CESTER

Research Center for Industrial Robots Simulation and Testing

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Welcome to CESTER

CESTER is an research center developed through the Academic Exchange Program between Romania and Germany. It was founded in 2001 with financial support of the German Academic Exchange Office (DAAD), Institute of Machine Tools and Production Technology (IWF), Technical University of Braunschweig Germany, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (AvH) and the Technical University of Cluj-Napoca. CESTER is certified and accredited again in 2010 by the Senate of the Technical University of Cluj-Napoca (see here).

Our vision

Our vision is to maintain international vizibility in the robotic fields by developing high quality robotic solutions for medical and industrial applications. CESTER is one of the leading Romanian research centre in the robotics field which cooperates closely with the national industrial and medical environments.

Objectives

Contributing to the robotics field through fundamental research, engineering and applied sciences, within the help of national and international excellence research programs;
Creating high quality, interactive didactic materials (courses, seminars, presentations) for Master and Ph. D. students;
Acquiring national and international founds to ensure the continuity of the research activities
Infrastructure and team development;
Developing novel robotic solutions with clearly defined intelectual propery rights;
Scientific results disemination to inform the scientific community about the main achievements;
Creating strong partnerships with the medical and industrial fields, to find new research opportunities;

CESTER expertise

CESTER multidisciplinary team is highly competent fields related to robotics, mechanical engineering and information technology. Our expertise is focused on (but not limited to) fundamental research, applied sciences and engineering:

mechanism theory
mathematical modeling of robot kinematics, dynamics and workspace
medical and service robotics
design, medeling and simulation of robotic structures
inteligent algorithms and robot control
analytical and numerical methods in robotics
scientific programing and data analysis
component and mechanical system design using aditive manufacturing
computer graphics and recently artificial inteligence

Achievements