SAMIR NABULSI

Professional Experience

ADVANCED TECHNOLOGIES INSPIRALIA

Inspiralia is a private initiative involved in Research, Development and Innovation services to companies. It provides technical support to industrial companies, offering them R&D services and strategies for production improvement, increasing the competitiveness of their product offering.

Senior Engineer Consultant – New Product Development Unit

Madrid, Spain | 2013 to Present

  • Project and technical management of R&D European funded projects of new industrial product development.
  • Lead and coordination of multinational and multidisciplinary teams that includes industrial companies, research centres and universities for innovation projects.
  • Consultancy, technological assessment and development of new product and process for different sectors focusing on biochemical processes and the management renewable and alternative sources of energy (biochemical plants, CO2 recovery, waste management, etc.).
  • Professional technical, administrative and financial management and documentation.
  • Support of sales & business to develop new ideas and proposals for future projects for private and for EU funding projects.

Fetured Projects I’ve been involved here

CARBGROWTH

PYROCHAR

Other Projects

  • ADAW – Saponification pre-treatment and biosensors based control system for slaughterhouse waste anaerobic digestion improvement

    Control System design, design and implementation of e-tongue based electromechanic sampling system
    FP7-SME
    2013 – 2015

  • PHASEPLIT – Two-phase Acid/Gas Anaerobic Reactor for Industrial Wastewater of Food & Drink SME industries

    Control System Design
    FP7-SME
    2014 – 2016

  • GRABGAS – Green roofs that clean SME industrial gas containing low and variable concentrations of Volatile Organic Compounds

    Control System Design, design and implementation of solar photo-catalytic reactor for gas treatment
    FP7-SME
    2014 – 2015

  • RADCARPET – Radiant heating wall-to-wall carpet for energy efficiency space heating of existing non-residential buildings

    Control System Design and Implementation
    FP7-SME
    2013 – 2015

  • POOLSAFE – A novel swimming pool water treatment for the detection and elimination of excess cyanuric acid

    Control System Design, desing and implementation of solar photo-catalytic reactor for water treatment
    FP7-SME
    2014 – 2016

  • EUROPHA – Novel technology to boost the European bio-economy: reducing the production cost of PHA bio-polymer and expanding its applications as 100% compostable food packaging bio-plastic

    PHA production simulation and design
    FP7-SME
    2013-2015

AITEMIN TECHNOLOGICAL CENTER

AITEMIN is a Technological Centre of a private and non-profit nature, which activity is mainly carried out in the sectors of extractive industry, construction and environment. Its activities include carrying out research and technological development projects as well as providing technological services to companies, organizations and government agencies.

Project Manager

Madrid, Spain | 2008 – 2013

  • Project management of engineering and R&D of EU, Spanish administration and private funded projects for the underground industry (civil works and coal mining).
  • Lead and coordination of multinational partnerships and multidisciplinary teams that included industrial companies such as PUTZMEISTER, RAG, SIKA, research centres and universities for innovation projects.
  • Consultancy and technological assessment for the automation of processes for the underground industry (e.g. civil construction and coal mining).
  • New product development of:
  • Robotized heavy duty machinery and automatic control systems for the automation of different tunnelling processes (e.g. shotcrete machine, roadheading machine, tunnelling machinery, etc.).
  • Advance, high precision and reasonable low cost mechatronic devices for hostile environments (e.g. LIDAR Scanner, Laser-based multi object detection scanner).
  • Embedded SW/HW for motion control (e.g. DC motors, hydraulic/pneumatic actuators, etc.), DAQ (encoders, analog, etc.) and telecommunication (Ethernet/Wifi, CANOpen, RS-485, etc.).
  • ICT (Information and Communication Technology) based real-time teleoperation systems for Human Machine Interfaces (HMI) and process supervision.
  • Testing techniques and analysis of process phenomena by using and/or developing sensor based data acquisition systems.
  • Planning and study of proposals for future projects for private and for EU and National calls for funding.
  • Understanding risks and anticipating the technology needs of the clients working hand-in-hand with them during the whole project development.
  • Professional technical, administrative and financial management and documentation.
  • Tracking and documentation for Quality control (ISO 9001).
  • Scientific papers and contribution to international journals and congresses.

Fetured Projects I’ve been involved here

ADRIS

SHOTCRETE

Other Projects

  • McGIT – Monitorization, Control and Management of Tunnels

    Technical manager of the Automated Shotcrete Process, robotization of shotcrete heavy duty machinery, underground LADAR scanner and underground laser navigation system.
    OSSA – CDTI
    2011 – 2013

  • UNDERGROUND NAVIGATION – System Development for the acquisition of the positional information of underground machinery based on Inverse Laser Trilateration

    Project coordination, development of trilateration laser-based undergourng positioning system.
    Ministry of Industry and Commerce – Spain
    2008 – 2010

  • EDDAFIC – Early Detection And Fighting of Fires in Belt Conveyors

    Design, development of a robotic undergroung belt conveyor cleaning vehicle
    RFCS – EU
    2008 – 2011

CENTER OF AUTOMATICS AND ROBOTICS – CAR

The Department of Automatic Control at the CAR (former Industrial Automation Institute) of the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) has as a major goal, to carry out Research and Technical Development regarding the analysis, design and synthesis of automatic control systems. The main research is focused on: Control theory, robots for hazardous environments, and controls systems for electromechanical drivers.

Researcher – Automatic Control Department

Madrid, Spain | 2001 – 2008

  • Development of Robots for hostile environments, legged walking and climbing robots and special manipulators from EU, Spanish administration and private funded projects (e.g Roboclimber a 3 ton quadruped robot).
  • Design development and implementation of:
  • Automatic control systems and control architectures (e.g. velocity, position, force, impedance) of servomechanisms for process automation based on different kind of actuators (electric, hydraulic, pneumatic, etc.) and sensors.
  • Advance mechanical systems with static and dynamic simulations (e.g. legged robots, manipulators, etc.).
    Remote teleoperation systems for Human Machine Interfaces (HMI) and process supervision.
  • Testing techniques and analysis of process phenomena by using and/or developing sensor based data acquisition systems.
    Electronic systems and devices.
  • Professional technical documentation.
  • Scientific papers and articles for international congresses and journals

Fetured Projects I’ve been involved here

ROBOCLIMBER

ROBCLEAN

Other Projects

  • SAFERDRILL – A remotely controlled autonomous walking and climbing robot for master and safer landslide monitoring, slope stability analysis and consolidation

    Control System design, development and implementation
    FP5 – COOP EU
    2005 – 2007

  • AURORA – Auxiliary climbing robot for underwater ship hull clearing of sea adherences and surveying

    Design, development and implementation
    GROWTH 99 – EU
    2001 – 2003

  • IZAROB – Design, development and implementation of a prototype of a robot manipulator for the automation of welding curve blocks

    Design, development and implementation of a 6-degree robotic manipulator
    IZAR-SAIND Soldadura
    2003 – 2004

  • ROBICAM – Dual Manipulation for the visual control of biped robot

    Biped robot gait development
    CYCIT Spain
    2004 – 2006

  • GOODLIFE – Global optimization of disc cutter tool life for tunnel boring machine

    Cutter disc dynamics simulation
    GROWTH 99 EU
    2001 – 2003