Technological expertise

Through agreements with industrial partners we motivate technology transfer of the Institute's achievements on excellence research. One of the main objectives for the Institute is to promote the collaboration with the bussiness world and find common solutions between industry need and the research done.

If you want to know the technological expertise of our researchers, download our TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER CATALOG, or read the next blocks:

MECHANISM DESIGN AND ANALYSIS

MECHANISM DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION

  • Parallel manipulators
  • Robotic hands
  • Reconfigurable robots
  • Tactile sensors
  • Cable-driven robots

ANALYSIS AND PLANNING OF MECHANISM MOTION

  • Software development to determine valid motion and positioning of mechanisms

MOLECULAR MODELLING

  • Biomolecule modeling as complex kinematic chains

AERIAL ROBOTICS

AERIAL ROBOT LOCALIZATION, MAPPING AND NAVIGATION

  • Robust multi-sensor systems
  • Single and cooperative approaches

AERIAL ROBOT CONTROL AND PLANNING STRATEGIES

  • Fault-tolerant and energy efficient control
  • Semisupervised planning

AERIAL PERCEPTION AND MANIPULATION

  • Computer vision methods for scene recognition, object detection, identification and tracking
  • Hierarchical task control for unmanned aerial manipulators

URBAN MOBILITY

AUTONOMOUS NAVIGATION

  • Localization in GPS denied environments
  • Vehicle motion, planning and control
  • 3D mapping
  • Obstacle avoidance
  • Sensor fusion for robust localization

HEAVY VEHICLE AUTOMATION

  • AGVs in shared workspaces
  • Coordinated navigation
  • Mixed GNSS-laser-based positioning solutions

DRIVER ASSISTANCE (ADAS)

  • Deep learning methods
  • Road detection
  • Multicamera Integration
  • Object recognition and tracking

URBAN SERVICE ROBOTICS

  • Urban exploration and mapping
  • Human guiding and tracking
  • Human-vehicle interaction
  • Surveillance tasks
  • Urban goods transportation (last mile)
  • Assistance to the mobility of disabled users

ADVANCED TECHNIQUES IN VISUAL PERCEPTION

DEEP LEARNING APPLICATIONS

  • Automatic scene understanding
  • Object detection, recognition and tracking
  • Human activity recognition
  • E-commerce clothing recognition
  • Medical imaging
  • Automatic image captioning

GEOMETRIC COMPUTER VISION

  • Single and multi-camera pose estimation
  • Non-rigid 3D object reconstruction
  • Human motion analysis
  • Real time augmented reality

SMART FACTORIES (INDUSTRY 4.0)

HUMAN-ROBOT COOPERATION

  • Shared workspaces with robots
  • Object recognition for robot autonomy
  • Safe robotics approaches
  • Easy robot programming

FACTORY AUTOMATION

  • Decision-support tools for constrained systems
  • Optimization of operations
  • Redundant and fault tolerant control

SOCIAL ROBOTICS

ROBOT COMPANION

  • Multimodal interaction
  • Generation of empathic robot behaviours
  • Computer vision for social robotics
  • Robot navigation in crowded environments
  • Robotics ethics

ASSISTIVE ROBOTICS

PROACTIVE ASSISTANCE TO DISABLED USERS

  • Improvement of user autonomy
  • Robot programming by demonstration
  • Adaptation of robot behaviour
  • Robotics support for dressing or feeding tasks

PERCEPTION AND MANIPULATION OF DEFORMABLE OBJECTS

  • Garment detection, tracking and classification
  • Detection of grasping points
  • Garment folding and manipulation

COMPLEX SYSTEMS CONTROL

MODELLING, CONTROL AND SUPERVISION OF COMPLEX SYSTEMS

  • Dynamic modeling and paremeter identification
  • Real-time monitoring and control
  • Non-linear and large-scale systems
  • Fault-tolerant control

ENERGY SYSTEMS

FUEL CELL SYSTEMS

  • Fuel cell modeling and experimental characterization
  • Fuel cell efficiency and durability analysis
  • Ethanol reformers for hydrogen production
  • Fuel cell systems controller design
  • Fuel cell integration into vehicles

ENERGY MANAGEMENT

  • Control and integration of renewable energy sources
  • Energy distribution and efficiency
  • Enviromental impact
  • Operation of critical infrastructure systems

WATER CYCLE CONTROL SYSTEMS

DRINKING WATER NETWORKS

  • Modeling of drinking water networks
  • Real-time monitoring and control

URBAN DRAINAGE SYSTEMS

  • Real-time control of sewage systems
  • Control of wastewater treatment plants