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
Additive manufacturing processes (3D printing, SLA rapid prototyping, etc.)
Analysis of the physical, rheological, chemical, microbial, and sensorial properties during storage
Analytical tests for shelf-life characterization
Cladding
Cognition and autonomy for robots in unstructured environments
Control algorithms and cognitive techniques
Control architectures for actuators
Conventional welding processes (arc, TIG, MIG / MAG, resistance, etc.)
Data transmission systems, communications (bus, internet, wireless, etc.)
Definition of product specifications and analytical methods of verification
Design of experiment (DoE) and Food Design to study interaction between formulation and process conditions
Designe of specific software application (acquisition, processing, control, supervision, ...)
Experimental studies of formulations and processes: use of bioactive components from out-streams or by-products
Fleets of mobile robots - Planning and coordination
Generation and optimization of the part program
Grasping devices and robot manipulators
Hardware design
Heat treatments of conventional and not conventional metal alloys
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
Machining processes for metal removal (turning, milling, drilling, reaming, broaching, grinding, etc.)
Massive deformation processes (forging, pressing, rolling mill, extrusion, drawing, etc.)
Melting processes (in sand, in shell, die casting, investment casting, etc.)
Micro-actuators based on MEMS
Microbial kinetics during food storage
Microprocessing (micro-milling, -drilling, -laser, -waterjet, etc.)
Mobile Robots - localization and autonomous navigation
Mobile Robots - non-industrial applications
Monitoring of chemical, physical, and biochemical characteristics (enzymatic activity and kinetics) during storage
Non-conventional machining processes (laser, plasma, waterjet, chemical and electrochemical , ultrasonic, electrical discharge, etc.)
Non-conventional thermal and non-thermal technologies for product stabilization, extraction, and conservation
Numerical simulation to define process-product interaction
On-line product control feasibility for process optimization
Operator practical training for process control and lab tests