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Applied Science & Robotics Laboratory for Applied-Mechatronics (ARAtronics) focuses on cutting-edge research in mechatronics, robotics, automation, and opto-mechatronic systems. It is a multi-disciplinary research center dedicated to applying opto-mechatronics and sensor technologies to create practical solutions for industrial and research challenges.

ARAtronics explores the use of light to develop micro-optical sensors and actuators, improving feedback control performance. Every project follows five stages:

Problem identification and brainstorming.
Analysis and modeling.
Prototype development using in-house facilities and 3D printing.
Experimental testing.
Final implementation and fabrication.

The image below shows how ARAtronics’ facilities have evolved from 2016 to today—use the slider to explore this progress.

ARAtronics Clusters

Research interests of the ARAtronics center is mainly focused on developing the Opto-Mechatronics solutions in research and industry. The Opto-Mechatronics field investigates the integration of optical components and optical sensors technology into the typical Mechatronic systems. The optical sensors is used in these systems to measure any mechanical quantities for the typical Mechatronics system in high resolution. These optical sensors are used in a feedback loop as part of control systems for Mechatronic devices. The Opto-Mechatronics has applications in areas such as robotics, sensors technology, automation, vibration control, adaptive optics, vehicles dynamics, opto-fluidics, system-on-a-chip (SoC), optical tweezers, micro-opto-electro-mechanical systems (MOEMS), energy harvesting, solar energy and thin-film technology.

ARAtronics Center is serving the Ph.D., M.Sc. and B.Sc. students of Mechatronics, Computer Science, Material, and Electronics to conduct their research projects in Egypt and Germany. The research clusters in the ARAtronics center interests are mainly on the following four foci:

Not only these four foci are the areas that we only work on it, but also the interaction among all of these foci are very attractive for us to conduct our research on it as the below chart can illustrate these area of interactions.

Below graph can show the percentage for each research cluster among these four foci; since 2015 up till now; to give an idea about where we are in the current time.

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