In our group we have significant experience in
developing software for teaching, research and mainly in cooperation research contracts
with the industry. We have developed several packages for optimisation and also for
special purpose data acquisition, control and automation of industrial laboratories and
production plants.
For the development of dedicated software tools UNIX and WINDOWS
95/98/NT environments are in general employed, considering the relevance of these OS in
industry, but we keep an open line with LINUX, considering its foreseen future potential.
The group has now much experience in developing graphical interfaces, a relevant aspect
for the acceptance of software tools in the industrial environment. The tools are
developed always separating the graphical interface from the computation code which is
strictly written in standard code.
Especially in the fields of process monitoring, optimisation and
control the group has a number of capacities to offer. The group has know-how for
developing all the necessary software modules for: off-line large scale optimisation,
physical process/computer communications, data pre-processing storage and visualization,
open-loop control, closed-loop control and on-line optimising control. The group is
currently developing a package which integrates all these modules to serve as a template
for special purpose applications.
Here are some of the most important software products
developed:
 | MDIS -
Interactive Multisource Dispersion - This is a GUI oriented software package developed in
QuickBasic for the Apple Macintosh used for gaussian air pollution dispersion studies
(contact - R. Salcedo). |
| MSGA -
MINLP stochastic adaptive random search algorithm (contact - R. Salcedo).
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| MSIMPSA -
Minlp stochastic simulated annealing algorithm (contact - R. Salcedo)
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| SATSA -
Sequential Analysis of Time Series - This is a GUI oriented software package developed in
Fortran 77 for the Apple Macintosh used for time series analysis studies (contact - R.
Salcedo) |
| MIMOSA -
This is a software package for real-time dynamical processes simulation. This package
implements DAC (Digital to Analog Converters) and ADC (Analog to Digital Converters)
signal conversion for interfacing with control systems currently available in the market.
We use this software for testing most of our control strategies and most of our control
equipment. This software package runs under MS-DOS operative system (contact S. Feyo de
Azevedo) |
| DIGICON -
This is a software package for DIGItal CONtrol. It implements several classic and advanced
control strategies and was designed to work together with MIMOSA. DIGICON implements DAC
(Digital to Analog Converters) and ADC (Analog to Digital Converters) signal conversion
being possivel to apply it for control in industrial processes. DIGICON runs under the
WINDOWS NT operative system (contact - S. Feyo de Azevedo)
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| TEACON -
This is a software package for TEAching CONtrol. We use it to suport our students on
learning instrumentation and control (contact - S. Feyo de Azevedo)
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| AlcoLab Applications - This is a set of applications for quality control and statistical analysis
developed for the company ALCO S.A (contact - S. Feyo de Azevedo)
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