Introduction

Created at the Mechatronics Engineering Department of Escola Politécnica at São Paulo University, the Embedded Systems Laboratory (ESL) activities are in accordance with the role played by an university within the social and technological context of Brasil, promoting originallity and encouraging innovation.

Our activities are planned and implemented in an effort to enable present engineering students to move with confidence either in  the academic research field (electronics and computation applied to embedded systems) or in the  design, development and production of innovative products to the market.

Research areas

• Control (its computational realization)
• Intelligent sensors
• Distributed computing
• Intelligent actuators
• Field bus

Technological background

• High performance microcontrollers
• DSP
• Communication Network
• Inertial systems
• Computer Vision
• Real time embedded systems
• Sensor fusion

Applications

• Embedded Control Systems
• Underwater vehicles
• Autonomous and semi-autonomous robotic systems