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  4. Research facilities

Research facilities

Robotics at Leeds

Our academics and postgraduate researchers have access to a wide range of specialist facilities and laboratories. Undergraduate and Masters students may benefit from these facilities during their project work.

  • State-of-the-art visualization laboratories including a 48 megapixel, touchscreen Powerwall
  • Pal Robotics TIAGo: Mobile manipulator, for research into service robotics
  • Benchtop display (3x4 monitors) with tracking system
  • WorldViz PPT optical tracking system
  • Intersense InertiaCube orientation tracker
  • Virtual Research V8 stereo head-mounted display, integrated with WorldViz PPT and Intersense InertiaCube tracking systems
  • Ascension Flock of Birds tracking systems
  • 3 DOF and 6 DOF Phantom force feedback devices, integrated with ReachIn display system
  • Twin Immersion Corp Cybergloves
  • Portable System for Co-Simulation: Portable simulation-as-a-service system for human-in-the-loop co-simulation, with a driving simulator demonstrator designed in partnership with VirtuoCity and Jaguar Land Rover
  • SR Research EyeLink II Tracker (binocular, video-based, 500MHz)
  • Cloud Computing testbed: Comprising 14 high performance Poweredge servers, a cloud gateway, and a data server head node
  • Rendering cluster
  • A Metralabs Scitos A5 - known as 'LUCIE'
  • A Baxter robot
  • iVIC Platform: Our cloud computing platform enables users to dynamically create, customise, migrate, and scale virtual machines over clustered physical machines using an easy-to-use browser-based interface
  • Ultra-high resolution visualization workstations, including access to ones with medical-grade monitors
  • Wireless Intersense IS900-VWT tracking system
  • Laboratories containing both Linux and Microsoft platforms.

We also make use of University facilities, including:

  • Next Generation Sequencing Facility: The facility is a partnership between the University of Leeds & the Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, equipped with Illumina HiSeq 2500, HiSeq 3000, and MiSeq sequencers
  • High resolution medical-grade visualisation workstations: Ultra-high resolution workstations and display-walls to develop a virtual microscope that allows histopathologists to diagnose cancer faster than, and as accurately as, a conventional microscope
  • University's High Performance Computing (HPC) facilities: Consists of over 8,000 cores of Intel and AMD compute capacity and over 300TB of data storage
  • Leeds Institute for Data Analytics: State-of-the-art facilities in data analytics
  • EPSRC National Facility for Innovative Robotic Systems: A national resource for the fabrication of complex systems, which can be used for academic and industrial collaborations.