
Digital Twins
- Digital twins with applications in construction, mobility, blue economy and agriculture, among other sectors, to optimize and increase productivity, reduce costs and provide safe working conditions.
- Open-source software to produce digital twins for edge computing.
- AI and machine learning-based platforms for generating digital twins.

Security and Cybersecurity
- Real-time response and mitigation of the effects of cyberattacks across ICT supply chains.
- Algorithms for detecting physical and cyberattacks, and response mechanisms.
- More functional and secure integrated circuits for cybersecurity and supercomputing.
- Monitoring of intelligent fire detection systems.
- Perception systems: vision for controlling and guiding robots.
Industry 4.0
- Advanced production using automated technologies such as adaptive models, ATP/AFP, 3D printing, profiling processes, hot stamping.
- Integration of drones with 4G and 5G mobile technologies.
- Smart management of industrial plants and infrastructures.
- Predictive maintenance of machines through IoT platforms.
- Industrial automation and communication.
- Energy saving through smart monitoring.
- Flexible manufacturing processes.
- Advanced decision-making tools for zero defect manufacturing (ZDM).
- Digital control with microprocessors and DSP.
- Computer vision.
- Human-machine communication interfaces (dialogue systems).

Big Data Analytics
- Data analysis techniques to obtain high-precision information with low-cost sensors.
- Capability to connect and transform data from the Internet of Things (IoT) or the Internet of People (IoP) into reliable and usable information.
- Efficient and adaptable management of large amounts of data on network devices and infrastructures.
- Communication protocols with limited latency, high reliability and energy efficiency.
- LoRa Mesher.
- Alert management system with different input channels.
- Decentralized computing and network system infrastructures, based on cooperative resource coordination models.
- Adaptable, resilient, scalable software systems that exploit edge resources and networks for communication and computing infrastructures (cloud).
Smart Farming
- Agricultura 4.0: sistemes de captació, processament d’imatges i sistemes de telecomunicacions basats en la ciència de dades.
- Aplicació de Digital Twins per a agricultura de regadiu.
- Automatització i mecanització de processos productius en l'agricultura intel·ligent.
- Desenvolupament de sistemes de mesura i comunicació de les dades amb menor consum energètic.
- Teledetecció per a cultius a l’aire lliure mitjançant drons i satèl·lits.
- Millora de la productivitat amb robots mòbils.
- Disseny de maquinària agrícola i equips sensoritzats.
- Monitoratge de bestiar i detecció de malalties mitjançant sensors biomètrics.

Robotic Process Automation
- Advanced robotic handling systems.
- Collaborative robots, human-machine interfaces (HMI).
- Automation of complex processes with artificial intelligence and machine learning to improve robot decision-making.
- Intelligent robotic exoskeletons.
- Voice recognition and response systems enabling interaction and verbal command of robots.

Mobility
- Autonomous delivery devices for last-mile operations.
- Drones for large-scale use.
- IoT platforms for autonomous cars.
- Multimodal image sensors for autonomous vehicles.
- Interconnected and secure mobility through remote sensing and optical communication systems, RADAR and LiDAR sensors.
- Autonomous underwater vehicles with sensors to detect and map the environment.
- Passenger demand prediction, social trends based on learning and decision-making systems.
- New mobility services for public transport.

eHealth
- Surgical robots.
- Virtual reality and augmented reality for telerehabilitation.
- Low-cost devices for remote cardiovascular monitoring.
- Image processing to diagnose injuries.
- Differential diagnosis in patients with Parkinson’s disease using biomechanical tests.
- Advanced non-intrusive remote health evaluation.
- IoT medical devices.
- Wearable tech.
- Modelling of human body movement.
- Biomedical signal processing.

Smart Building & BIM
- Advanced optimization to monitor errors in smart infrastructures.
- IoT platforms with deep learning applied to smart homes.
- Modular sensors to identify bridge structures subjected to quasi-static loads.
- 3D printing of insulating composites useful in construction.
- Energy information in digital administration.

Energy efficiency
- Internet architectures with open-source software and hardware protocols aimed at energy efficiency.
- Smart, modular and scalable batteries using big data analysis, artificial intelligence and IoT.
- Energy management in smart factories.
- Light energy harvesting for autonomous sensors.

Edge & Cloud Computing
- Efficiency and optimization of artificial intelligence systems.
- Efficient artificial intelligence for cloud computing.
- Digital energy transition through the exchange of intelligence and data.
Related Projects
- The research group Polyfunctional Polymeric Materials (POLY2) of the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya - BarcelonaTech (UPC) will work on the project CELICOIDS - Nanohelicoid metamaterials templated by cellulose nanocrystals with end-tethered polymers. As part of this project, it will develop new metamaterials −materials designed to have a property that is not found in nature – that can increase the spectroscopic sensitivity to distinguish molecular chirality.
- The research group Barcelona Fluids & Energy Lab (IFLUIDS) and the Centre for Technological Innovation in Static Converters and Drives (CITCEA) of the UPC participate in the European project H-HOPE, which is focused on the development of solutions to produce clean energy based on water sources that have still not been exploited, such as pipes and water channels.
- Combining agricultural activity and the production of solar energy by means of photovoltaic panels is the aim of SYMBIOSYST, a project promoted by a consortium of 16 European partners including the UPC. As part of this project, technological tools will be developed to contribute to generating clean energy for the agricultural sector in Europe.
- The production of biogas through anaerobic digestion has been increasing exponentially in Europe in recent years. This is because it can be produced locally and has a clear positive effect on waste recycling, the generation of clean energy, sustainable development or climate action. In this context, the FertiLab project was launched, with the participation of researchers from the Department of Agri Food Engineering and Biotechnology (DEAB) of the UPC.






