Activity Goals

• Research and advancements in the area of fundamental approaches, development and application of new methods for the intelligent control of distributed systems, technological processes, android robots and cooperative behavior of robots networks based computational mathematics, computer technologies and theory of artificial intelligence
• Development of the adaptive computational technologies for solution of the topical engineering problems to estimate the complex physical behavior and characteristics of the real world sophisticated systems in machine-building, automotive, aerospace, shipbuilding
• and energy industries
• Development of the new adaptive-stochastic methods in computational mathematics and mechanics.
• Development of new approaches to the simulation of turbulence and computational aero-acoustics; numerical analysis of external and internal turbulent flows
• Visualization of scientific analysis results with high quality standards of computer graphics (including stereoscopic graphics), virtual reality, multimedia technologies
• Master and PhD degree programs; postdoctoral research; advanced trainings for research assistants, engineers and designers in the areas of:
  • Applied Mechanics
  • Aero- and Hydro-dynamics
  • Intelligent Systems & Technologies

Applied Research

• Distributed industrial controllers networks for decentralized control of distributed objects and technological processes
  
• Intelligent multi-agent based control of android robots and cooperative behavior of robots network
  
• Numerical modeling of external and internal flows aimed at dragand noise reduction
  
• Computation of vortical flows and wakes aimed at enhancement of safety in air and ground transportation
  
• Numerical analysis of stress/strain distributions in the real world industrial objects, in particular for those working in the extreme conditions
  
• Numerical non-linear analysis of visco-elasticity, contact interaction, large deformations
  
• Seismic analysis, simulation of crash-tests, modeling of nucleation and propagation of damage
  
• Computation of cooling of electronic devices, heating and air-conditioning systems >> Development of graphic user interface to control virtual objects
  
• Polygonal and NURBS-modeling

    

Structure of Research Institute of Mathematic Modeling and Intelligent Control Systems:

• Intelligent Control Systems Laboratory
  
• Applied Mathematics and Mechanics Laboratory

• Computational Hydro and Aero Acoustics and Turbulence Laboratory
  
• Visualization and computer graphics Laboratory
  
• The SAP Academic Competence Center
  
• Basic research and educational center "Modeling and identification of complex mechanical systems"

Laboratory Facilities

• Intelligent control network of industrial controllers and automatic machines with hierarchical architectures and problem-oriented agent-based software for decentralized control of distributed objects and technological processes
  
• Automatic assembling line with multi-tasks robots and hierarchical control networks with multi-agent architecture
  
• 60 node Intel Xeon based cluster
  
• 5 workstations Intel Core2Quad Q6600, 8Gb RAM, 400 Gb HDD HPC Server Intel Xeon E5440A 2 CPU, 16Gb RAM, 1 Tb HDD
  
• Powerful computing center based on PC network graphics workstations: Intel XEON 3,0 Quad*2 /800MHz/2M
  
• Professional workstation for visualization, compositing and animation based on Avid Liquid Chrome HD Plus v. 6.1
  
• Visualization system of three-dimensional images

   

Partners and Clients

Lab has strong relations with

• world leading universities (Imperial College London, City University London, University of Manchester, Technical University of Berlin, Munich Technical University, Leibniz University Hannover, Chalmers University, National Institute of Multimedia Education (NIME) Japan)
  

• research and development centers and institutes (St. Petersburg Institute for Informatics and Automation of SPIIRAS, Institute of Problems of Mechanical Engineering of RAS, ICS, Central Scientific and Research Institute «ELEKTROPRIBOR», DLR, IMFT, ONERA)
  

• industrial companies (RSC «Energia», AVISMA, Schlumberger, Airbus, LG Electronics, EADS, Bombardier, Alenia Aeronautics, Dassault Aviation, ANSYS, Boeing, GE Global Research and GE Aviation Engines, Siemens, SAP, FESTO, Panasonic)

   

Contact Details:

Address: 28 Grazhdansky Pr., St. Petersburg, Russia, 195220
IIEP, new study building,
Phone: +7 (812) 329-47-45
e-mail: mmics@imop.spbstu.ru
http://www.kunil.spbstu.ru