Cooperation between industry and university based on the evaluation of the industrial research results in the academic environment

Based on the European Structural Funds it was developed the Intelligent Mobile Box, Intelligent Panel Controller with intelligent adaptive controllers within the industrial research and experimental development in the company Kybernetes, s.r.o. Within the frame of the academic-industry cooperation, the intelligent adaptive controller was tested at the Department of Cybernetics and Artificial Intelligence, Technical university of Kosice, Slovakia. The tests of the mobile intelligent adaptive controller were performed on two levels of university study, on the Bachelor level on the exercises from the subject “Control of Technological Processes” and on the Engineering level the exercises from the subject “Intelligent Control Networks” and on one Diploma project. Goals of students of the Control of the technological processes course had two goals, firstly to connect the intelligent adaptive controller to pre-defined controlled system (real plant, real model or simulated model) and next to validate the control results. Students of the Diploma project on the Engineering level had more advanced goals. Tasks defined for engineering students were to connect the intelligent adaptive controller to non-defined controlled system, setup the adaptivity process of the controller regarding the learning error, parameterize the control system, observe and validate the control results. Both sides concluded this cooperation as very valuable. Main contributions for students were (U1) the challenge to apply studied theoretical knowledge on the real industrial controllers, (U2) experience with new research results and technologies deployed in industry and (U3) the implementation of the control and adaptive algorithms from abstract mathematical area to real PLC controller. On side of industry research company the main contributions were (C1) testing of designed algorithms and (C2) user feedback from students to make the application HMI interface more understandable a native.