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    The scientific and teaching activities of the Team's employees focus on the broadly understood theoretical and application aspects of kinematic system mechanics, in particular the theory of machines and mechanisms, automation and robotics, and mechatronics. The work is carried out, among others, in the Mechatronics and Robotics Laboratory and concerns the analysis (including simulation studies) and design (virtual prototyping) of virtually any mechanical systems (machine assemblies), flat and spatial kinematic systems such as a working machine, manipulator, vehicles, drive system.
    Another important field of the Team's activity is mechatronic systems, an important element of which is the possibility of using even complex control algorithms ensuring reliability, full parameter control and wide diagnostic possibilities in the event of a failure.

    The scientific and research activity of the Team related to the design of new, modernization or analysis of existing machines and devices includes issues such as:

• structural synthesis, i.e. selection of a rational concept of a mechanism - kinematic system to perform a specific technical task, such as: moving elements in rotary, translational, flat or spatial motion,
• geometric synthesis of flat and spatial mechanisms performing specific tasks, such as: transformation of motion according to required characteristics, moving elements through desired positions, guiding points along specific trajectories, etc.
• mechatronic design - taking into account the mechanical design, modeling and design of the control system - kinematic systems with many degrees of freedom (multi-drive), such as: automatic devices, specialized manipulators and robots with a serial and parallel structure, mobile robots, etc.,
• computer simulation studies of the operation of machines and devices, in particular vehicles, manipulators, working machines, mechanisms of machining machines, taking into account drives and control systems in terms of improving their kinematic and dynamic properties, sensitivity to deviations of execution (rationalization of structure), efficiency, etc.,
• design of mechatronic systems supporting the rehabilitation of human limbs.

Examples: parallel manipulators, mobile robots, wheeled-walking robots, mechatronic systems, working machines, human limb rehabilitation systems, vehicle drive systems