Damiano Varagnolo

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Senior Lecturer
Control Engineering Group
Luleå University of Technology
Universitetsområdet A2550
97187 Luleå, Sweden
Phone: +46 720 216 047
Email: damiano.varagnolo@ltu.se
Skype: damianovar
RTM: damiano.varagnolo+f049ea@rmilk.com (instructions)
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orcid: 0000-0002-4310-7938
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ongoing

PAIGE - Pelvic floor activation through gamified exercising

Duration: from 2018-06 to 2019-05

Funding body: LTU's gamification funds

Aim: understand how to gamify the experience of performing Kegel exercises, so to transform it into an engaging and compelling experience, combining wearable and wirelessly connectable vaginal pressure sensors and ad-hoc mobile games.

Developing CITE, a Concept Inventory Tool for Engineering

Duration: from 2017-09 to 2019-08

Funding body: LTU's pedagogical development funds

Aim: develop and pilot a concept inventory tool for assessing engineering students’ acquisition of important concepts and program goals of the Electrical Engineering program (see also the related standing presentation).

Sendate Extend

Duration: from 2016-04 to 2019-03

Funding body: Eureka Celtic Plus

Aim: Improve the efficiency and flexibility of datacenters’ operations through novel strategies on how to perform deployment, monitoring, operations, maintenance and management of storage, compute, communication and energy supply within datacenters and in a distributed cloud.

Liquid Networks - Liquid-cooled datacenters networks as enablers of infrastructural synergies

Duration: from 2018-03 to 2019-02

Funding body: Norrbottens Forskningsråd

Aim: develop theories and algorithms to coordinate the operations of liquid-cooled datacenters with the ones of electrical power plants and district heating networks, so to move electricity and heat recovered from these datacenters where and when needed.

Maximizing natural convection effects in submerged liquid cooling systems

Duration: from 2014-01 to 2016-12

Funding body: LTU's Smart Machines and Materials research area

Aim: develop methodologies for designing and operating submerged liquid cooling systems so to maximize the natural convection effects within the cooling vessels.

past (since 2014)

AutoMod-Pre - Automated Model Generation for Industrial Processes

Duration: from 2017-10 to 2018-03

Funding body: SIP PiiA - Process Industrial IT and Automation

Aim: investigate the feasibility of automated model generation for industrial processes using a combination of a-priori process knowledge, data from SCADA/DCS systems, and information sources representing the physical properties of the process.

DISTRACT - Distributed Optimization and Estimation for Synergic Automatic Control

Duration: from 2015-03 to 2018-02

Funding body: Norrbottens Forskningsråd

Aim: developing novel distributed optimization and estimation algorithms, and tailoring the results for controlling complex and geographically distributed processes. Applications are, among others, in the efficient control of power consumptions in networks of datacenters and buildings.

Green Power - Using datacenters’ waste heat

Duration: from 2016-03 to 2017-08

Funding body: Energimyndigheten

Aim: measure and model the heat fluxes from existing datacenters, and assess the various possibilities of using this waste heat as a source for industrial and food processes.

Jilin C1

Duration: from 2014-01 to 2016-12

Funding body: Energimyndigheten

Aim: development of optimal regulation algorithms for the efficient combustion of ash-rich biomasses

Control Oriented Computational Fluid Dynamics

Duration: from 2014-01 to 2016-12

Funding body: LTU's Smart Machines and Materials research area

Aim: find algorithms for the automatic reduction of fluid dynamics models into control oriented models