LARA is a research group from the Electrical Engineering Department of the University of Brasília (UnB), and it has been registered at the National Council of Research since 2004.

LARA members teach undergraduate courses in Mechatronics, Electrical and, more recently, Computer Engineering. At the graduate level, LARA members participate in the Program in Electronics and Automation Systems Engineering (PGEA).

 

Short History  

 

Control and Automation activities have a long history at the Electrical Engineering Department (ENE) of the University of Brasília (UnB). In the recent past, the research groups GICA and GRAV, as well as the labs LCVC, LAVSI, and LARA were significant landmarks.

In 2010 all research activities in the Control and Automation field at ENE/UnB were joined under the name of Automation and Robotics Laboratory (LARA, from its Brazilian-Portuguese acronym). It aims to be a research laboratory with advanced research on automation, robotics and applied process control. Funding is provided by national public agencies, such as CNPq, CAPES, FAP-DF, and FINEP, as well as by private companies.

 

• 2017-11-10