EICAS Automazione

From Turin, Italy, EICAS Automazione works as a small engineering house on the modelling, simulation and control of dynamic systems. Its technical background lies in signal theory and applied mathematics. The company says it is independent of any industrial group, which lets it set its own research direction and take on specialised work across several automation fields.

Control design software and rapid prototyping

The core commercial product is EICASLAB, a professional software suite for designing automatic control systems and forecasting how they will behave. Engineers use it to model a system before anything is built. The firm also develops its own tools for rapid control prototyping, which allow a controller to be tested on a working rig early in a project. Its digital control work extends to numerical data, signals and images, to special digital sensors, and to methods for safety, fault detection and dependability.

Optical measurement and star trackers

ARGO is the family of optical products. The multicamera measuring system locates moving solid parts with no physical contact. The company describes it as a plug and play, low cost and highly accurate system aimed at industrial automation. For space, the ARGO multicamera star tracker is designed for small satellites. It combines high performance with reduced size, weight and power, and lower hardware cost. According to the company, ARGO 1.0 is now in orbit on board a D-Orbit satellite for an in-orbit demonstration, and a second version, ARGO 2.0, is intended for satellite constellations.

Research projects under way

Current research includes a multicamera system for spacecraft attitude determination that uses low-cost cameras, the assembly and calibration of star sensors for small satellites, and algorithms for optical sensors that monitor the space environment in real time. Other work covers vehicle control, the handling of flexible materials and automation in discrete manufacturing.

Vehicles and localisation

The company's multisensor localisation system is meant for safer and autonomous vehicles. EICAS also says it is one of the innovative companies in several Italian technology clusters, and that its experience of more than thirty years across automation sectors underpins its customised solutions.

EICAS Automazione is a small, independent engineering company in Turin, Italy. Its core skills are modelling, simulation and control of dynamic systems, signal theory and applied mathematics. It states more than thirty years of experience across many automation sectors.

Services

• EICASLAB: a professional software suite for designing and forecasting automatic control.
• ARGO multicamera system: an optical measuring system that tracks the position of moving rigid objects without contact.
• ARGO for space: a multicamera star tracker for small satellites, with a first version flown in an orbital demonstration.
• ARGO for industrial automation: plug-and-play measurement for industrial use.
• Vehicle localisation: multisensor positioning for safer, autonomous vehicles.
• Control design services: digital control design and processing of numerical data, signals and images.

Customers and markets

Organisations in space, automotive and industrial automation.

Key facts

• Based in: Turin, Italy
• Independence: not part of any industrial group
• Experience: more than 30 years