Felipe Nuñez
With the proposal titled “Industrial Control Platform 4.0”, Professor Felipe Núñez from the Department of Electrical Engineering, was selected in the 2024 Medium Scientific and Technological Equipment Competition by the National Agency for Research and Development (ANID), receiving $180,000,000 (CLP) of total funding for the next 30 months.
This project, in collaboration with Professor Norelys Águila from the Department of Electricity at Universidad Tecnológica Metropolitana (UTEM), will enable the acquisition and installation of 18 technological components of an industrial cyber-physical system, consisting of field equipment (state-of-the-art programmable logic controllers), network equipment that allows secure communication between the components in the field and the cloud, and processing/supervision equipment that integrates the different layers of the control system to deploy services delivered by the platform through industrial-grade servers and workstations.
This control system is capable of working in a complementary or sequential manner, with nested control levels and advanced data processing and visualization functions, in accordance with the Industry 4.0 philosophy that aims at productive automation and innovation Through the installation and operation of this technology, the School of Engineering will strengthen its lines of research pertaining to industrial cyber-physical systems, creating new opportunities to address more complex national and international collaborative challenges, with a direct impact on the training of students and the formulation of new projects on the optimization of industrial processes, advanced control systems, development of monitoring and diagnostic systems, industrial cybersecurity, among others.
