LOGISTICS
WAREHOUSE MANAGEMENT
- Process optimization
- Smart warehouse management
- Supervision of smart processes
- Cooperative robots: exoskeletons, handling and assembly tasks in collaboration with humans
- Autonomous robots (co-workers)
- AGV, autonomous vehicles
- Learning and task prediction via artificial intelligence
- Drones in the supply chain
GOODS TRANSPORT
- Shortest path: route optimization
- Study and optimization of the logistics chain
- Dynamic models of transport and management (land, air and maritime)
- Sizing of the logistics chain
- Robot-human collaboration
MOBILITY
PASSENGERS
- Learning systems and qualitative decision making
- Technology trends
- Social trends
- Predictive user studies
- Human-machine interaction
- Social inclusion/digital gap
- Prediction of passenger demand
- User acceptance
- Security
CITY
- Multimodal mobility strategies
- Big data and smart systems
- Mobility as a Service (MaaS)
- Autonomous and connected mobility solutions
- Drones: flow monitoring
VEHICLE
SUSTAINABILITY
- Alternative propulsion systems
- Electric, wireless, hydrogen vehicle
- Energy efficiency, battery life cycle
- Robotics, artificial intelligence, sensor of interaction/optical recognition
- Circular economy (materials, etc.)
SECURITY
- Autonomous vehicle (security)
- Road safety and comfort
INFRASTRUCTURES
- Public transportation: Ticketing, New mobility services.
- Demand prediction
- Sustainable urban design and accessibility
- Dynamic models of transport and management (land, air and maritime)
- Simulation of urban data (land use, dwelling, urban mobility plans) and virtual reality
RELATED PROJECTS
- The Barcelona Innovative Transportation (BIT), the Research Center in Automotive and Advanced Mobility (CER-AMA) and The Future Mobility Research Hub (CARNET) research groups from the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya - BarcelonaTech (UPC) are participating in the E-MED project, which aims to optimise energy and resource efficiency in public transport systems by addressing energy price fluctuations through smart and participatory solutions across the Mediterranean region.
- A research team involving the Barcelona Innovative Transportation (BIT), inLab FIB, CARNET Barcelona – Future Mobility Research Hub (CER-AMA), and the Department of Computer Architecture (DAC) of the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya - BarcelonaTech (UPC) is driving the i-MovE project, which aims to incorporate multisectoral data to provide much more accurate and valuable information for the mobility sector. The project develops four use cases focused on both companies and mobility authorities, covering public and individual transport, using the UPCxels demonstrator.
- The Research Center for Supervision, Safety and Automatic Control (CS2AC-UPC) at the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya - BarcelonaTech (UPC) has coordinated the SaCoAV project, focused on researching new methods and tools to ensure the safe coordination of autonomous vehicles in urban environments.
- As part of the USEFUL project, the Centre for Sensor, Instrumentation and Systems Development (CD6) at the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya - BarcelonaTech (UPC) has equipped a low-emission vehicle that will drive through the streets of Terrassa with optical sensors integrated into a complex system for data computing, visualisation, and storage. This car will collect and store thousands of anonymous driving data points, which will be used to develop more accurate algorithms for autonomous driving.
