University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU), Spain
Like every year, the Faculty of Engineering in Bilbao is organizing open houses these days and COMPMECH research group is collaborating by explaining to future students what the study of mechanisms consist of and what future students will learn about them during their studies.
It is always a pleasure to meet future students and encourage them to join our University.
This morning, Fran Campa and Javier Corral have attended the talk Robots Colaborativos y sus aplicaciones (Collaborative Robots and their applications) organized by IK4-TEKNIKER, SCHUNK, SICK and UNIVERSAL ROBOTS. The talk has taken place in the morning of 9th March in the offices of IK4-TEKNIKER, in Eibar (Gipuzkoa, Spain).
It has been an interesting talk focussed on the different applications of collaborative robots, including also the exposition of several equipments.
The XXI Spanish National Congress in Mechanical Engineering will take place from 9th to 11th November in Elche (Spain).
Enrique Amezua, Alfonso Hernández , Oscar Altuzarra, Charles Pinto , Víctor Petuya, Erik Macho, Francisco Campa, Javier Corral , Mikel Diez and Mónica Urízar from the COMPMECH research group will attend the Congress and present the latest works of the group.
The Joint International Conference of the XII International Conference on Mechanisms and Mechanical Transmissions (MTM) and the XXIII International Conference on Robotics (Robotics’16) will be held in Aachen (Germany) from the 26th to the 27th October, 2016.
In this Conference COMPMECH will present the following paper:
Title: Translational parallel manipulator with Pa2 kinematic joints
Authors: A. Hernández, Z. Zhang, V. Petuya, E. Macho and E. Amezua
From the 20th to the 23rd of September, Javier Corral is attending the 6 th European Conference on Mechanism Science (EUCOMES 2016) in Nantes, France.
In the morning of September 21 he is presenting the following paper:
Title: Kinematic Analysis of a Continuum Parallel Robot
Authors : Oscar Altuzarra, Mikel Diez, Javier Corral, Gennaro Teoli and Marco Ceccarelli
COMPMECH research group has two grants for grad students interesting in continuing their studies as a PhD student. The grants last for 4 years and are related to two research projects financed by the Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad.
MEDUSA research project is directed by Professor Oscar Altuzarra and Professor Fran Campa. The project is focused on the study and manufacture of compliant parallel mechanisms. In this type of mechanisms, the end-effector movement is obtained by the deformation of the elements of the mechanism and not by means of the ordinary kinematics joints. It is a multidisciplinary project, in which the theoretical kinematics and dynamics models of the mechanisms will be developed, also specific materials will be selected and tested attending to their rigidity-deformation properties, and finally, control algorithms will be programmed to actuate the final prototypes. PhD Students dedicated to this project will work in a dynamic environment, developing their research in a new field of study of mechanics and kinematics.
More information can be found at: http://www.ehu.eus/compmech/ultra-flexible-parallel-kinematic-machines/
Contact mails: fran.campa@ehu.es, oscar.altuzarra@ehu.eus.
The MoMaR research project is leaded by Prof. Víctor Petuya and Prof. Alfonso Hernández. The target is to develop multioperational systems in such a way that the robots can change their configuration to execute multiple tasks. So the main objective of the project is to develop a methodology for modular design of reconfigurable parallel manipulators with variable topology. The project developments will result in a software tool intended to help the design and analysis of this type of mechanisms. Finally, making the most of the knowledge acquired during this project a prototype of reconfigurable parallel manipulator with high-capacity of reconfigurability will be built. To carry out this project, the research group is equipped with data acquisition and computation servers belonging to the Mechanical Engineering Department of the UPV/EHU, having also an Interdepartmental Laboratory equipped with a broad range of materials for prototype building and testing.
More information: http://www.ehu.eus/compmech/modular-design-of-reconfigurable-parallel-manipulators-with-variable-topology-momar-dpi2015-67626-p/
Contact mails: victor.petuya@ehu.eus, a.hernandez@ehu.eus.
In this page several video tutorials regarding the basic functions of GIM software to create, simulate and visualize kinematic entities of different planar mechanisms are shown.
Here you can also find the user manual of GIM software: download.
The thinkMOTION project as part of Europeana, which belongs to the European Program of Communication and Information Technologies, has achieved to build a database containing more than 62.000 entries related to Mechanical Engineering and its history. The COMPMECH research group has taken part in this interesting project, providing useful and interesting entries mostly related to Mechanism Theory and Kinematics. Achievements of this project have been published in several media, you can find some of this news in the following links:
Europapress, diariovasco, deia, noticiasdegipuzkoa, noticiasdealava, gara, elmundo, bilbao24horas, milesnoticas, iberoamerica, enpresa-donostia, unibertsitate-hedakuntza, fmc, universidades-online.
Fran Campa and Constantino Roldan are attending to the 14th International Workshop on Research and Education in Mechatronics (REM 2013), in Vienna (click on the logo).
