Description du projet
Rapprocher les humains et les robots dans l’industrie
La robotique est aujourd’hui largement répandue dans la plupart des secteurs industriels. Cependant, l’application de robots dans les tâches industrielles se heurte souvent à des défis, les principaux étant le coût, le manque de flexibilité et leur capacité limitée à travailler aux côtés des humains. Le projet CONCERT, financé par l’UE, développera les technologies nécessaires pour que les plateformes robotiques configurables deviennent une réalité. Pour ce faire, il concevra la prochaine génération de robots flexibles, synergiques et modulaires capables d’accomplir des tâches avancées tout en étant capables de collaborer en autonomie et transparence avec des collègues humains. Les technologies seront initialement appliquées dans l’industrie de la construction, dans le but de révolutionner la robotique dans l’ensemble du spectre industriel.
Objectif
CONCERT has a clear focus on developing robotics technologies aiming at a novel concept of configurable robot platforms, which can be explored in application domains with unstructured, variable and evolving workspace settings and tasks.
It targets to make a step transition from the current general-purpose lower power collaborative robots to a new generation of collaborative platforms that can safely collaborate in tasks with demanding human-scale forces while ensuring safety on the fly, implement efficient collaboration principles and demonstrate quick adaptability to address less standardized and more unstructured environment and task settings.
It proposes the development of a new paradigm of high power/strength, adaptable, collaborative robots, which leverages on modular and configurable robot hardware with adaptive physical capabilities. automatic deployment of control and online safety verification methods. Multi-modal and multi-state perception and supervision tools provides enhanced human, robot and task execution awareness enabling the implementation of adaptive shared autonomy and role allocation planning in human robot collaboration.
The development of the CONCERT technologies is steered by use-case scenarios from the construction industry, a sector with significantly high socio-economic impact, offering at the same time an extremely challenging, yet highly motivating and pertinent domain for demonstrating and validating the quick deployment and interoperability features of the CONCERT configurable collaborative robotic solutions. The project technologies will be therefore validated in relevant construction task activities exhibiting high payloads and diverse workspace size and settings, thus requiring different robot arrangements to perform them. The assessment methodology considers several indicators covering the technical, functional, occupational, labor effort, and societal aspects and impacts of the CONCERT technologies.
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RIA - Research and Innovation actionCoordinateur
16163 Genova
Italie