An important part of our activity portfolio is the
design and development of fully custom, DSP based
systems in the field of measurement technique. This
R&D activity includes system design, development of
signal processing and measuring algorithms as well
as hardware and software implementation of the given
task.
One of the novel areas where DSP can play an important
role is biomedical instrumentation. Our DSP based
stand-alone and integrated measuring systems and research
instruments support R&D activities in physiology and
pharmacology.
The other field of measurement technique is industrial
automation, especially process and quality control.
Process and quality control generally involves real-time
and/or off-line measuring and collecting relevant
process parameters to support decision making procedures
influencing product quality.
Our most important R&D systems are as follows:
Motimeter
Motimeter is a device capable of recording and
analyzing motor activity of laboratory rodents,
especially of rats. Due to its special design,
it differs from other instruments since precisely
detects rearing and jumping, differentiates local
movement from propagation, and is also able to
analyze spacial distribution of the movements.
Its innovative feature is the extremely fine resolution
infra LED spacial arrays. This device is suitable
for real-time studying of motor patterns, spacial
movement distributions and special movements (e.g.
jumping) in 3 dimensions with considerable resolution
in space and time. More
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Lickosys
Lickosys is a highly automated device to study
drinking associated behavioral changes caused
by anxiolytic drugs in laboratory animals, especially
rats. The DSP based controller can handle up to
8 animal cages in parallel. The controller can
provide current shocks through the drinking tube
and count the number of licks of the animal. The
graphical user interface running on the host PC
provides straightforward experiment design and
programming. More
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SPEL
The SPEL (Solution Pack for Experimental Laboratories)
software package can handle most of the measuring,
recording and analyzing tasks that can arise in
a physiological or pharmacological laboratory.
It offers on-screen functions allowing to observe
8 parallel primary channels and as many derived
signals simultaneously as you wish, without loosing
precision, accuracy and display quality. The SPEL
package is actually two-in-one. The Haemosys part
is used to record cardiovascular, respiratory,
gastro-intestinal and/or temperature variables
as well as extracellular electrical signals, such
as ECG. The Isosys part can be used to work with
a set of independent channels to record activity
of up to 8 isolated organs independently.More >>
UniForce
The UniForce 6-axis Force-Torque (FT) sensor system
is a DSP powered high performance peripheral device,
containing two primary parts: the 6-axis FT transducer
and the Signal Processing Unit (SPU). The 6-axis
FT transducer is a device aimed at measuring FT
vectors at any selected point of the space in
terms of their x, y, z axes in a Cartesian coordinate
system. The SPU provides DSP based hardware architecture
in a very compact design for high performance
FT data processing. Based on the inherent processing
power and communication speed, the SPU can act
as a high performance slave sensor device of a
host controller.More
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REHAROB
REHAROB is a robotic rehabilitation system for
upper limb motion therapy for the disabled. In
cooperation with partner institutions from several
countries in a 5th Framework Project of the European
Comission, the REHAROB project has been led by
the Department of Manufacturing Engineering of
the Budapest University of Technology and Economics
(BUTE) and the Hungarian National Institute for
Medical Rehabilitation. REHAROB provides personalized,
three-dimensional motion therapy for patients
with neuro-motor impairments. Our company has
provided a special version of the UniForce 6-axis
Force-Torque sensor system to support the project.
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