Department of
Control and Intelligent Technologies (СIT) is a department with a rich history and one of
the first departments in Russia that trains specialists in the field of control
in technical systems. It was founded in 1935.The initial name of the department
was a Department of Telemechanics and Automation, later its names were
changed: Department of Automation and Telemechanics (until 1969), Department of Automation (1969-1994), Department of Control and
Informatics (1994-2019), Department of
Control and Intelligent Technologies
(from 2019 to the present). Over the years, from the Department there were
emerged the Department of Computer Technology
and the Department of Systems Engineering, which currently are the Department of Computing Technologies and
the Department of Computing Machines, Systems and Networks.
Summary
The
department trains specialists of a broad profile in the field of development
and operation of automatic control systems and industrial automation, systems
for intelligent data processing and decision support, as well as information
and analytical systems.
The
advantage of the Department is a profound training in general engineering
disciplines, as well as the focus of graduates on solving problems using modern
management methods, data analysis, programming environments and artificial
intelligence technologies. This advantage is achieved due to the fundamental
theoretical knowledge in combination with the modern intelligent technologies.
Our
students actively participate in the research work of the department, make
presentations at scientific conferences. For the best students there is an
opportunity to practice abroad (Germany, Austria, Croatia).
Research areas
- development of mathematical models of complex systems and algorithms for their control;
- development
of mathematical methods and automation tools for research and design
of dynamic systems and processes
- intellectual information
technologies;
- development
of real-time information technologies based on artificial neural networks
and principles of self-organization;
- development
of information and information-analytical systems for automation of control
processes in complex organizational and technical systems;
- research
and development of decision support methods based on cognitive
technologies and data mining;
- development
of methods for analysis and synthesis of dynamic systems based on fuzzy
logic;
- methods
for identification of dynamic control systems;
- microprocessor
and neural network tools of control and automation systems;
- development of models of control systems for
robotic manipulators;
- design of pneumatic and hydraulic control
circuits.
Scientific research is carried out within the scientific groups and
laboratories of the department.
Recent projects
- information technology and
resource support for planning and operational monitoring of the financial
and economic activities of subordinate institutions, carried out on
special assignments from the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of
the Russian Federation;
- research
and development of methods for forming a feature space of temporal
dependencies for multilevel decision-making systems and complex diagnostic
problems based on fuzzy logic;
- development of principles for
setting up fuzzy hierarchical diagnostic systems using statistical object
models;
- development of draft design
solutions for automating equipment for autonomous heat and cold supply
sources and their integration with typical automated building control
systems using digital technologies for remote online monitoring and
control;
- intelligent methods and
technologies for analysis and forecasting of multidimensional time series
based on fuzzy cognitive production models.
Features
Design and
creation of modern control systems for complex technical objects is impossible
without the use of both classical methods of automatic control theory and
modern methods of statistical, analytical and intelligent data processing,
decision support systems, various tools and software that are part of
information and analytical control systems .
The educational
process of the department is particularly oriented on this wide range of
competencies, skills and abilities, including such disciplines as:
- Theory of automatic control;
- Statistical
methods in engineering research;
- Database management systems;
- Computing
machines, systems and networks;
- Control
systems modeling;
- Robotics
and flexible automated production;
- Mechatronics;
- Neuro-fuzzy
technologies in control;
- Software for automated systems;
- Technical
tools of automation and control;
- Microcontrollers
and microprocessors in control systems;
- Data mining;
- Neurocomputers and their application;
- Intelligent systems;
- Control
systems for moving objects and manipulators;
- Methods
and algorithms for data and image processing;
- Intelligent information systems;
- Information
security in computer systems;
- Decision support systems;
- Computer
control technologies in technical systems;
- Computer vision systems;
- Intelligent
control algorithms for robotic systems.
Our
graduates are reliably protected from unemployment by the high demand for
specialists in the design and operation of control systems for various
facilities in all areas of the economy, the constantly expanding areas of
application of information systems and data processing systems.
Our
graduates work in all areas: from the maintenance and development of banking
information systems for processing economic information to the design of
specialized spacecraft control systems.
Unique equipment
The department has more than 10 educational and scientific laboratories equipped with modern equipment (photo below):
- educational and scientific
laboratory "Theory of automatic control and the basics of
robotics";
- educational and scientific
laboratory "System analysis and synthesis of complex systems";
- educational and scientific
laboratory of information technologies;
- educational laboratory
"Microcontrollers and microprocessors in automation systems";
- educational and scientific
laboratory "Industrial systems of automation and telemechanics";
- educational laboratory
"Programmable logic controllers";
- educational
laboratory "Mechatronics";
- educational
laboratory "Mobile robots";
- educational
laboratory "Electric drives";
- educational
laboratory "Hydroautomatics";
- educational
laboratory "Pneumoautomatics";
The
department has two scientific-research laboratories:
- SRL "Modeling and
automation of control and information processing in complex organizational, technical and
economic systems",
- SRL "Automated control
systems for technical objects".
In addition, the
department includes the Russian-German Center for Industrial Automation
"MPEI Festo".
Educational programs
Bachelor
27.03.04 Control
in technical systems
- profile "Control and
informatics in technical systems" (in Russian, full-time education);
- profile "Systems and technical
means of automation and control" (in Russian, full-time education);
- profile "Automated control
systems" (in Russian, distance learning).
Master
27.04.04 Control
in technical systems
- program
"Control and Informatics in Technical Systems" (in Russian, full-time
education);
PhD
2.3.1 System
analysis, control and information processing.