CSPP-LIM Mechatronics Lab Politecnico di Torino Mechatronics systems for wireless monitoring applications CSPP-LIM Mechatronics Mechatronics Laboratory Lab - -Politecnico di di Torino
Mechatronics Laboratory Prototyping Center An interdepartmental structure founded in 1993 A joint-venture by a number of people of the Departments of Control and Computer Sciences Electrical Engineering Electronics Mechanics An interdisciplinary environment to perform theoretical and experimental research Projects are mainly committed by companies and lead to the design, construction and testing of industrial prototypes Established a full education offer in Mechatronics Engineering with of a Doctoral degree, a Bachelor degree and a Master degree The scientific relevance of activities is documented on several international conference proceedings, journals and patents. UCOM 2011 Lingotto Fiere - Torino - July 1 th, 2011. 2
Venues and Staff President: Prof. Basilio Bona Director: Prof. Andrea Tonoli About 40 people in staff including professors, researcher, administrative, PhD student, grant holders Average 10-15 research projects with industries and government UCOM 2011 Lingotto Fiere - Torino - July 1th, 2011. 3
SubSystem Development Unmanned Applications : UAV-UAS SubSystem Development SubSystems Integration Battery Management System Hybrid Power-train for Fuel cells For Solar cells Payload Development Vision Assisted Landing HiRes Photography Gimbal Camera Tracking System Integration System Modelling Indoor Navigation and Loop Design Testing and tuning Subsystem integration HiRes Imaging Gimbal Camera UCOM 2011 Lingotto Fiere - Torino - July 1 th, 2011. 4
UAV Applications for S&R and Environmental Monitoring Development and Integration of Unmanned Aerial Early Warning System for: Search & Rescue - Day or night Remote Vision - GPS localization - ARVA-like automatic grid searching - Direct action from mountain hut - Integration with Standard S&R method - Spendable system Environmental Monitoring: - 3D pollution maps - Remote imaging - Remote sensor data collection Special Subsystem (payload) - HiRes Imaging - Dynamic (ROI) image analysis UCOM 2011 Lingotto Fiere - Torino - July 1 th, 2011. 5
Pole made of PVC Height on air: 325 cm Height underground: 100 cm 9 blocks 25 cm each 2 blocks 40 cm each 3 steel wire ropes attached at 200 cm Sensors: Snow Temperature sensor: Range of measure: [-27.8 3.2] C Accuracy: 0.1 C Sonar: Range of measure: [0 275] cm Resolution: 1 cm Air Temperature: Range of measure: [-40 125] C Resolution: 0.1 C Air Humidity: Range of measure: [0 100] % Resolution: 1 % Optionally - Snow density: Snow Pillow Range of measure: [0 1000] Resolution: 1 SnoWatch early warning system UCOM 2011 Lingotto Fiere - Torino - July 1 th, 2011. 6
Energy Scavengers Scavengers and energy management Development, modeling and validation of energy scavengers prototypes Energy Monitoring and Storage Systems Development of real-time energy monitoring system Development of Energy Storage Systems for peak-shaving (loads) and predictable production (generators) coil iron pole turbine magnet UCOM 2011 Lingotto Fiere - Torino - July 1 th, 2011. 7
Industrial companies Cooperating with Universities and research centers UCOM 2011 Lingotto Fiere - Torino - July 1 th, 2011. 8
Contacts Prof. Marcello Chiaberge vice-director marcello.chiaberge@polito.it Tel. +39 011 090 6239 Cell. +39 3316714686 CSPP LIM Mechatronics Lab Politecnico di Torino C.So Duca degli Abruzzi 24, 10129 Torino tel. +39 011 090 6239 fax +39 011 090 7963 Website www.cspp.polito.it www.polito.it UCOM 2011 Lingotto Fiere - Torino - July 1 th, 2011. 9