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electricity. The control of the electricity production is critical and has a redundant design supervised
by protection relays, where solutions based on IEC 61850 are starting to be used. Modern DC
distribution solutions are now also available and these are strongly dependant on advanced control
and power electronics. Power management automation is used to ensure a proper functionality of the
energy solution. One advanced application is “dynamic positioning” which is a kind of autopilot for
ships. This is often used to keep a ship placed in exactly the same position by utilizing GPS and sonar
sensors and a number of propellers. One dynamic positioning application is drill ships where active
propulsion is used while the ship drills for oil 1000 meters below the surface of the ocean. Trust in
the computer system is here essential. A number of other control tasks must also be solved on the ship
and vessel types like oil tankers, liquid natural gas vessels, container ships and cruise and ferries have
different control needs. One new trend is that while the captain has been not only the commander
of the ship but also quite independent of the fleet owner while at sea, it is now possible to get
much of the computers information from the vessel to the owners office in real time. This opens up
possibilities to compare ship operations, improve maintenance work and improve on energy efficient
planning and execution of voyages. The fleet management solution combined with more efficient
motors and higher quality fuel is enablers to make possible and manage a more environmental
friendly marine world. Cyber security is here, as in other parts of the industry, a growing concern.
Similar solutions as for other remote industrial plants are investigated.
Kai Tormod Hansen is Technology Manager for the center of excellence “Vessel Information and
Control” in ABB Marine and Cranes.
Kai T. Hansen is technology responsible manager for the unit Vessel Information and Control in
the Marine business unit of ABB. He has a Ph.D. in theoretical physics from the University of Oslo and
worked as researcher at universities in Denmark and Germany. He then joined ABB fifteen years ago
as a researcher and has worked most of this time with control technology for a number of products
including process control systems, safety certified systems, Ethernet based communication solutions,
real-time operating systems, electrical protection, drives, software development methodology, project
management research etc. As an applied researcher he has worked on solutions that bridge the gap
between ideas from academia and practical solutions for the industry with its demands on cost and
speed and the much more complex system that a real-life system gives in comparison with a research
set up. He has worked as department manager heading the ABB research center in Norway before
taking the challenge of building up new solutions for control systems on big ships. The challenge
here is to make new modern systems which integrate many functions in one system based on modern
technology solutions being cost efficient and fulfilling the needs of the ship crew.
Kai T. Hansen is a senior member of IEEE
Ronald Schoop
Schneider Electric AG, Germany
“Mastering Complexity in Heterogenous Industrial Systems”
Ronald Schoop is Vice-president Technology and one out of four
Schneider Electric Group Master Experts.
He has received the diploma and the doctor degree (Dr. Ing.) in
Electrical Engineering from the Humboldt-University in Berlin, in 1981
and 1985, respectively. After 3 years in industry, he led the control
group in the department Electronic Technology at the Humboldt-
University and received the habilitation (Dr. sc. tech., Dr.-Ing. habil.)
in 1990.
He joined AEG Modicon in 1991 and after several years in Germ any and USA he was the R&D Director
for Schneider Electric Automation Business in Germany and afterwards in France. Since 2002 he was/is
the Vice President of Schneider Electric Industry Consistency and Platforms in France, USA and Germany.
His research interests are in control and automation, especially in the area of distributed control,
collaborative systems and service oriented architectures. He was project leader of several industrial
projects bringing latest research results into industrial use, such as the development of the first
industrial agent based control system, deployed in production at DaimlerChrysler (P2000+).
He is co-author of 2 books and has published over 50 technical papers in these areas. He has
been active in various industrial societies (Technical Director of IDA group, Director of Modbus-IDA,
director in the board of FDT group, board member of SPS/IPC/Drives conference) and academic
societies (Senior Member of IEEE, AdCom member of IEEE- IES).
Jacek M. Zurada
University of Louisville, Kentucky, USA,
“Computational Intelligence Methods for Factory Automation
and Industrial Applications”
Jacek M. Zurada (FIEEE) serves as a University Scholar and
Professor with the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department
at the University of Louisville, Kentucky. He was Department Chair
from 2004 to 2006. He has published 360 journal and conference
papers in the areas of neural networks, computational intelligence,
data mining, image processing and VLSI circuits. He also has
authored or co-authored three books and co-edited a number of
volumes in Springer Lecture Notes on Computer Science.
He has held visiting appointments at Princeton, Northeastern, Auburn, and overseas in
Australia, Chile, China, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Italy, Japan, Poland, Singapore, Spain,
South Africa and Taiwan. Dr. Zurada was an Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Circuits
and Systems, Pt. I and Pt. II, and served on the Editorial Board of the Proceedings of IEEE.
From 1998 to 2003 he was the Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks. He
is an A ssociate Editor of Neurocomputing, SchedaeInformaticae, International Journal of
Applied Mathematics and Computer Science, Advisory Editor of Int’l Journal of Information
Technology and Intelligent Computing, and Editor of Springer Natural Computing Book Series.
He has served the profession and the IEEE in various elected capacities, including as President of
IEEE CIS in 2004-05 and the ADCOM member in 2009-11 and earlier years. He has been member
and Chair of various IEEE CIS and IEEE TAB committees, and is also now serving as Vice-Chair
of PSPB and PSPB Strategic Planning Committee (2010-11). He is also Chair of the IEEE TAB
Periodicals Committee (2010-11) and will chair the IEEE TAB Periodicals Review and Advisory
Committee in 2012-13. He is also on the 2012 ballot of IEEE-wide elections for 2013 VP-TAB Elect.
Dr. Zurada has received a number of awards for distinction in research, teaching, and service including
the 1993 Presidential Award for Research, Scholarship and Creative Activity, 1999 IEEE Circuits and
Systems Society Golden Jubilee Medal, and the 2001 Presidential Distinguished Service Award for
Service to the Profession. He is a Distinguished Speaker of IEEE CIS. In 2003 he was conferred the
Title of National Professor by the President of Poland. In 2004, 2006 and 2010, he received three
Honorary Professorships from Chinese universities. Since 2005 he has been a Member of the Polish
Academy of Sciences, and has been appointed as a Senior Fulbright Specialist for 2006-12.
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