Digital instrumentation
and the factory of the future
Digital instrumentation and robotics are becoming increasingly common in industrial systems. This changing landscape is creating some major new scientific and technological challenges, not least of which is how to ensure the reliable acquisition and use of data in these complex environments.
The digitalization of production systems depends heavily on digital instrumentation, which will require the development of robust, smart, communicating sensors and their integration into demanding environments. Add to this the need to process and use data in real time, and you get a whole set of new problems to solve. Robotics presents some additional challenges around multi-sensor data fusion, environmental perception, and safe, efficient interaction and cooperation between humans and industrial systems. CEA-List’s research directly addresses this changing industrial environment. We are developing advanced instrumentation, measurement, and AI technologies and methods specifically for advanced systems. Our research topics range from cognitive robotics and planning for robotic gripping to innovative measurement techniques for severe environments in manufacturing, nuclear power, healthcare, and science.
We are helping make industrial systems more efficient, flexible, and resilient through new approaches to the physical measurement, acquisition, processing, and interpretation of complex data and the integration of data into decision-making and control systems. Our goal is to develop tools that are safe and easy to learn and understand, keeping humans at the center of supervision and decision-making processes.
