Potential topics for master projects at LARES

LARES professors offer topics from a wide range of control related problems. Below is a list of some potential projects grouped by LARES professors.

Please have a look at our research scopes and have an idea of diverse work that is being done by our lab members. We are always willing to get spontaneous project topics from motivated FER students.


prof. dr. sc. Mario Vašak

No. Projects   Intermediate supervisor
1.
Local weather forecast for a PV plant using sky image processing   Danko Marušić
  More details...   Filip Rukavina
2. Development of a small power converter for testing small lithium batteries   Danko Marušić
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3. Smart water meter for water use disaggregation   Hrvoje Novak
  More details...   Filip Rukavina
4. Daylight control in a room by using movable shaders   Hrvoje Novak
  More details...   Filip Rukavina
5. Development of environment for testing various configurations of 1-wire sensor networks   Filip Rukavina
  More details...   Danko Marušić
6. Web server and SCADA system set-up on an S7-1500 PLC   Filip Rukavina
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7. Optimal dimensioning and battery management in an electric vehicle   Dorijan Leko
  More details...  
8. Automatic weather forecast fetching from a web service   Filip Rukavina
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9. Rubik cube problem solving with mixed integer linear programming   Branimir Brkić
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10. Coordinated control of energy flows in combined heat and electricity microgrid of a building   Filip Rukavina
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11. Wind speed and direction estimation based on wind turbine mathematical model   Ivan Grabić
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12. Prediction of water consumption on the level of a water distribution area by using machine learning   Hrvoje Novak
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13. Predictive control applied to managing corporate production and transport capacities   Branimir Brkić
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14. Energy saving through intelligent lighting and temperature control   Marko Kovačević
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prof. dr. sc. Mato Baotić

No. Projects   Intermediate supervisor
1. Control of wheel drive for omnidirectional mechatronic system    
2. Control of propeller drive for omnidirectional mechatronic system
3. Model Predictive Control for omnidirectional mechatronic system    
4. State estimation for omnidirectional mechatronic system

prof. dr. sc. Jadranko Matuško

No. Projects   Intermediate supervisor
1. Developement of control algorithms on Raspberry Pi server    

doc. dr. sc. Vinko Lešić

No. Projects   Intermediate supervisor
1. Control of a hybrid electrical energy storage system built into the LARES microgrid   Mateja Car
  More details...   Danko Marušić
2. Distributed model predictive control of temperature in building zones    

doc. dr. sc. Anita Banjac

No. Projects   Intermediate supervisor
1. Transformation of smart plug to smart energy meter    
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2. Development of smart Raspberry Pi-based air conditioner (AC) controller    
    -  Development of Raspberry Pi platform for communication with AC          
     and measurement of current zone comfort conditions  
  -  Upgrade of the developed platform with web or mobile application  
  -  Connecting the platform with free online weather forecast  
  -  Development and deployment of smart control algorithm  
More details...  
3. Portable smart data logger for heating/cooling devices    
    -  Development of the data logger device    
  -  Turning the developed device into smart device by developing an user app
  -  Performing experiments and analyzing large sets of the collected data
  -  Data-based model identification and control system synthesis
 More details...
4. Portable low-cost device for U-value measurement    
    -  Development of the device    
  -  Development of the software routines for data processing
  -  Development and validation of advanced model-based algorithms for control
     and monitoring
 More details...
5. Upgrade of the FER skyscraper smart building systems with Python application for filling the missing meteo and forecast data with the backup data    
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6. Smart thermostat for predictive indoor climate control    
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7. Determining the building airtightness using measurements of CO2 concentration    
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doc. dr. sc. Branimir Novoselnik

No. Projects   Intermediate supervisor
1. Numerical methods for model predictive control and embedded optimization    
2. Optimal control in power systems    
3. Applications of nonlinear model predictive control