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
- 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.
- The research and innovation laboratory at the Barcelona School of Informatics (inLab FIB) of the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya - BarcelonaTech (UPC) is taking part, along with the distribution company Assolim, in the design of a test of concept to create optimised routes for each vehicle for transport on demand.
- A team of researchers from the Acoustic and Mechanical Engineering Laboratory (LEAM) in the Centre for Advanced Technologies in Mechanics (CATMech) at the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya - BarcelonaTech (UPC) is participating in the development of a method that can generate and update noise maps for cities via mobile acoustic sensors.
- A multidisciplinary team at the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya - BarcelonaTech (UPC) is working on the European project AI - Enhanced Fibre -Wireless Optical 6G Network in Support for Connected Mobility (6G-EWOC) to develop technologies and a 6G optical network that will combine artificial intelligence with 6G technologies, remote sensing systems and optical communication (wireless and by optical fibre). The result will be a network that will enable autonomous and human-driven vehicles to circulate safely, avoiding accidents in zones that have a lot of traffic or are very busy.
