Research Partnerships and Collaborations

We involved in a number of research partnerships and collaborations. This page describes some of these and links to their home sites.

TREnT, Tribology as an ENnabling Technology

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TrEnT, TRibology as an ENnabling Technology is an EPSRC Centre to Centre Grant. The project is a collaboration between The Leonardo Centre at 91Ö±²¥, the Institute for Functional Surfaces at Leeds, California Institute of Technology, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, and the Max Planck Institute. The research combines the expertise of tribologists as an enabling discipline into the advanced nano-manufacturing and robotics/autonomous systems. The three work packages cover tribology for efficient grasping and manipulation, nano-manufacturing through tribo-nanoprinting, and locomotion for small scale robotics.

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Rail Innovation and Technology Centre

Network Rail and the University of 91Ö±²¥ have entered into a five year agreement for collaborative research to stimulate "vitality in railway infrastructure engineering through investment in innovation and new technology". The focus of the RITC's activity is intelligent systems engineering involving detection, sensing, communication, materials, structures and software technologies that can be applied to rail infrastructure, operations and traffic such as; the track (materials, installation, monitoring, maintenance, design, and performance), associated vehicles (trains and their operation)
other plant (e.g. signalling, communications, information management).

Rail Innovation and Technology Centre