Master topics

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
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
	More details...	Danko Marušić
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
	More details...	Filip Rukavina
7.	Optimal dimensioning and battery management in an electric vehicle	Dorijan Leko
	More details...	Dorijan Leko
8.	Automatic weather forecast fetching from a web service	Filip Rukavina
	More details...	Filip Rukavina
9.	Rubik cube problem solving with mixed integer linear programming	Branimir Brkić
	More details...	Branimir Brkić
10.	Coordinated control of energy flows in combined heat and electricity microgrid of a building	Filip Rukavina
	More details...	Filip Rukavina
11.	Wind speed and direction estimation based on wind turbine mathematical model	Ivan Grabić
	More details...	Ivan Grabić
12.	Prediction of water consumption on the level of a water distribution area by using machine learning	Hrvoje Novak
	More details...
13.	Predictive control applied to managing corporate production and transport capacities	Branimir Brkić
	More details...	Branimir Brkić
14.	Energy saving through intelligent lighting and temperature control	Marko Kovačević
	More details...	Marko Kovačević

prof. dr. sc. Mato Baotić

No.	Projects	Intermediate supervisor
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
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
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
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