Português

Laboratories of the Scientific Area of Control, Automation and Industrial Informatics


Adaptive Structures and Composite Materials

Faculty member in charge: Prof. José Sá da Costa

Industrial Automation

Faculty member in charge: Prof. Caldas Pinto

The aim of the Industrial Automation laboratory is to support the teaching of graduate courses in this area. In this laboratory students will program PLC (Programmable Logic Controllers) to control basic processes as conveyors, electric-pneumatic valves connected to pneumatic cylinders and other systems. They will be also introduced to a set of logic sensors. A special platform with PLC and leds is used for remote control, allowing students to prepare some works at home through the Internet.

Identification and Control

Faculty member in charge: Prof. Miguel Ayala Botto

Integrated Control of Production

Faculty member in charge: Prof. João Miguel Sousa

Mecatronics

Faculty member in charge: Prof. Carlos Cardeira

Electronics and Instrumentation

Faculty member in charge: Prof. Jorge Martins

Robotics I and II

Faculty member in charge: Prof. Jorge Martins

Acoustics

Faculty member in charge: Prof. José Sá da Costa

In the Acoustics laboratory, research experiments are carried out in the area of active structural and acoustic control and in the area of active noise control. The latter can be applied, for instance, in transportation systems (such as trains) and ventilation ducts.

Vision

Faculty member in charge: Prof. João Caldas Pinto

The aim of the Vision laboratory is to support research work in the area of visual inspection applied to industrial problems and in robot vision were several visual servoing algorithms have been developed to control a planar robot and a PUMA robot. Currently algorithms are being developed on the area of robot assisted orthopedic surgery.

Humanoid robots

Faculty member in charge: Prof. Miguel Ayala Botto

In the humanoids laboratory, human-like robots are studied. The aim is the development of a humanoid robot able to make complex motions like walking, running and jumping through real-time feedback control techniques. Find more information at http://humanoids.dem.ist.utl.pt.