Neural network assisted autotuning of industrial PID controllers

A recent servey (1) has reported that the majority of industrial loops are controlled by PID-type controllers and many of the PID controllers in operation are poorly tuned. poor PID tuning is due to the lack of a simple and practical tuning method for avarage users, and due to the tedious procedurs involved in the tuning and retuning of PID controllers.

O complexo industrial da Boca do Rio. Organização de um sítio produtor de preparados piscícolas.

Dissertação de mest., Arqueologia (Teoria e Métodos), Faculdade de Ciências Humanas e Sociais, Univ. do Algarve, 2012

Júdice Fialho, o maior industrial conserveiro do Algarve

A figura mais notável da História da Indústria Conserveira no Algarve, foi sem sombra para dúvidas João António Júdice Fialho, um homem inteligente e empreendedor, que nas primeiras décadas do século XX conseguiu conquistar os principais mercados europeus com as suas conservas de atum e de sardinha, mas também com as suas massas alimentícias, compotas e marmeladas. Foi dos poucos industriais das pescas que há mais de um século atrás soube visionar o conceito de globalização à escala atlântica, investindo na aquisição de modernos meios de transformação industrial do pescado, cujos avultados lucros lhe permitiram diversificar a produção e reinvestir noutros segmentos de mercado.

LifeSpeeder: a web and mobile platform for events location

The use of smartphones and tablets as become almost banal in these days. Smartphones, besides serving their main purpose of making and receiving calls, come to be one of the main equipments to obtain information from the Internet, using the commonly installed browsers or through the use of dedicated applications. Furthermore, several other devices are also very frequent to the majority of the modern smartphones and tablets in the market (e.g., GPS - Global Positioning System). This devices give the current systems a very high potential of usage. One example of applicability, comes from the wish to find and navigate to events or activities which are or will soon be occurring near the user. The LifeSpeeder platform is one of the first applications in the mobile equipment market of applications which take into consideration exactly what we have just outlined, i.e., a mobile and desktop application which allows the users to locate events according with their preferences and to get help navigating to them. In this paper we briefly describe the LifeSpeeder's front and back-end. © 2014 Springer International Publishing.