Flanders Make: Mechatronics 4.0 – Masterclass V

Best practices toward robust sensing & control of your system

The Mechatronica 4.0 project aims to help Flemish companies to put the Industry 4.0 philosophy into practice. Sensing and control technology will be a key feature of the next generation of autonomous, safety and inspection systems, and it is the focus of our next Mechatronics 4.0 Masterclass. The aim of this masterclass is to inform you about the possibilities of sensing and control systems, to provide you insights into how to integrate these systems into products or production systems and how to develop them in an effective way.

Typical questions that will be addressed during the masterclass:

• Which control technique fits my application?
• What can learning control add to my product?
• Which hardware and toolchain can I use to develop my system?
• How do I put model-based control design into practise. In addition, the Mechatronics 4.0 project members will present their views on sensing and control technology, which enable the realisation of smart, adaptive products. The different themes will be illustrated with industrial use cases.

Agenda: 

08:45 Registration
09:25 Welcome & Introduction to ‘VIS-traject Mechatronics 4.0’ – Stijn Gielis, Sirris
10:00 Sensing and control technology, what is in it for me? – Abdellatif Bey-Temsamani and Bruno Depraetere, Flanders Make
10:45 Open loop control, Modern smart products – Maarten Witters, Flanders Make
11:15 Coffee break
11:30 PID control: application Scanning laser hardening and vibration suppression applications – Mats Vande Cavey and Bruno Depraetere, Flanders Make
12:00 How and why going from PID to learning / adaptive control? Uncertainty and variability in machines with repetitive tasks – Erik Hostens, Flanders Make
12:30 Company Testimonial I
13:00 – Lunch & Demos

• Light Catcher – adaptive (learning) control
• Modular drive train setup – control of magnetic bearing
• Small Jacquard set-up – model based control
• Development platforms Tractor
• MDAVD Evoque II – comparison of a lateral control algorithm with a human driver
• Sit control/Locator demo – navigate an AGV through a factory environment
• Additive manufacturing trajectories optimisation

15:00 Path planning navigation. Automated guided vehicle and Additive Manufacturing applications
Kurt Geebelen, Nathan Dwek and Anke Van Campen, Flanders Make
15:30 Model-based control design in practise – Toolchain. Practical implementation, testing and validation of controllers
Bruno Depraetere, Flanders Make
16:00 – Company Testimonial II
16:30 – Round table discussion (questions tuned to interest from welcome session)
17:00 – Network drink 

Participation fee: 

• Members Mechatronica 4.0: free
• Members Sirris / Flanders Make: 150 € (ex VAT)
• Non-members: 300 € (ex VAT)

Location: Sirris/Flanders Make – Celestijnenlaan 300, 3001 Leuven