LART - Lenoir Automation Robots Technologies
Collaborations
Industrials
CAMCO (Canadian General Electric)
CMW-Marioni
Leyland Trucks (PACCAR)
Savvas Co
Pro 3 DL
Quinlan Bros
Ocean Choice International
Bombardier
Laboratories
GREAH, Universite du Havre
IRCcYN, CNRS-ECN-Universite de Nantes
Labo CAE R. Fraser Elliot, École Polytechnique
LIP6, Universite de Paris VI
Tools
Solving non-linear equation systems with exact methods (Groebner bases), certified methods (interval analyses), numeric certified methods (Newton with theorems, Bissection, Geometric Iterative Method), evolutionnary algorithms.
Dynamic systems with the virtual work method and Bond Graphs.
Optimization with Monte Carlo, evolutionnary algorithms, simulated annealing, least squares.
Improvement utilizing design of experiments.
Areas of Expertise
High performance robots
Modeling and simulation
Certification of trajectories
Optimisation of tasks
Controls
High speed milling
Industrial automation
Actual Research Activities - UWS
Hutchison Mechatronics Laboratory, UWS, Paisley, Scotland, UK
Design of industrial robots for high performance
- Inverse SCARA robotic workcell for micro-manipulation of laser bars.
- High speed robotic arm based on reversed SCARA.
- Stepper motors with encoders.
- Application of vision based control.
- Layer control for high precision.
Partner: Helia Photonics
Funder: Innovate UK, KTP programme
Design of an automated industrial garment cleaning system based on ozone
- Winner of three awards
- Patent pending
- The first for large scale production system
- No waste for a cleaner environment
- Decontamination of fabric
- Partner: ACS Clothing
- Funder: Innovate UK, KTP programme
Simulation and optimization of the industrial garment cleaning systems
- PhD student
- Several integrated approaches
- Industrial system improvements
- Partner: ACS Clothing
- Funder: ACS Clothing
Autonomous vehicle certification framework
- PhD student
- The first complete framework
- Open ended and connectable to government bodies
- No waste for a cleaner environment
- Large database: vast amount of vehicle tests
- Partner: AVL, Graz, Austria
- Funder: Self-funded PhD and company in-kind
Design of parallel robots for high performance
- Based on scissor shape linear axes and actuators.
- High acceleration robotic arm.
- Higher rigidity.
- Simpler modelling
Partners: CNRS Nantes, Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal
Funder: Self funded
Design of robot components
High Performance Robotics Laboratory
Memorial University (St-John's, TN, Canada)
- Linear actuators for very high accelerations
- Revolute, Universal and ball joints with high stiffness.
Design of parallel robots for high performance
High Performance Robotics Laboratory
Memorial University (St-John's, TN, Canada)
- Five-bars for testtube sampling at a low cost
- Planar 3RPR tripod being reconfigurable
- Planar 3RXR tripod with rapid linear actuators
- The Expteron, the spatial translation robot tripod
Drones, UAVs and flying robots
Arctic Sparrow Program
Memorial University
- Equivalent level of safety- ELOS
- Trajectory planning and certification specific tasks
- Sense-and-Avoid Algorithms.
Design of parallel robots for Sun Tracking
High Performance Robotics Laboratory
Memorial University (St-John's, TN, Canada)
- Effecient control with impulses for 2 DOF robots
Toros University (Mersin, Turquie)
- Instrumentation and controlof the X-Track robot, project Sunflower
Middle East Technical University (Guzelyurt, North Cyprus)
- Design of 2 DOF parallel mechanism, type U-2UPS, the new X-Track
Modeling and Solving of the Forward Kinematics Problem for Parallel Robots
Middle East Technical University (Guzelyurt, North Cyprus)
- Evolutionnary algorithms and hybridation with simulated annealing
University of the Basque Country (Bilbao, Spain)
- Geometric Iterative Method
INRIA - Henri Poincaré University (Nancy, France)
- Exact method with Groebner Bases and Rational Univariate Representation
- Certified Method with interval analysis
Automatic reprograming of industrial robots
ADSIP - UCLAN (Preston, United Kingdom)
- Integration of laser scanners laser and cameras
- Reconstruction of 3D models of hollowed and non-convex objets
- Morphing algorithms of similar truck shapes
- Trajectory production of non-contact tasks (painting)
- Real-time programing