ACIT4810 Advanced Methods in Modelling, Simulation, and Control Course description

The course covers several aspects related to modelling, simulation and control. The focus is on industrial applications, implementation, real life problems, and hands-on experience. The course gives an overview of state-of-the-art techniques, and provides students with tools to analyse and solve further industrial and research problems. Strong emphasis is given to the use of numerical simulation and scientific programming with Matlab/Simulink or similar.

All support material permitted.

No formal requirements over and above the admission requirements.

Upon successful completion of the course, the student:

Knowledge:

• is familiar with data-driven dynamic modelling methods
• is familiar with state estimation techniques
• is familiar with multivariable feedback control algorithms
• is familiar with predictive control algorithms

Skills:

• can obtain dynamic models with data-driven dynamic modelling methods for a chosen industrial application
• can implement some techniques for state estimation
• can implement some multivariable feedback control algorithms
• can implement some predictive control algorithms
• can choose an advanced control algorithm suitable for a chosen industrial application.
• can implement and test the algorithm in a simulation environment.

General competence:

• can evaluate different methods for advanced control for a chosen industrial application.
• can choose a suitable method, develop and implement it for a chosen industrial application.

Weekly lectures and exercises, one project work in groups of between 2 - 5 students. Two guest lectures on selected topics given by experts from industry and academia.

The following required coursework must be approved before the student can take the exam:

Four individual compulsory assignments and one group project. The project groups will be between 2 and 5 students. The resulting project report is about 15-25 pages.

The course addresses possibilities and challenges concerning the production, distribution, reception, reading and other types of use of e-books. Aspects will include economic and legal ramifications for e-book lending in academic and public libraries. Focus is primarily contemporary, but the course also provides a historical perspective.

The course is developed and implemented as a collaboration between the Oslo and Akershus University College of Applied Sciences, University of Copenhagen, University of Borås and The Reading Center at the University of Stavanger.

Mote- og tekstilindustrien er i radikal skifte grunnet teknologisk innovasjon, miljøutfordringer og nye digitale forretningsmodeller. Den globale verdikjeden for design, produksjon, salg og distribusjon av klær og produkter er i endring. Det påvirker også forbruksmønstre og bedrifter må etablere fleksible verdikjeder for å blant annet kunne tilby forbrukerne produkter gjennom digitale kanaler. Innen kles- og tekstilindustrien skjer det nå en total omstilling til heldigitale prosesser fra design til ferdig produkt, salg og markedsføring.

Digital kompetanse er sentralt for konkurransedyktighet i en globalisert mote- og tekstilindustri. Videreutdanningstilbudet 3D Digital design og produktutvikling vektlegger digital kompetanse for å effektivisere utviklingsprosesser og optimalisere designet, før produktet sendes til produksjon. Studiet er relevant for et nasjonalt og internasjonalt arbeidsmarked.

Knowledge

After completion of the course, the student has

• comprehensive understanding of e-books from a cultural and historical perspective as well as their role in the current media landscape
• advanced knowledge of the leading technologies and tools used for the production, reading and distribution of e-books
• advanced knowledge of the Scandinavian e-book markets and distribution models, including challenges associated with economic and legal aspects
• advanced knowledge of the implications of digitization of reading as a cognitive process, phenomenological experience, and social practice

Skills attainment

After completion of the course, the student

• critically reflect on how affordances of reading devices may affect the reading of different types of texts for different purposes
• assess the value and potential of distribution models of e-books for various types of libraries
• identify and formulate research questions pertaining to e-books and address them through independent analysis
• identify and use insights from relevant professional and research literature on e-books

Teaching is conducted in the form of lectures, seminars, group assignments, project work, and exercises.

The assessment has two parts: a project work (15-20 pages) made in groups with 2-3 students and an individual 3-day home examination (7-10 pages), written either in English or in Norwegian.

The two parts get separate marks. The project work counts for 50 percent and the home examination counts for 50 percent of the total and final mark. The student must pass both parts to pass the course.

Students who have failed a regular examination are entitled to sit a new examination in the part(s) they have failed. If the project work fail, the whole group need to sit the new examination.