Prototypes and Patents
CleanRob ¬ Autonomous Cleaning Robot - A service robot adequate for cleaning large surfaces and also for the study of data fusion techniques (namely Kalman Filtering and Particle Filters)
Year of acquisition: 2008
Demonstrable at: FEUP
Responsible: Armando Jorge Sousa
Soft Core Robot - Small in size but very flexible robot with minimalist pin-count adequate for robotic competitions
Year of acquisition: 2008
Demonstrable at: FEUP
Responsible: Armando Jorge Sousa
MARES – Modular Autonomous Robot for Environmental Sampling
Year of acquisition: 2007
Demonstrable at: FEUP, Portugal
Responsible: Nuno Cruz, Aníbal Matos
Laboratorial prototype of a double converter AC/DC/AC based on IGBT transistors, allowing interconnection between variable frequency, variable amplitude AC sources
Year of acquisition: 2007
Demonstrable at: FEUP, Portugal
Responsible: Adriano de Carvalho
Laboratorial prototype of a control platform based on parallel operation of floating DSP (Family TMS3206713) for real time computation and FPGA for control of state machines
Year of acquisition: 2007
Demonstrable at: FEUP, Portugal
Responsible: Adriano de Carvalho
Pilot installation of a wind system, with emulation of the turbine performed by an AC variable frequency drive
Year of acquisition: 2007
Demonstrable at: FEUP, Portugal
Responsible: Adriano de Carvalho
Prototype of differential Bragg fiber sensors
Year of acquisition: 2007
Demonstrable at: FEUP, Portugal
Responsible: Adriano de Carvalho
Prototype of a High Voltage (1 kV) High Frequency (1 Mhz) Generator to heat and dry cork at end of production line
Year of acquisition: 2007
Demonstrable at: FEUP, Portugal
Responsible:Adriano de Carvalho
Prototype of a control system to heat and dry industrial transformers at end of production line
Year of acquisition: 2007
Demonstrable at: FEUP, Portugal
Responsible: Adriano de Carvalho
Prototypes at various stages of development and models of Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUV)s: LAUV, NAUV, ISURUS
Year of acquisition: 1997-2007
Demonstrable at: FEUP, Portugal
Responsible: João Sousa
Prototypes at various stages of development and models of Remotely Operated Vehicles (ROV)s: ROV, NROV
Year of acquisition: 1997-2007
Demonstrable at: FEUP, Portugal
Responsible: João Sousa
Prototypes at various stages of development and models of Autonomous Surface Vehicles (ASV)s: Swordfish
Year of acquisition: 1997-2007
Demonstrable at: FEUP, Portugal
Responsible: João Sousa
Prototypes at various stages of development and models of Unmanned Air Vehicles (UAV)s: Lusitânia, Brutus v1, Brutus v2
Year of acquisition: 1997-2007
Demonstrable at: FEUP, Portugal
Responsible: João Sousa and Gil Gonçalves
Prototypes of software for unmanned Air, Surface and Underwater Vehicles
Apollo – Hybrid systems control framework for unmanned air vehicle systems
MonSense – Real-time management and visualization of sensor networks Stand-alone simulator of generic submarines
Seaware – Real-time publish/subscribe framework for the control over networks - http://whale.fe.up.pt/seaware
Neptus – Command and control C4ISR - http://whale.fe.up.pt/neptus
Dune – Communication framework for embedded control
Year of acquisition: 1997-2007
Demonstrable at: FEUP, Portugal
Responsible: João Sousa