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