INDUSTRIAL PARTNERS
In this section we report a list of the "industrial partnerships" relevant for the CYBERLEGs project. With the term Industrial Partner the CYBERLEGs Consortium refers to those companies which provided the Consortium with fundamental enabling technologies, as well as design methodologies and tools, and - mostly relevant - professional (free) support to the CYBERLEGs team in engineering the ortho-prosthesis.
The first important industrial partner of CYBERLEGs is National Instruments, world-wide leading company (based in Austin, Texas, US) in the production of automated test equipment and virtual instrumentation software for data acquisition, instrument control and machine vision.
CYBERLEGs alpha prototype is powered by National Instruments software and hardware tools. The entire control system runs on NI CompactRIO embedded system, and has been developed using NI LabVIEW and LabVIEW Real-Time Module.
A new important industrial partner of CYBERLEGs is Netzer Precision Motion Sensors Ltd., a company (based in Misgav, Israel), which designs, manufactures and supplies high quality performance position encoders.
Netzer's product portfolio includes standard or customized Rotary absolute position encoders, with analog or digital outputs.
This revolutionary, non-contact technology, relies on interaction between the measured displacement, and a space/time modulated electric field. Offering a blend of features unequally by optical or magnetic encoders: durable, lightweight, contactless, high precision, wide temp. range.
CYBERLEGs system will be equipped with Netzer's absolute encoders.
Brusa Meccaniche (active since 1980) is a company specialized in manufacturing of high quality mechanical parts and welding (TIG) of structural steel, stainless steel, DUPLEX and aluminum alloys. Brusa Meccaniche realizes prototypes and products in small/medium series for both commercial companies and many national research centers and universities.
TARGET MARKET/ Products
- DEFENCE/ Navy, Terrestrial, Aerial – Various mechanical parts;
- ROBOTICS / Humanoids – Artificial limbs parts, exoskeletons, assisted rehabilitation;
- OIL & GAS / Extraction – Plants, custom components, offshore platform piping;
- AERONAUTICS / Aircrafts – Maintenance kits, lifting tools;
- AEROSPACE / International Space Station – Tools for zero gravity applications;
- ENERGY / Combustion – Industrial burners, nozzles, probes and pyrometers for combustion chambers and chimneys;
- RESEARCH / Universities and Spin-Off – Structures and mechanical parts for prototypes.
Thanks to all those experiences BRUSA gained a complete know-how. The certified methods and protocols, the qualified technicians and the advanced machines make BRUSA a prominent figure in the field of manufacturing.
BRUSA adopts the standard UNI EN ISO 9001:2000
Evidence Srl (http://www.evidence.eu.com) is an Italian company founded in 2002 as Spin-Off of the
Real-Time Systems Lab of Scuola Sant’Anna, Pisa, Italy. The company is specialised in firmware for
embedded real-time systems. Among company’s products there is the real-time operating system
(RTOS) Erika Enterprise, which supports several embedded platforms and has been released as opensource software. This RTOS has been adopted by several important industrial partners for controlling automotive vehicles, health-care devices and household appliances.
Research activities in Evidence focus (but are not limited to) development of real-time embedded
operating systems with multi-core support and Linux-based firmware for embedded devices.
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