The Department of Computer Science has an international reputation for high quality research and was graded 4A in the 1996 UK Research Assessment Exercise. Current industrial collaborators include Ford, Jaguar Cars, Unilever, Daimler Benz, Integral Solutions Ltd., and Glaxo. The Model Based Systems Group at Aberystwyth is primarily concerned with the development and use of Model Based Reasoning for design analysis and for diagnosis. This group is concerned with developing computing and artificial intelligence techniques for application to important biological problems. It aims to do innovative research in both computer and biological science, collaborating closely with the biotechnology and pharmaceutical industries, and with others in academia.
Main interests are machine learning and chemometrics for data mining and data interpretation.
Industrial collaborators include major pharmaceutical companies and manufacturers of analytical instrumentation. Intelligent Robotics Robotics research at Aberystwyth was established around 1980 and since that time the group has undertaken innovative research in collaboration with a variety of industrial and academic partners in the UK and overseas. The work concentrates on intelligent software techniques applicable to industrial and space robotics, both manipulators and mobiles, particularly in relation to autonomous operation, sensing, software architectures and robot dynamics. Software Engineering Research on software engineering has been carried out in Aberystwyth since the late 70s and has addressed issues such as the construction and integration of software engineering environments, the education of software engineers and software reuse. Much of this research has been carried out in collaboration with industry and other academic institutions.