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Robotics & autonomy

Robotics and autonomous systems obviously face specific challenges. Verhaert helps you build your robot, from preliminary feasibility research to engineering and production.

Key challenges for robotics & autonomous systems

Planning

Your robot needs to create a plan to complete its to-do list: go from a to b, pick up or drop off goodies.

Situational awareness

Being aware of your robot’s surroundings is a must: determine the optimal path, avoid obstacles and adjust the path when surroundings change.

Control

Translate the plan and awareness in instructions for the mechanical parts of your robot: drive, grasp, apply pressure, stack, inspect, dispense, etc.

Smart mechanics

Propulsion systems and mechanical design to give your robot the ability to execute its tasks. Often added to the complexity: ruggedization and IP requirements.

Integrating specific expertise

Your robot’s complexity goes beyond data and AI, it combines mechanics, electronics, sensors and system design. So look beyond the subsystems, your approach requires an integration of different expertises.

Mechatronics & kinematics

Custom robotics & mechanisms: stacking, gripping, inspection, dispensing …
Ruggedization: ingress protection, shock & vibration, harsh environments, ATEX
Propulsion systems
Drones, UUV / UAV, docking stations

More mechanical competences

Sensors & optics

One stop shop
Optics & sensor selection, development, calibration, certification
Sensor fusion
Vision systems, including machine learning
Smart sensors/AI processing/self-learning

More optical competences

Power & control electronics

Power management & power storage/batteries
Controller selection, development
Ruggedization of electronics
Control loop

More embedded competences

System design

Market/user/product requirements management
Technical & economical feasibility
System & subsystem architecture
(Space) technology transfer
Verification & validation
Model based design, simulation, digital twins

More physical competences

AI & control algorithms

Perception: vision, lidar, radar …
Situational awareness
Planning & navigation
Efficient computing in the edge and cloud
Robot control & kinematics
Robotics development in simulation

More AI competences

IoT & communication

Connectivity (local/wide/low power)
Data safety
Server (local/central)
Data processing, data visualization, Artificial Intelligence (AI) based predictive maintenance

More digital competences

Some of our success stories

Artificial Intelligence allows to increase the resolution of intraoperative CT images with preoperative MRI images, opening up new robotic surgical applications with breakthrough precision

ROBOTICS & AUTONOMY
Situational awareness towards autonomous shipping. Integrated solution based on multiple cameras & Artificial Intelligence to detect & avoid hazards.

ROBOTICS & AUTONOMY
Mock-up & user research for a fully automated system capable of performing safe & precise injections into the eye for the efficient treatment of several chronic ophthalmic diseases.

ROBOTICS & AUTONOMY