Thesis Work for Developing a Process Automation Lab: Use Case Development

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Västerås

Thesis Work for Developing a Process Automation Lab: Use Case Development
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This position reports to
R&D Team Lead

Your role and responsibilities
ABB Corporate Research Center in Sweden is located in Västerås, about 100 kilometers west of Stockholm. Together with our colleagues in other R&D centers we develop technologies for future products and services for ABB's core businesses. The goal is to bridge the gap between control system design and real-world industrial implementation, addressing both requirements and limitations. This should be evaluated not only from the process perspective but also from the industrial control platform's feasibility, considering challenges such as cost, communication, computational demands, and engineering effort. A prototype industrial process with sufficient nonlinearity and complexity, integrated with an industrial control platform, can be used to test and refine advanced control solutions. Details: • Start in January/February 2025 for a duration of 5 months. • 30 ECTS per student • 1-2 students • On site ABB Corporate Research in Västerås – ABB may cover the accommodation Research topics: • The thesis will focus on developing a prototype for process automation application, where a complex process system is monitored and controlled by an industrial platform that integrates both classic and advanced control systems Goals: • Investigate advanced process control approaches for level control problem on a MultiTank system • Investigate the context and user needs or requirement for setting up the industrial control platform (ABB System 800xA) for a level control problem in Multitank system Approach: The work will address the following points: • Be involved in developing a process automation lab: - Multitank system (2 inputs --> 3 outputs) - ABB system 800xA (modeling, monitoring, control) • Investigate classic and advanced control methods • Analyze results and draw conclusions

Qualifications for the role

• Drive and interest to work with real-world use cases
• Background in automatic control, systems and control engineering
• Motivation to learn ABB DCS system (system 800xA)
• Motivation to setup a lab scale PA setup integrated with ABB system 800xA
• Motivation to Implement classic and advanced control system in an industrial platform
• Programming skills in Python or MATLAB
• Basic knowledge of distributed control systems
• Knowledge about industrial networks is a plus
• Good soft skills and collaborative spirit

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Locations
Västerås, Sweden