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
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Laboratories
GREAH, Universite du Havre
IRCcYN, CNRS-ECN-Universite de Nantes
Labo CAE R. Fraser Elliot, École Polytechnique
LIP6, Universite de Paris VI
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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.
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Dynamic systems with the virtual work method and Bond Graphs.
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Optimization with Monte Carlo, evolutionnary algorithms, simulated annealing, least squares.
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Improvement utilizing design of experiments.
Areas of Expertise
High performance robots
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Modeling and simulation
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Certification of trajectories
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Optimisation of tasks
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Controls
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High speed milling
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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
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- 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
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- PhD student
- Several integrated approaches
- Industrial system improvements
- Partner: ACS Clothing
- Funder: ACS Clothing
Autonomous vehicle certification framework
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- 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)
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- 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
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Toros University (Mersin, Turquie)
- Instrumentation and controlof the X-Track robot, project Sunflower
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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
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Middle East Technical University (Guzelyurt, North Cyprus)
- Evolutionnary algorithms and hybridation with simulated annealing
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University of the Basque Country (Bilbao, Spain)
- Geometric Iterative Method
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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
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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