Compmech Research Group

COMPMECH research group was created by some members of the Mechanical Engineering Department at University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU). Their purpose was to work together in the field of Mechanisms and Machines Theory, Robotics and Computational Mechanics. Nowadays, the group is formed by 16 members and our research focuses mainly on the design and analysis of different variants of parallel manipulators – compliant parallel manipulators, reconfigurable parallel manipulators and mechatronics of parallel manipulators. Parallel manipulators are a special type of industrial robots characterized by their architecture – a fixed platform is joined to a mobile platform by several parallel kinematic chains. Due to their high stiffness, accuracy and speed, they have many applications, such as aeronautical applications, machine tool, haptic devices in tele-surgery, assembly lines automation or orientation of solar panels.