Controller of H2 consumption optimization in electrical generation systems

Patent of a product submitted

Patent reference pending

Year of acquisition: 2013

Responsible: Adriano da Silva de Carvalho

Sistema de balanceamento ativo do estado de carga dos elementos de uma bateria de iões de Li, com trocas de corrente até 8A

Year of acquisition: 2013

Demonstrable at: FEUP

Responsible: Adriano da Silva de Carvalho

Controlador de tração elétrica de um motor PMSM, potência nominal 35 kW, dinâmica de 80 kW (12 s)

Year of acquisition: 2013

Demonstrable at: FEUP

Responsible: Adriano da Silva de Carvalho

Medidor inteligente da potência ativa e reativa de consumo de uma instalação, com comunicação "wireless"

Year of acquisition: 2013

Demonstrable at: FEUP

Responsible: Adriano da Silva de Carvalho

Wavy Drifter Buoy

Year of acquisition: 2013

Demonstrable at: FEUP

Responsible: João Borges de Sousa

X8 - Delta-Wing UAV COTS Vehicle

Year of acquisition: 2012

Demonstrable at: FEUP

Responsible: João Borges de Sousa

Conversor dc/dc e controlador de ligação à rede de um painel fotovoltaico de 250 W, com controlo MPPT e possibilidade de interligação no mesmo ponto de diversos painéis

Year of acquisition: 2012

Demonstrable at: FEUP

Responsible: Adriano da Silva de Carvalho

Conversor trifásico "back-to-back" para incorporar em sistemas eólicos de produção de energia, e sistema de controlo para interligação à rede elétrica

Year of acquisition: 2012

Demonstrable at: FEUP

Responsible: Adriano da Silva de Carvalho

Modelo de baterias de iões de Li, executável em tempo real, com extração de parâmetros do modelo, incorporando caraterísticas de envelhecimento das mesmas

Year of acquisition: 2012

Demonstrable at: FEUP

Responsible: Adriano da Silva de Carvalho

CULARIS - Micro-UAV COT Vehicle

Year of acquisition: 2011

Demonstrable at: FEUP

Responsible: João Borges de Sousa

LAUV – Light Autonomous Underwater Vehicle

Year of acquisition: 2010

Demonstrable at: FEUP

Responsible: João Borges de Sousa

Manta - Communications Gateway

Year of acquisition: 2010

Demonstrable at: FEUP

Responsible: João Borges de Sousa

PILATUS - Medium size UAV COT Vehicle

Year of acquisition: 2010

Demonstrable at: FEUP

Responsible: João Borges de Sousa

ROV – Remotely Operated Vehicle

Year of acquisition: 2010

Demonstrable at: FEUP

Responsible: João Borges de Sousa

VEC – Electrical Vehicle for Competition

Year of acquisition: 2010

Demonstrable at: FEUP

Responsible: Armando Araújo

Upgrade of the SeaScout system – Prototype of a Low-cost system for oceanography alunched in 2008

Year of acquisition: 2009

Demonstrable at: APDL S.A., Leça da Palmeira, Portugal

Responsible: João Borges de Sousa

Upgrade of the environmental Data Collection system launched in 2008

Year of acquisition: 2009

Demonstrable at: APDL S.A., Leça da Palmeira, Portugal

Responsible: João Borges de Sousa

WG-WPS – Site Surveyor

Sistema de localização e recolha de dados de informação radiométrica para redes wireless.

Year of acquisition: 2009

Responsible: João Borges de Sousa, Gil M. Gonçalves

Projecto de um sistema para alimentação de lâmpadas HID (High Intensity Discharge) usadas em iluminação automóvel

Year of acquisition: 2009

Demonstrable at: FEUP

Responsible: Armando Araújo, José Teixeira Marques

Modelação e Controlo de Conversor DC/AC para Interligação de Painéis Fotovoltaicos à Rede,

Year of acquisition: 2009

Demonstrable at: FEUP

Responsible: Armando Araújo, Dinis António Dias Afonso

Modelação e Controlo Analógico de um Sistema de Microgeração a Energia Solar

Year of acquisition: 2009

Demonstrable at: FEUP

Responsible: Armando Araújo, João Filipe de Lima Bento

Segurança em Redes de Sensores Wireless

Year of acquisition: 2009

Demonstrable at: FEUP

Responsible: Armando Araújo

Robust 3D motion capture and object positioning system using light emitting markers synchronized with stereoscopic camera system

Ref: UPINNP at.77/ Pat.41

Patent pending nº 104224

Year of acquisition: 2008

Demonstrable at: FEUP

Responsible: Armando Araújo

SeaScout system – Prototype of a Low-cost system for oceanograhic missions

The system is composed by one (or more) light autonomous underwater vehicles, Acoustic Positioning System and Comand and Control framework “Neptus”

Year of acquisition: 2008

Demonstrable at: APDL S.A., Leça da Palmeira, Portugal

Responsible: João Borges de Sousa

System for the environmental Data Collection

The system is composed of an autonomous underwater vehicle and an autonomous surface vehicle (Catamaran)

Year of acquisition: 2008

Demonstrable at: APDL S.A., Leça da Palmeira, Portugal

Responsible: João Borges de Sousa

Virtual reality environment for the demonstration and evaluation of concepts of operation for multi-vehicle systems

Year of acquisition: 2008

Demonstrable at: APDL S.A., Leça da Palmeira, Portugal

Responsible: João Borges de Sousa

Wireless sensor network for environmental applications

Year of acquisition: 2008

Demonstrable at: APDL S.A., Leça da Palmeira, Portugal 

Responsible: João Borges de Sousa, Gil M. Gonçalves

Upgrade of MARES – Modular Autonomous Robot for Environmental Sampling

Demonstrable at: FEUP

Year of acquisition: 2008

Responsible: Nuno Cruz, Aníbal Matos

SmallAGV – A small or medium size automatic guided vehicle (AGV)

It’s a low cost mobile robot developed specially for industrial applications to move materials around a manufacturing facility or a warehouse

Year of acquisition: 2008

Demonstrable at: FEUP

Responsible: A. Paulo Moreira, Paulo Costa

MedicalRobot – The Medical Robot can be remotely controlled, with automatic video-conference between the patient and the health professional

It’s an Autonomous Robot that can transport examinations or medicin drugs and able to automatic recording of motion (detect when the patient awake) and surveillance

Year of acquisition: 2008

Demonstrable at: FEUP

Responsible: A. Paulo Moreira, Paulo Costa

CleanRob ¬ Autonomous Cleaning Robot - A service robot adequate for cleaning large surfaces and also for the study of data fusion techniques (namely Kalman Filtering and Particle Filters)

Year of acquisition: 2008

Demonstrable at: FEUP

Responsible: Armando Jorge Sousa

Soft Core Robot - Small in size but very flexible robot with minimalist pin-count adequate for robotic competitions

Year of acquisition: 2008

Demonstrable at: FEUP

Responsible: Armando Jorge Sousa

MARES – Modular Autonomous Robot for Environmental Sampling

Year of acquisition: 2007

Demonstrable at: FEUP, Portugal

Responsible: Nuno Cruz, Aníbal Matos

Laboratorial prototype of a double converter AC/DC/AC based on IGBT transistors, allowing interconnection between variable frequency, variable amplitude AC sources

Year of acquisition: 2007

Demonstrable at: FEUP, Portugal

Responsible: Adriano de Carvalho

Laboratorial prototype of a control platform based on parallel operation of floating DSP (Family TMS3206713) for real time computation and FPGA for control of state machines

Year of acquisition: 2007

Demonstrable at: FEUP, Portugal

Responsible: Adriano de Carvalho

Pilot installation of a wind system, with emulation of the turbine performed by an AC variable frequency drive

Year of acquisition: 2007

Demonstrable at: FEUP, Portugal

Responsible: Adriano de Carvalho

Prototype of differential Bragg fiber sensors

Year of acquisition: 2007

Demonstrable at: FEUP, Portugal

Responsible: Adriano de Carvalho

Prototype of a High Voltage (1 kV) High Frequency (1 Mhz) Generator to heat and dry cork at end of production line

Year of acquisition: 2007

Demonstrable at: FEUP, Portugal

Responsible:Adriano de Carvalho

Prototype of a control system to heat and dry industrial transformers at end of production line

Year of acquisition: 2007

Demonstrable at: FEUP, Portugal

Responsible: Adriano de Carvalho

Prototypes at various stages of development and models of Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUV)s: LAUV, NAUV, ISURUS

Year of acquisition: 1997-2007

Demonstrable at: FEUP, Portugal

Responsible: João Sousa

Prototypes at various stages of development and models of Remotely Operated Vehicles (ROV)s: ROV, NROV

Year of acquisition: 1997-2007

Demonstrable at: FEUP, Portugal

Responsible: João Sousa

Prototypes at various stages of development and models of Autonomous Surface Vehicles (ASV)s: Swordfish

Year of acquisition: 1997-2007

Demonstrable at: FEUP, Portugal

Responsible: João Sousa

Prototypes at various stages of development and models of Unmanned Air Vehicles (UAV)s: Lusitânia, Brutus v1, Brutus v2

Year of acquisition: 1997-2007

Demonstrable at: FEUP, Portugal

Responsible: João Sousa and Gil Gonçalves

Prototypes of software for unmanned Air, Surface and Underwater Vehicles

Apollo – Hybrid systems control framework for unmanned air vehicle systems

MonSense – Real-time management and visualization of sensor networks

Stand-alone simulator of generic submarines

Seaware – Real-time publish/subscribe framework for the control over networks - whale.fe.up.pt/seaware

Neptus – Command and control C4ISR - whale.fe.up.pt/neptus

Dune – Communication framework for embedded control

Year of acquisition: 1997-2007

Demonstrable at: FEUP, Portugal

Responsible: João Sousa