Rensselaer CATS helps companies solve their real-world manufacturing-related problems by developing system-level solutions across several key application areas, including: robotics and industrial automation, mechatronics, thermal management, fuel cell engineering and manufacturing and advanced composites engineering. The CATS’ multidisciplinary foundations in advanced manufacturing science, sensing and control, machine vision, and modeling and simulation anchor researchers’ end-to-end approach.

Companies can engage Rensselaer CATS for:

• Technical consultation, feasibility studies, exploratory research, etc.
• Collaborative research for process improvement or product development with professional project management
• Proof of Principle Modeling (POPM), prototype development and demonstration
• Identification of Rensselaer faculty and organizations and/or external partners best matched with company needs