APPLICATION SECTORS
The expertise of the UPC includes cross-applications solutions in different sectors:
ADVANCED MANUFACTURING TECHNOLOGIES
- Techniques for controlling and monitoring process/product quality
- Flexible manufacturing processes
- Advanced decision-making tools for Zero Defects Manufacturing (ZDM).
- Digital control with microprocessors and DSP
- Human-machine collaboration
- Computer vision
- Assessment of environmental impact
ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING
- Rapid prototyping
- 3D Printing
- Stereolithography (SLA)
- Selective Laser Sintering (SLS)
- Fused Deposition Modeling (FDM)
COLLABORATIVE & AUTONOMOUS ROBOTS
- Human machine communication interfaces (dialog systems)
- Advanced information models for knowledge generation and learning
- Perception systems: vision to control and guide robots
CIBERSECURITY
- Logical security. Audits, penetration tests for heterogeneous network and forensic analysis.
- High availability infrastructure
- Intrusion detection and intrusion response mechanisms
THE INDUSTRIAL INTERNET OF THINGS
- Industrial communication
- Artificial intelligence
- Intelligent monitoring of industrial processes
- Energy saving through smart monitoring
- Sensor system and data extraction
DATA SCIENCE
- Big data analytics
- Data graphs
- Advanced statistical analysis
- Control panels and decision support systems
AUGMENTED REALITY
- Advanced 3D graphic interaction systems
- Physically - based animation
- Virtual reality, immersive interaction and geometric & volume modeling
AREAS
The UPC develops the technologies on industry 4.0 of the future. They present new challenges for which solutions must be developed related to the following areas:
- SYNCRONIZED ENTERPRISE
- ROBOTICS
- LOGISTICS
- INDUSTRIAL AUTOMATION & COMMUNICATION
- ENERGY EFFICENCY
- WASTE OPTIMIZATION
- DYNAMIC DISTRIBUTION CHAIN NETWORKS
- INNOVATIVE DISTRIBUTION TO THE CONSUMER
- INDUSTRIAL DESIGN
RELATED PROJECTS
- The digitalisation of human senses has advanced significantly in areas such as vision, hearing and touch. However, smell and taste continue to present a technological challenge, as their analysis relies on the identification of volatile or dissolved chemical compounds. While there are various sensors on the market capable of detecting specific gases and substances, they often lack the versatility required for comprehensive recognition of complex odours, showing limitations in adapting to different combinations of compounds.
- The company Natural Machines and the Heat and Mass Transfer Technological Centre (CTTC-UPC) at the UPC have completed the EFICIENT3D project, during which a low-energy cooking system was developed by integrating advanced heat transfer technologies into the 3D food printer, Foodini, commercialised by Natural Machines.
- Every year, over four million patients acquire an infection associated with a hospital stay, according to the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control and the World Health Organisation. The data indicate that the impact of these infections has led to direct or indirect mortality of 137,000 patients and a cost of seven billion euros annually.
- Increase the flexibility of energy demand of industrial processes to accelerate the energy transition to a more sustainable model.
