The main effort of this group is devoted to develop science and technology to build any-level Autonomous Systems for real-world, industrial applications.

Being fully autonomous means not only the capabiliy of perfoming tasks in uncertain environments but also the capability of uncertain task handling and self-reconfiguration. Autonomous systems do perceive, learn and evolve to another configuration depending on the current environment, constraints, internal errors, etc. Heterogeneous multiresolutional models, intelligent control and self-awareness must be provided for a system to work properly.

Our research is hence sometimes quite abstract and somewhat too multidisciplinary, but we try to keep our feet in ground evaluation our developments in three different technical domains: the world of continuous process control, the world of robotics and the world of information technology.