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ADOreD – SYSTEC participates in the new project that aims to accelerate the deployment of offshore wind energy using DC technology

October 10, 2022October 10, 2022 admin Latest News

ADOreD – Accelerating the Deployment of Offshore wind using DC technology (01/10/2022 – 30/09/2026)

Renewable power is one of the main drives to achieve carbon reduction and net-zero, and to meet the ambitious climate goals. In particular, offshore wind power in Europe has been developing at a rapid pace in recent years. Multi-Giga watts offshore wind farms with larger wind turbine power ratings, floating wind turbines installed in deeper water areas, and higher ratio of renewables integrated to existing power grids, are fundamentally changing power system operations and bringing new challenges and technical demands. This industry doctorate consortium, ADOreD, will recruit and train 15 Researchers by collaborating with 19 academic and industrial organizations. It aims to tackle the academic and technical challenges in the areas of transmission of offshore wind power to the AC grid by using power electronics-based AC/DC technologies. In doing so, it will equip the Researchers, through their PhD studies, with essential knowledge and skills to face fast energy transition in their future careers. The project covers 3 key research aspects: offshore wind (including wind turbines, wind power collection, and wind farm design and control); DC technologies (including AC/DC converters, HVDC control and DC network operation and protection); and AC grid (including stability and control of AC grids dominated with converters under various control modes. The ADOreD consortium has excellent coverage of academic universities and industry organizations including manufacturers, energy utilities, system operators, consultancy and technology innovation centers. All the research questions in the project reflect industry needs; academic novelty and innovation will be reflected in the methodologies and solutions; and the research results will be disseminated directly to the industry partners’ products, grid operation and services. The outcomes of the project are both technologies and a talent pool to accelerate the deployment and grid integration of large-scale offshore wind power.

Partners from Denmark, United Kingdom, China, Portugal, Germany, Belgium, Spain, Island:

Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto (FEUP – SYSTEC) and Danmarks Tekniske Universitet (Coordinator);
Cardiff University;
Centrale Lille Institut; China Electric Power Research Institute (SEAL) SOE;
EFACEC ENERGIA – Máquinas e Equipamentos Eléctricos S.A;
Global Energy Interconnection Research;
Institute Europe GMBH;
Hitachi Energy Germany AG;
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven;
NKT GMBH & CO KG;
Ore Catapult Development Services Limited;
RED Electrica de Espana S.A.U.;
Scottish Hydro Electric Transmission PLC;
Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy AS;
TNEI Services Limited;
Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya;
Vattenfall Vindkraft A/S;
Youwind Renewables EHF;
YUSO

ISR – Research Grant – RELIABLE–BIL1&BIL2

Call open for applications for two (2) Research Grants within the framework of project RELIABLE – Advances in control design methodologies for safety critical systems applied to robotics, reference PTDC/EEI-AUT/3522/2020, with financial support from FCT/MCTES through national funds (PIDDAC), under the following conditions:

Scientific Area: Electrical and Computer Engineering, Informatics, Mechanics and related areas;
Admission requirements: Candidates who cumulatively meet the following two requirements may apply for this grant:
- To be a student enrolled in a master’s degree or integrated master’s or in an integrated master’s program who has already completed the 180 credits corresponding to the first six curricular semesters in the area of Electrical and Computer Engineering or Informatics or Mechanics, a requirement to be duly proven at the time of contracting; and
- Hold a bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering Sciences, or Computer Engineering Sciences, Mechanical Engineering Sciences, or related areas.

FEUP | Research Grant |BM-SYSTEC ATLANTIDA

September 30, 2022October 12, 2022 admin Opportunities, Past Calls

Applications: 26-09-2022 to 10-10-2022

Call open for applications for a research grant within the framework of project ATLANTIDA – Platform for the monitoring of the North Atlantic ocean and tools for the sustainable exploitation of marine resources, with reference NORTE-01-0145-FEDER-000040, co-financed by the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF), through the North Portugal Regional Operational Programme (NORTE2020), under the PORTUGAL 2020 Partnership Agreement, under the following conditions: EditalEN

PT:

Encontra-se aberto concurso para a atribuição de uma Bolsa de Investigação, no âmbito do projeto ATLANTIDA – Platform for the monitoring of the North Atlantic ocean and tools for the sustainable exploitation of the marine resources, com a referência NORTE-01-0145-FEDER-000040, cofinanciado pelo Fundo Europeu de Desenvolvimento Regional (FEDER), através do Programa Operacional Regional do Norte (NORTE 2020), ao abrigo do Portugal 2020, nas seguintes condições: EditalPT

MENT.UP!

September 28, 2022September 28, 2022 admin Latest News

INVENTHEI, a SYSTEC project co-funded by EIT Manufacturing, presents the first session of its mentoring program – MENT.UP!

The event took place on Wednesday, September 28, 2022, opening doors to startups, researchers and guest speakers, in what will be the Kick-off of this initiative, which aims to offer training and follow-up to Start-ups, Scale-ups, Spin-offs and others interested in participating.

The agenda included an initial keynote with the presentation of the initiative, followed by an intervention by guest speaker Miguel Sousa from INOVA+. In addition, Start-ups Carbopora, Azitek and Pixel Voltaic were present to present their activities, including challenges they face, and establish collaborations with researchers.

Financing opportunities were also presented.

Inova+ Awards

September 27, 2022September 27, 2022 admin Latest News

INOVA+ celebrated its 25th anniversary with the launch of a national competition to award innovative projects in a scientific and business context, with the potential of an international scale, and to distinguish, through the CAREER AWARD – SCIENTIFIC EXCELLENCE, those who have remarkably careers and who, in doing so, has contributed to asserting excellence in teaching and research.

In this edition, PROFESSOR FERNANDO LOBO PEREIRA was awarded, posthumously, the personality of the year award, distinguishing and recognizing the excellence of his scientific career and the contribution that, by example, he made to society.

The communication of the results took place in a public session, on the 26th of September 2022, in the FEUP Auditorium.

MAGIC Workshop 2021

August 18, 2022August 18, 2022 admin Past Events

Multi-Agent Control and Estimation for the Conciliation of Multi-Horizon Objectives

Porto, 29th January 2021

This workshop aimed at disseminating the activities developed within the scope of the MAGIC project, and presenting results related to the development and synthesis of a new control and estimation architecture for multi-agent subsystems limited by a common environment in which individual short-term objectives conflict with the desirable evolution of the long-term global system. The range of problems motivating this architecture is extremely diverse and comprehensive: sustainable exploitation of natural resources, advanced manufacturing systems, governance of social systems (health, mobility, etc.).

MASTER’S COURSE IN MATHEMATICS

August 18, 2022September 19, 2022 admin Past Events

Universidade Eduardo Mondlane (UEM), Mozambique 2020/2021

ISR-Porto researchers collaborated with the Faculty of Sciences, Universidade Eduardo Mondlane, Mozambique, in the specification of the first plan of the Master’s Course in Mathematics, and have been supervising three Master Thesis.
The Master’s Course in Mathematics aims to train qualified specialists to carry out academic and professional activities in the various fields of Mathematics, as well as the updating of professionals in Mathematics.
ISR-Porto regards this effort as a first step in a strategic long-term cooperation which envisages its extension to PhD research programs, and cooperative research projects in the best interests of both institutions.

EIT Manufacturing Winter School 2021

August 18, 2022August 18, 2022 admin Past Events

Online activities 15th-18th November 2021
Porto, 22nd-26th November 2021

Inspired in the new European Bauhaus initiative, the EITM 2021 Winter School will bring down walls between science and technology, art, culture and social inclusion. If you are a PhD student and you want to boost skills and competencies that are needed to find solutions for complex everyday problems, you should participate to the 2021 Winter School of the EIT Manufacturing (EITM) Doctoral School which is focused on how industry can benefit from the acceleration of the twin green and digital transitions to build a more sustainable and resilient society and economy.

This is an exceptional opportunity for intercultural, cross-organizational mobility and interdisciplinary views, embedded in a unique, trans-sectoral pan-European network. The proposed programme consists of an integrated innovative “learning-by-doing” curricula on the crossroads of several disciplines, covering Science, Technology and Arts. Students will be faced with a big-challenge to be tackled by medium size multidisciplinary teams (7-8 members).

The winter school schedule includes company visits and networking events with start-ups/entrepreneurs and a session held in collaboration with the actors from the local innovation and entrepreneurship ecosystem, but also traditional Porto culture and gastronomy.

The EITM Winter School will

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SYSTEC SUMMER SCHOOL – 2021 Edition

August 18, 2022August 18, 2022 admin Past Events

Porto, September 1^st – 30^th, 2021

About

The hands-on research component is designed to fit the following technical niches Research Initiation for undergrad students.

This consists of a set of personalized projects requiring basic knowledge that will be articulated in the following contexts:

Control of drones, notably, UAVs (Unmanned Aerial Vehicles) of the copter type for surveillance, monitoring, support communications, and transportation of small packages.
Optimization for the sustainable management of natural resources.
Management and control of novel advanced systems for harvesting renewable energies
Modelling and control of epidemic and pandemic phenomena
Applications of Networked Systems – Control and Estimation – for Situational Awareness
Management and control of Renewable Energy Systems integrated in the Electrical Grid
Sustainable Mobility Systems
Advanced Production Systems
Research for graduated students.

SUMMER SCHOOL SYSTEC – 2020 Edition

August 18, 2022August 18, 2022 Past Events

Applications to Cyber-Physical Systems in Robotics, Energy, Mobility, Production Systems and Health

Porto, August 3^rd – 31^st, 2020

About

The SYSTEC Summer School on “Estimation, Control, Optimization and Data Science – Applications to Cyber-Physical Systems in Robotics, Energy, Mobility, Production Systems and Health” is organized into two components – scholar part and hands-on research part – designed to be for students in two levels of maturity: Research Initiation, and Research.
The scholar part comprehends the following curricular units with 20 hours of presential sessions taking place in the months indicate in parenthesis: Functional Analysis (July and August), Optimal Control (July and August), Machine Learning (July and August), Model Predictive Control (September), and Non-linear Control (September). The topics in each one of the curricular units may be regarded as a complementary continuation of the akin ones typically delivered in the first and second cycles of the Electrical and Computer Engineering and in Applied Mathematics, and in Computer Science. Moreover, they are designed to induce the use of advanced concepts in wide variety of societally relevant applications, and, thus, their role will be o provide the tools to be used in the research component at both levels.

Scholar Component

Functional Analysis (July and August)
Optimal Control (July and August)
Machine Learning (July and August)
Model Predictive Control (September)
Non-linear Control (September)

Research Initiation for undergrad students

This consists on a set of personalized projects requiring basic knowledge that will be articulated in the following contexts:

Control of drones, notably, UAVs (Unmanned Aerial Vehicles) of the copter type for surveillance, monitoring, support communications, and transportation of small packages.
Optimization for the sustainable management of natural resources.
Management and control of novel advanced systems for harvesting renewable energies
Modelling and control of epidemic and pandemic phenomena
Applications of Networked Systems – Control and Estimation – for Situational Awareness
Management and control of Renewable Energy Systems integrated in the Electrical Grid
Sustainable Mobility Systems
Advanced Production Systems

Research for graduated students

This consists in more elaborate and in-depth projects that will be proposed by the research students as far as they fall in the scientific areas of the Summer School.