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
Acoustics and vibration measurements
Analysis and research on post sterilization technologies for containers
Analysis of the physical, rheological, chemical, microbial, and sensorial properties during storage
Analytical tests for shelf-life characterization
Cognition and autonomy for robots in unstructured environments
Conceptual development of machines and plants with QFD (Quality Function Deployment)
Control algorithms and cognitive techniques
Control architectures for actuators
Data transmission systems, communications (bus, internet, wireless, etc.)
Definition of product specifications and analytical methods of verification
Design and virtual optimization with Computer Aided Engineering (CAE) tools and simulation of discrete events
Design of experiment (DoE) and Food Design to study interaction between formulation and process conditions
Designe of specific software application (acquisition, processing, control, supervision, ...)
Efficiency and yield verification
Energy saving and lowering of environment impact of machines and plants for food production
Experimental studies of formulations and processes: use of bioactive components from out-streams or by-products
Experimental trials for new materials, making technology and plant design in order to cut investment, management, maintenance of machines and plants for the food industry
Fleets of mobile robots - Planning and coordination
Fluidodinamic simulation of components and circuit
Grasping devices and robot manipulators
Hardware design
Heat exchange coefficient evaluation
Human-machine interfaces
Human-robot interactive collaboration in intrinsically safe work cells
Hydraulic actuators and motors
Improvement of process efficiency for saving direct and indirect costs
Input-output correlations to assess operational parameters
Integration of vision systems for fixed and mobile robotics
Kinematic chains (belts, cams, reduction gears, crank thrusts, etc)
Lab trails and scale-up to pilot plants of experimental production diagrams; check of the physical, chemical and sensorial characteristics
Mechanical testing on construction materials
Micro-actuators based on MEMS
Microbial kinetics during food storage
Mobile Robots - localization and autonomous navigation
Mobile Robots - non-industrial applications
Monitoring and predictive meintenance based on acoustic and vibration sensors, thermography, olography, ultrasound
Monitoring of chemical, physical, and biochemical characteristics (enzymatic activity and kinetics) during storage
Noise reduction
Non-conventional thermal and non-thermal technologies for product stabilization, extraction, and conservation
Numerical simulation to define process-product interaction