The main research activities of the Department include the following topics:
- Automation and control of industrial processes
- Diagnostics, reliability and safety of industrial and critical infrastructure systems
- Functional safety and protection of control systems
- Security of industrial computer systems and networks
- Human factors and human reliability analysis
- Building automation
- Autonomous surface vehicles and control of marine objects
- Automation of energy systems on board
- Optimization, nonlinear control systems, evolutionary optimization methods
- Chemical process diagnostics
- Decision support in industrial processes
