IIT - Institute for Reasearch in Technology, Instituto de Investigacion Tecnologica

The Intelligent Systems research unit - an interdisciplinary research group at the IIT - is focused on the study and application of advanced techniques to facilitate decision making in the exploitation and planning of systems, equipment and industrial processes.

Making use of the most advanced techniques and technology, we design, develop and put into operation ‘made to measure’ systems to facilitate decision making in complex problems such as the long- and short-term planning of large electrical companies, (MORSE or DECA projects), the diagnosis and maintenance of equipment and industrial plants (DENISE-MAINTENANCE), the automatic identification of vehicles in road traffic or the automatic guidance of autonomous vehicles (VISICOPTER).

In general, the research projects we undertake provide solutions to the real problems of the companies with which we collaborate and facilitate their business activities, in many cases leading to greater profitability in the short term.

We have our own tools for the construction of Information Systems OLAP, Knowledge-Based Systems, and for the Analysis, Prediction and Mining of Data, all of which enable us to provide effective solutions to many of the problems we are asked to study and solve.

The ASI carries out most of its activities in the electrical, gas, agricultural transport and health sectors.

The fields of activity of the ASI and the techniques employed are rapidly selected and modified in accordance with changes in technology and the interests of industry.

Forecasting and data mining

Optimal management of wind power generation in the Spanish electricity market.

Development of new algorithms for monitoring the Spanish electricity market.

Load and distributed generation forecasting for an efficient management of distribution networks.

Analysis of the natural gas demand.

SGO: Development of an integrated bidding computer system for the Spanish electricity market.

Modeling, simulation and optimization

MORSE: Simplified model of the electricity Spanish sector, for strategic medium and long term analysis.

Development of models for estimating the quality of an intelligent distribution network.

Development of a dynamic simulator for the transport gas network.

Platform for integral intelligent management of offers and demands of parking places.

Reliability, maintenance and diagnosis

Effective planning of the maintenance applied to a distributed electrical system by integration of information coming from exploitation of the systems, its maintenance and the quality of service to reach.

System for detection and diagnosis of anomalies in the operation of combined-cycle power plants.

Integrated management for diagnosis and maintenance of power systems based on intelligent multi-agent systems.

Defining a monitoring and maintenance management system for electrical substations.

Artificial vision & Mobile robotics

Development of an auto-pilot system for the VISICOPTER helicopter. Application to aerial image acquisition to support precision agriculture.

System based in a small helicopter and mobile robots for efficient generation of resources maps. Application to the precise spreading and minimization of pesticides.

Integrate platform for automatic analysis and validation of highway traffic images.