- Design and manufacture of bio-inspired systems applied to motors, robotic arms and anthropomorphic gloves for their control and use of PFM.
- Study of the estimation of the affective state and the intention of movement during rehabilitation therapies, making use of biomedical signal processing techniques and automatic learning techniques, in order to maximize the patient's motivation, helping to improve the quality of the therapy.
- Rehabilitation robotics, focusing on end users who have suffered a stroke.
- Educational robotics and development of hardware, software and firmware for robots
- Neuromorphic engineering, event-based processing on FPGA and development of control architectures using pulsed neural networks.
- Industrial robotics, industrial robotic arms, robotic hands and programming of industrial robots in industrial environments and their applications.
- Design and applications with UGVs, USVs, drones and UAVs.
- Design and manufacture of anthropomorphic humanoid bio-inspired robots with servo motor control by PFM.
- Design and manufacture of electronic circuits with PCBs and development of embedded systems that integrate hardware and software with sensors and actuators.
- Vision, communication and manipulation in bioinspired systems.
- Hardware interconnection systems.
- Sensing, communications and control in mobile robots.
- Study, design and development of robotic systems.
- Design with reconfigurable electronic systems.
The Applied Robotics research group is based at the Faculty of Engineering of University of Cadiz. It is formed by 5 researchers with a doctorate in the field of industrial engineering and computer science.
Our research is focused on:
- Industrial robotics, industrial robotic arms, robotic hands and programming of industrial robots in industrial environments and their applications.
- Neuromorphic Engineering, event-based processing on FPGA and development of control architectures using pulsed neural networks.
- Educational robotics and development of hardware, software and firmware for robots.
- Rehabilitation robotics, focusing on end users who have suffered a stroke.
- Study of the estimation of the affective state and the intention to move during rehabilitation therapies, making use of biomedical signal processing techniques and automatic learning techniques, in order to maximize patient motivation and help improve the quality of therapy.
- Design and manufacture of bioinspired systems applied to motors, robotic arms and anthropomorphic gloves for their control and use of PFM.
- Design and manufacture of electronic circuits with PCBs and development of embedded systems that integrate hardware and software with sensors and actuators.
- Design and manufacture of anthropomorphic humanoid bio-inspired robots with servo motor control by PFM.
- Design and applications with autonomous UGVs, autonomous USVs, drones and UAVs.
In terms of technology transfer and participation in projects:
- We have participated in 9 projects of the National Plan, 3 of scientific infrastructure, 4 European projects, 7 projects of Excellence of the Andalusian Government, 15 Professional contracts, 2 Interreg projects, one FEDER Innterconecta project, 2 research projects of the UCA's own Plan.
- There are two patents, one related to a Modular and Self-Adaptive Robotic Device for the Rehabilitation of the Hand and Procedure of Use and another patent on a neonatal monitoring device.
- One of the members is co-founder of the technology-based company Innovative Devices for Rehabilitation and Assistant (IDRhA), aimed at developing robotic devices for rehabilitation and assistance for people with acquired brain damage
- More than 170 TFG, TFM, PFC and thesis research papers have been conducted.
- More than 50 articles have been published in indexed journals and more than 100 national and international conferences have been attended.