Coordinator: Lecturer dr. ing. Adrian DUKA
Email: adrian.duka@umfst.ro
The “Control Systems Laboratory” is sustained by the Department of Electrical Engineering and Informatics of “George Emil Palade” University of Medicine, Pharmacy, Science and Technology of Targu Mures, and it serves as both a research and as an educational facility. It is equipped with devices and equipment used in the control process of industrial plants and for studying automated control systems. The laboratory includes various units that contain specific equipment found in industrial automated systems, such as: controlled processes, different transducers and actuators, industrial controllers, communication interfaces and data-acquisition software that enables supervision and recording of the system parameters, Programmable Logic Controllers (PLCs) etc.
The laboratory also facilitates conducting cyber security and resilience studies on control systems. It provides specialized software simulators to recreate the cyber and the physical dimensions of large-scale control systems. To this end, the laboratory embraces the features of two software frameworks, described in the “Equipment” section. The aforementioned frameworks have been tested and validated in a variety of cyber security scenarios (replay attacks, integrity attacks, Denial of Service attacks, etc.) and a wide range of simulated industrial processes including the Tennessee-Eastman chemical process, the IEEE suite of electricity grid models (14-bus, 39-bus, and the EU-DC electricity grid model), and transportation system models.