Facilities
Our group is housed in a suite of recently refurbished laboratories in the Shawcross and Richmond buildings at the University of Sussex. Our laboratories include a vast array of equipment and facilities outlined below.
Robotics and medical instrumentation laboratory
Electronics facility:
• Oscilloscopes
• Arbitrary function generators
• Voltage preamplifiers
• 12, 24, 36 or 48 dB/octave Analogue filters
• Adaptive filters
• Electronic prototyping (soldering irons, antistatic mats, soldering extractors, consumables.)
• FPGAs
• National instruments DAQs
• Benchtop power supplies
Medical simulation facility:
• Incubator and 25 weeks premature baby ECG simulator (Respiration, Atrial, ventricular and Junctional tachycardia, Atrioventricular Block, Hyperkalemia, etc.)
• Pregnant mother and baby HR simulator (Respiration, Atrial, ventricular and Junctional tachycardia, Atrioventricular block, Hyperkalemia, etc.)
Light microscopy and metrology facility:
• Bright field microscope
• Florescence microscope
• Selective plane illumination microscope
• Opto-mechanics
• Lenses, filters,
• EOTLs
• Light sources
Machine vision facility:
• High Speed CMOS, sCMOS and CCD cameras
• Machine vision optics
• Stereoscopic vision cameras
• Plenoptic cameras
Robotics facility:
• 2 Mitsubishi RV-2AJ robots
• 2 built-in-house robotic arms
• Stepper motor drivers
• Stepper motors
5G communications facility:
• 70 MHz to 6 GHz USRP Software Defined Radio Devices
• 10 MHz to 6 GHz USRP Software Defined Radio Reconfigurable Devices.
• High gain passive antennas
Human-robot interaction laboratory
H-MAN is a planar robotic platform suitable for test of algorithms for physical human-robot interaction due to its simple structured workspace and basic 2-DOF mechanics. A handle mounted on a plane is moved along two linear sliders, driven through a H-shaped cable mechanism by transferring rotary motor torques to forces onto the handle.
ATI Mini-40 force/torque sensor
Tribology laboratory – Shawcross, room GB5
Optical interferometry test facility:
• PCS Instruments Optical interferometry test rig of EHD film measurement. This has the ability to measure film thickness of down to two nanometres and friction forces, in concentrated contacts with pressures up to 2GPa. The rig has an adaptor for studying of heterogeneous slip/non-slip bearings
• Optical interferometry rig for dynamic testing of liquid films. Besides the optical system, this rig contains a high speed camera which can take images up to 100,000 frames per second, accelerometers and piezo-actuators.
• Mini Traction Machine (MTM) – A general purpose test rig for friction measurement in various conditions of load, temperature and kinematics. It can be adapted for the study of hard or soft contacts, wear measurements, as well as for electrical capacitance measurement.
• Solartron A1260 Impedance/gain-phase analyser. Suitable for corrosion studies, fuel cells, solar cells, LCDs, bio-materials, composites, rheology studies. The system includes interface with PC and analysis software.
• Anton-Paar viscometer SV3000. Rotational viscometer with a range of 0.0002 to 20 Pa·s.