[Available Facilities]

Full Mechanical Workshop equipped by two experienced technicians in School of Engineering


The available facilities in CoMAR group and School of Engineering include:

Prototyping Machines:

    • CNC Milling Machining (4-axis HURCO VM-1 milling machine) and CNC Lathes

    • 3-D Printer (Dimension Elite, 178µm resolution ABS polymer)

Dell Precision Fixed Workstation T7500 ADVANCED (2)

SCARA Robot Cells and Parallel Manipulators

3-RRR Compliant Parallel Manipulator System

Compliant Mechanism-Based Gripper Prototypes

High-precision Single-axis/Multi-axis Positioning Stages

Stable Micro Systems (TA.Hd plus texture analyser)

d-SPACE controllers

Nano-precision Voice Coil Actuators and Amplifiers

Sensors for Temperature, Force and Displacements (optical linear encoder)

In addition, some of the excellent facilities in Tyndall can be accessed by CoMAR.

Software packages including:

    • FEA solvers (Comsol, ANSYS, and Strand 7)

    • Solidworks (3D design and simple FEA analysis)

    • Mathmatica (Symbolic calculation)

    • Matlab/Simulink

    • Granta Design (Material selection software)

    • DAS-2D (Free design and analysis software of compliant mechanisms developed by Prof. H. Su)

    • CoMeT (Free conceptual design tool of compliant mechanisms by MIT PSDAM)

    • ParetoWorks (Free structure optimization software developed by Prof. K Suresh)