CASE STUDIES & INNOVATIONS:
Adaptive Systems and Controls

ASC, intelligent systems, smart systems—whatever you call them, Battelle uses these advanced technologies to obtain higher performance from the systems we develop or to make their operation more intuitive.

 

OUR APPROACH

 

Battelle combines analyses and techniques from physics-based system dynamics, electronics, software, sensors, artificial intelligence, communications, and information systems with ergonomic user interfaces to create products that work extraordinarily well. Using ASC, we can integrate advanced controls at relatively low cost, produce higher quality products that have longer useful life, make significant improvements in human/machine interfaces for ease of use, and deliver higher efficiency and optimization made possible by learning controls that adapt in real time.

We have applied ASC technology to:

  • Image and Voice Pattern Recognition
  • Leak Detection
  • Appliance Load Management
  • Detection of Toxic Contaminants
  • Biometrics and Biomarkers
  • Encryption
  • Battlefield Robotics
  • Avionics/Vetronics
  • Support Systems

Core competencies in adaptive systems and controls include both conventional and advanced technologies to create new generation intelligent products for custom or production applications:

  • Device-level electronic hardware design
  • Microprocessors, microcontrollers, PLCs and related programming
  • Electronics miniaturization: SMT, flex, hybrids, FPGAs, DSPs
  • Bus-centered designs (CANbus, Fieldbus, DeviceNet, etc)
  • Integrated sensor technologies, sensor fusion, and virtual sensing
  • Network communications and controls
  • Client/server implementations
  • Distributed control systems
  • Information and database systems
  • Wireless and remote operations
  • High-performance dynamics
  • System integration
  • Software development, testing, and documentation
  • Verification and validation
  • Robotics and mechatronics
  • Autonomous systems
  • Monitoring and diagnostics
  • Human factors and ergonomics
  • Man/machine interface (MMI): Virtual Reality, 2- or 3D vision systems, Voice recognition

To these conventional techniques, additional tools to apply to provide intelligent behavior and operation include:

  • Nonlinear systems, mathematics, and methods
  • Adaptive control, e.g. model reference adaptive controls (MRAC)
  • Neural networks and neurocontrol
  • Fuzzy logic/fuzzy control
  • Chaotic control theory