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 adoption of 6G applications will have a positive impact on a broad range of innovations set to transform our society in the future. These include autonomous vehicles that reduce accidents, more efficient emergency services, and connected drones that expedite the delivery of medical supplies between healthcare centres, to name a few examples. These and other emerging solutions continue to evolve, driven by the constant technological advancements in communications. The implementation of these new technologies requires a process that inevitably involves testing in environments as true to real-life conditions as possible.
- The European project LIFE Biogasnet, coordinated by the Biological Treatment of Gaseous Contaminants and Odours Group (BIOGAP) at the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya - BarcelonaTech (UPC), has validated a new biogas purification technology that improves the quality of this resource, produced in urban solid waste treatment plants and wastewater treatment facilities, while reducing the carbon footprint, thus promoting the concept of a circular economy. The new solution is based on efficient, low-cost biological technologies, combining a biotrickling filter with a nitrification bioreactor.