Database providing access to the High Technology Network's industrial research offering: research competences, type of analyses and tests available at the Laboratories. Companies can consult the Catalogue to find Laboratories and researchers that match their needs.
Competence
Biomarker identification to assess the effects of bioactive components in humans
Cognition and autonomy for robots in unstructured environments
Control algorithms and cognitive techniques
Control architectures for actuators
Data transmission systems, communications (bus, internet, wireless, etc.)
Designe of specific software application (acquisition, processing, control, supervision, ...)
Effects of industrial processes on the nutritional qualities of foods
Evaluation of dietary habits of the population in order to identify risk behaviours and prevention strategies
Evaluation of the interactions between food matrix and bioactive components
Evaluation of the organoleptic characteristics of food bioactive components and related food
Evaluation of the physical, chemical, and microbial characteristics of products
Extraction of bioactive components from food waste (polyphenols, omega3 and omega6 fatty acids)
Fleets of mobile robots - Planning and coordination
Functional compounds characterization from raw materials, ingredients, food and food industry left-overs
Grasping devices and robot manipulators
Hardware design
Human studies for the validation of nutritional/health claims (including analysis of biological samples and statistical analysis of the results)
Human-machine interfaces
Human-robot interactive collaboration in intrinsically safe work cells
Hydraulic actuators and motors
Integration of vision systems for fixed and mobile robotics
Kinematic chains (belts, cams, reduction gears, crank thrusts, etc)
Market survey and consumer trends towards functional foods
Mathematical modelling for product/process optimization
Micro-actuators based on MEMS
Mobile Robots - localization and autonomous navigation
Mobile Robots - non-industrial applications
Optimization of raw material selection for food processing/products
Packaging, designing and testing: choice of the proper materials for the desired product
Packaging, designing and testing: shelf-life evaluation of food products and bioactive components
Piezoelectric actuators
Pneumatic actuators
Preparation of the nutritional/health claims application
Real time operating systems
Robot task design in workcells
Rotary and linear electromechanical actuators
Selection of nutritional/health claims according to EU Regulation
Self-learning robot in work cells
Set up of in vitro methods and animal models for the evaluation of the health effects of food bioactive components
Thermal-electric actuators (hybrid)