Welcome to the Modular Automation Research Group.
This web site is intended for both members of the academic community and the general
public. We hope you find it useful and informative and should you wish to contact the
group please contact
Graham Rogers (Senior Lecturer, Mechatronics - see below). The Group's research is in two broad areas
aimed at advancing a new modular systems paradigm to manufacturing automation, namely:
This research is concerned with
advancing a new modular systems approach to industrial manipulator type automation. On
going work is focused on developing the foundations of advanced AI based tools to support
the specification and design of such machinery.
Outlines research on a radically new
product-oriented manufacturing paradigm which is based on building production systems from
standardised machine elements. The overall objective is to provide a production
methodology which will enable entire production systems to be rapidly designed and
configured.
