Lab Control

Lab Control is a research laboratory located at Universidade Tecnológica Federal do Paraná (UTFPR), Brazil. UTFPR is a public Brazilian university located in the Paraná state, Brazil.

Lab Control develops research on Control Systems and Automation. More details about Lab Control can be found here: http://paginapessoal.utfpr.edu.br/avargas/laboratory-of-automatic-control-systems External Link

Research projects

Unmanned vehicles
- Autonomous Rover
- Quadcopter
Electric machines
- Sensor and sensorless brushed DC motor control
- Sensor and sensorless BLDC motor control
Automotive
- Throttle body position control
- Modeling the intake manifold pressure of an automotive engine
Power conversion
- Linear driver LM317 with Arduino control
- Driver linear com 3A
Renewable Energy
- Solar tracker system based on a photovoltaic panel and fixed in a rover
Mechatronics
- Shaking table with magnetorheological damper
- Control techniques applied to Electronic Power Steering (EPS)
Process control
- Heating systems
- FESTO
Wireless communication
- Bluetooth systems
Dynamical systems
- Stability and control of stochastic systems
- Linear Matrix Inequalities (LMIs)
Note-taking archive
- Zettelkasten-Note taking archive

Team

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Team members inside an office of Lab Control

Team members outside the building that hosts Lab Control

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Pictures

Lab Control in pictures [click here for the PDF file]

Coordinator: Scientific Director

Scientific Director of Lab Control: Prof. Alessandro N. Vargas Google scholar

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If you are interested in joining Lab Control, then send us a message. There are available positions for Postdocs, PhD and Master studentes, and Associate research positions.