MCIA

Motion Control and Industrial Applications

General description of the activity

The MCIA belongs to Polytechnic University of Catalonia (UPC). It was founded in 1997 as research group growing until become a leader in electronic systems.

The concrete lines of work of the Centre are:

• Industrial Diagnostic: Evolution towards predictive and remote maintenance and remote.
• Energy management. Evolution towards distributed energy optimiztion systems.
• Electromobility. Evolution towards an electric car and less pollutant.
• Industrial Electric Drives. Towards an optimized algorithms for control and regeneration
• Communications and systems integration. Electronic Equipment networks

Specific areas of research energy field

• Development and integration of Technologies for Electric Vehicles
• Research into systems for the management of the energetic demand in buildings and industrial plants.
• Improvement of the energetic efficiency of components and systems.
• Integral use of Energy and integration of distributed generation systems.
• Development and implementation of renewable energies.
• Conception, design, control and supervision of Electric Distribution Micronets