Section: New Software and Platforms

Odin

Platform for advanced monitoring, control and optimisation of bioprocesses

Keywords: Bioinformatics - Biotechnology - Monitoring - Automatic control

Scientific Description: This C++ application enables researchers and industrials to easily develop and deploy advanced control algorithms through the use of a Scilab interpreter. It also contains a Scilab-based process simulator which can be harnessed for experimentation and training purposes. ODIN is primarily developed in the C++ programming language and uses CORBA to define component interfaces and provide component isolation. ODIN is a distributed platform, enabling remote monitoring of the controlled processes as well as remote data acquisition.It is very modular in order to adapt to any plant and to run most of the algorithms, and it can handle the high level of uncertainties that characterises the biological processes through explicit management of confidence indexes.

Functional Description: ODIN is a software framework for bioprocess control and supervision. ODIN is a distributed platform, where algorithms are described with a common structure easy to implement. Finally, ODIN can perform remote data acquisition and process these data to compute the signals to be applied to the actuators, together with estimates of state variables or process state. ODIN can handle the high level of uncertainties that characterises the biological processes through explicit management of confidence indexes.

• Participants: Fabien Dilet, Florian Guenn, Francesco Novellis, Mathieu Lacage, Melaine Gautier, Olivier Bernard, Olivier Calabro, Romain Primet and Serigne Sow

• Contact: Olivier Bernard

• URL: https://team.inria.fr/biocore/software/odin/