Smart automation

Aim

To bring advanced robotics and automation from laboratory into the real world applications

The group will pursue objectives that lead to the following when considering automated systems:

Affordability – value for money, it is commercially justifiable to acquire and operate.
Reliability – operate at an acceptable level of performance, will meet its functional requirements and will have sufficient redundancy to allow graceful degradation of service.
Friendliness – user interactions are simple, the user does not need extensive education and training to make use of the device and the robot and humans can co-exists in the same physical space without the need for extensive guarding.
Robustness – handle uncertainty in physical dimension, forces, locations and other environmental variables etc.
Flexibility – can do more than one job – is not limited to one type of product or task but can easily switch between tasks and products of similar nature.

The approach adopted will concentrate on integration of the above technologies.

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