments. Current and previous research activities of the Laboratory focus for instance on the sensorless control of permanent magnet synchronous machines, the FPGA-based control of frequency converters, digital control of active magnetic bearings, electric power network data transmission in industrial environments, preventive condition monitoring algorithms and data transmission of electrical drives, and the network connection of distributed generation.
The Laboratory is responsible for the advanced studies in Embedded Systems, Industrial Automation and Communications Electronics that are all included in the major subject of Industrial Electronics.