In 2011, a new EU Directive for Alternative Investment Fund Managers came into force. Following the financial crisis in 2008, it had been evident that Alternative Investment Fund Managers had been exposed to severe risks without sufficient regulation. While the Directive has taken some time for Member States to implement through national legislations, it can be considered to have been largely suc

The detailed dynamic modelling, simulation and optimisation of a batch distillation process at Bayer AG is presented. The model considers a mixture of 10 components separated in a 40 tray column. Simulations performed in the process modelling tool gPROMS proved that the model gives a very accurate description of the process behaviour. To increase the profit of the process an optimisation of the op

Volvo Excavator AB has problems controlling the number of revolutions per second, in the diesel engine of an excavator, when it is running. To solve this problem the different processes controlling the energy flow in an excavator are mathematically identified. These models are later put together to enable simulations of a running excavator on the computer. The different models that need to be iden

A water jet is a propulsion system for vessels. The principle of water jet is to admit water into the hull, then add head to the water via the impeller and then let the water go through a guide vane package and then discharge it at the stern. The reaction force will bring the vessel into motion. KaMeWa Group, a Vickers company who manufactures water jet propulsion systems, initiated the work. This

The object of this thesis is to explore of a planar, almost circular amoeba, can move efficiently in an inviscid fluid. We investigate a homogenous amoeba and a heterogeneous amoeba and find that motion is possible for both using the physical fact that more work is needed when moving a bulky body in a fluid than when moving a small body of the same mass. For our calculations to be valid only small

Industrial robots are used/configured/programmed by several different types of users/programmers. The control system should preferably expose a uniform view for each programming situation. Such views were defined by the Open Robot Control (ORC) architecture, developed within the department in an earlier project. This project refines and evaluates some robot programming principles. First, earlier p

This Master Thesis Project presents an interactive program intended to be used in a course in Digital control, given by the Department of Automatic Control at Lund Institute of Technology. This application is supposed to give the students a good comprehension of sampled data systems. The areas that are covered are sampling, aliasing, observability, parameter sensitivity, PID-control, pole placemen

As a part of a research project, AB Volvo Technological Development is investigating the properties of traction batteries of different types. The aim is to find a suitable energy storage for electric/hybrid vehicles. This master thesis examines the possibility of using a non-linear model of a traction battery to construct a device that accurately estimates the battery State of Charge (SoC) under

A library of Omola models for modeling and simulation of mechanical multibody systems in three dimensions has been developed. It contains common basic mechanical components such as springs and joints of different kinds. Omola is an object-oriented modeling language and supports flexability. The modularization and inheritance concepts supports easy modification of models. The library contains abstr