User:MarioRC280/Centre for Automation and Robotics

The Centre for Automation and Robotics (CAR) is a joint research center of the Technical University of Madrid (UPM) and the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) in Spain. The main fields of research are control engineering, artificial perception and robotics. It has two headquarters: the CSIC headquarters in Arganda del Rey, and the UPM headquarters in a building annexed to the Escuela Técnica Superior de Ingenieros Industriales, located in the Palacio de las Artes y la Industria in Madrid's Calle José Gutiérrez Abascal.

The CAR has numerous active projects, financed by European, national and regional calls for proposals, as well as collaboration agreements with private companies.

History
It was created in November 2009 with researchers attached to the Institute of Industrial Automation (IAI) of the CSIC, and professors from the Systems Engineering and Automation Area of the UPM. The signing was carried out by Rafael Rodrigo Montero, former president of the CSIC, and Javier Uceda Antolín, former rector of the UPM, under the supervision of the former Secretary of State for Research, Carlos Martínez Alonso; investing a total of 48 million euros for the creation of the research centers and institutes.

Lines of research
The main fields of action son:


 * Control engineering
 * Artificial perception
 * Robotics

The objective is the improvement of society through research projects. Among these, the problems of autonomous driving of terrestrial and aerial vehicles, such as drones, stand out. In October it organized and hosted the International Micro Air Vehicle (IMAV). It also deals with social robotics problems, participating in projects such as Robocity 2030 and developing social robots such as Doris. Another field of action is the creation of exoskeletons, in order to help children to walk again. It is also working on the development of Industry 4.0.

Intelligent Robots

 * Robots and Intelligent Machines
 * Field and Service Roboticsobótica de Campo y de Servicio

Applied Robotics

 * Robotics and Cybernetics
 * AUTOPIA - Connected and Automated Driving
 * Neural and Cognitive Engineering

Intelligent Supervision and Control

 * Intelligent Control Group (ICG)
 * Advanced Automation of Machines, Processes and High Complexity Environments (GAMHE)

Perception

 * Computer Vision and Aerial Robots
 * Artificial Perception
 * Localization and Exploration of Intelligent Systems (LOPSI)
 * Autonomous Systems

Enlaces externos

 * Home page of the CAR
 * CSIC
 * Digital CSIC