The Artificial Lift Laboratory – LEA is the world’s biggest and best equipped well-laboratory. The unit makes available two production strings: Sucker Rod Pumping (SRP) System and Electrical Submersible Pumping (ESP) System. with industrial equipment that reproduce the field environment in artificial wells installed in the midspan of the spiral staircase of the Polytechnic School/UFBA with 2.5m of free diameter and 32m heigh. The SRP and ESP strings currently available are the basis for various academic, technologic and industrial projects, involving master’s degree and doctorate works from UFBA’s Graduate programs. Located on the first floor of the Polytechnic School, a control room integrated to LEA/CTAI operates both as a design room and a laboratory. Its layout and facilities were designed and built for the purpose of operating as a well control and data acquisition room. The area is also equipped with workstations, cupboards, conference table, computers and wireless network, an access door to CTAI and another one with direct access to the wells. LEA is supported by the partnership CTAI/UFBA – Petrobras S/A through research and development projects in the field of artificial lift of oil.

The Control Laboratory is used essentially for the training and development of professionals and technical-scientific knowledge in its field and, complementarily, in the Automation field. The unit serves the community for education, research and extension activities. Among other things, it allows the development, validation and testing of algorithms and systems – hardware and/or software – of automatic control. The Control Laboratory is provided with infrastructure consisting of computers, simulation software, such as Matlab/Simulink, technical-scientific collection, didactic control kits, among other elements

Equipped with Programmable Logic Controllers (PLC), in- dustrial networks and frequency inverters, among other accessories for general automation, the Industrial Auto- mation Laboratory seeks to promote the learning of stu- dents in the various engineering fields through practical classes for undergraduate and graduate programs. The unit also hosts extension courses to students and professionals of this field. It has the support of Rockwell Automation and within this scope the company participates with donations of equipment and software in the field of industrial automation

The Milling and Fast Prototyping Laboratory provides support to the other laboratories of the Center and of the School in electronic and mechanical prototyping. A set of modern equipment, such as CNC, LPKF and 3D printer, is made available in the laboratory for construction of electronic and mechanical prototypes applied in various research projects and to Engineering undergraduate and graduate education.

The Software Laboratory is an area where undergraduate and graduate classes, courses and guided research take place, which may use its infrastructure. The area has several pieces of software installed: computer-assisted drawing simulation; integrated manufacturing; mathematical model simulation; preparation of flowcharts; configuration and programming of electronic devices.

IVisionLab is a laboratory specialized in computer vision and pattern recognition in images. In this lab the most varied subjects are investigated, such as: detec- tion of objects, 2D/3D vision, reconstruction of 3D scenes and biometry through images. These topics are addressed in research, innovation and technology development projects where undergraduate (scientific initiation) and graduate (master’s degree and doctorate) students and researchers operate. The laboratory allows applications in the most varied fields of knowledge, especially robotics, intelligent transportation systems, home automation (domotics), industrial automation, virtual reality and medical assisted treatment.
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