MINERVA

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MINERVA IDENTITY project Kick-off meeting 18
December 2006 Brasov, Romania
Partner Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade
de Ciências e Tecnologia Portugal Luís Gomes
and Fernando Coito lugo_at_uninova.pt fjvc_at_fct.un
l.pt
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New University of Lisbon Faculty of Sciences
and Technology
PORTUGAL
EUROPE
Lisbon
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Lisbon airport
Lisbon downtown
Almada
Costa da Caparica
Monte da Caparica
Setubal
Campus and residence
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New University of LisbonFaculty of Sciences and
Technology
UNINOVA Institute
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Research Groups
Group on Reconfigurable and Embedded Systems
Control of Industrial Plants
Electrical Machines Group
Telecomunications Group
Microelectronics and Signal Processing
Robotics and Integrated Manufacturing
Soft Computing and Autonomous Agents Group
Research Group on Systems Integration
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Department Structure
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Offers on Electrical and Computer Engineering
after Bologna declaration

• Integrated MSc5 year long study cycle (300 ECTS)
  integrating
• 1st cycle (180 ECTS)
• 2nd cycle (120 ECTS)
• Emphasis on flexibility, broad spectrum
• Specialized MSc2 year long 2nd cycle (120 ECTS)
• Focused on specialization

1st cycle Licenciatura 2nd cycle
MSc Engineer habilitation 300 ECTS
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Lab Activity

• Hands on
• Digital simulation (ex SPICE, MATLAB)
• Lab scale hardware replicas
• Remote access (some experitments)

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Process control - I

• Typical situation one-of-a-kind experiment
• High cost of each experiment
• Typical goals of remote labs
• Time-sharing among students of a course
• Time-sharing among different institutions
• Prevent damages due to bad configuration and
  usage
• Prevent injuries due to bad usage

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Process control - II

• Remote Control and Monitoring of Systems
• Experimentation on different types of processes

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Process control - III
It is possible to switch between real experiment
and models/simulation .
LABVIEW
MATLAB

• Data acquisition
• Monitoring Control

• Client management
• Data sharing
• Matlab code execution

• Application launching
• Signal visualization
• Support to analysis

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Process control Automation

• Small stand-alone simulators

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Embedded systems - I

• Typical situation possibility to replicate the
  experiment set-up
• Relatively low cost of each set-up
• Typical goals of remote labs
• Time-sharing among students of a course
• Time-sharing among different institutions
• Prevent damages due to bad configuration and usage

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Embedded systems - II
Remote labs and microcontrollers teaching
LabView
Dedicated System
Circuit Under Test
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Embedded systems - III
Remote labs and Domotics
Remote client
Server
Internet
remote access
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Looking forward for a fruitful collaboration and
to welcome you at Lisbon, Portugal