An overview
EICAS was established in 1984 by a
group
of
professors
of
the
“Politecnico di Torino” and industrial
researchers led by Prof. Francesco
Donati with the aim to set-up a
company excelling in complex system
management and control area.
EICAS is proud of more than 25 years of relevant
applications in the most various automation sectors
Services
Products
EICASLAB
(www.eicaslab.com): the professional software suite for automatic control design and forecasting Design of digital automatic control and innovative and
customised solutions for the automation
Development of control algorithm, real-time software and rapid control prototyping techniques
Training courses on EICAS control design methodology and EICASLAB technology
EICASLAB
Rapid Control Prototyping
multi-core PC platform
CHAMELEON IST-1999-10108:
Data Fusion & Crash Prediction Algorithm for timely activate the passive safety systems
COLLISION AVOIDANCE AND MITIGATION ALGORITHMS
to avoid or, at least, to mitigate the predicted collision by means of an active safety assistance given to the driver, by automatic action on car brakes.
MECCANO "Mobilità urbana Eco-compatibile attraverso un Commuter Configurabile A uso esclusivo/NOn esclusivo“ – running
Collision avoidance prototype for the new urban concept car
FP7 ERSEC – Enhanced Road Safety by integrating Egnos-Galileo data with on-board Control system –
Precise vehicle localisation
car modelling and simulation
steer/brake/throttle-by-wire
integrated control system (models):
longitudinal controls: brake and traction
lateral control: 2WS-4WS+brake control
roll and suspension control
integrated control performance assessment by simulator
auto-diagnosis and system dependability:
sensors, actuators and processors redundancy, FDIR algorithms, fault injection and dependability assessment on simulator.
Automotive
1992-97:
DRIVE-BY-COMPUTER
INTEGRATED CONTROL
SYSTEM
(research developed for Centro Ricerche Fiat)
1999:
ACC
(research developed for Centro Ricerche Fiat)
2000-at present:
PASSIVE AND ACTIVE
SAFETY SYSTEMS
ADAPTIVE CRUISE CONTROL (ACC) algorithms & related data processing
1996-2000: SETIS: Stellar and Extended Target Intelligent Sensor.
1998-2000: AST: Autonomous Star Tracker
2003-2005: MHS2: Miniaturized Multiple Head High Rate Star Sensor
1997-1998: APLT+AMTS: Active Pointing of Large Telescope
& Attitude Measurement Transfer Systems
It was developed an innovative methodology for attitude determination of space vehicles, based only on star measurements, used for reconstructing on ground the attitude of the Hipparcos satellite. The average precision, during the whole mission (about three years) was 40 milliarcsec, the best one ever achieved before.
1982-97:
HIPPARCOS MISSION
1990 - today:
AUTONOMOUS
ATTITUDE
DETERMINATION
GYROLESS FROM STARS
ESA CONTRACTS
European Space Agency
On the basis of the Hipparcos experience a methodology has been developed for autonomous attitude determination of space vehicles, on board, only through star measurements.
A prototype system with one optical head, has been tested with full success on board of the SAC-C Argentinean Satellite, launched on November 2000. A system working with three optical heads has been developed as a part of the ESA Contract MHS2. On ground applications have been derived from the multicamera concept (ARFLEX project).
OPTICAL MULTI-CAMERA MEASURING SYSTEM
FOR THE CONTACT-LESS MEASUREMENT OF
MOVING RIGID BODIES
Optical multi-camera measuring system
for contact-less measurement of the
pose (position and attitude, corresponding to 6 degrees of freedom) of a set of
movable bodies within a predefined camera field of view.
The system has the following characteristics:
low-cost camera use
"Plug & Play" functionality
auto-adaptability to operate in presence of
changing environmental conditions
high dependability
sampling frequency 100 Hz
high accuracy in the order of 1 /10,000
(0.01%) of full scale
Industrial Automation -Robotics
Our experience in design
6
Industrial Automation
Factory Automation
2000-2003:
AUTOMATION OF
OFFSET PRINTING-
MACHINES
1997-2000:
AUTOMATIC
SYSTEM FOR
COILING
SUBMARINE
CABLES
1987-1997:
CO-OPERATION WITH
OLIVETTI
THE HIMAC
PROJECT
The "Manufacturing Algebra“is an
original mathematical methodology
for modelling and controlling the
manufacturing plants.
2012 - 2013
Coordinator
FREE
Flexible and safe interactive human-Robot Environment for small batch Exacting applications
ECHORD FP7-GA 231143
2012 - 2013
Coordinator
ADHOC
Advanced Design procedure for tailor-made High performance Open and flexible Control systems
Programma Operativo Regionale F.E.S.R 2007/2013
2011 - 2013
Coordinator
ADIUVARE
Adaptive and flexible welding cell through advanced vision systems and augmented reality
Bando tematico “TECNOLOGIE SMART”
2010 - 2012
Coordinator
AMICO
Advanced Monitoring and Intelligent Control
Programma Operativo Regionale F.E.S.R 2007/2013
2010 - 2011
Coordinator
ERSEC
Enhanced Road Safety by integrating Egnos-Galileo data with on-board Control system
FP7 – STREP
FP7-GALILEO-2008-GSA-1-247955
2006 – 2011
Partner
HI-CEPS
Highly Integrated CombustionElectric Propulsion System
FP6 – IP
Transport4-2005-031373
2006 – 2010
Partner
PISA
Flexible Assembly Systems through workplace sharing and Time sharing HM cooperation
FP6 - IP
NMP4-NI-2004-026697-2
2005 - 2008
Coordinator ARFLEXAdaptive Robots for flexible manufacturing systems
FP6 – STREP
NMP2-CT-2005-016680
2003 - 2006
Coordinator
ACODUASIS
Automatic Control design using advanced simulation software
FP5 – Innovation
IPS-2001-42068
2000 – 2002
Partner
CHAMELEON
Pre-crash Application All Around The Vehicle
FP5 - IST
IST-1999-10108
1997 - 2000
Partner
HANDFLEX
Integrated Modular Solution Handling Flexible Material In An Industrial Environment
BRITE EURAM III
BE96-3323
1994 – 1997
Coordinator
HIMAC
Hierarchical Management of Manufacturing Control Systems
ESPRIT III
Project 8841
1993 – 1995
Coordinator
QUAINT
Quality assessment by intelligent surface inspection Systems.
BRITE EURAM II
Centro Ricerche Fiat, (I)
Ferrari (I)
Pininfarina (I)
Volvo (SE)
Peugeot (FR)
Renault (FR)
Porsche (DE)
Avio (IT)
Magneti Marelli (I)
Thales Alenia Space (I)
COMAU Robotica (I)
Fidia (I)
Pi4 Robotics GmbH (DE)
Schmidt-Handling GmbH (DE)
Evidence (I)
INTEL (DE)
Pirelli Cavi e Sistemi (I)
Swisslog Telelift (DE)
Politecnico di Torino (I)
Istituto Superiore Mario Boella (I)
Fraunhofer IPK Institute (DE)
Fraunhofer IPA Institute (DE)
Jozef Stefan Institute (SI)
ZHW Institute (CH)
University of Karlshuhe (DE)
TNO (NL)
Uninova (PT)
University of Antwerp (BE)
Universidad Politechnica de Madrid (ES)
SUPSI (Switzerland)
Robotiker (ES)
IKA (DE)
CSST (I)
MAGNA STEYR, Austria
TNO (Nederland)
UNIVAQ, Italia
RESEARCH INSTITUTES
COMPANIES (END-USERS)